Obama to forgo federal campaign financing, Israel and Hamas set a cease-fire, and Midwest floods. more >>

Prices, already high, are sure to rise even further. more >>

Flooding in China, Bush and Brown discuss Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obama's key states. more >>

Flood levels in Iowa River could reach record heights by next week. more >>

Supreme Court rebuffs administration on detainees, four teens killed by Iowa tornado, and more. more >>

Those bright, multicolored electronic billboards that loom off the side of the road won't be limited to ads for McDonald's or talk radio tonight when drivers in several Super Tuesday states return home from the office. Instead, they'll be displaying primary returns. more >>

Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee may owe a debt to young people for their victories in last night's Iowa caucuses. Youth voter turnout tripled from 2004, with 65,000 people ages 17 through 29 turning out for the caucuses. more >>

A call for change. more >>

The final numbers are not in, but the results of the Iowa precinct caucuses are clear. more >>

On his way to winning the Iowa Democratic caucuses, Sen. Barack Obama seemed to have benefited heavily from support in urban and student regions. more >>

The candidates are quiet, but rumors fill the void. more >>

Gearing up for tonight's Iowa caucuses, the leading presidential candidates of both parties spent yesterday exhorting Iowans to brave the cold weather and go to the polls. In the Democratic race, all three candidates gave closing speeches delivering various takes on the same theme: It's too close to call. "I feel good, but it depends on who comes out, who decides to actually put on their coats, warm up their cars, and go to the caucuses," Hillary Clinton told supporters. more >>

Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign is scrambling to get in on the saturation coverage of the Iowa caucuses this week. more >>

Disparate results indicate that all bets are off in Iowa with the caucuses so close. more >>

Close polls for both parties mean that it's anybody's game for caucus night. more >>

The precinct doors swing shut at 7 p.m. And that's when the fun begins. more >>

The presidential primary season swings into action. more >>

As his support increases in Iowa and elsewhere, Mike Huckabee is facing a growing torrent of criticism from those who want to deny him the Republican presidential nomination. Huckabee, for example, is now in the gunsights of several of his competitors. more >>

What's the best way to woo voters? Redeem the Vote thinks it's through their empty tummies. more >>

As the campaign winnowing starts, the stage will get smaller and the information better. more >>

It had been a week of ugly between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama leading up to today's final Democratic presidential debate in Iowa before the state's crucial January 3 caucuses. So ugly that before the event, Clinton privately apologized to Obama for comments by her New Hampshire cochair Bill Shaheen suggesting that Obama's self-disclosed teenage drug use could compromise his candidacy. Shortly after the debate, the campaign announced Shaheen had stepped down. But anyone who tuned into the debate expecting to see fireworks between the two warring campaigns--or any of the campaigns, for that matter--went away disappointed. For the first hour, it was a polite, almost subdued affair. With little to differentiate themselves on most of the issues (end the war, rework the tax system, promote energy independence, reform healthcare and entitlement programs), it boiled down to the candidates making their familiar cases on the basis of experience. Or change. Or style. more >>

The final sprint has begun. more >>

And it may be a scrambled scene for both parties even after the first two tests. more >>

Results from the Iowa caucus this year mean more than ever before because of the pushed-up primary schedule and because there is no runaway favorite son running there who would skew the results, pollster John Zogby tells us. more >>

How Iowa Voters as the Deciders for Whom We Get to Vote for in 2008 more >>