What’s happening, Oklahoma? It is May 28, and here are a handful of headlines before we get started:

•  The Oklahoma City Thunder can clinch a trip to the NBA Finals tonight at Paycom Center. Tip-off happens just after 7:30 p.m., and the game will be televised on ESPN. Thunder up! 💙🧡

• President Trump pardoned reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were serving sentences for “a conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million.” (CNN)

• NPR sues Trump over his executive order cutting their federal funding. (CNBC)

• Rock-and-roll (Hoochie Koo) legend Rick Derringer dies at 77. (CNN)

• Think AI is just a fad? Jim Cramer says think again. (CNBC)

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Cloudy, mild during the day. Severe weather chances return Wednesday night.

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One week of lawmaking left in Oklahoma: here's what's signed into law, vetoed and left to finish

By Lionel Ramos, KOSU
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Lawmakers are wrapping up Oklahoma's 60th legislative session this week. From tax cuts to classroom cellphone bans and the end of the board ensuring people are buried properly, 504 bills had been sent to the governor heading into the Memorial Day weekend.

As Oklahoma’s legislature starts its final week of lawmaking, Gov. Kevin Stitt has already signed more than 100 measures into law and vetoed roughly 50.

This week will be packed with long committee meetings, final floor votes, Senate executive confirmations and potential veto overrides.

The state budget for Fiscal Year 2026 is $12.6 billion, as shown on the Senate and House public portals. That includes an income tax cut, with a path to an eventual zero percent rate, and enough money to keep a struggling state mental health department afloat until the next time lawmakers meet.

The proposed income tax cut, filed as House Bill 2764 by Republican fiscal chairs Rep. Trey Caldwell, R-Faxon, and Sen. Chuck Hall, R-Tuttle, was still awaiting Stitt’s judgment as of Tuesday night. That means a slew of other budget-related measures, like final appropriations to the state education, health, commerce and other main departments, are also waiting for the top executive’s signature.

As are hundreds of other measures sent to Stitt last week.

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The Oklahoma Rundown 📰

A hand-curated list of the best journalism from across the state:

• Polite and friendly in his OKC job, in other gig as church leader he says gay people should be lined up and executed (The Oklahoman)

• Two teens arrested in Garvin County double homicide at marijuana grow (KXII)

• Authorities seize dozens of roosters, 9 arrested in Logan Co. cockfighting bust (News 9)

• Kidnapped twice: Inconsistent police discretion compromises enforcement of rapidly changing cannabis laws (Oklahoma Watch)

• Oklahoma man loses nearly entire hand in power saw accident (KFOR)

• Superbolt shakes Tulsa with strong positive lightning strike Sunday night (Tulsa World)

• Moore Police Department to be featured on 'On Patrol: Live' starting Friday (KOCO)

• Oklahomans could see cheaper groceries, gas this fall (Oklahoma Voice)

• OKC Mayor Holt joins Thunder fans in New York City watch party (News 9)

• Biking Tulsa’s Black Wall Street to New York’s Wall Street (Black Wall Street Times)

• Muscogee Creek Nation to join lawsuit against multiple social media companies (Mvskoke Media)

• Oklahoma wants to reunite unclaimed property with owners (KTEN)

• Broken Arrow faces critical nurse shortage, launches training effort (News On 6)

• Stroke victim and family continuing to use positivity to persevere 2 years later (KFOR)

• Oklahoma Senate approves governor’s new education board members (Oklahoma Voice)

• Bill aims to increase state control of Oklahoma mental health agency finances (KOSU)

• Oklahoma to ask for federal approval to regulate its own underground carbon injection wells (KGOU)

• Oklahoma advocacy group debuts opt-out waivers for controversial social studies standards, more (KGOU)

• Cherokee Marshal Service to bring MMIP education to communities (Cherokee Phoenix)

• Lawton City Council approves Fiscal Year ‘26 budget with $40 million shortfall (KSWO)

• Roundup: Corp Comm hears PSO proposal, judge pauses immigration law, former officer charged (NonDoc)

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