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The dramatic escalation of tensions started last Friday with the killing of Iran’s top military leader, Qassem Soleimani. The killing was approved by President Trump and carried out by a drone missile strike in Iraq. Soleimani was the leader of Iran’s regional military intervention and a revered figure in Iran. Soleimani’s burial on Wednesday came just hours after Iran retaliated …

Indiana’s members of Congress are responding to yesterday’s release of a summary of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. The IndyStar reports reactions as being largely split across party lines. 7th District Congressman André Carson spoke on the House floor on Wednesday, calling for the White House to release the whistleblower complaint relating to Trump’s phone …

Vice President Mike Pence will be in Indianapolis on Thursday to promote a new trade agreement to replace NAFTA. According to the IndyStar, Pence is scheduled as the featured speaker at an event hosted by America First Policies, a nonprofit that promotes President Donald Trump’s campaign agenda. The event at MacAllister Machinery will include a panel on how the new …

The Supreme Court is preventing the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Supreme Court blocked the citizenship question on Thursday. Officials in the Trump administration confirmed Tuesday that the question would not be on the census. The Census Bureau says they are currently printing the census forms without the question.   President Donald Trump tweeted this morning …

President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama will be in Indiana this weekend. The sitting Republican President and former Democratic president are scheduled to hold rallies supporting their parties’ respective Senate candidates.  Incumbent Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly is up for re-election on Tuesday. President Obama will stump for Donnelly in Gary, Indiana on Sunday. Meanwhile,  President Trump is scheduled …

Sen. (D-IN) Joe Donnelly backtracked on his opposition to Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh, on Friday. Donnelly’s office released a statement shortly before noon on Friday, announcing that the Incumbent Democratic Senator would oppose Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the nation’s Supreme Court. Later that afternoon, Donnelly told the Times of North West Indiana he would oppose Kavanaugh’s nomination, without an …

President Donald Trump is expected to announce his nominee for the Supreme Court today; Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is refusing to step down from his post, following sexual assault allegations last week; Planned Parenthood is closing their clinic in Fort Wayne due to intimidation; Brown County is expected to break ground on a new 12 and a half million dollar performing arts …

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces his retirement from the bench; The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s travel ban; Bloomington’s housing market doubled in value compared to the rest of the state; Monroe County Community School Corporation is putting additional safety measures in place, in preparation for the new school year; The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is issuing its third …

A study by Purdue University is being used by the federal Commerce Department, as the basis for President Trump’s proposed steel tariff plans; In an independent analysis of the proposed steel tariffs, Hertel’s team found, “Combined output reductions of nearly 20 billion dollars annually for U.S. manufacturers of machinery and equipment, automobiles and parts, and the construction sector”; Travelers in …

Last week the Trump administration announced that DACA will be phased out by March 2018. DACA is a presidential memorandum issued by president Obama in 2012 which defers deportation for two years for undocumented, law abiding immigrants who were brought here as children before the age of 16. DACA status is renewable and offers the ability to remain temporarily in …