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What to know about Thousands in northwest Indiana still without power nearly two weeks after storm

Over 20,000 residents in northwest Indiana remain without electricity nearly two weeks after severe storms with wind gusts up to 100 mph hit the region on August 11.

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Thousands in northwest Indiana still without power nearly two weeks after storm More than 20,000 people are still without power in northwest Indiana after severe storms rolled through the area nearly two weeks ago.

Why it matters

A bout of severe weather, including wind gusts up to 100 mph, heavily affected the region on Aug.

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Homes in Gary, Portage, Lake Station and Munster still lacked …

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Over 20,000 residents in northwest Indiana remain without electricity nearly two weeks after severe storms with wind gusts up to 100 mph hit the region on August 11.

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Claim 1: “Homes in Gary, Portage, Lake Station and Munster still lacked [power]”
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The specific cities (Gary, Portage, Lake Station, and Munster) are listed as lacking power in reports from Flipboard, NPR, and other web search results citing NIPSCO.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 69,093 at the 2020 census, making it Indiana's eleventh-most populous city. The city has been historically dominated by major …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lake Station is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 13,235 at the 2020 census.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Station,_Indiana
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Portage ( POR-tij) is a city in Porter County, Indiana, United States. The population was 37,926 as of the 2020 census. It is the largest city in Porter County and third largest in Northwest Indiana. …
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Claim 2: “A federal appeals court ruled Friday [that] the Trump administration can blacklist AI firm Anthropic from Pentagon contracts”
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The ruling by a federal appeals court allowing the Trump administration to blacklist Anthropic from Pentagon contracts is reported by Flipboard, POLITICO, and other news sources, and is further detailed in a dedicated Wikipedia entry regarding the dispute.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC (stylized in logo as ANTHROP\C or A\) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship product is Claude, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since January 2026, the United States Department of Defense has conflicted with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic over the use of its products for military purposes and mass domestic surve…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models (LLMs) developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software d…
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Claim 3: “More than 20,000 people are still without power in northwest Indiana after severe storms rolled through the area nearly two weeks ago.”
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The claim is reported by Flipboard and corroborated by NPR, which mentions thousands in northwest Indiana still without power nearly two weeks after the storm.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Indiana ( IN-dee-AN-ə) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and K…
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Claim 4: “A bout of severe weather, including wind gusts up to 100 mph, heavily affected the region on Aug. 11.”
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Both Flipboard and NPR explicitly report that severe weather with wind gusts up to 100 mph affected the region on August 11.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This page documents notable tornadoes and tornado outbreaks worldwide in 2026. Strong and destructive tornadoes most frequently form in the United States, China, the La Plata Basin, the European Plain…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020 Midwest derecho was an unusually destructive and extremely powerful progressive derecho that devastated much of the Midwestern United States, primarily eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisco…
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