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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As questions swirl around the fate of the secretary of defense, former colleagues paint a troubling picture of Hegseth's Pentagon.
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The historic Clayborn Temple was destroyed in a Monday morning fire in Memphis. It was a landmark of the Civil Rights movement and was a gathering place of striking sanitation workers in 1968.
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Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, one Seattle man embarks on a journey to a remote mountain in Laos where his father was last seen during a secret mission in the war.
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A bridge spanning the dam at Fort Gibson Lake in Eastern Oklahoma is closed indefinitely due to unsafe conditions.
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Oklahomans may get to vote to legalize sports betting after years of failed attempts to get it through the state Legislature.
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NPR has been receiving tips about detentions at the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan. An inquiry by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., revealed more that 200 detentions this year, including American children.
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The judge overseeing the rewriting of college sports rules threw a potentially deal-wrecking roadblock into the mix Wednesday, insisting parties in the $2.8 billion suit redo the part of the proposed deal.
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Trump is changing his tone about tariffs on China, but it is unclear if he will change any policies. And, a sweeping list of executive actions targeting higher education and K-12 schools.