[ad_1] CNN — American democracy – and the evolving way in which it is executed – is facing a series of fundamental questions beyond former Donald Trump’s election denialism. The former president’s call to end the Constitution for a 2020 election redo has rightly been met with ridicule and eyerolls …
Read More »Opinion: How the Democrats’ Iowa caucuses self-destructed
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Laura Belin is the primary author at the website Bleeding Heartland. She has been covering Iowa politics since 2007. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN. CNN — The Democratic National Committee’s overhaul of the presidential nominating calendar will create …
Read More »Democrats vote to move forward with Biden plan to put South Carolina first on 2024 primary calendar
[ad_1] CNN — The rule-making arm of the Democratic National Committee on Friday voted to approve a proposal to drastically reshape the 2024 presidential nominating calendar and make South Carolina the first state to hold a primary, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on the same day a few days …
Read More »Pieper Lewis: Iowa teen who killed her alleged rapist and escaped from a residential corrections facility is back in custody
[ad_1] CNN — Pieper Lewis, the Iowa teen and sex trafficking victim who killed a man she said raped her multiple times, is back in custody following her escape from the residential corrections facility where she was serving probation, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Lewis, 18, was arrested …
Read More »An Iowa man’s wrong turn led him to a burning house. His quick action saved four siblings asleep inside
[ad_1] CNN — Members of a Red Oak, Iowa, family were able to escape their burning home after a driver, who’d wound up on their street by mistake, saw the flames and rushed to wake them up. Brendon Birt told CNN that he was giving a friend a ride home …
Read More »A dogwalker caught an alligator in rural Idaho
[ad_1] CNN — A person walking their dog in rural Idaho was in for quite a surprise when they encountered an alligator, hundreds of miles from the coast where the reptiles are usually found. Fish and Game Officer Brian Marek received a call Thursday evening from a person who was …
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