Iowa

The state of Iowa is suing TikTok, alleging that the social media company misleads parents about the kinds of content available to young users. The lawsuit from Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird accuses TikTok of hosting “sexual content, drugs, alcohol, intense profanity, self-harm messages, and other X-rated content,” making videos that aren’t age appropriate easily accessible for children and teens in the state. “TikTok represents to Iowa parents and Iowa children that inappropriate content on its platform,…

Donald Trump decisively won the Iowa caucuses on Monday with his closest rivals languishing far behind, a crucial victory that reinforces the former president’s grip on his party at the outset of the GOP’s 2024 nomination fight. It was not immediately clear who would emerge as the second-place finisher, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. Caucus voters endured life-threatening cold and dangerous driving conditions to participate in meetings that unfolded in hundreds of…

Businessman and MAGA wannabe Vivek Ramaswamy has dropped his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, announcing that he’s had enough after finishing in a distance fourth at the Iowa caucuses on Monday. “We are going to suspend this presidential campaign,” he told supporters. “There’s no path for me to be the next president absent things that we don’t want to see happen in this country. I am very worried for our country. I think we are skating on thin ice as a nation.” Vivek Ramaswamy announces…

It’s been a long time since virtually anyone in the elite of right-wing media, the national Republican Party, or conservative grassroots leadership has thought Ron DeSantis wasn’t going to be a loser. But Iowa was the 2024 state that was supposed to be his biggest gimme. On Monday night, even that fantasy came crashing down. Trump dominated Iowa, so much so that the Associated Press called the race barely 30 minutes after caucuses began. Entrance polls showed Trump  30 points ahead of DeSantis and Nikki Haley, who…

DES MOINES, Iowa —  Former President Trump passed the first milestone Monday in what his allies hope will be a quick march to a third presidential nomination.Iowa Republicans put the defeated former president, facing four criminal cases involving allegations of multiple felonies, on track for another shot at the White House.Trump won the Iowa caucuses, according to the Associated Press, thanks to the resolve of his die-hard supporters, who turned out on a bitterly cold night that Iowa officials described as some of the…

Former President Donald Trump has secured a decisive victory in the Iowa caucus, as supporters braved blizzard conditions to cement his stranglehold over the Republican Party in the first primary contest of the 2024 election cycle.  The Associated Press called the caucus for Trump barely 30 minutes after the caucuses began at 7:00 p.m. local time. Early results showed Trump leading Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley by dozens of percentage points, with Vivek Ramaswamy in a distant fourth place. The former president…

DES MOINES —  Despite the Iowa caucuses taking place 1,700 miles away from California — and the temperature being much colder here — the Golden State, its elected leaders and its policies were a constant target in the lead up to the first presidential nominating contest in the nation Monday.Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) could be a “hedge fund maven,” given how much money she has made in the stock market while in office, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told Iowans. He accused GOP rival Nikki Haley, the…

Just one year ago, Donald Trump and his team were openly welcoming Nikki Haley into the GOP presidential primary, even as the former president was privately trashing her for being a “two-faced” phony who didn’t know when to stop turning against — then back to — him. For much of 2023, Trump, his senior staff, and outside supporters mostly left Haley, Trump’s former United Nations ambassador, alone — sometimes at the specific urging of Trump advisers, according to two Trump allies and a screenshot of messages…

Climate activists twice interrupted Donald Trump‘s Sunday rally, calling the former president a “climate criminal” on the day before he faces off against his Republican opponents in the Iowa caucuses. While Trump made his closing arguments to supporters on the day before the Iowa caucuses, a handful of climate activists heckled him. One person shouted during his speech and accused him of having “taken millions,” and others shouted that Trump is a “climate criminal.” As the protesters were escorted out of the…

Donald Trump is making his final plea this weekend leading up to the Republican Iowa caucuses on Monday, but the weather has been uncooperative. His two planned Iowa rally stops on Saturday in Sioux City and Atlantic instead turned into a tele-rally featuring Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird held that evening. He is currently expected to appear at an in-person rally on Sunday in Indianola. Rather than the usual format, Bird tossed Trump questions, which he answered in his typical meandering way. Case in point,…