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Epoch Times
29-05-2025
- Business
- Epoch Times
Senators Say Nvidia's Shanghai Expansion Is a Serious National Security Risk
Sens. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are seeking answers from Nvidia about the AI chip company's planned facility expansion in China. In a May 28
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Yahoo
Indiana inmate to be executed Tuesday for fatal police shooting in 2000
May 19 (UPI) -- Indiana is set to execute an inmate early Tuesday morning, almost 25 years after he shot and killed Beech Grove Police Department officer William Toney. Authorities are set to administer the lethal infection to Benjamin Ritchie shortly after midnight Tuesday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Ind. Indiana last December executed Joseph Corcoran, the state's first execution in approximately 15 years. Indiana had paused the procedure because of a lack of supply of lethal injection drugs. Gov. Mike Braun, R-Ind., who took office in January, last week refused to grant Ritchie clemency, following the recommendation of the Indiana Parole Board. Ritchie shot and killed Toney in September 2000 after the officer attempted to stop a stolen van. The vehicle crashed, leading to a foot chase through a residential neighborhood in Beech Grove, an Indianapolis suburb with a population of approximately 14,700 people in Marion County, Ind. Ritchie, who was 20 at the time, had been planning to commit an armed robbery with another man. He was also wanted in Ohio for a separate vehicle theft involving use of a weapon. Now 45, Ritchie was sentenced to death in October of 2002. Toney had been an officer for two years before the incident on Sept. 29, 2000. He was killed the day before his 32nd birthday. He was survived by his wife and two young daughters. Lawyers for Ritchie had argued that his abusive upbringing and a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome diagnosis were grounds for clemency. He has exhausted his appeals process at the state level. Indiana and Wyoming are the only two to employ the death penalty that do not permit media representatives to witness executions. A collective of journalists lost a court battle to force the state to permit witnesses, arguing the media has a First Amendment right to witness executions.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Indiana Senator helps introduce new act for veterans
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WTWO/WAWV)— Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) introduced the Veterans Opportunity Act last week. This act will streamline VA programs that assist veterans with job success and create an Under Secretary position for the new Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition Administration. The Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition Administration plans to reorganize current VA employees and programs without expanding. This includes managing employment, vocational rehabilitation, educational assistance, home loans, transition, and other economic opportunity programs that used to be under the Veterans Benefits Administration. Sen. Jim Banks says he won't apologize for calling fired federal worker a 'clown' who 'probably deserved it' 'From their years of service, veterans bring leadership, discipline, and highly transferable skills to civilian employment; they're ready to succeed from day one,' said Senator Banks. 'This bill helps veterans transition into civilian life and ensures our heroes have access to the educational and financial resources they've earned.' The act will essentially create a new administration led by a Senate-confirmed Under Secretary, which will be dedicated to economic opportunity and transition programs for veterans such as GI Bill education benefits, VA home loans, and the Transitional Assistance Program (TAP) under one administration. This new administration will be required to provide annual reports to Congress on things like claim volume, processing times, and outcomes to track its performance. The act also claims to have safeguards in place to prevent increased bureaucracy or loss of veteran services. To read the full text of the bill, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
