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Land prices rising even after year of record drought
American farmers may have suffered an historic drought last year, but the price of their land is skyrocketing. In Iowa, the US’s biggest producer of corn, the land prices jumped 24 percent in 2012 and and have gained 63 percent over the last three years, according to a study by…
Iowa bill would jail raped women for ‘murder’ of single-cell zygotes
A bill introduced by nine Republican state lawmakers in Iowa on Wednesday would define abortion as “murder,” sending doctors and raped women who terminate pregnancies to jail. State Rep. Tom Shaw says that he authored House File 138 to protect human life, whether “you’re a zygote, an infant, a teenager…
WATCH LIVE: Romney campaigns in Iowa
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney holds a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa. Watch live video, courtesy of MSNBC, below: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Watch live: Romney in Iowa
GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney holds a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Nov. 3. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Watch live: Paul Ryan in Cedar Falls, Iowa
Paul Ryan holds a campaign event in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Watch live, broadcast by NBC News on Nov. 2. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Watch live: Biden campaigns in Iowa
Vice President Joe Biden speaks to supporters at a campaign event in Muscatine, Iowa. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Nov. 1. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Watch live: Obama campaigns in Davenport, Iowa
President Barack Obama campaigns in Davenport, Iowa, at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Oct. 24. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Romney and Obama battle for Iowa’s six electoral college votes
Swing state may only have six electoral college votes, but both campaigns are fighting for them – with very different strategies Rick Wilkey knocked on the door in the affluent neighbourhood of West Des Moines, Iowa. Four years ago, when the Barack Obama campaign volunteer talked to voters about the…
Republicans seek to thwart Iowa’s ‘adopted son’ Obama
US President Barack Obama returned to Iowa to rekindle a romance with the fabled political swing state, but Republicans insist there is no mending a relationship that is on the rocks. Obama on Wednesday wrapped up a bus tour of the state that nurtured his improbable 2008 White House dreams,…
Protesters interrupt Ryan in Iowa: ‘Stop the war on the middle class!’
Speaking from the same stage in Iowa where Mitt Romney once declared that “corporation are people,” presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan found himself on Monday being interrupted by protesters who accused him of waging a “war on the middle class.” During an stump speech at the Iowa State…
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