ELECTION 2020

DES MOINES - U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, the lone Democrat in Iowa's congressional delegation, Wednesday cast the lone vote from the state in favor of impeaching Republican President Donald Trump. ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with 'incitement of insurrection' over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office. ...

Although Iowa State University's College Republicans tweeted last week that its members were 'fighting on the front lines in DC' as 'brave patriots' during the day of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, campus officials this week told The Gazette they have no knowledge those students broke the ...

The House of Representatives on Jan. 13 will vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump for inciting the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol. The articles charge Trump with 'incitement of insurrection.'

WASHINGTON - The push for an unprecedented second impeachment of President Donald Trump took a bipartisan turn Tuesday when several senior House Republicans joined the Democratic effort to remove him for his role in inciting a mob last week to storm the U.S. Capitol. ...

IOWA CITY - An Iowa Department of Public Safety worker who traveled to Washington, D.C., to support President Donald Trump's push to overturn the election says she understands the rage that fueled the riot, writing online that it 'had to happen.' ...

IOWA CITY - A right-wing conspiracy theorist from Iowa was among the first to break into the U.S. Capitol during last week's deadly pro-Trump insurrection, chasing and menacing a Black police officer, federal agents said Tuesday. ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Leo Kelly didn't go to Washington to overthrow the government. ...

WASHINGTON - House Democrats on Monday introduced an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump over his incitement last week of the Capitol riot as Republicans blocked an initial attempt to pass a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to use the 25th amendment to remo ...

WASHINGTON - Two days before Congress was set to formalize President-elect Joe Biden's victory, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was growing worried about the size of the pro-Trump crowds expected to stream into the District of Columbia in protest. ...

An Iowa man was jailed early Saturday on charges accusing him of taking part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump. ...

The Iowa State University College Republicans student group, which urged people after the November election to 'arm up,' tweeted on the day this week rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol that some of its members were in Washington and it was time to 'destroy' Republicans considered disloyal to ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - New polling shows that nearly half of American voters think the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove President Donald Trump from office before his term expires Jan. 20. ...

WASHINGTON - With less than two weeks left in his term, President Donald Trump finally bent to reality Thursday amid growing talk of trying to force him out early, acknowledging he'll peacefully leave after Congress had affirmed his defeat. ...

Both of Iowa's Republican U.S. senators said Thursday that President Donald Trump displayed poor leadership and bears some responsibility for the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol a day earlier. ...

WASHINGTON - Things were quiet outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday morning. ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the Nov. 3 election and announced there would be an 'orderly transition on January 20th' after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory. ...

These photos show the scene Wednesday as a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol and forced lawmakers into hiding in an attempt to overturn the presidential election.

WASHINGTON - Members of Congress, shaken and angry following a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters, put a final stamp on President-elect Joe Biden's victory early Thursday morning and brought an end to a historically turbulent post-election p ...

WASHINGTON - The world watched with dismay as a surreal scene at the U.S. Capitol, like little seen in its history, unfolded Wednesday. ...

Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, Iowa's Republican U.S. senators who for years pushed the reelection of President Donald Trump, fled a mob of the president's supporters Wednesday afternoon who breached the U.S. Capitol. ...

WASHINGTON - A violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding in a stunning attempt to overturn America's presidential election, undercut the nation's democracy and keep Democrat Joe Biden from replacing Trump in the White Ho ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Freshman Iowa 1st District Congresswoman-elect Ashley Hinson, who has said she sees no path to victory for President Donald Trump, expects there will be objections Wednesday to accepting the results of the Electoral College. ...

President Donald Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to "find" enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions. ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Being sworn in Sunday as members of the U.S. House will be a humbling experience, Eastern Iowa's two newly elected congresswomen say. ...

In November 2006, Sue Dvorsky stood in a large ballroom at the hotelVetro in Iowa City and watched late into the night in amazement as election returns came in. ...

Four voters in Johnson and Scott counties say in affidavits they took the necessary steps to cast votes in the Nov. 3 election for Democrat Rita Hart, but assert their ballots were rejected because of errors by election workers. ...