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If it passed, State Question 832 would have brought Oklahoma's minimum wage to $15 by 2029. The last time the national number increased was in 2009.
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Danica Coto/APU.N. Secretary-General António Guterres's visit to Port-au-Prince comes as gang violence persists. According to U.N. data, 2,300 people have been killed in Haiti this year, with another 100 kidnapped. -
Jacquelyn Martin/APThe U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, killing one man and leaving two survivors. This brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes to at least 208. -
NOAA via AP/NOAAThe National Hurricane Center in Miami says the system is expected to bring intense rain to southern states including Texas and Louisiana this week. -
Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty ImagesThe lawyers argue that the court does not have a full record of how the Trump administration decided to end temporary protective status for Haitians in the U.S.
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A list of Independence Day 2026 celebrations happening across the KGOU listening area. -
Outside groups have spent nearly $3 million on Oklahoma legislative races ahead of the June 16 primary election. Political action committees with obscure funding sources are fueling the spending. -
After nearly three years in the works, a state question to raise Oklahoma's minimum wage hits the ballot today.
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In an upset, Georgia Republican voters rejected President Trump's preferred nominee for the competitive open governor's race. They also picked Rep. Mike Collins to face Sen. Jon Ossoff. -
Sometimes a broken appliance gets thrown out even though it just needs a little fix. That's where volunteer tinkerers come in. They make it work again and give it to people in need.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Kelsey Pfendler, who is rowing solo from California to Hawaii. She is attempting to become the first American woman to do so.
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A resident of San Juan, Puerto Rico, shares the toll of living without running water for nearly two months.
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Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.
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The Iraq national men's team hasn't played a World Cup in 40 years; a drought that ends Tuesday night, to the excitement of soccer fans in Dearborn, Michigan, home to a large Iraqi diaspora.
