The Supreme Court ruled (EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch, 14-86) Monday for a Muslim woman who did not get hired after she showed up to a Tulsa job interview with clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch wearing a black headscarf.
The justices said that employers generally have to accommodate job applicants and employees with religious needs if the employer at least has an idea that such accommodation is necessary.
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A senior female commander from Islamic State has told Sky News she has no doubt that three London teenagers who crossed into Syria in February were groomed by a team of social media experts in Raqqa.
The woman, who calls herself Um Asmah and who defected from ISIS just days before the report, was the first person to contact foreign girls crossing the border.
Updated: The Obama administration on Wednesday asserted its authority over the nation’s streams, wetlands and smaller waterways, moving forward with one of the most controversial environmental regulations in recent years in rules on the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) which Oklahoma Attorney General Pruitt promises to fight.
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works (EPW) released a response that asserts EPA Adm. Gina McCarthy and Assistant Secretary for the Army for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy admitted the WOTUS rule is flawed, inconsistent, and ambiguous and promised to ameliorate and address the concerns of states, local governments and agriculture as the committee reviewed the rule in four subsequent hearings.
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Hillary Clinton
With its Friday dump — on Memorial Day weekend, no less — the State Department ensured that Hillary Clinton’s 296 Libya-related emails would receive limited news coverage.
But, according to The Daily Caller, the records are well worth reviewing because they contain important insight into Clinton and her top aides’ views on Libya and Benghazi leading up to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, which killed four Americans.
Follow the 2015 Southern Republican Leadership Conference in downtown Oklahoma City at the Cox Convention Center courtesy of NewsOK.com and Jones Public Relations on Tulsa Today. An embed of the video stream follows below.
Eleven GOP hopefuls are scheduled to speak to Republican activists and elected officials from 14 states.