In The News 07.07.2025

Here are the headlines shared on Monday, July 7, 2025

School cell phone ban goes into effect. (Read) / Image AI Generated

In The News

Here are the headlines shared on Monday, July 7, 2025

• Cell, no! After Two Years of Debate, Schools Get Months to Ban Phones (Oklahoma Watch)

• How will every Oklahoma school district fund free lunches? (KOCO)

• Oklahoma legislators react to OSDE's school meal funding mandate with cautious optimism (KOKH)

• Oklahoma Highway Patrol to pull resources from metros (Oklahoma Voice)

• An Oklahoma father planned to get married but now faces deportation (The Frontier)

• This program was getting more counselors into rural Oklahoma schools. Then Trump pulled funding. (KGOU)

• 'It's just a new day': Caddo Nation gets self-governance designation | (KOSU)

• Choctaw Nation citizen missing since 2022 found safe, reunited with family (KJRH)

• Tulsa County Commissioners delay vote on whether to approve a data center in Tulsa (KOTV)

• Joe Castiglione to retire as OU's athletic director, will remain as AD emeritus (KOKH)

• Vandal disables power to lifesaving News 9 weather radar (KWTV)

• Measles cases reach 33-year high as RFK Jr. pursues anti-vaccine agenda (Ars Technica)

• Let's Encrypt launches free SSL/TLS certificates for IP addresses (AlternativeTo)

• Cloudflare Just Changed How AI Crawlers Scrape the Internet-at-Large; Permission-Based Approach Makes Way for A New Business Model (Cloudflare)

Extras

Why America Built A Forest From Canada To Texas (Earth Curious)

The Song that Gave Kermit His Soul (Dara Starr Tucker)

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