VICKSBURG, Mississippi (Reuters) - A century and a half after the Civil War's battle of Vicksburg, a large group of Iowans led by Governor Terry Branstad joined Southerners on Saturday to commemorate the Iowa soldiers who lost their lives on the Mississippi battlefield.Full story
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Investigators and volunteers have expanded their search for a missing Iowa girl. Full story
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is headed for Mississippi for Memorial Weekend to commemorate the part Iowans played in the Civil War. Full story
A NewsNation panel talks about the top political stories of the day, including IRS official Lois Lerner being placed on administrative leave, two days after she refused to answer questions on Capitol Hill about the tax agency’s targeting of conservative groups.
NBC’s Domenico Montanaro looks at the day in politics. The focus is President Obama’s speech on America’s use of drones. But there’s some campaign news, too, with Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., in Iowa and ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., making his first campaign stop in his bid for mayor of New York.
Authorities are telling people from Iowa to Oklahoma to prepare for powerful storms. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.
The small Iowa town Postville looks back at largest immigration raid in U.S. history. KWWL's Becca Habegger reports.
The Daily Rundown’s Chuck Todd talks about the continuing investigation by House Republicans into the attack.
A ear of corn from last year's harvest lies in a wet field on a farm, Tuesday, May 7, 2013, near Carlisle, Iowa. The USDA's weekly crop progress report showed that just 12 percent of the nation's cornfields have been sown, about one-fourth of the typical pace over the past five years. The numbers ha
This is the former school near Atalissa, Iowa, that housed mentally disabled men while they worked at West Liberty Foods until Iowa closed down the facility in 2009. The men received a $240 million award that has been slashed to $1.6 million because of a federal cap.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at the Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner event, Friday, May 10, 2013, at the Hotel at Kirkwood Center, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
