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Iowa: 5 days to go before primary voting begins in rancorous US presidential race

Americans finally begin choosing next week among the Republican and Democratic candidates battling to be their party's 2016 presidential nominee in a series of state-by-state votes. The White House hopefuls include two highly unorthodox candidates — the politically incorrect billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump for the Republicans, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, for the Democrats — both of whom are running strongly in polls of the first two states with nominating contests — Iowa and New Hampshire.

As Iowa caucus nears, ghosts from 1990s are back to haunt Clinton; Bernie Sanders soars

Emails going out to Hillary Clinton supporters are taking on a nervy, urgent edge. It’s about Bernie Sanders, who is creeping up on Clinton’s poll numbers at lightning speed ahead of the first primaries and caucuses that begin early February.

US Elections Explainer: Iowa and its perplexing election caucus process

On February 1, residents of Iowa will be the first Americans to cast their votes in the 2016 race for the presidential nominations of the Democratic and Republican parties.