Trump administration tells states it’s freezing $6.8 billion for K-12 school...
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office on April 23, 2025. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer and...
View ArticleHobbs signed 10 bills modeled from far-right playbooks, including Project 2025
Gov. Katie Hobbs speaks at a press conference on July 1, 2025, after a ceremonial signing of the budget she officially signed last week. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorPublic health...
View ArticleFederal changes could end up ‘cutting holes’ in HIV safety net, experts say
A patient has blood drawn as he receives a free HIV test from a medical assistant in Miami. The giant tax and spending bill under consideration in the U.S. Senate would bar clinics that provide...
View ArticleRepublicans rewrote the US Senate megabill in its last moments
The U.S. Capitol on June 30, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The final “big beautiful bill” approved by Senate Republicans Tuesday included some last-minute changes on...
View ArticleTrump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill will slash health care for legal immigrants to...
A woman and her child are assisted by a US Marine while browsing through donated clothing at Fort Pickett on December 16, 2021, in Blackstone, Virginia. Fort Pickett normally operates as an Army...
View ArticleTempe health company hit by phishing scam, then exposed clients in warning email
Screenshots of an email obtained by the Arizona Mirror sent to clients of Tempe-based Crisis Preparation and Recovery Inc. alerting them to an email that exposed other clients email addresses as the...
View ArticleGOP’s massive tax cut bill stalls as Freedom Caucus rebels over $3.4 trillion...
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters before heading to the House chamber for a procedural vote on the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act" at the U.S. Capitol on July 2, 2025 in...
View ArticleHobbs begs congressional delegation to reject Trump’s tax bill, save rural...
Gov. Katie Hobbs on April 9, 2024, at a press briefing reacting to the Arizona Supreme Court's ruling that an 1864 near-total abortion ban is enforceable. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona...
View ArticleRevival of program to compensate families sickened by uranium included in...
Navajo uranium miners at the Rico Mine in Southwestern Colorado in 1953. Photo courtesy of The Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project at the Center for Southwest Research, University...
View ArticleJudge halts Trump border ‘invasion’ order that suspended asylum claims
Customs and Border Protection agents question families who have presented themselves at the Paso del Norte bridge to request asylum on May 11, 2023. (Photo by Corrie Boudreaux for Source NM)WASHINGTON...
View ArticleAnti-abortion leader argues US was not ready for Roe or Dobbs decisions
Americans United for Life has written model legislation that called for "Defunding Abortion," targeting organizations including Planned Parenthood that also provides reproductive health care services...
View ArticleClimate change pushes Arizona into ‘uncharted territory’ with deadly heat
Photo via Getty ImagesIn 2024, the max temperature in Phoenix sat at or above 100 degrees for approximately 30% of the year — and that non-stop consecutive heat has environmental advocates and doctors...
View ArticleRepublicans clear Trump tax package for signature despite warnings of...
The U.S. Capitol as lawmakers worked into the night on the "big beautiful bill" on July 2, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans cleared the “big, beautiful...
View ArticleTrump’s immigration agenda gets $170 billion, making ICE the largest law...
Federal authorities detain a man after attending a court hearing at immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on July 1, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty...
View ArticleRecord 174 vetoes highlight Arizona’s partisan gridlock under divided government
Gov. Katie Hobbs gives the annual State of the State address in the Arizona House of Representatives on Jan. 13, 2025. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0In Arizona, a divided state government...
View ArticleTrump signs $3.4 trillion deficit-boosting tax and spending cut package at...
President Donald Trump holds up the "big, beautiful bill" that was signed into law as during a Fourth of July military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 4, 2025 in Washington,...
View ArticleThey’re calling her an influencer. She’s calling it campaign strategy.
Deja Foxx poses for a portrait at her home in Tucson on June 21, 2025. Photo by Courtney Pedroza for The 19th TUCSON, ARIZ. — On a Saturday afternoon, Deja Foxx is staging a TikTok Live in her living...
View ArticleStates scramble to shield hospitals from GOP Medicaid cuts
A respiratory therapist checks on patients in a Chicago hospital in 2022. States are scrambling to shield their hospitals from the looming loss of hundreds of millions in federal funding under the tax...
View ArticleAbrego Garcia lawyers try to return him to Maryland, fearing removal to third...
A protester holds a photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia as demonstrators gather to protest against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United...
View Article‘Part of our culture’: Navajo Nation’s Oak Ridge Fire response includes...
A flock of sheep is gathered in a pen as they wait for a much-needed haircut from a group of Diné volunteers during a shearing event held on July 4, 2025, at the Navajo Nation Fairgrounds to help sheep...
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