The background: Deep-red Oklahoma had been one of just 14 states that hasn't expanded Medicaid under Obamacare and has the nation's second-highest uninsured rate, behind Texas. But even top Republican officials in Oklahoma recently acknowledged the state would eventually expand Medicaid coverage — it was just a question of how. Supporters of the ballot measure…
A manhunt was underway in Oklahoma on Monday morning for an “armed and dangerous” suspect police say shot two officers during a traffic stop.The shooter, identified by Tulsa Police as David Ware, “pulled a gun on the officers and fired multiple times." The officers are now in critical condition and are undergoing surgery, while Ware fled the scene in east Tulsa on foot, the…
TULSA, Okla. — To the Rev. Robert R.A. Turner, pastor of Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was the only building left partially standing on Greenwood Avenue after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a palpable divide on everything from politics to health and science is a part of everyday life here.In this city, the vast…
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Trump’s upcoming rally in Tulsa can go ahead as planned despite concerns about coronavirus -- just as Trump announced that a curfew in the city had been lifted for the rally.“I just spoke to the highly respected Mayor of Tulsa, G.T. Bynum, who informed me there…
Oklahoma has been safely reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic and is prepared to host President Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa on Saturday, Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt said.In a Friday interview on "America's Newsroom" with hosts Sandra Smith and Ed Henry, Stitt said that his state was ready to take on the challenge -- despite the Oklahoma State…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…