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Policy discussions about cannabis and intoxicating hemp products are heating up at the federal level and in many states, including Indiana. Since 2024, Indiana state legislators have introduced more than a dozen bills focused on related issues, although none have been signed into law. Favorable public support for legalizing cannabis for medical and adult use among Indiana residents suggests that these policy conversations will continue. This report presents educational information and insights for those who are evaluating Indiana’s cannabis policies or considering potential alternatives. The authors’ goal was not only to assess the cannabis policy landscape in Indiana but to…

I probably give the edge to Street Fighter in the gaming department, though I will say Mortal Kombat from like ’94 through ’97 was untouchable.I vote the Mortal Kombat movie from 1995 as superior to the Street Fighter trash with Jean-Claude Van Damme — but SF had an amazing anime adaptation that was incredible.Hard for me to pick a clear winner between franchises.

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: General Motors expects to receive $500 million in tariff refunds for charges it paid last year for now-defunct Trump administration levies, executives said on the automaker’s Q1 earnings call Tuesday.  CFO Paul Jacobson said the company plans to credit the returned funds as a receivable but has yet to change its free cash flow guidance because the timing of when refunds will be paid remains unclear.  Despite the potential refund amount, General Motors is still forecasting a hefty hit from…

Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender firing an Aster missile in 2019. Credit: UK MoD/Crown copyright MoD has spent £218.6m of £405m on Sea Viper upgrades for Type 45 ballistic missile defence Capability One improves Aster 30 and ship sensors; Capability Two will assess the newer Aster 30 Block 1NT Full capability is aimed for 2032, amid ongoing Type 45 repair and availability problems The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent more than half the funding set aside for the Sea Viper Capability One programme, intended to upgrade the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers with a ballistic missile intercept capability.…

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere. Hashimoto’s current labour of love is Ghostty, a terminal emulator that The Register has praised for its speed and for adding “some interesting new wrinkles” to a very mature category of software. I want to ship software and it doesn’t want me to ship software Like many developers, Hashimoto used GitHub to work on the project, and in a Tuesday post declared himself a fan. “I’m GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008,” he…

Thales Australia’s Bushmaster. Credit: Thales. The Australian Government has committed an investment of A$750m ($535m) for the manufacturing of 268 next generation Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles (PMVs) for the Australian Defence Force (ADF). Thales Australia will produce these vehicles at its Bendigo facility in regional Victoria, supporting about 300 local jobs over a seven-year period. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The order continues over 20 years of Bushmaster manufacturing at Bendigo and forms part of a broader strategy to modernise the ADF’s…

The HIMARS during Exercise Verbranden Road at Puckapunyal Military Area (PMA). Credit: Caitlin Heggie. The Australian government has confirmed a A$2.3bn ($1.6bn) investment over the decade in US-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). The systems were chosen after competitive evaluation, and will enhance the Australian Army’s long-range strike capability, the government said in a statement on 28 April 2026. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more With this investment, a second long-range fires regiment will also be established…

Last year, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll brought together roughly 20 top executives from some of the nation’s leading technology and industrial companies to help the service identify how industry could best support the Army’s push to advance some of its critical artificial intelligence initiatives.  The Army presented industry with a series of operational scenarios, asking companies how they would address the Army’s key challenges in those areas. “A lot of them really distill down into how do we become more data-centric and reduce cognitive load on operational formations, particularly in priority theaters, where low bandwidth or denied environments are going…

Watchkeeper XR takes first flight in Romania. Credit: Elbit Systems Ltd. Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems has expanded its presence in Europe with the opening of a new uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) facility in Chitila, Romania. The facility, opened on 27 April 2027, is the company’s seventh production site in the country. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Developed as part of the Watchkeeper XR programme, the facility offers an integrated capability for domestic production, integration, testing and maintenance of advanced UAS platforms.…

Iran Press TV Tuesday, 28 April 2026 5:56 AM Russia’s minister of defense has expressed confidence that Moscow and Tehran would stand in support of each other amid the situation arising from the United States’ unlawful aggression targeting the Islamic Republic. Andrey Belousov made the remarks to Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Reza Talaei-Nik during a meeting in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek on Monday, Russia’s TASS news agency reported. Belousov said the support would last “as before under any development of the situation,” the report read. The meeting came amid an illegal blockade of Iranian vessels and ports by the United States,…