Months after a wave of swatting incidents targeted Indiana elected officials, we remain blissfully arrest-free. The Indiana State Police and the FBI — two organizations that collectively command billions of dollars, surveillance technology that would make George Orwell blush, and the full investigative weight of the world's most powerful government — have produced exactly nothing. No suspect. No charges. No perp walk. Just a lot of very serious-sounding press releases about how seriously they're taking it. We're sure the families of those officials feel much better knowing the finest minds in law enforcement are on it.
Which raises an uncomfortable question: is this garden-variety incompetence, or is someone not exactly in a hurry to find out who's been calling in fake emergencies to legislators' homes? Because if you want to find out who's harassing politicians, apparently the FBI isn't your best bet. ICE, on the other hand, managed to locate and detain people in church parking lots and hospital waiting rooms. Maybe we hand this investigation over to them — at the very least, they'd find or shoot somebody.
Indiana residents will recall the aftermath of the passage–and signing by then-Governor Mike Pence–of the mis-named Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). RFRA allowed businesses to cite religion to defend refusals to serve LGBTQ patrons. The ensuing uproar was anchored by businesses that recognized what our benighted legislature and Christian nationalist governor did not: discriminatory laws are terrible for business.
United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth compared American journalists to “Pharisees” in our coverage of the Iran war, adding, “Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what side some of you are actually on.” U.S. Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., posted on X on April 14 that “Democrats and the media are rooting against the Commander in Chief and the mission they are carrying out.”
“I’ve even heard people sometimes say he’s so good looking, he almost looks like he’s AI. But there’s no question that Beau looks the part,” says Mike Schmuhl, who managed a presidential campaign for a former Indiana mayor by the name of Pete Buttigieg, and who recently signed on as a senior adviser to Beau. “Former Marine, lawyer, well educated, very smart, but also very dedicated to the task at hand.”
The indictment, announced Friday, follows a joint investigation by the FBI, Indiana Gaming Commission, Indiana State Police, and the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office. Authorities say the group is accused of “conducting, financing, managing, supervising, directing, and owning an illegal gambling business in violation of Title 18, United States Code section 1955.”
MMI recommends getting help immediately, rather than waiting for the debt to snowball. According to the Indiana Action Poverty Institute, nearly one in five Hoosiers has some form of medical debt in collections.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana argued in Monroe Circuit Court Friday that a last-minute provision to the state budget last year unconstitutionally singles out Indiana University by removing the ability of IU alumni to directly elect trustees.
An Indiana woman faces a slew of child sex crime charges after reportedly using a 5-year-old girl to promote her OnlyFans account and produce sexual content.
The Monroe County Election Board says student votes cast during the Senate Bill 10 injunction window should be counted.
"I was made aware of this from Christian students who attend Westfield, and they said they felt uncomfortable but didn't want to speak out because they were afraid to speak out. They were not being seen, they were not being heard, so I didn't go looking for this — it was brought to my attention," Beckwith told Blakeslee.
The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said Friday.
I realize I’m showing my age, but I vividly remember the week the Iran-Contra revelations hit the news. I was a politics nerd and Thatcher-Reagan fan, and all I can say is that it was like a sudden, huge change in the air pressure. The era of Reagan’s sunny sincerity came to a swift, screeching halt. He’d lied, we all realized — which in those days, actually mattered. In a single month, he dropped close to 20 points in approval.
The University of Michigan’s final April sentiment index dropped to 49.8 this month from 53.3 in March. While that was slightly improved from the preliminary reading, it remained the lowest in data back to 1978.
Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, announced Friday the investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is closed. In a post on X, Pirro said the Fed’s inspector general “has been asked to scrutinize the building costs overruns — in the billions of dollars — that have been borne by taxpayers.”
When Trump declared Pope Leo “terrible for foreign policy,” the U.S. intelligence community took the president’s remarks as a directive to prioritize spying on the Vatican.
A cohort of resistance-minded House Democrats is pushing their colleagues to begin building the case against President Trump now in anticipation of a Day 1 impeachment vote if they retake the House.
Comedian and pundit Bill Maher flat-out told his audience that President Donald Trump was “wrong” about Iran, that “He keeps sayig we won, and we didn’t.”
The Trump administration is exploring using the Defense Production Act as part of a strategy to save the beleaguered Spirit Airlines, according to U.S. officials familiar with the discussions.
Senate Republicans have sidelined the SAVE America Act, arguing that it shouldn’t be anywhere near the top of the party’s priority list, especially amid the Iran war and growing economic woes.
An email to supporters of Republicans in the Senate said the party is "terrified" as Democrats advance on their midterm odds in three unexpected states.
The Iran war is the most serious foreign policy crisis that Donald Trump will ever have to manage, God willing. So why hasn’t his most serious deputy—who, as it happens, is in charge of foreign policy—taken a lead role in solving it?
The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn’t alert law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.
President Donald Trump has been captured on camera nodding off on the job–again. Trump, 79, was called out for seemingly getting some shut-eye on Thursday during a healthcare affordability event in the White House.
After a brief wait, the Indianapolis Colts addressed their defense in the second round of Friday’s NFL Draft. The Colts traded back from No. 47 to No. 53 with the Pittsburgh Steelers and selected Georgia linebacker C.J. Allen.
The Las Vegas Raiders selected Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza as their franchise quarterback with the top overall pick in Thursday night's NFL draft.
The WNBA announced Wednesday, April 22 that the Indiana Fever will have all 44 games this season broadcast on national television. Not only is that a franchise record for the Fever, but it also sets a record for most nationally televised games for any WNBA team in the league's history.
