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he U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday sued the state of Oklahoma to stop implementation of a new law targeting undocumented residents. The suit in the Western District of Oklahoma follows a DOJ warning last week that it considered the law unconstitutional and a violation of federal law. Tuesday's filing restates that claim and asks for injunctive relief and for House Bill 4156, the legislation creating the law, to be overturned. “Oklahoma cannot disregard the U.S. Constitution and settled Supreme Court precedent,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, in a...

On Monday, a 63-year-old female mail carrier was robbed at gunpoint by two thugs while delivering mail in Dublin, California. Surveillance video of the incident shows the carrier, who has worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 33 years, delivering mail in a quiet residential neighborhood around 4:30 p.m. when suddenly a masked man emerges behind her. A second masked individual follows closely behind. Suddenly, a masked man comes up behind the mail carrier, followed by a second person who is also masked and the two masked men pull a gun. KTVC reports: “Somebody came up behind me and ‘boom,’...

One of Tulsa’s largest health care systems is contending with technology disruptions as it investigates a possible cybersecurity breach. Asked to confirm reports that Ascension St. John Medical Center in Tulsa is currently operating without access to internet, computer-based patient charts and telephone lines, a hospital spokeswoman released this written statement to the Tulsa World: “On Wednesday, May 8, we detected unusual activity on select technology network systems. We responded immediately, initiated our investigation and activated our remediation efforts. Access to some systems have been interrupted as this process continues. "Our care teams are trained for these kinds of disruptions...

GUYMON, Okla. (KOKH) — An affidavit on Monday uncovered details about two missing Kansas women. The details include more information about the four people arrested in the disappearance of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, an anti-government religious group known as "God's Misfits", and a lengthy custody battle. The Texas County Sheriff's Office requested the assistance of OSBI on March 30th after Butler and Kelley's vehicle was found abandoned near the Four Corners region in the Oklahoma Panhandle. SEE ALSO: Officials continue their investigation after four arrested in connection to missing women According to the affidavit, law enforcement found the car...

(NICHE GAMER) – Microsoft urges developers not to create female characters with “exaggerated body proportions” on their official site to support game devs. The site, titled “Product Inclusion Action: Help Customers Feel Seen” includes a bullet list of considerations they urge developers to make when working on their product. One Twitter user pointed out the language expressly condemning certain female characters as reinforcing “negative gender stereotypes”.

It may seem like a surprise to many that there could be a confrontation between Chinese gangsters at a marijuana farm on the Oklahoma prairie.But it is a reality that has been commonplace in Oklahoma since legislators opened the state up to the medicalmarijuana business. As of January 2022, there hadn't been widely reported cases of Chinese gangsters specifically involved in the Oklahoma marijuana business. However, it's important to note that organized crime groups often exploit vulnerabilities in various industries, including the cannabis market. Here are some ways in which organized crime groups, including those with Chinese connections, might become...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 27, 2024 Drummond demands answers from Biden Administration on migrant child trafficking OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 27, 2024) -- Attorney General Gentner Drummond has sent a letter demanding the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and FBI address a recent HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report that found unaccompanied migrant children in the custody of the federal government are being released into unsafe situations, including into human trafficking. “It is inexcusable that the Biden Administration is failing to provide proper oversight and protection for tens of thousands of...

A new academic study is suggesting the presence of two parents in a household may play a crucial role in ensuring safer communities. Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley, who recently wrote about this topic, argued on "Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy" that the biggest root of crime is fatherlessness. Riley referenced the book "The Two-Parent Privilege" by economist Melissa Kearney in emphasizing the significant impact of family structure on social inequality and the lack of discussion on this issue within academia and in this country. Gowdy pointed to Riley's recent column and referenced his argument that "the...

OKMULGEE, Okla. — The Okmulgee County Criminal Justice Authority, who runs the Okmulgee County Jail, issued a statement on Dec. 29 about an incident between its employees and Muscogee Nation Lighthorse police over a week ago. The OCCJA called a fight between their officers and Lighthorse police on Dec. 18 a "challenging interaction." The argument, which turned physical, was sparked by a disagreement over jurisdictional rights. Lighthorse police arrested a man for fentanyl possession and driving recklessly in a school zone. The OCCJA said it has no contractual detention agreement and therefore, denied taking the arrested man into the jail....

