21 states join Biden administration in bid to modernize nation’s aging grid
An aerial view shows high voltage power lines on May 16, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Twenty-one states are joining a push by President Joe Biden’s administration to modernize the nation’s aging...
View ArticleImmigrant families aren’t immune from mental health challenges
Photo via iStock/Getty ImagesAs a 20-year-old immigrant from Mexico, I never paid much attention to the importance of mental health and its impact on my everyday life. Today, however, I see the...
View ArticleTrump found guilty on 34 felony counts in NY hush money trial
Former U.S. President Donald Trump walks to speak to the media after being found guilty following his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024, in New York City. The former...
View ArticleCapitol police officers who battled Trump-backing insurrectionists stumped...
Former Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell at a Biden campaign event in Phoenix on May 30, 2024. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorTwo former U.S. Capitol Police...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court chief declines to discuss Alito flag uproar, ethics with...
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts announces the results of the vote on the second article of impeachment during impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump in the Senate at the...
View ArticleSupreme Court dashes Arizona death row inmate’s hope to avoid death penalty...
Photo by Hugh Jackson | Nevada CurrentWASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower court ruling ordering a new sentencing hearing for an Arizona death row inmate who strangled a...
View ArticleBon appetit, Trump’s zombies
Photo via Fulton County Sheriff's OfficeIt’s been nearly four years since I wrote that the “Republican Party may not be dead yet, but it’s probably time to put it out of our misery.” GOP acolytes...
View ArticleDiné College, ASU collaborate on Navajo Law Program
Students at Diné College leave the Ned Hatathlie Center at the school's Tsailie, Arizona, campus. Photo courtesy Diné CollegeNavajo students interested in studying the fundamentals of Navajo Nation law...
View ArticleAn Arizona guardswoman and high school teacher was exposed as a neo-Nazi
Ashley Drago (screenshot via dragosaxophone.wixsite.com)An Army National Guardswoman and part-time band instructor for Mountain Ridge High School was outed this week for her involvement in the local...
View ArticleAn angry Trump pledges to appeal ‘this scam’ conviction as Republicans vow...
Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president in 2024, speaks during a press conference at Trump Tower on May 31, 2024 in New York City. Trump was found guilty on all...
View ArticleStates are already collecting more abortion data. And HIPAA won’t always keep...
According to the Guttmacher Institute, 15 states already require providers to gather information about a patient’s reason for seeking an abortion, with varying degrees of specificity. Many of those...
View ArticleLake lawyers await discipline for making false claims to AZ Supreme Court
Attorney for Kari Lake, Kurt Olsen argues her election challenge appeal case in front of Arizona's District Two Court of Appeals in Tucson on May 2, 2024. Screenshot courtesy of the Arizona Court of...
View ArticleHow Arizona hopes to avoid a ‘nightmare’ if November ballot stretches to a...
Maricopa County Elections Director Scott Jarrett casts a fake ballot during a mock election on May 29, 2024. The mock election was meant to uncover problems that could occur if Arizona counties adopt a...
View ArticleFauci defends his work on COVID-19, says he has an ‘open mind’ on its origins
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus...
View ArticleBudget committee confirms GOP border resolution will cost the state money
Immigrants line up at a remote U.S. Border Patrol processing center after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on Dec. 7, 2023 in Lukeville, Arizona. Photo by John Moore | Getty ImagesA new fiscal analysis...
View ArticleUSDA aims to aid small farmers by barring pay deductions from poultry companies
Chickens gather around a feeder at a farm on August 9, 2014, in Osage, Iowa. A new proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture rule would ban chicken companies from deducting farmers’ pay. Photo by Scott...
View ArticleExecutive order limiting asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border signed by Biden
In an aerial view, a Texas National Guard soldier walks past a barrier of shipping containers and razor wire at the U.S.-Mexico border on March 17, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas. Photo by John Moore |...
View ArticleWill women voters care that Donald Trump was convicted?
People celebrate after former President Donald Trump was found guilty on all counts at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024, in New York City. Trump faced 34 felony counts of falsifying business...
View ArticleArizona is home to dozens of anti-government and hate groups, new report finds
Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the “alt-right” march down East Market Street toward Emancipation Park during the “Unite the Right” rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Va....
View ArticleU.S. House GOP spotlights immigration effects on schools as Biden issues...
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Photo by Jennifer Shutt | States NewsroomWASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans on Tuesday argued that migrants coming from the southern...
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