Gov.-elect Mike Braun has released a detailed policy agenda focused on five areas: tax relief, government efficiency, workforce development, health care and public safety.
Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter will step down Jan. 13, the day of Gov.-elect Mike Braun’s inauguration.
-
Rodney Scott at CBP and Caleb Vitello at ICE would work alongside Stephen Miller, who was named deputy chief of staff for policy and Tom Homan, also tapped to be a "border czar."
-
Rising from the sand on Miami Beach are what appear to be the sails of a buried Spanish galleon. It's a piece created by Tlingit/Unangax artist Nicholas Galanin.
-
At the Robopalooza festival in the California desert, engineers are stress-testing space robots, which they say could someday build the infrastructure needed to settle the moon and beyond.
-
Hundreds of sea turtles are stranding on Cape Cod this week. We visit the facility that is nursing them back to health.
-
The Justice Department finds Memphis police regularly violate the civil rights of citizens, engaging in unconstitutional tactics like excessive use of force and discriminating against Black residents.
-
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with David Sarni, a retired NYPD detective and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about the hunt for the gunman who killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
-
Syrians in Aleppo are cautiously optimistic as rebel groups take over Assad-regime held areas of their country.
-
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are making their case for government efficiency to members of Congress.
-
NPR has rounded up more than 350 of our favorite books this year. Today, we're focusing on biographies and memoirs.
-
A new study projects just how bad things could get for biodiversity if global warming speeds up. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that under the most extreme warming scenarios, about one in three species could be threatened with extinction by the end of the century.
-
Starting Sept. 1, drug users in Oregon began facing new criminal penalties for possession, ending the state's experiment with drug decriminalization. What does that change look like on the ground?
-
Health care, public safety and school safety — those are the issues Hoosiers want the state government to focus on in 2025, according to results from the latest edition of the Hoosier Survey by the Bowen Center for Public Affairs at Ball State University.
-
Backlash against massive solar energy farms drove strong rural turnout in Nevada may have helped flip the presidential vote there to Republican for the first time since 2004. But it's not a given Trump will derail President Biden's plans for more Nevada solar.
-
Gov.-elect Mike Braun has begun putting together his cabinet. He announced his picks for the secretaries of management and budget, transportation and infrastructure, commerce and education.
Latest Podcasts
-
Nick Schenkel has a review on Aunty Lee's Delights: A Singaporean Mystery, by Ovidia Yu. The “cozy mystery with a bite” is this year’s Big Read selection for Greater Lafayette.
-
It’s the summer of 1976 in Wabash, Indiana - Nick Schenkel has a review of an Indiana farm memoir “Pig Boy’s Wicked Bird: A Memoir” by Doug Crandell.