Government & Politics

The Associated Press, Fox News, CNN, CBS News and NBC News all called the caucuses for Trump at around 7:30 p.m. Monday night, just a half-hour after the caucuses were scheduled to start.

Iowa House lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday aimed at reducing prescription drug costs for Iowans by strengthening some requirements for pharmacy benefit managers.

The bill would stop police, county sheriffs and other law enforcement in the state from releasing booking photos following a person’s arrest or while in the custody of a law enforcement agency, unless the person is a fugitive, has been convicted, pleaded guilty to the charges, is deemed an “imminent threat,” or the photo’s release would aid authorities in apprehending the individual.

There’s no doubt that former President Donald Trump, with his best-in-field showing Monday night in the Iowa Republican caucuses — as well as his own private jet — can claim one of the proverbial “three tickets out of Iowa.”

Ohio entrepreneur and political newcomer ends up with 7 percent of GOP vote

Many of the more than 200 who showed up in snow pants and tuft-tipped winter hats at a caucus precinct location in Coralville were same-day Republican registrants, including several who came out specifically to support Nikki Haley. The former South Carolina governor won Johnson County. It was the only county that Trump didn’t carry.

While Democratic caucuses were more subdued than past years, party members who gathered Monday night in Iowa City said the stakes are higher than ever if Democrats want to regain ground lost to Republicans in Iowa.

Republicans showed up on a bitter cold Monday night at caucuses in Iowa. Here’s what they had to say.