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WASHINGTON, May 23, 2024 (AFP) – A tornado that ripped through the midwestern US state of Iowa killed five people and left dozens injured, officials said, with homes smashed to pieces and cars thrown through the air. Residents surveyed the wreckage of flattened buildings and uprooted trees after the storm left a path of destruction across the town of Greenfield on Tuesday. “Four fatalities and at least 35 injuries were the result of the tornado […]
By Camille Camdessus with Frankie Taggart in Washington DES MOINES, United States, Jan 16, 2024 (AFP) – Donald Trump romped to a landslide victory Monday in Iowa’s caucuses — the first vote in the US presidential race — cementing his status as the presumptive Republican standard-bearer to challenge President Joe Biden in November’s election. The former president has led polling for more than a year, but the contest offered the clearest insight yet into his […]
DES MOINES, United States, Jan 14, 2024 (AFP) – Nikki Haley has overtaken Ron DeSantis for coveted second place in the Iowa caucuses, the last poll before the event showed Saturday, but former US president Donald Trump still leads by nearly 30 percentage points. The Midwestern state of three million people officially kicks off the 2024 US presidential election on Monday when its residents participate in its unusual “caucus” system to mark their preference for […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 4, 2024 (AFP) – Police were responding to a shooting at a high school in the midwestern US state of Iowa on Thursday morning, authorities said, though there was no immediate confirmation of any victims. “There was an active school shooting situation at Perry High School,” some 35 miles (55 kilometers) from the state capital Des Moines, an employee from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office told AFP. A news conference was scheduled for […]
Four adults and two children were killed when a tornado hit Madison County in the US state of Iowa on Saturday, officials said. At least four other adults were injured in the tornado that caused “widespread damage to both homes and properties,” the county’s emergency management director told a press briefing. “This is, I think, the worst that anyone has seen in quite a long time,” Diogenes Ayala said. “This will be impactful for many years […]
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz beat billionaire Donald Trump in Iowa’s Republican presidential nominating contest on Monday (February 1), dealing a big upset to the national front-runner in the race to be their party’s White House nominee in 2016. Cruz, a conservative lawmaker from Texas, won with 28 percent of the vote compared to 24 percent for businessman Trump, according to MSNBC. Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, came in third place with 23 percent, […]
Iowa Democrats at a Des Moines school split into groups to be counted for their candidates in the first of the 2016 U.S. presidential nominating contests on Monday (February 1). Supporters caucusing for presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders lined up after the caucus leader told them they had become “part of Iowa and U.S. history”. Clinton, a former secretary of state, had a slight edge over insurgent Bernie Sanders, a self-styled […]
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told Iowa caucus-goers, on Monday (February 1) that he is a “messenger” for those wanting to take the country back as the state’s critical presidential primary got underway. Candidates from both parties toured caucus sites to make their final campaign pitches as Iowans kicked off the first of the 2016 presidential nominating contests. Trump and his wife Melania made an appearance at St. Francis of Assisi school in West Des […]
Donald Trump, the reality television star-turned-politician, was endorsed by Sarah Palin to be the next Republican U.S. president said on Tuesday (January 19). To voters, it may seem a natural fit. Though she never made it to the White House after becoming the party’s vice presidential pick in 2008, Palin’s style, which showed a candidate could be popular by eschewing policy minutiae in favor of plain-speaking, is seen as a precursor to Trump’s recent success. […]
U.S. Republican presidential candidates reacted on Tuesday (January 12) to reports Iran detained 10 U.S. sailors who were traveling from Kuwait to Bahrain. Plans are in place for Iran to return the sailors to a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters early Wednesday (January 13), a U.S. defense official said late Tuesday. Republican front-runner Donald Trump said the sailors’ capture was an indictment on the state of U.S. policies. “They said they’re going to release […]
Mon Feb 3, 2014 4:53pm EST (Reuters) – A new strain of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, or PEDv, has been identified in samples taken from Illinois and Missouri, a top veterinarian at Iowa State University said on Monday. “We found that there is a variant out there that appears to be quite different than the original,” Rodger Main, the head veterinarian of Iowa State University’s veterinary diagnostic lab, told Reuters on Monday. More research needs […]
