Republicans nix California tailpipe emissions standard, blocking pollution...
Highway 170 in North Hollywood, California. (Photo by Trevor Srednick/Getty Images)The U.S. Senate voted early Thursday to prevent California from enforcing regulations on tailpipe emission from new...
View ArticleA Republican calls out rank politics and ‘performative outrage’ amid split on...
Photo illustration by Jim Small. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorOne GOP state lawmaker has had it with the “performative outrage” of some of the far-right members of his own party....
View ArticleTo help pay for tax cuts, GOP budget would take SNAP benefits from at least...
At a farm market in St. Petersburg, Florida, SNAP recipients were able to use their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards for food. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA).The massive tax and spending bill passed by...
View ArticleMy 95-year-old grandmother’s silence shows why Arizona needs Asian American...
A monument honoring the dead stands in the cemetery at Manzanar National Historic Site on December 9, 2015 near Independence, California. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of 10 internment camps...
View ArticleWhat top IVF advocates want from Trump’s fertility care plan
Barbara Collura, CEO and president of Resolve: The National Infertility Association, spoke outside the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery on Feb. 28, 2024, after a court decision likening embryos to...
View ArticleNPR sues over Trump order cutting off its funding, citing First Amendment
The National Public Radio headquarters in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — A collection of National Public Radio stations...
View ArticleSupreme Court refuses Apache plea to save Oak Flat from copper mining...
Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold talks to a crowd of people outside the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse on May 7, 2025, as Apache Stronghold urged the federal court to save Oak Flat. Photo...
View ArticleRFK Jr. ends COVID vaccine recommendation for healthy children, pregnant people
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 29, 2025 in Washington, D.C.....
View ArticleAbortion providers challenge FDA’s remaining mifepristone restrictions in...
“We just want to ensure that the most popular method for abortion in Virginia and beyond is protected no matter who sits at the White House and who sits in the FDA,” said Whole Woman’s Health founder...
View ArticleTop Democrats in Congress decry Trump admin’s ‘lack of transparency’ in...
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought appears during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 15, 2025 in Washington,...
View ArticleFrom ‘Like a Girl’ to ‘I’m Just a Girl’: The dangerous conservative shift...
A young attendee wearing a 'MAGA' hat waits in line ahead of a Town Hall event Donald Trump at Macomb Community College on Sept. 27, 2024, in Warren, Michigan. Photo by Emily Elconin | Getty ImagesAs a...
View ArticleElon Musk says Trump-backed tax bill ‘undermines’ DOGE cuts, confirms White...
Billionaire and SpaceX owner Elon Musk said in an interview with CBS News that he was “disappointed” in the U.S. House GOP’s massive legislative package of tax cuts, border funding and more of...
View ArticleAfter being told it must return a wrongly deported man, the Trump...
A crowd gathered outside U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 10, 2025, to protest the government's erroneous deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran...
View ArticleFederal judges side with Arizona to strike down ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs...
A ruling by judges at the U.S. Court of International Trade on May 28, 2025, stops President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada and nearly all imports into the U.S. Photo via Getty...
View ArticleICE resumes courthouse arrests in Phoenix, but with new tactics amid opposition
A woman holds up a large banner that reads: “ICE is here! Take precautions,” in Spanish at the Phoenix Immigration Court in Phoenix on May 28, 2025. After several days of no arrests, ICE agents have...
View ArticleJ.D. Vance’s campaign plane carried anti-immigrant rhetoric. Now it carries...
JD Vance boards his plane as he departs Arizona following a tour of the U.S. southern border with Mexico, on Aug. 1, 2024, in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Vance was visiting the border on the final stop of...
View ArticleEuropean Union AI regulation is both model and warning for U.S. lawmakers,...
Members of the group Initiative Urheberrecht (authors' rights initiative) demonstrate to demand regulation of artificial intelligence on June 16, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The AI regulation later...
View ArticleArizona teachers face personal liability under antisemitism bill covering...
Photo by Andrii Koval | Getty ImagesRepublicans and a small group of Democrats in the Arizona Legislature want to let parents sue teachers for teaching antisemitism, but the measure they passed...
View ArticleImmigrants in U.S. without permanent legal status grew to 12.2 million, study...
Migrants from Mexico and Guatemala are apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers after crossing a section of border wall into the U.S. on Jan. 04, 2025 in Ruby, Arizona. (Photo by Brandon...
View ArticleAppeals court allows Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs to remain in place...
President Donald Trump holds up a chart while speaking during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo...
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