A House bill inspired by frustrations with state Superintendent Ryan Walters’ leadership of the Oklahoma State Board of Education now is at risk of failing as it approaches a crucial deadline without yet passing through its assigned Senate committee.
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The directives include new efforts to curtail DEI programs at colleges, and discipline guidance for public schools.
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A dozen states have sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade to stop its tariff policy, challenging Trump's claim that he could arbitrarily impose tariffs based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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Human activity like cutting down forests and pushing out predators have allowed coyotes to thrive across the Great Plains. Agriculture sectors worry about losing livestock to coyotes.
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On the eve of an election, the threat and the impact of tariffs and the fallout with Canada's nearest and formerly closest ally hovers over every discussion.
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A memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget suggests decreased funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the elimination of its research arm.
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OCU students portrayed those impacted by the bombing through “In the Middle of the West” at Oklahoma high schools.
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A whistleblower who works at NLRB says that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data. And, the Trump administration froze over $2 billion for Harvard after it rejected demands.
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The letter obtained by NPR marks a rare bipartisan critique from Capitol Hill of the administration's immigration policy.
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President Trump wants European countries to start buying U.S. chicken and eggs. But the U.K. and EU think American poultry is gross and chemically washed. Turns out, chlorine isn't really the issue.
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For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, vaccine advisers to the CDC are meeting to discuss vaccines for RSV, HPV, COVID and more.
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Ashley Blas visited her mother's grave for the first time since the funeral. The driver who took her noticed grass covering part of the stone. In a full suit, he knelt down and cleaned the gravestone.
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Weinstein's New York conviction was overturned last year. Jury selection began on Tuesday for a new trial, in which prosecutors will retry the case alongside a brand new charge.