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Oklahoma approves first-ever taxpayer-funded religious school in case expected to draw legal battle

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

The Independent UK

Oklahoma school board approves what would be the 1st taxpayer-funded religious school in US

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

The Independent UK

Tennessee May Be Oklahoma’s Toughest Test for Another WCWS Title

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.

Sports Illustrated

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Mum shares red flags she spotted of daughter, 12, before ‘stabbing her brother to death’

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

Daily Mirror

Alabama senator condemned by his own brother for ‘ignorant, hateful rants’

The senator’s brother is an Oklahoma-based guitarist and songwriter

The Independent UK

Oklahoma’s Supreme Court struck down two abortion bans. But a 113-year-old law is severely restricting access

A state law from 1910 threatens abortion providers with a felony punishable up to five years in prison, writes Alex Woodward

The Independent UK

Registered Republicans Win Nearly ¾ Of School Board Seats In Oklahoma

Despite nonpartisan ballots, data shows registered Republicans claiming most of Oklahoma's school board seats.

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Are Republicans finally ready to embrace a Black presidential candidate?

Tim Scott reminds me of another Black Republican, former Oklahoma U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, who decided not to run for re-election in 2002, a reader from Itasca writes. Why didn’t Republicans do more to keep him around? Maybe they’ll do better with Scott.

Chicago Sun-Times

More bills introduced in 2023 than in 2022 that would make ballot access more difficult for political parties

Welcome to the Friday, May 26, Brew.

Ballotpedia

Oklahoma Legislature overrides governor's veto of tribal regalia bill

The Oklahoma Legislature has overridden Gov. Kevin Stitt's veto of a bill that would allow students to wear Native American regalia during high school and college graduations

The Independent UK

Fisherman snags record carp after losing it twice; officials applaud

An Oklahoma fisherman who twice hooked but lost a huge bighead carp in the Neosho River discovered that the third time’s a charm.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Five Story Lines to Know for NCAA Softball Super Regionals

Oklahoma is still terrifying, but a return to the WCWS may not be a breeze for the Sooners.

Sports Illustrated

Registered Republicans win nearly ¾ of school board seats in Oklahoma

Welcome to Day 2 of our deep dive into this year’s spring elections, this time with a look at Oklahoma. ICYMI, check out yesterday’s report on Wisconsin.

Ballotpedia

'Brain-eating' amoeba ruled out in 'cluster of illnesses' in Oklahoma. What could the cause be?

Oklahoma's state health department is investigating a cluster of illnesses in people who swam in local lakes and rivers. The cause remains unknown, but a dangerous brain-eating amoeba has been ruled out.

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Gwen Stefani’s ex speaks out about the difficulties of co-parenting

The family is split between LA and Oklahoma

Tribune News Service

Looking back at the massacre that destroyed Black Tulsa, and forward at efforts to rebuild

NONFICTION: Victor Luckerson explores Oklahoma's violent past through one family's rise from the ashes in 'Built From the Fire.'

The Independent UK

Oklahoma lures Enel solar panel manufacturing facility with $180M incentive package

Enel North America says it's planning to invest more than $1 billion and will create about 1,000 new jobs with a new solar cell and panel manufacturing facility in eastern Oklahoma

Los Angeles Times

Movie review: Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon' grips, disturbs — and disappoints

CANNES, France — Like more than a few Martin Scorsese epics, the searing, sprawling "Killers of the Flower Moon" recounts a horrific campaign of violence from the inside. Adapted from David Grann's 2017 nonfiction book, the movie revisits an oil-rich, increasingly blood-soaked stretch of 1920s Oklahoma — a land whose…

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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ receives nine-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival

Martin Scorsese’s new film about the 1920 murders that ravaged an Oklahoma native American reservation got a rousing stand ovation at the Cannes Film Festival — the most applause the festival has seen thus far.

France 24

Cannes 2023: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese on the red carpet

Eve Jackson brings us the hottest ticket at the festival: Martin Scorcese’s 'Killers of the Flower Moon', starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert de Niro and Lily Gladstone. Based on the book of the same name, it follows the mysterious murders of members of the Osage Native Americans in Oklahoma in the…

The Independent UK

Scorsese debuts 'Killers of the Flower Moon' in Cannes to thunderous applause

Martin Scorsese unveiled “Killers of the Flower Moon” in Cannes on Saturday, debuting a sweeping American epic about greed and exploitation on the bloody plains of an Osage Nation reservation in 1920s Oklahoma

The Guardian - UK

Killers of the Flower Moon review – Scorsese’s remarkable epic about the bloody birth of America

Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone star in this macabre western about serial murders among the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma, which reflects the erasure of Native Americans from the US

Total Film

Killers of the Flower Moon review: "Scorsese's multi-layered epic is worth every second"

"Coyote wants money," Mollie (Lily Gladstone), a young Osage Nation woman, notes sagely when feckless WW1 returnee Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) starts courting her in early 1920s Oklahoma, the setting for Martin Scorsese’s period epic. He’s a former infantry cook with no cash or discernible talent; she’s a hugely wealthy…

Daily Mirror

Man shocked as he catches enormous 'alien fish' the size of a 14-year-old

Bryan Baker was fishing over Grand Lake o' the Cherokees, in the US state of Oklahoma, when something monstrous snatched his line. It had 11 million "alien" eggs inside it

The Independent UK

At graduations, Native American students seek acceptance of tribal regalia

For Native American students, tribal regalia is often passed down through generations and worn at graduations to signify connection with the community

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