The Hennepin County attorney filed criminal charges against an ICE officer for allegedly brandishing his service weapon at two people during Operation Metro Surge in what she said was a first-of-its-kind case in the country.
Republican and Democratic election officials are split over a powerful federal computer program at the center of President Donald Trump’s quest to expose noncitizen voters and compile lists of voting-age Americans.
President Donald Trump said he will nominate Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a seat left vacant for months after his last director said she was ousted in a rift over childhood vaccines.
The president’s budget request would make deep cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, gutting programs to help feed hungry people and support farmers in need.
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Rep. John Waldron will resign Oct. 1 from the Oklahoma House. He pledged in a letter to the governor he won't serve another House term, even if reelected.
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The head of the Cherokee Nation will not be invited back to speak on the House floor after he took a “political position” defending Medicaid expansion, the House speaker said Thursday.
Ten Oklahoma residents are asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to toss out an initiative petition that seeks to phase out property taxes for those who live in their homes.
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The Oklahoma State Election Board decided Sen. Adam Pugh is eligible to run for state superintendent. One of his Republican opponents sought to remove him from the ballot.
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Despite concerns it could harm local funding for schools, counties and roads, House lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a state question aiming to cap property tax growth.
After receiving a positive response across Oklahoma, a statewide school cellphone ban could become permanent. The state's current policy is mandatory only this school year.
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Though public scrutiny of data centers is growing, 14 states, including Oklahoma, do not disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax breaks.
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Republicans in Congress are once again looking toward the complex budget reconciliation process as a way to achieve some of their policy goals without Democratic votes.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday he plans to use the complex reconciliation process to fund immigration enforcement for the next three years, though it wasn’t immediately clear if House Republicans were on board.
Oklahoma Senate lawmakers have killed a measure that would have expanded Oklahoma’s bear hunting season, KOSU reports.
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Far right Republicans joined Democrats in the Senate to block plans to put major changes to Medicaid expansion on August’s low voter turnout ballot.
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Many of Oklahoma’s retired public employees could receive cost of living adjustments between 3% and 6% under a series of bills advanced by the state Senate on Tuesday.
The Justice Department has reached a settlement agreement with Oklahoma to obtain its personal voter data.
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As states enact stricter work requirements for the federal food stamp program, a new analysis suggests those requirements won’t enhance employment and will push more people off of food assistance.
"If you’re going to lean on us, it might help us to know what that means," said Washington State Forester George Geissler, who used to lead Oklahoma’s Forestry Service.
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Four members of Congress — two Democrats and two Republicans — could face expulsion from the House in the coming weeks, an extraordinarily rare rebuke from their colleagues.
A Tulsa Democrat will no longer seek reelection following reports he used artificial intelligence to fabricate images of him kissing a woman.
Sweeping changes to Oklahoma laws on literacy instruction in public schools advanced past the state House.
Counties and schools could lose millions under a constitutional amendment lawmakers put on the Aug. 25 ballot.
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Funding to continue the operation of Oklahoma’s mental health crisis hotline for another year is included in a budget agreement as federal funding is set to end this fall.
Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and archbishop of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese, issued a statement disapproving of Trump’s social media post about the pontiff.
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Enrollment in Oklahoma’s SNAP program dropped about 10%, the analysis found.
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