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Oklahoma was set to have new abortion restrictions in place next week, but now that won't happen.

Oklahomans can now schedule COVID-19 booster vaccines regardless of which brand they first received.

The first executions in the state since 2015 are scheduled to continue as planned after death row inmates were denied stays of execution.

The state’s top public health official resigned on Friday.

Oklahoma Commissioner of Health, Dr. Lance Frye, resigned Friday afternoon, just a day after Governor Kevin Stitt lambasted the agency upon learning it had agreed to issue a birth certificate designating the applicant's gender as non-binary, rather than male or female. The governor also directed harsh rhetoric at the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals after it ruled, following U.S. Supreme Court precedent, that Congress has never disestablished the reservation of the Quapaw Nation. The decision made the Quapaw Nation the latest tribal nation in Oklahoma to have its reservation judicially confirmed.

After settling a lawsuit, Oklahoma state officials agreed to include a non-binary gender option on updated birth certificates. The change ushered in immediate blowback from conservatives.

Another tribal nation in the state had the boundaries of its reservation affirmed Thursday, as the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled the Quapaw Nation's reservation was never disestablished.

Oklahoma’s only competitive congressional district could return to firm Republican control — or give Democrats the best chance they’ve seen in years.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is calling on the secretary of defense to immediately suspend the requirement that members of the military's uniformed and civilian workforces be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, claiming the policy is harming "readiness and morale."

The Chickasaw Nation will begin construction on a $300 million resort next year near the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City.