The president said intelligence agencies would now need court approval before accessing phone data of hundreds of millions of Americans. He also directed the agencies to stop spying on the leaders of friendly nations. The changes come amid criticism directed at the NSA.

For decades, the Supreme Court ruled that laws regulating things like wages and working conditions were unconstitutional. That changed during the Great Depression, when one of the justices switched sides, paving the way for the Fair Labor Standards Act.

One change that privacy advocates have been pushing for is that the NSA no longer store the records from millions of phone calls - including those of Americans. Officials are telling Reuters and NPR that the president will endorse the idea of having a third party, not the NSA, hold that data.

House Speaker Brian Bosma said he's "exploring all kinds of" options for moving a constitutional marriage amendment out of committee and onto the House floor.

Restaurateurs and farmers are calling for Hoosiers to "shake the hand of the hand that feeds them" by helping them promote their products.

Attorney General Eric Holder and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio met on Wednesday to discuss a new series of guidelines that would expand the ban on racial profiling by law-enforcement agencies. The new criteria would extend the coverage to origin and religion, among other characteristics.

Raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits and attacking income inequality are all on the Obama administration's domestic agenda. And they all fall under the purview of Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who has only been on the job since July.

Federal officials plan to launch the next Defense Base Closure and Realignment process in 2016 and some Indiana locations are thought to be in danger of making the list. That has motivated lawmakers to try to protect military installations in the state of Indiana.

Lawmakers set to work Wednesday fine-tuning a law passed last year that gives some convicted felons the ability to expunge their crimes from their records.

The State of the Judiciary started early Wednesday, reinforcing Chief Justice Brent Dickson's claim that the judiciary is one of the most efficient organizations in the state.