Ethics panel concludes 2 Dems broke AZ House rules by yelling at Republicans...
As Rep. Matt Gress, R-Phoenix, speaks to reporters, on the floor of the House of Representatives on April 10, 2024, Democratic lawmakers look on and chastise him. Among them were Rep. Analise Ortiz...
View ArticleArizona voters will decide the fate of the Texas-style ‘Secure Border Act’ in...
Protesters march at the Arizona Capitol on June 4, 2024, in opposition to HCR2060, which would make entering Arizona anywhere but a port of entry a state crime. GOP lawmakers approved the proposal, and...
View ArticlePicking parts of an 1873 anti-obscenity law to further the anti-abortion agenda
Rev. Pat Mahoney, Peggy Nienaber of Faith and Liberty and Mark Lee Dickson of Right to Life East Texas pray in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 21, 2023. Organized by The Stanton Public Policy...
View ArticleIn mega-hot Arizona, climate is not on the ballot. But it might as well be.
Photo by Getty ImagesWhen it comes to climate and the 2024 elections, Arizona just might represent the perfect storm of dramatic consequences: It’s one of the states most severely impacted by climate...
View ArticleTeachers: Private school vouchers are ‘out-of-control’ and need to be curtailed
Teachers rally at the Arizona Capitol on June 5, 2024, to advocate for restrictions on the state's school voucher system, known as Empowerment Scholarship Accounts. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy |...
View ArticleHobbs illegally bypassed the Senate when appointing agency directors, judge...
Elizabeth Alvarado-Thorson, Gov. Katie Hobbs' nominee for director of the Arizona Department of Administration, testifies in front of the Senate Nominations Committee on Feb. 20, 2023....
View ArticleLatino advocacy group challenges GOP’s border ballot proposal in court
Democratic attorney Jim Barton speaks, during a June 5 news conference in Phoenix, about Living United for Change's lawsuit challenging a GOP ballot proposal that would give Arizona law enforcement...
View Article100 years after citizenship, Indigenous peoples continue to fight to vote
Elsie Werito, 84, a member of the To'hajiilee Chapter of the Navajo Nation, waits in line to cast her ballot on Nov. 2, 2004. Werito said she has been voting all her life and has never missed an...
View ArticleU.S. Senate GOP prevents contraception access bill from moving ahead
Virginia Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine speaks during a press conference on access to contraception on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Washington D.C. Also pictured from left Virginia state Del. Marcia...
View ArticleOn 80th anniversary of D-Day invasion, Biden and Macron honor WWII veterans...
U.S. President Joe Biden greets U.S. World War II veteran Victor Chaney after French President Emmanuel Macron awarded 11 veterans the Légion d’Honneur at the Normandy American Cemetery during a...
View ArticleThe unconstitutional, anti-immigrant ballot referral is worse than you think
A family gets out of a Customs and Border Protection van at the Casa Alitas shelter in Tucson, where they will wait to travel ot other parts of the country. (Photo by Lillie Boudreaux?Cronkite...
View ArticleIt costs Arizona $332M to pay for vouchers subsidizing private school...
A sign held by a teacher at a rally at the Arizona Capitol on June 5, 2024, to advocate for restrictions on the state's school voucher system, known as Empowerment Scholarship Accounts. Photo by Jerod...
View ArticleIn first rally since being convicted, Donald Trump rails against immigration...
Former President Donald Trump speaks at Dream City Church in Phoenix on June 6, 2024, in his first campaign event since being convicted in New York of 34 felony counts related to paying hush money to a...
View ArticleSCOTUS rules for AZ tribe in dispute with federal government over insurance...
Photo by Win McNamee | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the federal government must pay millions in administrative and overhead costs for federal health care programs...
View ArticleWhat a WWI cemetery in France means to every Arizonan
"These are some of our Marines buried here," said U.S. Marine Sergeant Major Darrell Carver of the 6th Marine Regiment as he walks among the graves of U.S. soldiers, most of them killed in the World...
View ArticleMayes investigating Hobbs after GOP accuses gov of ‘pay to play’
Photos by Caitlin Sievers & Gloria Rebecca Gomez | Arizona MirrorArizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has opened up an investigation into Gov. Katie Hobbs at the request of a Republican lawmaker...
View ArticleApache County Attorney Michael B. Whiting is being investigated for public...
Attorney General Kris Mayes is investigating Apache County Attorney Michael B. Whiting for misuse of public money and threatening a political opponent. After serving a search warrant at his office and...
View ArticleFederal program to compensate downwinders expires after Republicans block it
A fireball rises into the sky over Nevada after the U.S. government detonated a 61-kiloton device on June 4, 1953. Nuclear weapons experiments at the Nevada Test Site spread fallout to other states,...
View ArticleLake attorney suspended from practicing law for 60 days for lying to the...
Scottsdale attorney Bryan Blehm (right) represents Kari Lake (left) in her lawsuit aiming to overturn her loss in the 2022 election. Screenshot via AZ Courts.Bryan Blehm, a Scottsdale divorce attorney...
View ArticleOn the U.S.-Mexico border, hopes and fears after Biden’s order limiting asylum
Razor wire along the Rio Grande on the Texas side of the U.S.-Mexico border. Photo by Ariana Figueroa | States NewsroomEL PASO, Texas — Seventeen-year-old Karina Parababire gently rocked her...
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