While protests may look a little different in the age of social media, organizers still face a lot of the same struggles they did during past uprisings — like the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and ’60s.
Indiana Public Broadcasting’s Brandon Smith sat down with U.S. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) to discuss some of the biggest issues in the open governor’s race.
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Two senators, who have pushed online child safety legislation in Congress, demanded that TikTok executives share all materials the company has about the dangers kids may encounter on the wildly popular service.
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The lawsuit filed Friday alleges that an executive order issued in August by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin requiring daily updates to voter lists to remove ineligible voters violates federal law.
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Boeing has been losing money for over five years and is now dealing with a strike that has shut down factories in the Seattle area. The staff cuts will include executives and managers, the CEO said.
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The mission was created in 1978 to help restore order after Israel's first invasion of Lebanon. Decades later, it's still there but has come under fire during a new Israeli invasion in Lebanon.
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The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo. Its members are survivors of the August 1945 U.S. nuclear bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Some of the worst Hurricane Milton flooding came from torrential rains that swelled creeks and rivers. In Clearwater, Fla., over 500 people were rescued by boat from a creek-flooded apartment complex.
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Palestinian citizens of Israel say they have experienced increased discrimination by Jewish Israelis since the attacks of Oct. 7.
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Hidden -- though not effectively -- in a lawsuit against Tiktok, there are accusations that company executives have deceived the public about the social media app’s effects on young people.
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Civil society organizations are quietly undertaking unprecedented efforts to stave off possible election-related political violence. Many are focused on shoring up local communities against the worst.
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Japanese prosecutors said they will not appeal the acquittal of an 88-year-old former boxer, who was the world’s longest-serving inmate sentenced to death until his release in 2014.
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An Israeli strike leveled an apartment building in central Beirut Thursday night, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 100.
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Donald Trump and other Republican candidates in top races are focusing on campaign ads around transgender rights in the closing weeks of the election.
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California's new rules protecting indoor workers from extreme heat went into effect in July. How are they working out so far?
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The author of the 1973 children’s book How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell, died late September of Parkinson’s disease and other ailments. He was 91.
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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.
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Author Craig Martin takes us on a romp through 1800's Lafayette in the book "Percy Hare and the Girl in the Game - An early legend of the Lafayette town." Nick Schenkel has the review.