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...Monday is on track to be the coldest election day in the history of the Iowa caucuses....
...The Florida governor has deployed the most resources into Iowa, and importantly has the endorsement of Iowa’s governor — who can access parts of the state party infrastructure to help in get out the vote...
...Iraqi city of Erbil....
...The low temperature in Des Moines was minus 27C and almost 2 feet of snow had fallen on the city in the week before....
...At Jethro’s BBQ in Ames, a city best known as the home of Iowa State University, Haley, who was governor of South Carolina before she became UN ambassador, cracked a joke about the frigid weather before...
...The next morning, Trump flew back to New York for the second day of the trial....
...Cities have to apply to be a Unesco City of Literature, a list that includes obvious choices such as Edinburgh, Iowa City and Beirut, but also more unexpected places, from to Taif in Saudi Arabia to Lviv...
...Correction: In Friday’s edition of FirstFT I incorrectly stated that the Iowa Hawkeyes faced a potential rematch with Louisiana State University over the weekend when the game had already taken place....
...Fedspeak: New York Federal Reserve president John Williams will speak about the 2024 economic outlook in the New York City suburb of White Plains....
...“They will JFK him [a reference to the assassination of former president John F Kennedy], or he’ll have a ‘heart attack’ or a piano will drop on his head in New York City,” he says....
...After a difficult year of strikes, there is now “a real excitement in the past few weeks that you could feel in the city,” said Christopher Grimes, the FT’s Los Angeles bureau chief....
...This was to be the night when their candidate raced out of Iowa after a sweeping victory — just as the opinion polls had been predicting for much of the previous six months. Except that didn’t happen....
...Speaking at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, on Friday, shortly after the Supreme Court said it would hear his case, Trump said: “All I want is fair....
...deeply blue cities of New York or the bright-red rural counties in Iowa....
...Raine was an adviser when Silver Lake invested $500mn into City Football Group, owner of Premier League champions Manchester City, in 2019, and on the sale of Olympique Lyonnais in 2022....
...Greg Samorajski, chief executive of the $40bn Iowa Public Employee Retirement System, said Ipers decided in 2020 to raise its allocation to private credit from 3 per cent to 8 per cent of assets, while reducing...
...Cities can adapt. Qatar, one of the world’s hottest countries, is a eye-catching example. It has banned outdoor work between 10am and 3.30pm in summer, campaigners say that does not go far enough....
...More than half the population of Dearborn — which lies just outside the state’s largest city, Detroit — is Arab American, according to the latest census data....
...Monetary policy: New York Federal Reserve president John Williams will speak about the 2024 economic outlook in the New York City suburb of White Plains....
...Those efforts, he said, could put a man who has been a part “of the fabric of the commercial real estate industry in this city and state for 50 years essentially out of business”....
...He recently organised an energy conference in Oklahoma City, which Haley and candidate Doug Burgum attended....
...A closely watched poll in the critical early voting state of Iowa, published on Monday, showed Trump with a commanding lead among likely Republican voters....
...Two dozen residents of Muscatine, Iowa, including Sarah Lande, who hosted Xi for dinner at her house in 1985 when the then-mid-level Communist party official visited the city, are expected to attend....
...The shows still happen twice a year in the same four cities. You know, the same designers. Some of them are still designing the same heads of house....
...“I love how clothes can suggest a whole story,” says Brandon Taylor, the 34-years-old novelist whose third book The Late Americans, starring a multicast of creatives living in Iowa City, was published in...
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