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A state panel in Oklahoma has denied recommending clemency for a man convicted of stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995

U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can be used at private religious schools. And on June 5, 2023, Oklahoma’s five-person Statewide Virtual Charter School Board pushed this much-debated question into new territory by approving plans for a religious charter school – the first in…

A new taxpayer-funded religious school is a Christian nationalist move to destroy separation of church and state

In my Supreme Court amicus brief for the victim's family in Oklahoma v. Richard Glossip, I argue that the Oklahoma Attorney General's unfounded confession of "error" should not dictate the case's outcome.

The schools were tools of the U.S. government's attempts to erase tribal culture. But the few that remain have become places Native families want their children to attend.

The school board’s vote sets in motion a battle between religious freedom and the separation of church and state.

Nation’s first publicly funded religious school sets up a major challenge over separation of church and state

An Oklahoma school board has voted to approve what would be the nation's first publicly funded religious school

The Lady Vols are set to face the two-time reigning champs in the second round on Saturday, and have the talent necessary to pull a massive upset.

In a tragic incident in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a 12-year-old girl allegedly fatally stabbed her 9-year-old brother - now her mum has shared the red flags she saw just two weeks prior