The 2024 regular legislative session is over. Elections are next.
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A group of hackers claimed this week to have stolen 1.3 terabytes of Ticketmaster user data, including names, addresses and credit card information.
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All of Wyoming is facing criticism after a man there displayed a wolf he captured in a bar.
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North Korea has reportedly sent balloons carrying trash and excrement into South Korea. NPR's Scott Simon has details — smelly and otherwise — on how both countries have used balloons over the years.
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In South Africa, a seismic moment comes as the ruling African National Congress party loses its absolute majority for the first time.
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Oklahoma lawmakers are opening the door for a new business court system by 2026. The measure they’ve advanced is one of four concessions lawmakers made to ensure Gov. Kevin Stitt won’t veto their budget proposal.
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A Dollar Tree distribution center in southern Oklahoma will close — at least temporarily — a company spokesperson said in an email.
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The same solar region that brought an outburst of night-time beauty in early May is coming back around. But things have changed, a space weather expert tells NPR.
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After an already-slow spring, movie theater attendance over Memorial Day Weekend was the lowest in decades, apart from 2020.
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Allies of former President Donald Trump say his felony conviction Thursday in a New York hush money case has helped energize and unify the Republican Party.
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Former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsified business records — and he faces sentencing in July.
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Shares of Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, were volatile a day after his historic conviction. It's an early test of how committed his supporters will actually be in owning the shares.
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India's election commission says bribery is one of the biggest challenges to free and fair elections. In tiny Arunachal Pradesh, some voters receive the equivalent of up to a year's average earnings.