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 — 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...
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...
WASHINGTON– One NOAA research project predicted Texas’ July 4 floods an hour before Guadalupe River gauges caught on. Now it and other life-saving projects face elimination under proposed budget cuts.
The...
WASHINGTON—Native Americans secured exemptions from new Medicaid work requirements and stepped-up eligibility checks under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a move tribal leaders...
WASHINGTON – Summer camp is a place where time stood still, say young women who camped at Camp Mystic.
To those who’ve spent summers there, these camps are more than just summer retreats. They are...
