Iowa

Military veteran Michael McKinney, 25, is behind bars for wounding a 15-year-old when he fired his gun into a car carrying four Black teen girls caught in a confrontation with a group of Trump supporters.

A number of Republicans in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Florida and Iowa changed their party registrations in the days following last week's storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Disabled residents in Glenwood Resource Center in Iowa were subjected to poor medical care and harmful experiments.

Steven Pearl was discovered injured on the ground after he was struck by a vehicle on Sunday.

The GOP senator from Iowa received the COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday despite saying earlier she was "so skeptical" of the coronavirus mortality rate and suggesting health-care workers were faking the number of COVID deaths.

Mark Bishop coughed on an officer while his house was being searched by the Waukee Police Department. Earlier, Bishop had told the officer that he had COVID.

The meatpacking company announced an investigation last month after a wrongful death lawsuit accused employees of betting on the spread of COVID-19 at a plant in Waterloo, Iowa.

The funds will be used to pay salaries for roughly 550 state officers whose duties may not have been affected much by the pandemic.

"Our goal as a congregation is to give people a good start on 2021," said Reverend Minna Bothwell of the Capitol Hill Lutheran Church in Des Moines, Iowa.

The country's total death count is projected to surpass 500,000 by the end of January, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Republicans now have a majority in both houses of 31 state legislatures and hold the state senate in Minnesota.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem continues to resist widespread public calls for increased mitigation protocols—despite skyrocketing COVID-19 cases reported throughout the state.

Meriah Carlyle, 21, was airlifted to hospital after being shot by her 2-year-old son at their home in Dyersville on November 4.

Filed by the son of a Tyson Foods employee who died due to coronavirus, the lawsuit alleges that supervisors participated in a "betting pool" over which employees would test positive for COVID-19.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley revealed on Tuesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus as COVID-19 cases within the state surged.

Back in August, Reynolds said "I believe we can get there without a mask mandate," when asked how her team was working to decrease infections.

"If Iowans don't buy into this," Governor Kim Reynolds said during Monday's announcement of a mask mandate in Iowa, "we lose."

The average daily case count increased in all states, except for Georgia and Montana, over the past two weeks, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Minnesota, Iowa, New Jersey and Nebraska have begun reimposing new coronavirus-related restrictions as hospitalizations soar.

Unseasonably warm weather has caused millions of spiderlings to hatch months early, leaving them stranded on lawns and trees in what locals are calling a 'Spiderpocalypse'

Iowa had the highest number of swing counties in the country in 2016 and Trump's supporters came out strong for him again in 2020.

Eyes were on Iowa on Tuesday because the outcome of its Senate race could be the difference between Republican and Democrat control of the Senate.

Going into Election Day, Trump had less than a two percentage point lead over Biden in Iowa, a state he won by about 10 points in 2016.

Iowa had the most swing counties in the country in 2016, and on this Election Day Democrats outnumber Republicans in absentee ballots in most of them.

Millions of Americans are set to cast their votes against the backdrop of 231,000 people having died from COVID-19.

A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll showed the president leading with support from 48 percent of Iowa voters, while his rival trails with 41 percent.

The U.S. recorded 91,295 coronavirus cases on Thursday—the largest single-day rise since the outbreak began.

Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa has taken a slim lead over Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield in a poll that showed her losing by 5 percent weeks earlier.

Eloise Chairs, 29, was found unresponsive inside the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Davenport, Iowa, just after 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Sen. Joni Ernst is in a tough battle to retain her seat, which could have significant implications for the fight to control the next Senate.