Herman Meinders and the Meinders Foundation have combined for an $8 million donation to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. The gift aims to transform neurodegenerative disease research in Oklahoma.

Contributing Writer There were two major accomplishments earned in Soper on Friday. The Soper Lady Red Bears softball team was named Academic State Champions for the fifth consecutive time. Soper also dominated the Regional Playoffs and are headed back to the State playoffs for the third time in a row.

HUGO — The Hugo Buffaloes hosted one of District 2A-1’s toughest teams Friday night and from the opening kickoff, they knew they would have to play a stellar game to corral the district’s No. 1 passer, No. 1 receiver and No. 1 running back. They would also have to do that without their starting quarterback, Jayka Santillan, who himself is among the District leaders in both passing and rushing but was sidelined with a shoulder injury.

FORT TOWSON –– The annual Doaksville Candlelight Tour will be held on Friday, Oct. 10, and Saturday, Oct.

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The Democrats filed legislation (their alternative plan) that results in the continuation of the shutdown of the government. A total of $200 billion of American taxpayers’ hardearned money would go to providing illegal aliens with subsidized healthcare. Sections of their bill are cited in this graphic.

On Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer’s previous comments: “Well, this is what happens when you have a career politician in office. Keep in mind that in 1996 when he was a Congressman and I was still in high school, which was three decades ago, the career politician Chucky Schumer, went to the floor and said that we incentivize illegals coming to the United States illegally when we give them benefits. That’s exactly what they’re doing right now.”

Senator John Kennedy just laid it all out on what Elon Musk uncovered about USAID – and it’s staggering: •$40 BILLION a year given away by USAID’s 10,000 employees •American taxpayer money flowing to Afghanistan, Yemen, and Syria •Millions for electric vehicles in Vietnam •Funding a transgender clinic in India •$1.5 million for an LGBTQ group in Serbia to push DEI in workplaces •$164 million for radical organizations worldwide – $122 million of it to groups tied to terrorists •Money funneled into Hamas-controlled groups in Gaza •$2 million for sex changes in Guatemala •$20 million to make a Sesame Street show in Iraq •$4.5 million to fight “misinformation” in Kazakhstan •$10 million of meals sent to al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front •$7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists to erase gendered language •$1.5 million for LGBT advocacy in Jamaica •$1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem •$1.5 million for “art inclusion” in Belarus •$3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia •$8.3 million for “equity and inclusion education” in Nepal Senator Kennedy: “I think we ought to give Elon Musk a medal.” Taxpayer dollars funding terrorists, propaganda, sex changes, woke projects, and foreign media. All exposed.

The revelation that the FBI snooped on the phone records of Republican members of Congress during its Jan. 6 investigation is bringing greater scrutiny to then-FBI Director Christopher Wray, during whose tenure the bureau effort occurred, and to then-Special Counsel Jack Smith, who was leading the Biden Justice Department’s investigation into Donald Trump.