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Reviews of Medicaid spending across the nation indicate billions of dollars are being wasted on individuals who do not qualify for the welfare program, echoing similar findings in Oklahoma during a 2020 review.
Read moreThis year, legislators provided more than $1 billion in appropriations to Oklahoma colleges and universities. That negates any need for tuition increases.
Read moreIn 2023, the Oklahoma Legislature passed SB 613 and Gov. Kevin Stitt signed it into law. The bill prohibited the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on minors as well as sex-change surgeries for minors.
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Read moreSome Republican officials are sounding the alarm about a provision tucked into the Senate budget reconciliation bill that would potentially eviscerate state regulation of artificial intelligence.
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New York City nominates ‘Socialist Democrat’ for mayor
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Last week, science writer Christopher Plain published a story in the online magazine The Debrief (which describes its subject matter as “Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious”) about fossilized human footprints found in a desiccated lakebed in White Sands, New Mexico. According to the article, radiocarbon dating places the age of the footprints at 23,000 years old. This would be during the “Last Glacial Maximum,” a time when glaciers were at their southernmost extent over what is now North America, northern Europe and Asia -- and 10,000 years earlier than contemporary theorists claim human beings were in the Americas.
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