Some local schools could see crippling job losses and service disruptions as a result of a sweeping GOP tax reform bill that reduces residential property taxes at the expense of Indiana school districts.
Local schools rocked by tax relief law
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Dow sinks 1,000 points amid worries about Trump’s trade war
The S&P 500 fell 2.6% Monday and was 16% below its record set two months ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,000 points, and the Nasdaq composite sank 2.9%.
60,000 Americans to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts
The program, Emergency Housing Vouchers, is running out of money — and quickly.
Thousands are expected to attend the White House Easter Egg Roll
Kids and families can sign a mini-Declaration of Independence or dress up as Founding Fathers during the daylong event that will feature multiple activity stations, live performances and story times.
Democratic state lawmakers start to move on promise to ‘be a check’ on Donald Trump
Democratic Illinois lawmakers are considering measures they say would protect the state against federal action under the Trump administration.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had another Signal chat where he shared details of Yemen strike, New York Times reports
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared the same details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants that were sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders, The New York Times reported.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelan deportees
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela on Sunday, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for what he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.
Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent in deportation case says court rushed to block President Donald Trump with middle-of-the night order
The Supreme Court acted “literally in the middle of the night” and without sufficient explanation in blocking the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a sharp dissent that castigated the seven-member majority.
This Midwestern city has long been a federal hub. The pain from DOGE’s cuts is everywhere
The impact of the cuts by Trump appointees and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency can be found everywhere in the Kansas City metropolitan area, which has long been a major hub for federal agencies about 1,000 miles away from Washington, D.C.
JD Vance meets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday after tangle over migration
Vice President JD Vance met briefly with Pope Francis on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a long-distance tangle over the Trump administration’s migrant deportation plans.