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Em Luetkemeyer

Former Reporter & AJI Fellow

Em formerly covered Congress, government funding and tribal affairs for NOTUS.

She previously covered the Oklahoma congressional delegation. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and was a writer and editor at the nonprofit newspaper the Columbia Missourian for nearly two years.

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  • Tom Cole

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  • Doug Burgum

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  • Public Religious School Supreme Court

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    May 20, 2025 02:53 p.m.

  • Doug Burgum

    These Tribes Want a Key Piece of Oklahoma Land Returned. Could the Trump Administration Help?

    May 16, 2025 10:32 a.m.

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  • Rep. Tom Cole

    Tom Cole’s Bipartisan Reputation Gets Put to the Test in Trump’s Partisan Washington

    May 09, 2025 05:11 a.m.

  • Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

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    May 08, 2025 03:01 p.m.

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