Dan Coats sought to tamp down tensions between President Donald Trump and U.S. intelligence agencies, assuring former Senate colleagues at his confirmation hearing that he would act independently as director of national intelligence.
Former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats is likely to face tough questioning because President Donald Trump has nominated him to supervise the nation’s 17 intelligence agencies while they’re mired in explosive investigations.
To counter defense-spending increases, the president plans to propose corresponding cuts to domestic programs and foreign aid.
Politico has reported that the Trump White House was not impressed with a 2016 column in which local Republican strategist Marcus Barlow said Trump was “offensive and ignorant” but not a racist.
Doubters about the $48 billion Anthem-Cigna merger have been in abundance from the start—both on antitrust grounds and on concerns over cultural fit.
Indiana health care consulting executive Seema Verma on Thursday testified before the Senate Finance Committee on her nomination to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS.
Changes in trade policy would reverberate across Indiana, given its status in a new Brookings Institution study as the most export-dependent state in the country.
Employees at 45 Indiana workplaces—including 11 in the Indianapolis area—applied for federal assistance in the past 13 months because they believed they were victims of trade-related job losses.
A review by The Associated Press found Seema Verma and her small Indianapolis-based firm made millions through consulting agreements with at least nine states while also working under contract for Hewlett Packard.
More than 3,500 federal and state lawsuits allege that the DuPont Co. Washington Works plant, near Parkersburg, West Virginia, had dumped perfluorooctanoic acid into the Ohio River.
Vice President Mike Pence may have just picked another fight with pharmaceutical companies—one that doesn’t involve drug prices.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed school choice advocate Betsy DeVos as education secretary by the narrowest of margins, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie in a historic vote.
U.S. employers added a healthy 227,000 jobs last month and more Americans began looking for work—developments that President Donald Trump interpreted as confidence in his administration.
For years, medical-device makers in Indiana and around the nation have insisted that the 2.3 percent tax on sales to help fund the Affordable Care Act has hurt business and slowed innovation.
For drugmakers, including Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co., a meeting Tuesday with President Donald Trump was a dose of happy pills.
President Trump took Big Pharma to task on pricing but also promised to ease regulations and find ways to speed medicines to market, which triggered a surge in the sector’s share prices.
President Trump is fulfilling a promise he made shortly after his election to reduce federal regulations. In practice, the policy potentially requires months of study and public input for each regulation eliminated.
The U.S tech industry, which relies on foreign engineers and other technical experts for a sizable percentage of its workforce, is showing dismay over the executive order.
With the shutdown of Rexnord Corp.’s local bearings plant just months away, union officials are planning a rally next week to highlight the workers’ plight. Meanwhile, employees have received approval for federal job relocation aid.
The EPA has been roiled by turmoil during its first week under President Donald Trump, as members of the transition team issued what it has described as a temporary freeze on all contract approvals and grant awards.
