Oklahoma’s vaccine exemption rates among kindergartners have risen from 4.7% in the 2022-2023 school year to 5.7% the following year.
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Former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the last election put a spotlight on what are essentially ministerial steps between Election Day and Inauguration Day. Here are the key dates ahead.
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This week's news quiz mixes celebrities and politics. But hey, they started it. Were you paying attention?
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We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.
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North Carolina has more rural voters than any other 2024 presidential swing state, and canvassing groups are working to turn out voters in one purple county as early voting continues in the state.
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State Superintendent Ryan Walters has garnered positive and negative attention across the country for his policies and rhetoric.StateImpact’s Beth Wallis spoke with reporter Linda Jacobson of the nonprofit education news outlet The 74 about her new story on the balance between his roles as a culture warrior and administrator of a state agency.
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Before a bout of rain Wednesday, the Emergency Drought Committee approved a new program opening emergency drought assistance. This comes following a record-breaking dry October.
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Two friends launched a political action committee to run anti-Trump ads in perhaps the last untouched advertising market in politics: pornographic websites.
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Boeing’s machinists union leaders are endorsing the company’s latest contract offer, setting the stage for a vote on Monday that could end the seven week-long strike.
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Many Muslim and Arab American voters are leaning toward third-party candidates or not voting, feeling neither main candidate values their families' lives. Others are choosing between Harris and Trump.
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Vice President Harris and former President Donald Trump visit Arizona and Nevada. Reports offer a picture of the economy ahead of Election Day. Labor unions deploy thousands of canvassers.
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In this week's StoryCorps, a runner remembers his wife, who died of cancer, by running marathons in her honor.
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The U.S. says 8,000 North Korean soldiers are in Russia preparing to fight against Ukrainian troops in the coming days.
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Boeing overcharged the Air Force nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes, including an 8,000% markup for simple lavatory soap dispensers, according to the Pentagon's inspector general.