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Trump administration to take 10% stake in USA Rare Earth in $1.6b. deal, sources say

The Trump administration is set to take a 10% stake in USA Rare Earth as part of a $1.6 billion investment package aimed at boosting domestic rare earth mining and magnet production.

A wheel loader operator fills a truck with ore at the MP Materials rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, California, January 30, 2020; illustrative.
Peter Deutsch, founder of the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation, addresses the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board on Jan. 12, 2026, in Oklahoma City.

Tulsa’s Jewish community pushes back on Oklahoma Jewish charter school proposal

Boys in the hallway at Jewish day school

Oklahoma board to vote on application for religious Jewish charter school

Sunny view of the Tulsa Route 66 Sign at Oklahoma.

Lech L'Tulsa program provides pathway for Jewish Canadians to escape surging antisemitism


Artifact confirming Jewish King David as historical figure on display in Edmond, Oklahoma

The Tel Dan Stele, a key biblical artifact, will be displayed at Herbert W. Armstrong College from September 22 to November 25.

 The victory stele discovered by Avraham Biran in 1993 in northern Israel. The inscription on the stele provided the first confirmation of King David as a historical figure.

Oklahoma University evacuated over anti-Israel bomb scare

The message left by the suspicious package read "Ignore this like you do genocide. 28,000 and counting. Silence is complicity."

Gould Hall on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma (United States).

Tallest US skyscraper to rise in Oklahoma city, not New York

Oklahoma City surprises with plans for the tallest building in the US. A symbol of growth, it will offer unique attractions for visitors.

 New York

Hanukkah vignettes: Scenes of the Festival of Lights in years past

As the sun disappeared that day, a large hanukkiah was rolled out. Eight giant candles and one more for the shamash.

 JUBILANT RESIDENTS of Tel Aviv celebrate with what would become the Israeli flag after the UN decision to approve the partition of Palestine, November 29, 1947.

Oklahoma Dept. of Education announces partnership with PragerU

Decisions to include PragerU content in school curriculums have been met with much controversy due to many disagreeing with the content that is included in the curriculum.

 Dennis Prager speaking with attendees at the 2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Oklahoma boy discovers fish with 'human-like' teeth

Charlie Clinton, 11, was reportedly fishing in an Oklahoma City neighborhood pond when he caught a pacu, which is an invasive fish linked closely to piranhas.

 Fish feeding on a dying D. setosum urchin in the Mediterranean Sea

Seven bodies, including two missing teens, found in home of Oklahoma sex offender

McFadden, 39, had been scheduled to begin a trial on Monday for using a cellphone while in prison to send sexual messages to a teenage girl, the station reported.

A general view of the property where the bodies of seven people, including two missing teens and a convicted sex offender, were found in Henryetta, Oklahoma, U.S. May 2, 2023.

Purim: Celebrating the holiday as a soldier, civilian in the US

57 years later, I can still see the faces and some of the costumes. I forget quite a lot these days, but not that Purim.

 THE WRITER served as chaplain at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; with wife, Rita, and children Elissa and Avie.

Bipartisan Senate group to tour Abraham Accords countries

The group arrived in Morocco and met PM ‘to discuss Morocco’s leadership on the Abraham Accords and the importance of the US-Morocco relationship’

 PRESIDENT JOE Biden is flanked by leaders of Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait at the Jeddah Security and Development Summit (GCC+3), in July.

Over a third of all US executions in 2022 were botched - report

One notable execution saw a man, still believed by some to be innocent, having to help the executioners properly find a vein for the lethal injection.

Prison, death row (illustrative)