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2 months ago By News Staff

UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE PONCAN THEATRE February 2-4 - MOVIE Aquaman & the Lost Kingdom (Friday & Saturday at 7PM, Sunday at 2PM) February 9-11 - MOVIE Mean Girls (Friday & Saturday at 7PM, Sunday at 2PM) February 16-18 - Evans Children’s Academy presents Magic Treehouse: Pirates Past Noon (Friday & Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 2:30)

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Employed but unhappy: What’s in store for US workers in 2024

2 months ago By Mark Niquette, Augusta Saraiva Bloomberg News

If you talk to American workers today, they’ll probably tell you they’re happy to be employed — but not about much else. The US economy, which defied economists’ expectations for a recession in 2023, is expected to hold up well again this year, and so does the job market.

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Oklahoma high court to decide fate of minimum wage increase petition

2 months ago By Barbara Hoberock Oklahoma Voice

The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a legal challenge OKLAHOMA CITY — An initiative petition seeking to raise the minimum wage is unconstitutional and should be tossed out, opponents argued Wednesday. The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a challenge to State Question 832, which asks voters to gradually increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour in 2029 from the current rate of $7.25.

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US Defense Secretary Austin apologizes for handling of cancer and hospitalization

2 months ago By Iain Marlow Bloomberg News

WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday apologized over his handling of his prostate cancer surgery and two-week hospital stay, saying he should have informed President Joe Biden and the American public.

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Space Force to get its 1st astronaut on SpaceX launch this year

2 months ago By Richard Tribou Orlando Sentinel

NASA announced the four members for the planned August SpaceX mission to rotate crew on the International Space Station and it includes the first member of the U.S. Space Force flying to orbit.

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Nikki Haley trails Trump by 26 points in South Carolina, poll finds

2 months ago By Laura Davison Bloomberg News

Nikki Haley trails Donald Trump by a wide margin in her home state of South Carolina, the site of the next major Republican primary contest, a grim sign for the former governor’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a new poll.

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A decade-old Scalia dissent is now driving the Texas-Biden dispute over illegal immigration

2 months ago By David G. Savage Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — For more than a century, immigration and border enforcement have been seen as falling exclusively under federal control, and when states tried to exert a greater role, courts shut them down.

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Things to do

2 months ago By News Staff

Connect Church, located at 1101 W. Grand Ave., is hosting an Indian taco fundraiser event from 11 am to 1 pm on Friday, Feb.

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‘Native women are unstoppable’:

2 months ago By Glenn Whipp Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — When all this is over, when Lily Gladstone no longer has to discuss and dissect and get all dressed up to celebrate “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the movie that first came into her life nearly five years ago and has now propelled her into history as the first Native American to earn an Oscar nomination for lead actress, she’s going to head back home to her family in suburban Seattle. Gladstone moved in with her parents a few years ago to help take care of her special-needs uncle and her grandmother, who died last summer after battling dementia.

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‘SNL 1975’ film lands cast to portray Dan Akroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Garrett Morris

2 months ago By Karu F. Daniels New York Daily News

NEW YORK — “SNL 1975,” a movie about the genesis of “Saturday Night Live,” has rounded out its cast to portray the original stars of the iconic NBC sketch comedy series. Lamorne Morris has been tapped to portray Garrett Morris, while Dylan O’Brien has landed the role of Dan Aykroyd in the Jason Reitman- helmed film.

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