By Niki Kelly | Editor-in-Chief
“They gave everybody hope and then let us down when we were already down.” — Gary resident Alexxis Evans
Fresh off an ICE surge in Indiana, the Indiana State Police could receive a $30 million federal grant to help with immigration efforts.
State officials have urged Hoosiers to apply for SNAP replacement benefits. But many are being denied even after losing food due to recent storms and power outages.
The Chicago Bears are taking their sweet time on a new stadium, but the state is already sitting on $300 million in toll road cash related to the project.
Plus, the latest on the trade war with Canada.
Indiana State Police is seeking nearly $30 million in federal funding for equipment and technology that could support its work with federal immigration authorities. (Photo by Casey Smith/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
Indiana State Police seeks nearly $30M federal grant tied to immigration enforcement
By Casey Smith
Indiana State Police is seeking nearly $30 million in federal funding for surveillance technology, vehicles and investigative tools that would bolster the agency’s work with federal immigration authorities.
No state or local matching money is proposed, according to the application. ISP also reported that it would add no employees.
The agency described the project as broader than immigration enforcement, though, saying the equipment would support work involving drugs, human trafficking, organized crime, violent offenses, child exploitation, fugitives and forensic investigations.
Food care packages are distributed to residents outside of the Gospel Truth Apostolic Ministry church on Aug. 20, 2026, in Gary, Indiana. Many residents of Gary have not been able to refrigerate food after the storm knocked out power to large swaths of the city. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Families lost weeks of food they couldn’t afford to replace. Then their SNAP claims were denied.
By Jessica Kutz
When a powerful storm tore through Gary, Indiana, knocking out the power for two weeks, Tiffany Harrison, a mother of three, had to throw out all of the food that had spoiled in her fridge and deep freezer.
It was a big hit to her family in this majority-Black city where roughly 2 in 5 people rely on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, to feed themselves, according to an analysis by the nonprofit news organization Capital B.
NATIONAL NEWS
President Donald Trump has targeted Canadian airline manufacturer Bombardier in his trade war with Canada. In this photo, an Air Canada Express Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft departs Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. (Photo by Getty Images/Yassine Bahammou)
Trump’s trade war with Canada escalates as new tariffs launch
By Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on American goods kicked in Tuesday, escalating a trade war with one of the largest U.S. trading partners that President Donald Trump continued to antagonize over the holiday weekend.
Trump posted an AI-generated cartoon image of himself Sunday evening in which he is depicted as a hockey player striking Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is shown down on the ice, with a hockey stick.
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