In Iowa, former multi-state lottery support director Eddie Tipton pleaded guilty to fraud. He confessed to manipulating the computer software he had developed and providing the winning numbers to his brother and other relatives and friends. Eddie Tipton, his brother Tommy ...
A pipe rupture on a farm in Iowa caused the largest diesel spill in the United States since 2010. More than 140 thousand gallons (about 530 liters) of solarium were poured onto the ground, according to SF Gate. Vacuum trucks were cleaning up the spilled fuel to prevent ...
Illinois officials have warned residents about the dangers of poisonous plants growing in the region that, when in contact with skin, cause painful blisters and a rash similar to burns. The main areas of distribution of this plant - wild parsnip - are the states of Iowa and Illinois,...
Conservative Texas Senator Ted Cruz defeated Donald Trump in the Iowa Republican caucuses. According to CNN, Cruz won 28% of the vote, Trump, in turn, 24%. Marco Rubio, a senator from the state of Florida, showed unexpectedly...
On November 8, 2016, Americans will elect the President of the United States. In America, the electoral system is confusing and complex, but in short, the vote is indirect, and ordinary Americans vote not for candidates, but for the electors who represent each state. Debate between candidates for ...
The state of Iowa, which starts the political process of selecting candidates from parties, is always given great attention in the US presidential elections. Caucuses (meetings and votes of supporters of each of the parties) in this state will take place on February 1, and their results can be quite ...
Senator Ted Cruz, with strong support from evangelical Christians and conservative activists, has emerged as the lead among potential Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, the state where the party's nomination process will begin. This is evidenced by the results of a joint survey of the newspaper Des ...
The Democrats held their second debate last night at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. All candidates, and there are three of them, came to the event in black. The debate began with a minute of silence over those killed in a series of terrorist attacks in Paris. The building in which ...
Schoolboy Brady Olsen from Iowa jokingly registered an independent presidential candidate. Olsen named his candidate Deez Nuts and asked the pollster Public Policy Polling to include him in the polls. The sociological company itself is known for quite extraordinary research. For example, Public Policy Polling ranked ...
Eleven would-be Republican presidential candidates met with party activists in Iowa on Saturday. At the meeting, each of them tried to explain why it was necessary to nominate him as an official candidate from the party in the 2016 elections. Most of the time, the participants ...