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- JUST IN: Senate Candidate Found Dead After He Mysteriously Vanished
Oklahoma State Senate candidate Barry Christian was found dead on Thursday just days after he was reported missing. Christian, 54, a candidate for Oklahoma’s District 38, was reported missing on Tuesday. His campaign confirmed his death in a statement Thursday evening. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation also confirmed Christian’s body had been identified. His body was found in a pickup truck at the Sandy Sanders Wildlife Management Area, just south of Erick, Oklahoma. The circumstances on his death are not yet clear, and the investigation remains ongoing. OKLAHOMA STATE SENATE CANDIDATE FOUND DECEASED#OSBI #OneTeamOneMission pic.twitter.com/gONl0Jko09 — OSBI (@OSBI_OK) May 1, 2026 Christian was reported missing on Tuesday after missing a scheduled meeting. He had been campaigning that previous Saturday. The Senate candidate’s campaign described him as a conservative voice aligned with President Donald Trump. He was a Republican and one of three candidates running in the State Senate race. Police said Christian had last been seen driving his Dodge Ram truck, and his body was discovered on Thursday morning. His truck was found “crashed in a ravine.” One of his opponents, Joe Buchanan, took to Facebook to express condolences. “Carol and I are devastated to hear about Barry Christian’s passing. We are keeping his family and friends in our prayers, and hope our community can come together after this horrible tragedy,” he wrote on Facebook. Local outlet KOCO first received a statement from Christian’s daughter, Brooklyn, in which she said the family’s lives have been “turned upside down” over the news. “Please pray for our family and friends. Our world is upside down right now. We are still not sure of everything that happened, so please act with grace and treat my dad’s legacy with dignity. We are extremely grateful to everyone who assisted in the search efforts, and all of the media outlets that shared his information. I know there will be lots of people devastated by his passing,” she said. Watch above via Fox News.The post JUST IN: Senate Candidate Found Dead After He Mysteriously Vanished first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - DHS Funded
DHS funded. Congress has passed a spending bill that ends the monthslong shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). On Thursday, the House approved a bill that funds the department—except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. The 76-day shutdown began in February, when Democrats refused to fully fund the department after immigration officers fatally shot two U.S. citizens in Minnesota. Before they would send the agency money, the no voters wanted reforms, including requirements that immigration officers wear body cameras and get judicial warrants before entering private property. To keep the lights on, the Trump administration continued to pay for immigration enforcement out of other pots of money. With that cash running low, the Senate passed a bipartisan funding bill in March that excluded immigration enforcement. That measure stalled in the House under opposition from conservatives who opposed any DHS funding bill that did not include immigration enforcement money. But yesterday, the House approved the measure, after Senate Republicans started a reconciliation process that will allow them to pass a DHS funding bill with their bare majority. News reports invariably describe the DHS shutdown as the longest in the agency's history. It's worth noting that the American Republic survived some 200-plus years without a DHS at all. The department has lived up to none of its promises in the decades following its creation, while fulfilling many of its critics' worst fears. We'd be better off without it. And that's how you knew Congress would eventually fund it without any changes or reforms. Another FISA stopgap. Congress has approved a short-term extension of a major spying program that was set to expire Thursday. The measure extends the life of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for another 45 days while they hash out a longer-term reauthorization. Republican leaders in Congress, and in the White House, have been eager to pass a "clean" three-year reauthorization of Section 702, which allows warrantless surveillance of foreigners' communications outside the United States. Critics of Section 702 argue it allows the authorities to evade the Fourth Amendment, since the law lets intelligence agencies snoop on Americans' communications with targeted foreigners. A transpartisan collection of privacy hawks in Congress have been demanding that warrant requirements be added to the law. Yesterday's short-term extension gives them until June to hash out a deal. California allows driverless trucks. Earlier… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - How Indigenous Acknowledgments Became a Target in Australia
Recognition of Aboriginal Australians has become standard at most public events. Increasingly, the right is taking aim at the practice. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Something Liberals and Conservatives Agree On: Hatred of Data CentersAmericans have soured on the projects, polls show, and the sentiment is profoundly bipartisan. How that will change our politics? [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Republicans Want Tennessee’s Last Democratic House DistrictRepublicans sliced Nashville into three G.O.P.-leaning congressional districts in 2022. After the Supreme Court decision on voting rights, Memphis could be next. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Missing Oscar Statuette for ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Found
Russian director Pavel Talankin’s missing Oscar statuette for “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” has been found, a spokesperson for airline Lufthansa told the BBC Friday. The Oscar went missing on Wednesday after Talankin, who co-directed the documentary with David Borenstein and is also the film’s protagonist, was stopped from taking it on board a plane bound […] [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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