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Headlining this week's news from the heartland is the story of an up-and-coming country-western singer known as Tennessee Jet, who has just been canceled from a venue in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Supreme Court is weighing whether to allow city officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to issue speeding tickets to American Indian tribal members in a dispute over a $150 traffic fine -- but the issue could affect the enforcement of other city ordinances in a territory where about a million people live.

Tai Lavatai scored a game-winning touchdown from the 1-yard lin e in the fourth quarter and Navy defeated Tulsa 20-17 on Friday night.

Actor Tom Hanks penned an op-ed Friday arguing that the Tulsa race massacre should be taught in grade school so that "White descendants of those in the mob" can learn the truth about the 1921 tragedy.

President Biden on Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history by touring the part of Tulsa once known as "Black Wall Street," condemning White supremacy and outlining steps to promote minority-owned businesses, saying too many hurdles remain a century after the tragedy.

Biden will be the first president to be part of the remembrances of what happened in what used to be known as “Black Wall Street.” On May 31 and June 1 in 1921, white residents and civil society leaders looted and burned to the ground the Greenwood district and used planes to drop projectiles on it. The attackers killed up to 300 Black Tulsans and forced survivors for a time into internment camps overseen by National Guard members. Burned bricks and a fragment of a church basement are about...