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Republican candidates for the presidency have fawned over farmers this caucus season as they’ve courted voters in Iowa — the nation’s top producer of corn, eggs and pork.

The candidates often talk in platitudes about their support for Iowa agriculture and paint themselves as farmers’ best friends.

A grand jury may soon formally charge a woman with a fifth-degree felony of “abuse of a corpse” in Trumbull County, Ohio, after she was turned into police after miscarrying her pregnancy back in September, The Guardian reported.

Brittany Watts, who was 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy, was admitted to the hospital on September 22 with signs that her water had broken prematurely. She ignored medical advice and left the hospital early, saying she could better emotionally process the miscarriage at home.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused the Biden administration of having "legalized human trafficking of millions" in a new post on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday.

"The Biden admin has created the most dangerous national security crisis in history. They’ve legalized human trafficking of millions, allowed 1.8 million gotaways, and are harboring illegals at the taxpayer’s expense! Treasonous! Impeach Mayorkas!" Greene wrote.

Republicans have spent the past year throwing multiple accusations at President Joe Biden and his family -- but still haven't come up with any proof of wrongdoing that could justify impeaching him.

Washington Post columnist Philip Bump penned a piece explaining that House Oversight Committee chair, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) came into Congress a year ago promising that he would use his power to uncover if Biden was being bribed by China, Russia and Ukraine. He pledged to find "a legislative fix" to address influence-peddling in Congress.

Special counsel Jack Smith continues pushing U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to grant a "speedy trial" in a classified documents case against former President Donald Trump and two of his employees.

In a filing on Tuesday, Smith presented the court with his ninth speedy trial report. Smith noted that the Speedy Trial Act requires the filing of reports.

Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel was brutally scorched in a column for The New Republic, highlighting the failures of her party under her leadership.

This comes after she was implicated in the newly discovered pressure campaign against officials in Michigan to block the certification of voting results, a revelation some legal experts have suggested could lead to criminal bribery charges against her — and as the RNC reports catastrophic fundraising numbers even as it spends hundreds of thousands on limousine transport.

It's a little less than a year before the election and Donald Trump has been up and running his campaign for the early primary states for months. The political polls show Trump and President Joe Biden dancing back and forth between who is leading, with both always in the margin of error.

Legal expert Norm Eisen, pollster Celinda Lake and campaign researcher Anat Shenker-Osorio explained in The New York Times that there is one key detail that is being ignored in all of the polls. Most polls are asking whether voters would still support Trump if he is convicted by a jury of his peers -- and the polls consistently show that a conviction would damage him.

Former President Donald Trump's constant attacks on the justice system as he faces down four criminal cases are putting judges in mortal danger, warned CNN law enforcement analyst John Miller on Tuesday morning.

"I have been through these investigations before many times in the New York City Police Department," said Miller. "We ... have a specific threat squad that does threat assessments. They send people out and interview these people and assess the person who posted it, and sometimes they say I didn't mean that or I was drunk or angry. Sometimes they'll say, we're going to take this investigation a step further and into another case they can make an arrest." This matters, he added, because tragedies have happened, from the shooting of Judge Esther Salas' family in New Jersey to the murder of retired Judge John Roemer in Wisconsin.

Former President Donald Trump's Christmas message, in which he told his enemies to "ROT IN HELL," startled CNN's Sara Sidner on Tuesday.

After reading excerpts from Trump's Monday Truth Social post, Sidner described it as "a torrent of fury and bitterness on Christmas day" and then asked Associated Press reporter Meg Kinnard, "What is he thinking?"

According to former FBI official Andrew McCabe, the decision by the Supreme Court to defer to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on the issue of Donald Trump's presidential immunity claim might end the legal fracas at that level.

With the nation's highest court punting the filing by special counsel Jack Smith to speed up the process of determining whether the former president is immune from prosecution for alleged crimes, McCabe stated an adverse ruling by the fully seated (en banc) D.C. circuit court could get the Supreme Court off the hook.