State Superintendent Ryan Walters speaks at an Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting on April 25 in Oklahoma City. On Monday, he announced signing bonuses for certified math and science teachers who agree to work in rural schools. (Photo by Nuria Martinez-Keel/Oklahoma Voice) OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma State Department of Education announced it will […]
Nobody at the University of Kentucky wanted to talk about swimming and diving head coach Lars Jorgensen in June 2023 when he suddenly exited the campus amid a swirl of unanswered questions and rumors. And UK was just as reluctant to discuss Jorgensen 10 months later, on April 12, when two former swimmers filed a […]
Omaha Inland Port Authority boundaries shown in red. Orange is Eppley Airfield. (Courtesy of City of Omaha) OMAHA — The appointment of the first-ever Omaha Inland Port Authority board, poised to happen Tuesday, should trigger a start on multiple projects within a roughly 300-acre zone in northeast Omaha. Among initiatives that the new nine-member body […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A former top U.S. agricultural official cast Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain at his bribery trial Friday, saying he tried to stop him from disrupting an unusual sudden monopoly that developed five years ago over the certification of meat exported to Egypt. A Manhattan federal court jury heard the official, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito. Roberts’ response came in a letter to the senators a day after Alito separately wrote them and House […]
Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito. Mr Roberts’ response came in a letter to the senators a day after Mr Alito separately wrote them and House members to […]
Even on a mountain known for complex politics, the latest Mount Everest kerfuffle is strange. It started on Sunday when Nirmal “Nims” Purja posted a video on Instagram claiming that someone had cut a line of fixed ropes set up by his expedition company, Elite Exped. That would be a major problem, as many expeditions […]
The flag at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court controversy has also flown in front of the North Carolina lieutenant governor’s office, to commemorate the state’s involvement in the Revolutionary War. Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is running for governor, flew the same flag as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that has […]
Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday to a packed house and earned an eight-minute standing ovation — but not everyone is clapping. The former president’s legal team sent a cease and desist letter to the filmmakers to block its U.S. sale and release. Trump attorney David A. Warrington […]
Top Democrats have no plans to investigate reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew an upside-down American flag outside his home after the 2020 election. And Joe Biden has no desire to even talk about it. Amid growing demands from the base of the party to call out the actions of several conservative justices […]
Scientists surprised the leaders of a Northern California city last month, when they unveiled a project to study technology that could one day be used to brighten clouds and mitigate global warming. The experiment involved spraying saltwater along the deck of the USS Hornet — an aircraft carrier docked in Alameda that serves as a […]
The estimated number of wolves in France last year was 1,003, down nine percent from the year before, environmental associations said Thursday, urging the French government to lower its quota for the number of the animals which can be killed each year. The drop in the predator’s population is the first in almost ten years, […]