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The federal government will no longer pay for the thousands of test strips the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health sends by mail and agency officials are evaluating what's next.
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Keeping a museum's temperature and humidity constant -- rain or shine, all year long -- takes a massive amount of energy, and it's expensive. But some museums have a solution.
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The 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee champ shares what it takes to spell it right in 2026.
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The phrase "bird watching" does not take in the full range of people who love searching for wild birds. We meet a few of the many visually impaired birders who use their ears.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.
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With federal funds rescinded, NPR and public radio service radio stations - including KGOU - shift methods to boost funding and community-centered content.
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Oklahoma Watch, May 27, 2026
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On Friday morning, Gov. Kevin Stitt directed the Oklahoma Highway Patrol to conduct an encampment sweep in Norman.
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The Let Kids Play Act, introduced recently by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., aims to shut down predatory practices such as multi-year player contracts, junk fees and stay-to-play requirements.
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A detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" has become too expensive to maintain and may soon close.
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In most school districts, kids take a bus to school. But in the rural Alaska village of South Naknek -- pilot Jon King has been flying kids to school almost every school day for the last four decades.
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At least 18 NPR journalists have accepted buyouts and another 10 have been laid off as the public media network attempts to save money and reorganize the newsroom.
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Food insecurity affects more families now than during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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The Franklin Expedition was a voyage through the Canadian Arctic.
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Israel launched some of its biggest attacks on Lebanon in weeks, killing dozens of people and sending troops farther into southern Lebanon.