Midwest

Author and screenwriter Michael McGruther, whose 2000 film “Tigerland” starring Colin Farell has become a cult hit in recent years, spotlights America’s “forgotten people” in his new book “The Tracks We Make,” a Rust Belt tale that offers equal parts heartbreak, sincerity, hope, wisdom, and nostalgia.

A major winter storm is forecast to impact millions of Americans beginning on Tuesday.

A potential bomb cyclone that could soon hit the Midwest and disrupt travel has prompted some airlines to offer waivers before approaching cities including Chicago.

The Murdo Police Department in South Dakota released hair-raising footage to remind drivers to take extra precautions when traveling in winter weather conditions.

An executive of a Colorado bio tech company used her corporate email account to blast “retarded” Midwesterners in a bitter message to the mayor of the city that recently hosted a Donald Trump campaign rally.

After an initial drop in requests for driving directions, many states have seen a recovery in recent weeks.

A Wisconsin-based dairy cooperative is churning out and donating 45,000 pounds of cheese to local food banks in the Midwest.

Winter storm Gage is causing massive power outages, flight delays, and traffic snarls in the upper Midwest and New England.

Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in a recent interview with CBS News said her “ideas are better ideas” than her Democrat colleagues and insisted she wants to “build a blue wall around” states President Donald Trump won in 2016.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg released an ad Monday to appeal to voters in the “Rust Belt” of the Midwest.

Inflation expectations remained low while income expectations jumped higher in September, according to the NY Fed.

Former Vice President Joe Biden dominates his fellow 2020 Democrats in Michigan as the state gets ready to host the second primary debate.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has arrested 140 illegal aliens, nearly a third of which have criminal records, in a five-day raid across multiple Midwest states. 

President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his administration’s response to the hurricane disaster in Puerto Rico, accusing local officials of wasting billions of dollars.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, the only major Democratic candidate who had declined to support both “Medicare for All” and the “Green New Deal.”

The top U.S. steelmaker is set to build a new state-of-the-art steel plate mill in the American Midwest with an investment of about $1.3 billion into the project thanks to President Trump’s 25 percent tariff on imported steel. 

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Wind chills dipped as low as 56 degrees below zero in northern Illinois as bitter cold weather moved into Illinois.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The frigid arctic air blanketing parts of the Midwest is setting records in the Dakotas.

Power outages and natural gas interruptions were reported in parts of the Midwest as bitterly cold weather wreaks havoc across the region. 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the Midwest with record-breaking temperatures Wednesday, triggering widespread closures of schools and businesses, and prompting the U.S. Postal Service to take the rare step of suspending mail delivery to a wide swath of the region.

Record-breaking temperatures are headed towards the Midwest this week, bringing frigid conditions that could be life-threatening.

The storm which walloped the D.C. area with up to 10 inches of snow over the weekend has extended into Monday, causing major headaches for commuters and the closure a federal government agency and dozens of public schools. 

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel’s “happy talk” will not help. Trump and the Republicans should recognize they lost in 2018 — and make the necessary changes, now.

A “conventional cast of technocrats and long-time public officials” leads the Democrats’ efforts to strengthen their hold on the midwestern United States, starting with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head Richard Cordray’s victory over the progressive “leftist firebrand” Dennis Kucinich.

Winter Storm Xanto continues to dump snow in the Midwest, Great Lakes and interior northeast and the conditions will continue into Monday, weather forecasters say.

California High-Speed Rail agreed to increase payments to its construction manager by 18 percent after failing to complete its first 32-mile section within the seven-year deadline.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “First 100 Days,” Jonathan Allen, a columnist at Roll Call and one of the authors of the book “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign,” stated that Clinton’s campaign believed that “if more

Representative-elect Ro Khanna told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Monday that he plans to do his part to change the way politics has come to function in Washington D.C., and will focus on putting Americans workers first.

That midwestern success is what gives Trump a one-third chance of winning the election, Nate Silver says. “Clinton underperforming Obama’s 2012 forecast by *4 points* in the Midwest. That’s a major liability,” he tweeted.

Hillary Clinton has strongly backed the unpopular H-1B outsourcing program since at least 2000, but her support could be a 2016 problem because it is a direct economic threat to one of her strongest constituencies — university educated professionals.

New York real-estate developer Donald Trump has dominated the Republican nomination campaign for months — but his strongest support doesn’t come from any of the organized blocs in the Republican party.

As Breitbart Texas has previously reported, Middle America is awash in deadly heroin coming from south of the border. The Mexican heroin is affecting middle- and upper-class families in unprecedented ways. In a special series for Peoria Public Radio, Camille Phillips takes a look at how this deadly drug has invaded St. Louis, Missouri.

When most Americans hear the word heroin, they probably imagine a junkie underneath a highway overpass or an aging rock star with a needle sticking out of his arm. But the face of heroin abuse and addiction in America has changed dramatically in the last few years, and Mexican cartel drug traffickers are making sure those deadly little “balloons” filled with black-tar venom get into the hands of Middle America’s youth.

On Tuesday, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish rights organization, released a list of anti-Semitic acts that occurred last year in the Midwest.