Indiana fetal-remains law could boost costs for abortions
The state’s largest abortion provider said it expects greater expenses for abortions because of the state law requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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China’s technology tactics irk its trading partners
Europe, Japan and other trading partners object to President Trump’s trade tactics but echo American complaints. They say China’s practices violate its market-opening commitments under the World Trade Organization.
Trump delays imposing tariffs on auto imports, parts
The White House said Friday that President Trump is delaying for six months any decision to slap import taxes on foreign cars, a move that would hit Europe and Japan especially hard.
Lugar lauded at funeral for advocacy of global peace
Vice President Mike Pence and Chief Justice John Roberts joined numerous other national leaders among several hundred mourners at Lugar's funeral Wednesday in his hometown of Indianapolis following his death last month at age 87.
Republican senators raising alarms about growing trade war
Faced with the prospect that Trump will continue with his adversarial approach, Republican lawmakers are also looking for ways to provide a taxpayer bailout to farmers.
Late Sen. Lugar hailed as peacemaker ahead of Indiana funeral
A two-day tribute to longtime U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar began Tuesday with a military honor guard leading his flag-draped casket into the Indiana Statehouse Rotunda.
Ivanka Trump to talk job training with Salesforce brass in Indy
Trump, the president’s oldest daughter and a White House adviser, will take part in a panel discussion at the Salesforce Tower with company officials including Chairman Marc Benioff.
U.S. farmers who sell to China feel pain of Beijing’s tariffs
On Monday, President Donald Trump told reporters that a new program to relieve U.S. farmers’ pain is being devised and predicted that they will be “very happy.”
U.S. tariff increase on $200B of Chinese imports takes effect
President Donald Trump's latest tariff hikes on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating a battle over China's technology ambitions and other trade strains.
Trump administration taking aim at ‘surprise’ medical bills
President Donald Trump will begin a push Thursday to fight health care sticker shock by limiting the unexpected charges faced by insured patients when a member of a health care team that treated them is not in their insurer’s network.
U.S., China wield threats going into high-stakes trade talks
U.S. and Chinese negotiators are to resume trade talks Thursday, just hours before the United States is set to raise tariffs on Chinese imports.
Chinese team heads to Washington to salvage trade talks
The announcement suggests President Xi Jinping's government is putting its desire to end a conflict that has battered Chinese exporters ahead of the political need to look tough in the face of U.S. pressure.
U.S. plans to hike tariffs Friday, says China broke promises
Accusing Beijing of "reneging" on commitments it made in earlier talks, the nation's top trade negotiator said Monday that the Trump administration will increase tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods.
Indiana among 3 finalists for USDA divisions, but proposed location unknown
Indiana’s short-listed proposal—submitted by Purdue University and state officials—was one of 136 received by the USDA last year from 35 states. Relocating the two research divisions to Indiana could bring 570 federal jobs.
Trump threatens to hike tariffs on $200B of Chinese imports
President Trump's comments, delivered on Twitter, came as a Chinese delegation was scheduled to resume talks in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday aimed at resolving a trade war that has shaken investors and cast gloom over the world economy.
Lugar funeral to be held May 15 at Indianapolis church
Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar will lie in state in the Indiana Statehouse Rotunda for 24 hours beginning at noon May 14.
Trump, GOP states ask appeals court to kill Obamacare
Taking a harder line on health care, the Trump administration joined a coalition of Republican-led states Wednesday in asking a federal appeals court to entirely overturn former President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
Student says Trump backers recruited him for Buttigieg smear
The post by Hunter Kelly, a 21-year-old gay President Trump supporter, accused the 37-year-old South Bend mayor of sexually assaulting him in February
U.S., China set to resume trade talks with enforcement part ‘close to done’
The next round of China-U.S. trade talks will get under way in Beijing this week with significant issues still unresolved but with enforcement mechanisms nearly in place, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
Dem 2020 candidates lag typical Americans in giving, tax returns show
With notable exceptions, most high-polling 2020 Democratic presidential candidates gave well below the U.S. average to charity in 2018, according to the deductions claimed on their tax returns.