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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Dozens of people have been indicted on child sex crime charges after a multi-agency and multi-state operation, Operation Clean Sweep III, was conducted in the Northern District of Oklahoma.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Twenty-two state attorneys general are questioning taxpayer funding of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine amid what the AGs call the group’s “sham”-like “independent review” of its much debated reference manual’s climate science chapter that was removed due to public concerns of political bias.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Sixteen state attorneys general are calling on the “Big Four Accounting Firms” by letter for accountability over their actions that prioritize Environmental, Social, Governance investment strategies and climate goals, which will prove to be detrimental to consumers, the officials say.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are blocked from entering churches of Cooperative Baptists, Quakers and Sikhs to carry out enforcement operations unless they have a warrant, or in certain specified circumstances, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Oklahoma-based Williams Companies has agreed to acquire Haynesville shale operator Momentum Midstream’s North Louisiana and East Texas assets from private equity firm EnCap Flatrock Midstream in a deal valued at up to $5.5 billion.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of Tennessee, Louisiana, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho as potential host states for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses aimed at modernizing the nation’s nuclear fuel cycle.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a complaint with the Department of Education against two Oklahoma schools that offer nursing scholarship programs that the watchdog says discriminate on the basis of race by only awarding the scholarship to those of American Indian descent.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., is projected to win the Republican nomination for Oklahoma’s U.S. Senate seat in an effort to succeed recently installed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Hern’s opponent in the general election on Nov. 3 will be determined in a Democratic runoff later this summer.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Oklahoma voters head to the polls Tuesday to take the first step toward filling the U.S. Senate seat vacated by newly installed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Both parties will pick their nominees, with U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., leading the Republican field in polling, before the two winners meet in the Nov. 3 general election.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – In a move meant to pacify congressional Democrats and unstick Republican policy priorities, President Donald Trump has named U.S. attorney Jay Clayton as the next Director of National Intelligence.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education confirmed a whistleblower’s allegations that the agency violated a federal court order while handling Title IX cases tied to gender identity and sexual orientation, according to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel .
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Republicans in Congress on Tuesday sent their $70 billion bill funding federal immigration enforcement agencies through 2029 to President Donald Trump’s desk.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education still has not released a final investigative report about allegations that the Biden administration ignored federal court orders on Title IX enforcement.
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