Gen. David Petraeus, the new chief of the U.S. Central Command who is credited with turning the tide in Iraq, took a firsthand look at the war in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
IU is often recognized as America’s college town for its basketball team, Little 500 and partying tendencies, but MSNBC chose to visit for a different reason Tuesday night: political activism on campus. NBC correspondent Luke Russert broadcast live from the Frangipani Room in the Indiana Memorial Union while the election numbers came through. He said he and the network chose IU because of Indiana’s swing state status and the political interest on campus.
A house fire killed three young brothers during the night and critically injured their grandmother, who apparently tried to rescue them, authorities said Tuesday.
As the electoral votes leaned toward Barack Obama Tuesday night, Chelsea Kane, chairwoman of IU College Republicans, said she had expected more from her fellow Americans. “It’s very disturbing,” Kane said. “It looks like Obama is going to take the election, unfortunately.”
Iran’s parliament impeached a Cabinet minister on Tuesday after he admitted having a fake degree from Oxford University, in a vote widely seen as a defeat for hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Tuesday morning started at 3:30 for senior Anna Strand. Strand, the President of IU College Democrats, woke up, took a shower and went to the local Obama headquarters office, where she directed more than 100 volunteers throughout the day.
INDIANAPOLIS – Thousands of people formed long lines at polling sites across Indiana on Tuesday for the last chance to cast a ballot in the state’s historic election season.
Taiwan and China set aside decades of hostilities Tuesday and agreed to drastically expand flights and allow shipping links across the Taiwan Strait, a potential hotspot that has long threatened to become a war zone.
Investors believing that Wall Street is on the verge of a year-end rally piled into the market Tuesday, brushing off more weak economic data while they scarfed up stocks and propelled the Dow Jones industrials up 300 points to its highest close in four weeks.
INDIANAPOLIS – An envelope containing a CD with a sticker reading “anthrax sample” and a biohazard sign over what appeared to be a sugar packet was mailed to The Indianapolis Star.
IU students turned out Tuesday to debunk the stereotype of college students as apathetic citizens.
As the frenetic activity taking place within the looming structure on the corner of Seventh Street and Woodlawn Avenue might divulge, the construction of the new Hutton Honors College is nearly complete.
INDIANAPOLIS – Democratic Sen. Barack Obama flew to Indianapolis late Tuesday morning to surprise some voters with a round of last-minute phone calls.
Carolyn Calloway-Thomas led IU alumnus Byron Smith by the arm into the IU-Bloomington Diversity Committee meeting Monday night and helped him to his chair. As the third meeting of the semester began, Smith addressed the committee concerning his own disability in an effort to shed light on IU’s need for improvement in recruiting and providing accessibility for disabled students and staff.
So, now we know who the next president of the United States of America is. Congratulations, Mr. President, the pleasantries are over.
This month, the School of Fine Arts Gallery is saving students a trip to the Windy City with its new show “One Moment,” an exhibit featuring the Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago.
On June 27, 1969, a routine police raid on a gay bar in New York became the catalyst for the modern gay rights movement. The Stonewall riots redefined the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual culture, but few know that there was a strong underground gay presence in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.
Though they might not realize it, every person who attends a play at the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center has a guardian angel in Trish Hausmann. As the house manager, she works to ensure safety, efficiency and, as much as possible, the satisfaction of every audience member during each play.
Indiana voters split nearly down the middle in what was perhaps the closest race in the nation between Barack Obama and John McCain. Obama was close to snapping Indiana’s streak of backing Republican presidential nominees for 10 straight elections, but counting continued late Tuesday as unofficial vote tallies by The Associated Press showed him holding a lead of about 8,000 votes out of some 2.6 million cast.
Local Results (as of 10:15 p.m. with 52 percent of precincts reporting)
