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Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

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The Cherokee Nation Outpatient Center in Tahlequah in 2024, which it operates with the Indian Health Service. Photo courtesy The Cherokee Nation.

Cole seeks to protect Indian Health Service from budget cuts

Kylie Caldwell June 13, 2025

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Tom Cole (R, Moore), an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, has spent 22 years in Congress fighting to protect tribal funding and says he won’t allow cuts to the Indian...

KGOU General Manager Dick Pryor (left) discusses the future of radio in 2017 with the OU professor Robert Con Davis-Undiano.  Courtesy KGOU.

House Passes Bill to Cut Public Broadcasting Funds

Emma Rowland June 12, 2025

WASHINGTON – The House passed the rescission package Thursday afternoon in a 214–212 vote, with all five Oklahoma representatives voting in favor of the funding cuts. While largely supported by...

Courtesy of LA28 Olympics organizing committee.

Travel and security at the forefront for 2028 Olympics events in Oklahoma City

Emma Rowland June 12, 2025

WASHINGTON -- With Oklahoma City set to host six Olympic events in 2028, members of Congress are already raising questions about how both the Sooner State and Los Angeles will ensure the safety of athletes,...

Map of scheduled ‘No Kings’ protests across North America. Courtesy No Kings

Protests of Trump policies planned in 14 locations across Sooner state

Blake Madden June 12, 2025

WASHINGTON – Fourteen protests are set to take place across Oklahoma on Saturday in opposition to the Trump administration and a planned military parade, joining hundreds of similar rallies nationwide...

KGOU General Manager Dick Pryor (left) discusses the future of radio in 2017 with the OU professor Robert Con Davis-Undiano.  Courtesy KGOU.

Federal plan puts Oklahoma public broadcasting funding at risk

Emma Rowland June 11, 2025

WASHINGTON – More than $6 million in public broadcasting funding in Oklahoma could could be at risk following a vote by the House Appropriations Committee Wednesday. More than $1 million of that is...

Richard Glossip. / Courtesy Oklahoma Department of Corrections

Richard Glossip set to be retried a third time 25 years after first trial

Kylie Caldwell June 11, 2025

WASHINGTON — Richard Glossip, now 62, who has had nine dates set for his execution and has eaten three “last” meals since he was first sentenced to death 25 years ago, next week will turn another...

Supreme Court Decision Supports Oklahoma Catholic Charities’ mission

Supreme Court Decision Supports Oklahoma Catholic Charities’ mission

Emma Rowland June 10, 2025

WASHINGTON – Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City says it is encouraged by the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in favor of a Wisconsin-based Catholic Charities branch, calling...

Senator James Lankford (R-Oklahoma City) and Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-Westville)

Lankford, Mullin leading effort to push ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ through Senate

Blake Madden June 10, 2025

WASHINGTON—Oklahoma Senators have assumed leading roles in pushing the “One Big Beautiful Bill” through the Senate, even as internal divisions within the Republican Party threaten to stall its momentum. After...

Free Mom Hugs founder Sara Cunningham marches with a flag during the WorldPride Parade in D.C.

Marching with love; Free Mom Hugs brings Oklahoma to WorldPride D.C. festival 2025

Kylie Caldwell and Emma Rowland June 7, 2025

WASHINGTON – “It’s not just a party. It’s a powerful statement: We’re here, we matter, and we’re not going anywhere,” said Sara Cunningham, founder of Free Mom Hugs, an Oklahoma City group...

First deputy minister of defense and chief of the general staff of the Azerbaijan Army Col. Gen. Karim Valiyeva and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt. Courtesy of The Oklahoma National Guard

From National Guard to global partners: Inside the state program

Emma Rowland June 7, 2025

WASHINGTON – Fifteen years after Brigadier General Colby B. Wyatt first stepped onto Azerbaijani soil to help grow a budding partnership, he found himself once again standing beside the nation’s leaders,...

Evans Hall on the University of Oklahoma campus. Courtesy University of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Students Brace for Potential Financial Aid Cuts Under Budget Bill

Blake Madden June 5, 2025

WASHINGTON — The “One Big Beautiful Bill,” backed by President Donald Trump and House Republicans, would restructure Pell Grants and end subsidized loans, reducing aid for many Oklahoma college students. The...

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond standing outside the Supreme Court in October 2024.

St. Isidore Catholic charter school proposal doomed by U.S. Supreme Court decision

Kylie Caldwell and Emma Rowland May 22, 2025

WASHINGTON – In a cryptic nine word ruling, a deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court upheld a decision blocking Oklahoma state funding for the nation’s first religious public charter school. “The judgment...

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