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Ramaswamay targets Haley after snowstorm derails her campaign stop in Iowa

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January 10, 2024

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Ramaswamay targets Haley after snowstorm derails her campaign stop in Iowa

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DES MOINES, Iowa – Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is using a snowstorm in Iowa to take aim at GOP nomination rival Nikki Haley.

After Haley canceled an event Monday morning in Sioux City, in the northwest corner of the state due to a snowstorm, Ramaswamy took to social media to spotlight that “I’m headed to Sioux City for our event right now. We’re not canceling.”

Ramaswamy, the multimillioinaire biotech entrepreneur and first-time candidate who for months has been a very vocal critic of Haley, charged that the former South Carolina governor who later served as ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration, scrapped her event in Sioux City to “avoid embarrassment.”

He tweeted out a clip of an NBC News report that showed a nearly empty Horizon Family Restaurant in Sioux City, where the Haley countdown-to-caucus event was supposed to have been held. But the clip that Ramaswamy posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, didn’t include the portion of the report where the correspondent noted that Haley’s stop was canceled because of heavy snow.

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Ramaswamy, who drove two and a half hours from Des Moines to Sioux City, continued to jab at Haley, saying at a campaign event in the city that “some saw a snowstorm, canceled events in northwest Iowa. We got four events. We’re keeping them intact.”

But Ramaswamy apparently made no reference to former President Donald Trump’s campaign, which also canceled an event due to the storm that had dumped a few inches of snow in portions of western and southern Iowa by midday, with more forecast.

The Trump campaign “indefinitely postponed” an event in Ottumwa, where former Arkansas Gov. MIke Huckabee, a two-time GOP presidential candidate, and his daughter, current Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders – who served as Trump’s White House press secretary – were scheduled to stump on the former president’s behalf.

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Haley’s campaign didn’t respond to the slight from Ramaswamy, but noted that they texted supporters early Monday morning to alert them that the Sioux City event had been canceled due to the snow and poor driving conditions.

Haley has soared in recent months, thanks in part to her well-regarded performances in the first three Republican presidential primary debates.

Over the past month, Haley has caught up with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the latest Iowa polls and in national surveys, for a distant second place behind Trump, who remains the commanding frontrunner for the nomination as he makes his third straight White House run. Iowa’s Jan. 15 caucuses lead off the GOP presidential nominating calendar.

Later Monday, Haley will take questions from “Special Report” chief political anchor Bret Baier and “The Story” executive editor and anchor Martha MacCallum, who will host a Fox News town hall in Des Moines. The hour-long town hall starts at 6 p.m. ET and will be in front of a live audience.

Haley has also surged to second place and narrowed the gap with Trump in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary and votes second – just eight days after Iowa.

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Ramaswamy, who’s polling in the single digits in the latest surveys in Iowa, has been repeatedly crisscrossing the Hawkeye State in recent months, often making numerous campaign stops per day. On Monday, his wife Apoorvaa filled in for Ramaswamy at one event, so the candidate could make it to the northwestern part of the state, which is heavily Republican.

Haley’s been drawing healthy crowds as she campaigns in both Iowa and New Hampshire. Her most recent visit to Sioux City came last month, when she drew a couple hundred people to her event.

There’s been plenty of acrimony between Ramaswamy and Haley in recent months, as they repeatedly clashed at the GOP presidential primary debates.

Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley face off during the Republican presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Aug. 23, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Ramswamy wasn’t the only candidate to jab at Haley over the snowstorm.

A text from the DeSantis campaign earlier Monday also took aim at Haley over the Sioux City cancellation, claiming that she scrapped the event “because she can’t stop making gaffes.”

Haley’s failure to mention slavery when answering a question late last month about the causes of the Civil War quickly went viral, and provided instant ammunition for her GOP presidential competitors. So did her comments this past weekend that you “change personalities” from Iowa to New Hampshire and last week that New Hampshire voters “correct” the results of the Iowa caucuses.

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Indiana

Illinois lawmakers push stadium deal as Indiana courts the Bears

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January 16, 2026

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Illinois lawmakers push stadium deal as Indiana courts the Bears

CHICAGO – Bears fans are gearing up for this weekend’s NFC divisional playoff matchup with the Rams, but the battle off the field is intensifying.

Indiana lawmakers have entered the race to build a new stadium for the Bears across state lines. They unveiled their proposal Thursday night, and by Friday, officials in Arlington Heights were feeling the pressure.

Arlington Heights Mayor James Tinaglia, joined by a coalition of political and labor leaders, urged Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Illinois lawmakers to finalize a deal or risk losing the Bears to Indiana.

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Tinaglia said the village supports allowing the Bears to negotiate property tax rates with Arlington Heights, a move that would require state approval.

