The abrupt termination targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team is consistent with the administration’s determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president.
The president also ordered troops to be reinstated who had left voluntarily or been booted for refusing COVID-19 vaccines and outlined new rollbacks in diversity programs.
A new Indianapolis immigration court officially opened on Monday, the first of its kind to operate in Indiana.
Indianapolis-based Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc. has begun asking for private donations and support, following a flurry of immigration-related changes President Donald Trump made last week through a series of executive orders.
A key ally of President Donald Trump said the White House pardoning rioters who fought with police while storming the U.S. Capitol in 2021 is “sending the wrong signal” and expressed concern about the future ramifications of issuing sweeping clemencies.
As part of an ongoing effort to eradicate “obscene” and “harmful” books or curricular material from Indiana schools, a new bill floated by Republican lawmakers seeks to expand that ban to include “pornographic” content, too.
Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots.
Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city as federal agencies touted arrests around the country.
The police department said it regularly communicates with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and fully complies with all state and federal laws.
A long-awaited federal immigration court is poised to open next week in Indianapolis, making it the first court of its kind to operate in the state.
An Anderson man was sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being in possession of a firearm during a drunk driving crash.
The measure would require local law enforcement to give federal authorities notice when they arrest people who are reasonably believed to be in the country illegally.
A bill prohibiting some Hoosier minors from using social media without their parents’ permission received bipartisan support in the Indiana Senate on Thursday and moved to the House for further consideration.
Legislators voted to advance five health care-related bills, including measures banning non-compete agreements for physicians and placing limits on prior authorization.
The deal represents an increase of more than $1 billion over a previous settlement deal that was rejected last year by the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Donald Trump had promised during his reelection campaign to make public the last batches of still-classified documents surrounding President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas.
The justices granted an emergency plea made by the Justice Department in the waning days of the Biden administration to allow enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act, enacted in 2021 to crack down on the illicit use of anonymous shell companies.
The people pardoned were involved in the October 2020 invasion and blockade of a Washington clinic.
A press freedom group representing the Indiana Capital Chronicle has filed a lawsuit in Marion Superior Court alleging the Indiana Department of Correction violated public records law by declining to reveal the cost of the lethal injection drug used in Joseph Corcoran’s December execution.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour repeatedly interrupted a Justice Department lawyer during arguments to ask how he could consider the order constitutional. When the attorney said he’d like a chance to explain it in a full briefing, Coughenour told him the hearing was his chance.