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A passenger rail route connecting Fort Worth and Oklahoma City could lose its daily service by June after Texas lawmakers stripped funding for the Heartland Flyer from the state's upcoming budget.
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Armando Franca/APSubway networks, phone lines, traffic lights, ATM machines and more were knocked offline in the two countries and parts of France around midday Monday. -
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Mike HawkinsThe Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.
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New members of the Oklahoma State Board of Education pushed back against State Superintendent Ryan Walters at the Thursday State Board of Education meeting about the process for approving new social studies academic standards that had quietly added 2020 election denialism rhetoric.
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