Without such an agreement, he said, the Bears could face annual property tax bills totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun and state Senate leaders on Thursday night unveiled their plan to lure the Bears out of Illinois. The team called the proposal a “significant development.”

The plan would create a new northwest Indiana stadium commission. That public body would own and finance the stadium and assume the construction risk, while the Bears would retain most of the revenue.

Under the proposal, the Bears would pay rent and take full ownership of the stadium once the debt is paid off. At that point, the team would owe no property taxes.

That contrasts with the Bears’ proposal in Arlington Heights, where the team would cover construction costs, own the stadium and pay property taxes.

Pritzker and Chicago-area lawmakers have rejected the Bears’ Arlington Heights plan, calling it an excessive tax break for a billion-dollar franchise. Still, the governor said Illinois remains the better option.

“I believe it’s best for the Bears to stay in the state of Illinois. I’ve always said that I don’t think the fans want the Bears to be anywhere else but the state of Illinois,” said Pritzker.

Tinaglia warned Illinois could lose thousands of jobs and billions in economic activity if lawmakers fail to act. He said the team’s proposal does not include taxpayer funding for stadium construction.

“The Bears are not, not asking for taxpayer money to build their stadium in Arlington Heights. It’s a big important piece in this puzzle,” said Tinaglia.

The Source: The information in this article was reported by FOX Chicago’s Paris Schutz.

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Iowa

Strong winds cause fatal crash on I-80 in Iowa, authorities say

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January 16, 2026

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Strong winds cause fatal crash on I-80 in Iowa, authorities say

POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY, Iowa (WOWT) – One person died after a single-vehicle semi-truck crash in Pottawattamie County Friday afternoon.

According to the Iowa State Patrol, a semi-truck was traveling on Interstate 80 outside of Weston just after noon when strong winds caused the driver to lose control.

ISP says as the driver attempted to maintain control, the truck flipped on the driver’s side and striking the median.

The driver, identified as 56-year-old Mark Hayden of Council Bluffs, died as a result of the crash.

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Kansas Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Kelly v. Kobach case

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January 16, 2026

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Kansas Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Kelly v. Kobach case

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and the legal team for Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly presented oral arguments to the Supreme Court in a case that could decide if the governor has authority to join legislation on her office’s behalf.

Kelly sued Kobach in October after Kobach filed an amicus brief, a legal document offering information or experience, in a lawsuit Kelly signed on as a party to. Kelly joined the suit, which is against the Trump administration over its collection of data from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but Kobach’s brief said Kelly doesn’t have the right to enter a lawsuit representing Kansas.

“This case is about whether the Governor can intrude into the area where the Kansas Constitution says the Attorney General is the official who’s in charge, namely, litigating in court on behalf of Kansans,” Kobach told reporters after court adjourned.

The governor’s position in court is that she has a right to participate in legislation if it pertains to her duties as governor.

“What we’re simply asking for is that the governor be allowed to have a voice in litigation when the matters or the issues affect the executive branch and the agencies she’s in charge of,” said Stephen McAllister, an attorney for Kelly.

Kobach said the distinction between representing the state and representing the interest of Kansas’s executive agencies is usually nonexistent.

“They are trying to say there’s a difference between representing the interests of my agency and representing the state of Kansas. Ninety-nine percent of the time, there is no difference,” Kobach said.

The scope of Kelly’s authority was a point of contention. At the start of the hearing, McAllister conceded that their legal briefs “may not have always been completely clear.”

Kobach told the justices that the governor’s offices is retreating from the scope in its briefs, and they previously said they could direct the attorney general to sue and that they may litigate on behalf of the state.

Justices peppered both sides with questions throughout arguments. Justice Dan Biles questioned whether it could lead to too much power vested in the attorney general.

“Let’s assume the Department of Justice sues the Secretary of the (Kansas) Department of Children and Families in federal court over this SNAP business. Are you saying that you have the power as attorney general to go into that courtroom and confess judgment?” Biles asked.

They asked the governor’s counsel whether the matter is a “live controversy,” or an actual ongoing dispute rather than a hypothetical one.

“Would you concede that it is possible, hypothetically in cases, that the governor of any state in his or her official capacity would not have standing, it just depends on what’s the subject of the lawsuit,” Justice Caleb Stegall said. “I don’t see anything particularly nefarious about a different party saying this party over here doesn’t have standing.”

Biles questioned whether the matter couldn’t be resolved elsewhere.

“Is it really that big of a deal,” he said. “I don’t understand how we can have a Quo Warranto action that say the attorney general made a bad legal argument. And shouldn’t be able to make that legal argument,”

There’s no timeline for when the Kansas Supreme Court will have a final opinion in the case, but the Kelly administration was seeking a decision before a potential appeal in its SNAP case.

(This story was updated to add new information.)

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