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Army surveillance balloons spotted over Tucson raise privacy concerns from...
An Aerostar high-altitude balloon as seen from the ground in Tucson. Photo by Dugan Meyer The U.S. Army and a private company are flying high-altitude surveillance balloons over the Tucson area,...
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Senators object to Trump push to ax Education Department programs for...
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies on June 3, 2025....
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Trump tariffs would lower deficit but raise costs for consumers, nonpartisan...
New Nissan cars are driven onto a rail car to be transported from an automobile processing terminal located at the Port of Los Angeles on April 3, 2024, in Wilmington, California. Tariffs are being...
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Trump administration rescinds policy protecting emergency room abortions
The Trump administration has rescinded a Biden-era policy that protected emergency room abortions, stripping away a critical legal shield for doctors and pregnant women who live in states that ban the...
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Federal judge unseals some records in Abrego Garcia case
U.S. Rep. Glenn Ivey, a Maryland Democrat who represents the district where Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife live, led the chant “bring him home” outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt before a...
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U.S. House Democrats grill Education Secretary McMahon on proposed cuts,...
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies before the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Screenshot from committee livestreamWASHINGTON — Education Secretary...
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Judge orders Trump to facilitate due process for migrants removed under...
Minister of Justice and Public Security Héctor Villatoro, right, accompanies Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a tour of the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, on March 26,...
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‘We are a whisper away from Jim Crow,’ says Minnesota Attorney General Keith...
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison speaks to States Newsroom leaders and reporters Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at the Royal Sonesta in downtown Minneapolis. Photo by Nicole Neri | Minnesota...
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Trump opens investigation into Biden autopen use
Then-President Joe Biden gives a pen to Bette Marafino, president of the Connecticut Chapter of the Alliance for Retired Americans, after he signed the Social Security Fairness Act during an event in...
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UofA Indigenous students oppose cultural center restructuring, termination of...
Julian Juan, the former director of the Native American Student Affairs Cultural & Resources Center at the University of Arizona, was terminated from his position on May 27, 2025. He sat down with...
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus to keep pressure on immigration detention...
Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, the largest immigrant detention center on the East Coast, was the sight of a May demonstration against the Trump administration's immigration policies. Photo by New...
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Appellate court judges show skepticism of Trump’s birthright citizenship...
Photo by Getty ImagesA federal appellate court is weighing whether to allow President Donald Trump to end the 157-year-old constitutional guarantee that every child born in the country is a U.S....
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Immigration surge cost state, local governments $9 billion in 2023,...
Education was one of the primary areas of additional cost states and local governments that saw a surge in new immigration starting in 2021. Photo by Phillippe Gerber | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — The...
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Long-thwarted efforts to sell public lands see new life under Trump
Cattle gather around a watering hole on federal land near Monticello, Utah. Utah is among several Western states seeking to reduce federal land ownership. Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News...
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U.S. warns Arizona and Wisconsin over compliance with federal election law
The U.S. Capitol, wrapped in fog, on Dec. 18, 2024. Photo by Jennifer Shutt | States NewsroomThe U.S. Justice Department has sent letters to election officials in at least two key swing states,...
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Arizona police departments say ICE is not using their license plate scanners
An automated license plate reader sits inside a fake cactus at a Paradise Valley roundabout. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror A license plate scanning tool that is marketed to be used to...
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Wrongly deported Maryland man Abrego Garcia returned to U.S.
A protester holds a photo of Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia as demonstrators gather to protest against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to...
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Republicans in Congress axed the ‘green new scam,’ but it’s a red state boon
A worker installs a solar panel on a roof. Photo by Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Clean energy manufacturers and advocates say they’re perplexed how the repeal of tax credits in President Donald Trump’s...
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Congress hears of rewards, security risks of government use of AI
AI experts told the House Oversight Committee that AI offers enormous promise for federal workers, but also raises serious privacy and security concerns. Photo by Jennifer Shutt | States NewsroomAs...
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How Arizona is lining up the next generation of election workers, as more...
Carly Morrison was one of 18 people who participated in Arizona's first fellowship program to train election administrators. She was hired shortly afterward by Pima County's elections office. Photo by...
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