All posts tagged "Oklahoma"

An American oil hub that dubs itself "the pipeline crossroads of the world" is running dangerously low amid Trump's Iran war, CNN reported.

Cushing, Oklahoma, usually stores about 40 million barrels of oil and has a capacity to carry up to 75 million. However, Cushing is holding just over half that amount as it reports a current inventory of 21.6 million barrels, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

"We're raising alarm bells right now," American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers told CNN. "We're getting to levels where we are starting to be concerned."...

The wife of a Republican candidate for governor issued an emotional apology for donating to Biden's campaign.

Oklahoma gubernatorial candidate Gentner Drummond has been the target of 'heartbreaking' attacks, his wife, Wendy, said in her apology. She recorded her apology and posted it on social media via her husband's accounts.

"I can't stand by silently any longer," a choked-up Wendy Drummond said in the opening of her video, which was scored with dramatic music. "I've been wanting to say this for a long time. It's just heartbreaking for me to watch the man I love be attacked for something that was my fault."...

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported Barry Christian was found in the trunk of his vehicle.

State law enforcement found the dead body of a Republican Oklahoma state Senate candidate in his truck, according to reports.

Barry Christian, 54, was found dead on Thursday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations told media outlets including News9. Christian disappeared Tuesday and was reported missing the next day after being absent from a meeting, local media reported. ...

MAGA fans were outraged after the controversial replacement for Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) was announced on Tuesday.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed oil and gas executive Alan Armstrong, who had formerly made a $5,800 donation to one of President Donald Trump's enemies, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). Kinzinger had voted to impeach Trump, and the donation came around that time.

Stitt announced the appointment in a post on X, just hours after Mullin was formally confirmed late Monday as the new Homeland Security Secretary, replacing the outgoing embattled Trump administration leader Kristi Noem. Noem was fired by President Donald Trump, who appointed Mullin and moved Noem into another role. ...

MAGA advocates staged a meltdown on social media after news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court failed to reach a decision in favor of allowing taxpayers to pay for a religious charter school in Oklahoma.

The court tied 4-4 Thursday, with one conservative justice siding with liberals. According to the Associated Press:

"The court, following its custom, did not provide a breakdown of the votes. But during arguments last month, four conservative justices seemed likely to side with the school, while the three liberals seemed just as firmly on the other side....

A recusal by conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has ensured that Oklahoma taxpayers will not have to pay for a religious public charter school.

Coney Barrett would have broken the 4-4 deadlock reached by the Court Thursday. Although she did not give a reason for her recusal, The New York Times speculated that the justice's "close friendship with Nicole Stelle Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who was an early adviser for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, the school involved in the dispute," may have contributed.

"The decision by the evenly divided court means that a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that said the proposal to launch St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School violates both the federal Constitution and state law remains in place," NBC News reported....