It sounds like the House Republican leadership is going to force a vote to table the motion to vacate TONIGHT. Aka right now.

🔺Oklahoma Tornado Warning System maintenance was vetoed🔺🧵
$8 MILLION of ARPA funding that would have replaced 15 aging transmitters that are over 30 years old. Both House and Senate overwhelmingly passed this money with bipartisan support. Out of $1 billion in ARPA funds,…

First look video from #SkyNews6 over #Barnsdall . News On 6 News 9

Here's another view from SkyNews 6 looking at some of the devastation left behind in Barnsdall by last night's tornado.

I can't imagine how scary this was for the folks of Barnsdall to go through. News On 6 News 9

Internal corporate docs from the Ohio energy company that bribed the Ohio Speaker of the House show how it was able to pull off those bribes by setting up nonprofit 'dark money' groups to covertly purchase the state's politicians. cleveland.com/news/2024/04/f…

NEW: Investigation launched after a South Carolina pastor gave a bizarre speech at church saying his wife died of su*cide just hours before the church service.

Mica Miller died by a gunshot wound to the head at Lumber River State Park in NC.

Pastor John-Paul Miller gave an…

Flabbergasted by this seemingly arbitrary decision.

Houston Landing reporters aren’t allowed to post a photo of themselves with a gun at a shooting range for a work assignment? Is my job at risk for photos taken of me with controversial politicians while working?

The Sulphur Times-Democrat has published its first issue after a tornado destroyed most of downtown Saturday night.

Mother of Boeing Whistleblower Joshua Dean, who died after a sudden illness” questions his sudden death: “He has never been sick a day in his life.” one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId…

While I was covering this story, I heard someone behind me say, “It was Myrna. She works at the courthouse.” I turned around, shocked and said, “Did you say it was Myrna from the courthouse that got shot?!?” ... tulsaworld.com/news/local/cri… #tulsa

Amarillo council may reconsider abortion travel ban after residents gather 10,000 signatures texastribune.org/2024/04/30/ama… via Texas Tribune

This arrest prompted a non-profit to demand change to what it calls a pervasive problem. 'These allegations are not the result of one 'bad apple,' but rather a culture of negligence and incompetence that has festered for too long in the FCJJ.'
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From Lakeidra Chavis, Joseph Neff and me:
In This Police Youth Program, a Trail of Sexual Abuse Across the U.S.
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The U.S. was warned numerous times that its border policies would have deadly effect in Mexico. No surprise that’s exactly what happened. Must read by ⁦Perla Trevizo⁩ ⁦ProPublica⁩ ⁦Texas Tribune⁩ propublica.org/article/us-imm…

Listen, I think it would be tight if you were rad and applied for this housing reporter gig at The Frontier and we could maybe sometimes work on stuff together journalismjobs.com/1685870-housin…

The campus protests show us why local elections matter.

Your sheriffs are deciding how to treat protesters.

Your district attorneys are deciding whether to charge them.

Your judges are deciding whether to let them out on bail.

themarshallproject.org/2024/04/30/cam…

🚨BREAKING: Louisiana lawmakers are considering adding mifepristone and misoprostol — medications that induce an abortion — to the Controlled Substances Act.

I've never heard of a state attempting to do this before.

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'hot dogs saved my life'

this Omaha, Nebraska resident says he was out grabbing a gas station glizzy when a tornado destroyed his home 🙏

NEW: The The Denver Post and 7 other MediaNews/Tribune newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the tech giants illegally harvested copyrighted articles to create ChatGPT and CoPilot denverpost.com/2024/04/30/ope…