SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s government formally exited bankruptcy Tuesday, completing the largest public debt restructuring in U.S. history after announcing nearly seven years ago that it was unable to pay its more than $70 billion debt.
TORONTO – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Canadians on Tuesday to imagine bombs landing in their communities as he urged the Canadian Parliament and government to exert greater economic and military pressure on Russia.
WASHINGTON – The Senate unanimously approved a measure Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent across the United States next year. The bipartisan bill, named the Sunshine Protection Act, would ensure Americans would no longer have to change their clocks twice a year.
Three transgender Oklahomans who are seeking to alter the gender designation on their birth certificates are suing Gov. Kevin Stitt and the state’s health commissioner over an executive order that they say blocks such changes.
Members of my Two Acre Paradise/Three Dog Circus consists of two outside and one inside German shepherds—unless temps dip much below freezing. Then the outside two spend nights (and part of their days) inside. This winter has been quite confusing for them all. In warmer weather, the inside girl has her choice of three nice crates to choose from. When freezing temps arrive, I just go into our bedroom and say, “Sophie, get in your own bed.” She promptly moves. I know it is confusing for them; sometimes they don’t know whether they are coming or going.
The Chickasaw Nation Department of Health satellite clinics are changing their COVID-19 hours of operation. COVID-19 testing at satellite clinics in Ardmore, Purcell and Tishomingo will be offered from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday throughFriday.
A bill that would allow fire departments across the state to take patients to the hospital in life-threatening situations has been approved unanimously by the state Senate and soon could be considered by House members.
WASHINGTON – More than two weeks into a war he expected to dominate in two days, Vladimir Putin is projecting anger, frustration at his military’s failures, and a willingness to cause even more violence and destruction in Ukraine, in the assessment of U.S. intelligence officials.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tensions between the countries.
DOVER, Del. – More than two years after the Boy Scouts of America sought bankruptcy protection amid an onslaught of child sex abuse allegations, a judge began a trial Monday to determine whether to confirm its proposed reorganization plan.