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The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 22 stories to Oklahoma since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Oklahoma.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Oklahoma
10 storiesDeaths from ectopic pregnancies, which grow outside the womb and almost never survive, nearly doubled from 2020 to 2025 and rose fastest in states with strict abortion bans, ProPublica finds.
No federal response to the spike
Federal judge rules Oklahoma can't block a Jewish charter school over its religion, a step toward the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious school.
Supreme Court deadlocked on Catholic version
Energy Department names Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah as potential nuclear waste hosts while seeking to scrap the law requiring Yucca Mountain storage.
95,000 tons stockpiled across 39 states
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Expectant management raises hemorrhage risk
Commerce Department takes up to 16% equity stake in rare earth mining company with $1.3 billion loan and $277 million federal funding to counter Chinese supply chain dominance.
Company stock rose 20% on announcement
CDC links cyclosporiasis outbreaks in four more states to tainted lettuce as confirmed and suspected cases near 12,000 nationwide.
Kennedy declared it under control
Trump nominates former state trooper Lance Schroyer to lead ICE, which has gone without a Senate-confirmed director since 2017.
Ran Oklahoma's 287(g) deportation program
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt appoints energy executive Alan Armstrong to fill Mullin's Senate seat through the end of the year, with Trump-endorsed Rep. Kevin Hern already running for the full term.
Oklahoma law bars appointee from running
Trump swears in Markwayne Mullin as Homeland Security secretary on day 39 of the DHS shutdown, with ICE agents deployed to airports and after over 400 TSA officers quit.
Mullin pledges "failure is not an option"
Senate confirms Markwayne Mullin as DHS secretary 54-45, with Mullin signaling agents will need judicial warrants to enter homes and businesses.
Fetterman's vote moved nomination from committee
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesCNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
Stars and Stripes' editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
Fired after USS Lincoln morale story
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