Fifty-nine school districts, including the three largest in the state, have had their accreditation status downgraded over poor reading and math test scores.
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Taiz, a city in southwestern Yemen, faces a severe water crisis as Houthi rebels backed by Iran tighten their encirclement. The city has struggled with water issues for over a decade, but the situation has worsened in recent weeks.
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Intense rainfall slammed the Four Corners region late this week. As rivers flooded, towns declared evacuations and emergencies and made rescues.
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The police officer involved in a shooting in Mississippi and killed a toddler has resigned a day after video of the incident was released.
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Kaylub Giamanco, the father who shot the 16-year-old who opened fire on a Bend, Ore., elementary school and killed three kids and a teacher, shares what he wants people to know about his experience.
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Absentee balloting in the 2026 General Election is underway, but there is some "need to know" information for in-person voting from the state election board secretary.
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An Oklahoma state board has scheduled an uncommon third vote on a first-in-the-nation Jewish charter school.
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Oklahoma's largest nonprofit health system and one of its biggest private employers will become the third health system to be acquired by Risant Health, pending regulatory approvals.
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The Pentagon is building weapons and projects with AI capabilities that officials say don't always closely adhere to the agency's own guidelines for AI, according to a congressional watchdog report published in October.
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Ohio has been a reliably red state for several elections but it's competitive this year. If Democrats want to prevail, they'll have to win people who have backed Republicans, like rural voters.
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Trump's most recent rendering of East Potomac Park overtakes the D.C. peninsula with a sprawling golf course, without the grassy areas and road beloved by locals. That's prompted grassroots pushback.
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Lee Chang-dong's novelistic drama tells the story of two very different couples who meet during the filming of a documentary.
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Like its protagonist, the film shoots out its goopy, mud-brown, protoplasmic feelers into the undiscovered territory of horror, but it does so too tentatively.
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This week, the White House said 290 miles of new barriers have gone up at the border since President Trump’s return to office.