Though 2020 election results are still being finalized, the percent of voters who voted for a third-party presidential candidate is already much lower this year than in 2016, largely because of the...

The race for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional seat continues to see-saw more than a week after Election Day, and results may not be clear until Nov. 30, when the Secretary of State’s Office certifies state-wide...

Starting at midnight, masks will be required in large-group settings in the state, the first statewide mask-requiring measure Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has issued since the start of the pandemic. In...

An Iowa City native was appointed into President Trump's cabinet on Monday.  Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Christopher C. Miller, formerly performing the duties of the assistant...

President-elect Joe Biden announced a slate of scientists and health experts to guide his coronavirus policy on Monday, including Iowa native Michael Osterholm. Osterholm is McKnight Presidential...

Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s long and grueling path to the highest office in the land wrapped up Nov. 7, becoming president-elect of the U.S. It began more than three decades ago, right here in Iowa. Presidential...

Cheers from the Hawkeye football game mingled with honking horns and waving American flags Saturday afternoon in an impromptu celebration after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were announced the next president...

WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris will become the 49th vice president of the United States, the first woman and the first person of color to hold the nation's second-highest office. Her election follows a...

Joe Biden prepared to declare victory on Saturday as a win in Pennsylvania delivered the electoral votes he needed to become the 46th president of the United States, ending a vitriolic campaign that...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden delivered a just-shy-of-victory speech Friday night, claiming a mandate for change and urging the country to come together after one of the fiercest and most divisive...

After Jasper County corrected a human error in election reporting, Democratic Candidate Rita Hart is ahead in the race for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Hart’s Republican opponent Mariannette...

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