The Latest: Hegseth confirmed as defense secretary in victory for Trump

President Donald Trump is in the fifth day of his second term in office, striving to remake the traditional boundaries of Washington by asserting unprecedented executive power. The president also took his first trip of his second administration on Friday, touring areas where politics...

Supreme Court will weigh approval for US’ 1st publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that...

Supreme Court will consider allowing the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school to open in Oklahoma

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court will consider allowing the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school to open in Oklahoma.

Supreme Court grants a new hearing for the only woman on Oklahoma's death row

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row over concerns that prosecutors’ discussion of her sexual history rendered her trial unfair in the murder of her estranged husband. The court, over...

Oklahoma's Republican AG jumps early into race for open governor's seat

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who has at times pushed back against his own party's governor and other politicians who sought to push religion into public schools, announced Monday his candidacy for governor. Drummond's announcement at...

Some US lawmakers want more Christianity in the classroom. Trump could embolden their plans

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state by inserting Bible references into reading lessons and requiring teachers to post the Ten Commandments. The...