May 3, 2016 Iowa man reports burglary attempt, gets arrested himself A 21-year-old man who called police to report an attempted burglary wound up being arrested himself.
May 3, 2016 Donald Trump backers baffled by condemnation of his Muslim proposal, view criticism as naive As she's working the counter at a hole-in-the-wall hot dog stand named Rosie's in upstate South Carolina, Tracy Hooker isn't interested in debating the merits of Donald Trump's proposal to temporarily block Muslims from coming into the United States.
May 3, 2016 Leading Iowa evangelical Vander Plaats endorses Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for president A prominent Iowa evangelical leader has endorsed Ted Cruz for president, a coup for the Texas senator, who has heavily courted churches and pastors in an effort to win the state's leadoff Republican caucuses.
May 3, 2016 Clinton says GOP candidates undermining anti-terrorism efforts Hillary Clinton is charging Republican presidential candidates with undermining American efforts to fight Islamic terrorism with "hateful" campaign rhetoric.
May 3, 2016 GOP Chaos: Trump's plan to ban Muslims creates havoc for his party as first voting nears Donald Trump's plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States is shoving the Republican Party to the edge of chaos, abruptly pitting GOP leaders against their own presidential front-runner and jeopardizing the party's longtime drive to attract minorities.
May 3, 2016 Trump rejects criticism of his proposal to ban Muslims from US, comparisons to Hitler Donald Trump is rejecting criticism that his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. is un-American and has critics comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
May 3, 2016 After Paris attacks, US politics shift on government phone data collection; Rubio sees opening The Paris attacks have renewed debate on the U.S. government's post-Sept. 11 domestic surveillance laws, leading to efforts to revive the issue on Capitol Hill and handing Marco Rubio an opening against Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential race.
May 2, 2016 Brawl breaks out in GOP race, below the Trump tier A nasty battle has broken out in the Republican presidential field, and it doesn’t involve Donald Trump.
May 2, 2016 Trump plots big TV ad blitz that could change campaign landscape When Donald Trump and his team were planning his campaign, they drew up a budget of $25 million for TV advertising in the third quarter of this year. They wound up spending zero for the rest of 2015. That is about to change.
May 2, 2016 Spokesman: Iowa governor to be hospitalized overnight after falling ill Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad will be hospitalized overnight after he fell ill at an event.