Gov. Eric Holcomb says the Indiana primary election will be moved from May 5 to June 2.

Indiana on Monday joined a handful of states, including several of its neighbors, by shutting down nonessential travel and businesses.

The Indiana Election Commission on Wednesday ratified several changes that Gov. Eric Holcomb recommended at a news conference last week.

Holcomb's veto, only his second as governor, provides a win to hundreds of advocates who had all but begged for his support in recent weeks.

Indiana Congressman Trey Hollingsworth says it's a false choice between accepting widespread casualties or reopening the economy.

Gov. Eric Holcomb will partner with other Midwestern states as they coordinate reopening their economies in phases as soon as early May.

Gov. Eric Holcomb finds himself in an enviable position politically as he navigates difficult decisions about how and when to reopen the economy.

Holcomb and Hogsett say they are on the same page.

Gregg got a boxing heavy bag for his birthday, and he's ready to beat up Derek — hey, that's what he said! — on the latest Doyel and Derek Podcast.

DES MOINES-Iowa Firearms Coalition President Barry Snell shared their mission of protecting Second Amendment Rights for Iowans at the Bull Moose Club luncheon in Des Moines on Tuesday.  He explained how the IFC was formed and gave an update on their legislative achievements since their formation in 2010. “IFC got […]

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Washington teeters on the brink. If there is no agreement on a budget by midnight on Friday, the federal government will shut down. While cops and soldiers, air traffic controllers and others deemed essential won't down tools this is serious, at least according to the Obama administration. A senior administration official has told us loans to small businesses and home buyers will stop, which will have an impact on an already fragile housing market. Military and civilian workers won't be paid. The lions at the zoo will be fed (and unlike last time their waste should be collected) but the gates won't open to visitors. National parks will close. This is, of course, the most serious, as I am planning a vacation to one of them next week.

I am just back from the Capitol, and talking to people at a Tea Party rally. Their view might be summed up as "bring it on!" They were chanting "Shut it down!" Several made the point that if non-essential parts of the government shut down, they'd be quite happy. If it's not essential, the view is, then the government shouldn't be doing it anyway.

I suspect there will be a deal. There is too much for both sides to lose in the blame game that would follow. But the strength of the Tea Party has already made it hard for their leadership to compromise, and will make selling any deal tough. President Barack Obama and the Democrats don't have quite the same problem but the cuts he has accepted have already upset supporters.

Compromise is a peculiar business, I reflected as I started reading a book called At the Edge of the Precipice, by Robert Remini, the former historian of the US House of Representatives. It is about the 1850 compromise over slavery. He writes that the man at the centre of this, Henry Clay, "understood the importance of compromise... each side must feel that it has gained something that is essential to its interest as the result of the compromise. To achieve that goal each side must surrender something important to the opposing side. Both sides can then claim victory."

His contention is that compromise prevented an early civil war that the North would have lost, having neither leadership nor material to win at that stage. The argument is that it prevented the splitting of the US into two nations and thus was a good move. All history is hindsight, but I am uncertain about praising an agreement on the grounds that it turned out that it came unstuck later with better results. It was hardly the argument at the time. And compromises depend who is at the table. The compromise was between white gentlemen, while the slaves themselves had no say. Perhaps they might have had some thoughts about the value of compromise.

What's this got to do with today's politics? Simply that like Mr Remini, most Americans admire politicians who can behave with dignity and find a way through a difficult problem, by giving and taking. Bipartisanship is one of the highest ideals of US politics. But many of the politicians might question the morality of this. Enough of them might see the matters of practicality and principle at stake as too important to allow the other side to claim any sort of victory.

McGraw, a three-star defensive end, announced his decision Sunday via Twitter.

Indiana women's basketball roster retooling has hit overdrive the past few days.

Tennessee standout Chloe Moore-McNeil signed with Indiana basketball on Wednesday.

Holloman, a three-star prospect from Auburn Hills, also had offers from West Virginia, Nebraska, Maryland, Iowa State, and Central Michigan, among others.

McGraw, a three-star defensive end, announced his decision Sunday via Twitter.

Jobless claims have surged amid the coronavirus outbreak, revealing the limitations of a state unemployment system.

Some employees disagree with employers who say their businesses are essential. Experts say the definition's gray area makes it hard for workers.

Richard Wood led Eli Lilly and Co. through prosperous times, thanks to products like Prozac. Colleagues say his foresight paid off.

The parent company of Indiana's second largest coal company, with ties to the Trump administration, landed $10 million in coronavirus relief aid.

