KABUL, Afghanistan – A voice cracked through the line, low and urgent as the Taliban was taking the city. An Afghan interpreter was calling an Oklahoma area code from a dim safehouse tucked between crumbling...
WASHINGTON — The penny may be losing its shine in Washington, as a bipartisan-backed bill to end its production cleared a key House committee last week- with fiscal hawks and factory workers unexpectedly...
WASHINGTON – When Maryam Atayee fled Afghanistan, she left behind her job as a teacher and midwife, her home in Kabul, and the life her family had built.
Atayee arrived in the United States in late...
WASHINGTON— Weeks after Republicans cast aside warnings to pass a sweeping budget package, Oklahoma hunger advocates are scrambling to understand how deep cuts to federal food programs might impact families...
WASHINGTON – Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction is calling the Supreme Court’s recent decision a “D-Day liberation for education.”
The ruling allows the Trump administration to...
WASHINGTON – Legislation aiming to turn over a federal food distribution program to tribal communities has been introduced by Oklahoma’s two most senior House members, one of who is the chair of the...
WASHINGTON — A key House Appropriations hearing that would have determined funding for the National Weather Center and research programs in Norman, including those at the University of Oklahoma, has...
WASHINGTON– Despite recommending the restoration of nearly $1.3 billion in previously threatened funds, a spending plan prepared by a House appropriations subcommittee would still cut $380 million from...
As public media stations turn to newsletters, social media and other platforms to urge viewer donations in response to CPB funding cuts, one question remains: What does the future hold for public media...
WASHINGTON – Congress is moving to slash NOAA’s forecasting programs – but a senior Oklahoma representative whose district and state relies on the safety they provide, is steering a meeting next...
WASHINGTON – A U.S. District judge’s decision to certify the ACLU’s class action lawsuit in New Hampshire blocking President Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide shows that courts are...
WASHINGTON -- Almost $3.5 million in federal public broadcasting grants for Oklahoma stations are at risk as the U.S. House prepares to vote on a package of cuts.
Early Thursday morning, the Senate narrowly...