A doctor on TikTok has claimed oral sex is the number one cause of throat cancer. Dr Daria Sadovskaya, 29, from Singapore, posted a video last month about the link between performing oral sex on a partner and the potentially life-threatening disease. Traditionally, tobacco use and excessive alcohol consumption are thought to be the two greatest risk factors for developing throat cancer. Doctors say that increasingly, human papillomavirus (HPV), a family of viruses that infect the genitals and can be transferred to the throat during oral sex, are the source of throat cancers. Men are at higher risk because women...

There was also that mysterious blank in the police call logs that night — the only call that wasn’t logged that night was the call reporting Campbell’s drowning.

The ridiculous price increase for the Surface Laptop Go 3, combined with the Chromebook Plus announcement, makes Microsoft look foolish.

As published yesterday in JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association According to recent research, transgender people are significantly more likely to commit suicide than their peers. Using Denmark's centralized data repository, the new study discovered that the rate at which transgender people attempted suicide is 770% higher than non-transgender people. Transgender people also actually died as a result of the suicide attempts at a 350% higher level than non-transgender persons. Dr. Morten Frisch, a sexual health epidemiologist at the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen and co-author of the study, told The New York Times, “This is beyond doubt a...

Harvard University is forcing out the school's so-called misinformation expert who has led the university's research into issues such as "media manipulation" and "adversarial media movements," the Harvard Crimson reported. Harvard Kennedy School dean Douglas Elmendorf informed Joan Donovan, a noted expert on disinformation surrounding the coronavirus, white supremacy, and critical race theory, that she must leave the Ivy League school by the summer of 2024, according to the Crimson. Donovan, who joined the school in 2019, is no longer allowed to fundraise, and the school instated a hiring freeze for her projects. The Crimson pointed to "tensions" between the...

There are hundreds of openings for electrification, self-driving, and machine learning jobs at JLR that could be filled by former Twitter and Meta employees. f you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you may have missed Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and subsequent jettisoning of hundreds of employees. It wasn't just Musk's new Twitter, though. There were big layoffs at Amazon and Meta, too. Thankfully for those employees, though, a new home might soon be available, as Jaguar Land Rover is looking to scoop up many of the software engineers let go by those aforementioned companies. According...

Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is reportedly dating a new man. French Gates, 58, is allegedly dating former Fox News correspondent and 60-something silver fox Jon Du Pre, according to TMZ. Sources reportedly close to the duo say that French Gates and Du Pre have been seeing each other for a few months, maybe longer, and have even been spotted at an NBA game together as far back as April of 2022.

he controversial former automotive executive Carlos Ghosn has resided in Beirut since infamously defecting from Japan in a Yamaha instrument case. He fled the country and what he believed would be an unfair trial there after top-level Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi Alliance bosses accused him of underreporting his earnings, as well as using company funds for lavish personal items. His—let's just say innovative—relocation only came after he was arrested by Japanese authorities, and he's now wanted for international arrest by France, as the Wall Street Journal reports. A French investigating magistrate has put out five warrants against Ghosn and four individuals linked to...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) – A tweet from an account belonging to Oklahoma congressional candidate Abby Broyles says, “You guys win. I’ll just kill myself.” The tweet follows a few weeks of controversy for Broyles. Non-Doc recently reported Broyles berated a group of young girls at a sleepover. ALSO SEE: Oklahoma family says they'll never stop looking for answers about daughter's death (Pt. 2) On Feb. 22, the website The Lost Ogle reported Broyles "caused a drunken scene and heckled a comedian" at a non-profit benefit. A tweet from an account belonging to Oklahoma congressional candidate Abby Broyles says, “You guys...

Same kind of nonsense.

The Milton Keynes outfit will henceforth be known as Oracle Red Bull Racing, with the US-based company following on from Infiniti - who had the title deal from 2013 to 2015 - and Aston Martin, whose name was incorporated from 2018-2020. Honda was added to the end of the team name only for the 2021 season. Oracle first joined Red Bull last March in what was announced at the time as a multi-year deal, and which has now been upgraded. Since 2013 Oracle has also been the sole title sponsor of America's Cup contender Team USA, owned by company founder...