The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Indiana and 18 other states in a case to limit how the federal government can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A lot of listeners have questions about Indiana’s new permitless handgun carry law, which takes effect Friday. IPB News has answers to some of the most common about what the law does and doesn’t do.
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Abdolhossein Rezvani/APFive people were killed and 44 others injured in a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Iran on Saturday, state television reported. -
Police took 49-year-old Lance Storz into custody late Thursday night after an hourslong standoff at a home in Allen, a small town in the hills of Appalachia.
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Eric Gay/APThe proposal brought immediate backlash from environmentalists who accused Biden of betraying the climate cause, while oil industry officials said it would do little to counter high energy prices.
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Jacquelyn Martin/APThe whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them and now potentially canceling appointments again illustrated the confusion and scrambling taking place since Roe fell.
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Leisure travel has bounced back this year, and that means particularly big crowds over three-day holiday weekends. -
TikTok addressed Republican senators who have raised concerns that the Chinese-owned app could be sharing Americans' data with the Chinese government. TikTok says this is not happening.
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Hong Kong gets a new leader on Friday with strong backing from Beijing, but faces challenges with a sluggish economy that remains closed to the outside world — and China — by COVID controls.
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Elida Lozano remembers her uncle, Gerald Thomas, who died of COVID-19 in December 2021. Thomas loved listening to music and encouraged Lozano to go to college.
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With gas and airline prices at record highs — and the airline industry in turmoil — travelers are facing more obstacles than usual over the busy holiday weekend.
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A college sports seismic shakeup is underway with UCLA and the USC bolting the Pac-12 Conference for the Big Ten. The move consolidates power between two super conferences and portends more changes.
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Three recent SCOTUS rulings have been celebrated by an extreme far right wing pushing conservative Christian values. Some see the decisions as evidence this ideology has found legitimacy on the bench.
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A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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The suspected driver of the truck packed with migrants, including 53 who died earlier this week in San Antonio, was unaware that the air conditioning unit had failed, according to court documents.
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We've heard for months that chances of catching SARS-CoV-2 outdoors are far less than indoors. Is that still true with highly contagious omicron strains? And if it is, what can you do to stay safe?
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WBAA’s Ask the Mayor now airs in a new time slot with an updated format. You’ll now be able to tune in during Morning Edition and All Things Considered to hear our conversations with the mayors of West Lafayette, Lafayette, Frankfort, and Crawfordsville. Listen at 7:50 a.m. and 4:50 pm each Thursday, and stick around for local news coverage and NPR reporting. If you can’t catch the segments when they air, you’ll always be able to find here. Submit listener questions before the show to ask@wbaa.org. Thanks for listening!