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On Saturday and Sunday, there were demonstrations against the conduct of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies in the wake of a pair of fatal shootings by agents in Minnesota.

A federal judge ruled in favor of a a group suing the Department of Homeland security for the decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Burmese nationals in the U.S.

This story has been republished with an update, as well as a translation from English to the Burmese and Karen languages to make it more accessible to the area's Burmese population. Temporary Protective Status for Burmese people was to have ended on Jan. 26. There has been a court-ordered pause by a federal judge.

An Indiana Senate committee advanced a bill Monday night that would redraw Indiana's congressional districts to favor their party.

Indiana House members are scheduled to meet Monday afternoon to start the process of considering the congressional redistricting that President Donald Trump has been demanding for months to improve the chances of Republicans keeping their slim majority in the U.S. House.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke at Purdue Fort Wayne at the 4th-Annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit, an event put on by Sen. Jim Banks.

The movement drew millions around the world to more than 2,700 events protesting the actions of the Trump administration. Protests around the area are growing in size.

Indiana GEAR UP, a Purdue-run college-prep program for more than 13,000 low-income students, will end Sept. 30 after the U.S. Education Department canceled its $35 million grant.

From WFIU News: Experts say, yes, there's a reason to be concerned about the quality of weather forecasts because of federal budget cuts.

Last Friday, after the U.S. House of Representatives clawed back funding from public media, including NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, WBOI's Travis Pope spoke about the impact.