When the Sunday edition of the Des Moines Register came off the presses on September 5, 1982, the front page headlines included: "USDA Focus Shifts Back to Farmers"; "Video Recorders Let Viewers 'Beat the Clock,' Spark TV Boom"; and "China Offers Accord with Soviet Union."
CNN's Phil Rosenbaum looks at the case of 12-year-old Johnny Gosch who disappeared in 1982.
Time.com: Weekly News Wrap-Upupdated: Fri Oct 03 2008 11:00:00
Biden, Joe• McCain's maverickness is challenged by
Doug Johnson gave away the secret less than a minute into the conversation. "Well," Johnson says, "we didn't set out to raise an elite athlete."
The Los Angeles Times fired its top editor after he rejected a management order to cut $4 million from the newsroom budget, 14 months after his predecessor was also ousted
Presidential candidates have been wooing voters in Iowa for months, but who wins Thursday may simply come down to where the caucus-goers live, where they meet and the weather.
While Huckabee and Romney work to win the caucus, McCain, Thompson and Giuliani hope their tough talk on war and immigration can ensure a respectable third-place finish
He's been criticized for a lack of foreign policy experience. But should his multicultural background and early years spent abroad be dismissed so easily?
Sen. Joe Lieberman is crossing party lines and endorsing Republican Sen. John McCain for president.
Politics meets technology Thursday as a group of undecided Iowa Democrats has allowed themselves to be wired for the debate of Democratic presidential hopefuls.
Maybe it was the midday start time. Maybe it was the holiday season. But Wednesday's Republican presidential debate lacked the brutal street-fighting tone that has characterized previous meetings, as well as the past few days on the trail in Iowa.
The leading Republican presidential candidates threw a few jabs but mostly struck an optimistic tone Wednesday in their last debate before January's Iowa caucuses.
Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson says he does not have to apologize to anyone about his Christian faith.
Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson Monday said he didn't need to apologize for his faith, despite concerns from Christian conservatives that he does not express his religious beliefs enough on the campaign trail.
Want to get a sense of democracy in action? Just pack your parka and head to Iowa before the caucuses
Sen. Hillary Clinton's rivals sense a little blood in the water after Tuesday night's debate, and they're ready to move in for the kill.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken the lead among Democratic presidential candidates in an Iowa poll, a sign of progress for her campaign of progress toward overcoming a big hurdle in the race.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Iowa Republican straw poll Saturday, giving his campaign a boost six months before the state holds its first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Mitt Romney gets the victory he needs in Iowa. CNN's William Schneider reports.
With 20 states eyeing February 5th primaries, the Hawkeye State could be irrelevant. Ana Marie Cox surveys the field to see who plans to run in Iowa, and who'll be running away
The Bible says, "The last shall be first." In Iowa, the third shall be first.
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Well, so much for "organization," the so-called mother's milk of caucus politics. Something called "momentum" had its say last night, powering the Johns (Sens. Kerry and Edwards) into New Hampshire.
Months of campaigning and weeks of 'round-the-clock efforts in Iowa all came down to a final push, as four Democrats fought for any edge that might make one of them the victor in Monday's caucuses.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina was endorsed Sunday by Iowa's largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register.
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Debate recapupdated: Mon Jan 05 2004 09:10:00
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I'm an average, middle-aged (44) middle-class guy from the middle-American town of Independence, Iowa. My wife Mary, 43, and I have never earned a big income and have no formal training in finance....
IF YOU THINK inflation has been licked, try telling people in the communications business. Prices paid for publishing and broadcasting properties have skyrocketed over the past five years. In 1981 ...
Gannett Chairman Allen Neuharth says he feels as though he has won the Triple Crown. Since last July, he has bought the Des Moines Register (for $150 million) and the Detroit News, together with se...
REPRESENTATIVES of Allen-Bradley, an automated-equipment manufacturer with $942 million in sales last year, were understandably nervous when they gathered to sell the company at the New York office...
Fortune: The paper chaseupdated: Mon Mar 04 1985 00:01:00
The Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. agreed to sell four newspapers, including the Des Moines Register, one of the nation's most respected dailies, for $200 million to Gannett Co., the U.S.'s mo...