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Indiana
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 26 stories to Indiana since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Indiana.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Indiana
10 storiesFour suspended Indianapolis police officers and a former officer face felony charges for using Flock license plate cameras to track exes, spouses and their partners.
Nearly 7,000 flagged searches
Police in dozens of jurisdictions searched Flock's license-plate camera network citing "LMAO," "idk" and keyboard mashing as reasons, an Electronic Frontier Foundation audit-log review finds.
One "LMAO" search spanned 19,000 cameras
Indiana prosecutor won't charge a woman whose false abuse report took former Transportation Secretary Buttigieg's 4-year-old twins from home for 24 hours, citing her mental illness.
Retains computer access at halfway house
FTC forces ad firms Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP to settle, barring brand-safety standards conservatives say hurt Breitbart and Musk's X.
Settlements include DEI in protected criteria
Gunman fires more than 15 shots at Indianapolis councilor's home, leaves "no data centers" note after his vote to approve a half-billion dollar project.
8-year-old son inside during attack
Energy Department orders two Indiana utilities to keep coal plants running to "prevent blackouts," overriding closure plans as residential electric bills spiked 17.5% this year.
One plant opened in 1966
Childcare waitlists grow from 8 states to 23 plus DC, stranding hundreds of thousands of eligible children, after Congress let $28 billion in pandemic aid lapse, AP finds.
Trump: "We can't take care of daycare"
Deloitte pays $21.5 million to settle DOJ claims its DEI programs defrauded the government, with an anti-affirmative action group taking $4.3 million as whistleblower.
IBM's $17 million came first
Gary, Indiana, nears 12 days without power for 33,000 people as the state awaits word on a federal major disaster declaration.
Clergy invoke Katrina, demand state reserves
68,000 northwest Indiana customers endure a 9th day without power after storms that killed 7, with full restoration in Gary not expected until Tuesday.
Emergency declaration covers 53 counties
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesAppeals court rules Indiana cannot punish Planned Parenthood for telling minors where abortion is legal, calling referrals protected First Amendment speech.
Cannot outlaw lawful conduct elsewhere
More than 1,000 march against ICE in Fishers, Indiana, countering a secret-location rally keynoted by former Border Patrol commander Bovino.
Bovino advocating tens of millions deportations
Indiana Republican state senator announces "no" vote on Trump-backed redistricting, citing Trump's use of disability slur, days after colleagues were swatted for opposing mid-cycle map changes.
Senator's daughter has Down syndrome
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