Emmis hopes to reduce expenses, focus on growth.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Syed Shah usually buys and sells stocks and currencies through his Interactive Brokers account, but he couldn't resist trying his hand at some oil trading on April 20, the day prices plunged below zero for the first time ever. The day trader, working from his house in a Toronto suburb, figured he couldn't lose as he spent $2,400 snapping up crude at $3.30 a barrel, and then 50 cents. Then came what looked like the deal of a lifetime: buying 212 futures contracts on West Texas Intermediate for an astonishing penny each. What he didn't know was oil's first trip into negative pricing had broken Interactive Brokers Group Inc. Its software couldn't cope with that pesky minus sign, even though it was always technically possible -- though this was an outlandish idea before the pandemic -- for the crude market to go upside down. Crude was actually around negative $3.70 a barrel when Shah's screen had it at 1 cent. Interactive Brokers never displayed a subzero price to him as oil kept diving to end the day at minus $37.63 a barrel. At midnight, Shah got the devastating news: he owed Interactive Brokers $9 million. He'd started the day with $77,000 in his account. To be clear, investors who were long those oil contracts had a brutal day, regardless of what brokerage they had their account in. What set Interactive Brokers apart, though, is that its customers were flying blind, unable to see that prices had turned negative, or in other cases locked into their investments and blocked from trading. Compounding the problem, and a big reason why Shah lost an unbelievable amount in a few hours, is that the negative numbers also blew up the model Interactive Brokers used to calculate the amount of margin -- aka collateral -- that customers needed to secure their accounts. "It's a $113 million mistake on our part," said Thomas Peterffy, the chairman and founder of Interactive Brokers, in an interview Wednesday. Customers will be made whole, Peterffy said. "We will rebate from our own funds to our customers who were locked in with a long position during the time the price was negative any losses they suffered below zero."

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Google's move to put Javier Soltero, VP and GM of G Suite, in charge of Messages, Duo, and the phone app on Android, puts all of Google's major communication products under one umbrella: Soltero's team. Dieter Bohn reports via The Verge: Soltero tells me that there are no immediate plans to change or integrate any of Google's apps, so don't get your hopes up for that (yet). "We believe people make choices around the products that they use for specific purposes," Soltero says. Still, Google's communications apps are in dire need of a more coherent and opinionated production development, and Soltero could very well be the right person to provide that direction. Prior to joining Google, he had a long career that included creating the much-loved Acompli email app, which Microsoft acquired and essentially turned into the main Outlook app less than two months after signing the deal. Soltero has also moved rapidly (at least by the standards of Google's communication apps) to clean up the Hangouts branding mess, converting Hangouts Video to Google Meet and Hangouts Chat to Google Chat -- at least on the enterprise side. Google Meet also became free for everybody far ahead of the original schedule because of the pandemic. Cleaning up the consumer side of all that is more complicated, but Soltero says, "The plan continues to be to modernize [Hangouts] towards Google Meet and Google Chat." "Soltero will remain on the cloud team but will join Hiroshi Lockheimer's leadership team," Dieter adds. While Lockheimer believes there are opportunities to better integrate Google's apps into its platforms, he says it doesn't make sense to force integration or interoperability too quickly. "It's not necessarily a bad thing that there are multiple communications applications if they're for a different purpose," Lockheimer says. "Part of what might be confusing, what we've done to confuse everyone, is our history around some of our communications products that have gone from one place or another place. But we're looking forward now, in a way that has a much more coherent vision."

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Boston dominated for most of four quarters but Indiana briefly took the lead in the final minutes behind Victor Oladipo and inspired defensive play.

Mike Conley is Tamika Catchings' first-round opponent in the NBA's HORSE event on ESPN; competitors will remain separated

Michael Jordan after his first title on 'The Last Dance': 'At last I fit somewhere in the category of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson'

You can see this art in person while you social distance. The Harrison Center will send colorful "smoke" from its historic chimney for the first time.

Social distancing and people's potential discomfort sitting in auditoriums have given Indianapolis venues several problems to solve amid coronavirus.

The Boilermakers received a commitment from Caleb Furst, a 2021 prospect from Fort Wayne Blackhawk Christian

Austin Burton announced last week he's transferring from UCLA to Purdue. He'll be a graduate transfer with two years of eligibility.

Greenwood mayor Mark Myers announced plans for an outdoor sports complex during his State of the City address Thursday.

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Plaque honoring Elvis Presley's final concert has been absent in recent years because of construction at Market Square Arena site in Indianapolis.

Life changed for Avon High School alum Jesse Kramer in June, when he made his TV network debut on "The Four: Battle for Stardom."

Michael Jordan after his first title on 'The Last Dance': 'At last I fit somewhere in the category of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson'

After a long summer for soccer-starved fans, Chelsea beat Man United in the Community Shield.

Surprisingly the Spanish online travel market is not saturated by the emergence of aggregation and comparison engines; there is still space for newcomer(s) to enter this segment of the online travel industry. That’s what Minube.com (that literally means “My Cloud” in Spanish) did today by launching this new flight/hotel aggregator “Minube”. Minube.com referred itself as being [...]

People wait in line for these giant ice cream-stuffed doughnuts, even on snowy winter days.

Also look for a hot chicken food truck and another location in Bloomington.

Public Greens funnels its profits to help feed food-insecure kids in Marion County.

Operating revenues for the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium dropped by 60 percent in March, during coronavirus, compared to last year.

The governor said state officials are trying to manage health risks, job risks and budget risks simultaneously.

The UK has passed Italy's death toll but it's hard to make direct comparisons.

James Maddison backs up his trash-talk while Irish international team-mates John Egan and Aaron Connolly compete against each other in the Premier League Fifa invitational.

The order streamlines workers' compensation claims and establishes that any essential worker infected with COVID-19 contracted the virus on the job.