After losing two elections in AZ, Kari Lake tapped to lead Voice of America
Kari Lake in November 2023. Photo by Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday night that he had picked Kari Lake, a former newscaster who lost two...
View ArticleDeath penalty foes want Hobbs to publish the independent report she spiked
Arizona has carried out most executions with lethal injection since 1992, but with a litany of changing protocols and problems, which ultimately halted executions in the state for eight years. Photo...
View Article4 ways Arizona can get faster election results
An employee at Runbeck Election Services monitors early ballots being printed at the company's facility in Phoenix. Photo by Jerod MacDonad-Evoy | Arizona MirrorFour days after the election, with...
View ArticleWildland firefighter pay raises could vanish without action by Congress...
Federal wildland firefighters earn as little as $15 per hour, with entry level positions earning just less than $27,000 per year, according to Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, an advocacy group....
View ArticleAfter Republican electoral victories, GOP anti-trans student bills are back
Photo by Commonwealth Media ServicesThe ability of trans kids in Arizona to be who they are at school is once again under attack, as Republican lawmakers, buoyed by November’s electoral wins, revive...
View ArticleA man radicalized by statistics
Suspected shooter Luigi Mangione is led from the Blair County Courthouse after an extradition hearing December 10, 2024 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Photo by Jeff Swensen | Getty ImagesIn a note he...
View ArticleU.S. Senate GOP wants mass deportations to ‘start early’ next year, Graham says
Immigrant farm workers harvest broccoli on March 16, 2006, near the border town of San Luis, south of Yuma, Arizona. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A top Republican on the U.S. Senate...
View ArticleCollege students ‘cautiously curious’ about AI, despite mixed messages from...
University of Utah student Rebeca Damico said her professors at first took a hard line against AI when ChatGPT was introduced in 2022, but she and other students say schools have softened their stands...
View ArticleDespite Trump’s claim, deportations likely wouldn’t ease housing crisis, most...
A person works on a rooftop during new home construction at a housing development on June 9, 2023, in Queen Creek. Photo by Mario Tama | Getty ImagesThe mass deportations of immigrants that...
View ArticleWho are the Arizona voters without proof of citizenship? They may surprise you.
Voters wait in line on Nov. 5, 2024, at a polling location in Chandler. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorAs lawmakers across the country consider requiring documented proof of U.S....
View ArticleInvestigation finds Navajo Prez Nygren didn’t sexually harass his VP
Navajo Nation President Buu Nygran and Vice President Richelle Montoya in 2022 during their campaign to lead the Navajo Nation. Handout photoAfter an eight-month investigation, sexual harassment claims...
View ArticleWant to fix food deserts and lower food prices? Enforce antitrust law,...
The grocery aisle at a Walmart. Photo by Marty Schladen | Ohio Capital JournalFor now, anyway, grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons aren’t going to merge into a single grocery megagiant to confront...
View ArticleNavajo Nation Council removes AG Ethel Branch from her post
Navajo Attorney General Ethel Branch Ethel Branch. Photo by Pauly Denetclaw | ICTThe Navajo Nation Council fired Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch during a special session held on Monday....
View ArticleTrump backs polio vaccine but won’t commit to others, attacks media
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on Dec. 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President-elect...
View ArticleTribes help boost Lake Mead water supply, hope for lame duck passage of $5B...
Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Manuel Heart, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, and Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis of the Gila River Indian Community during a “Soverign-to-Soverign Nation” panel at the Colorado...
View ArticleAZ Supreme Court rules illegally obtained DNA evidence would have been...
Photo via Getty ImagesThe Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that, even though police violated a murder suspect’s constitutional rights by analyzing his stored blood sample without a warrant, the DNA...
View ArticleNavajo VP Richelle Montoya wants full report on sexual harassment...
Navajo Nation Vice President Richelle Montoya. Photo Courtesy of April HaleAfter the announcement that the preliminary investigation of the sexual harassment allegations she voiced against her boss...
View ArticleHalf of AZ teachers are thinking about changing careers because of low pay, a...
Photo via Getty ImagesMore than half of public school teachers in Arizona say they may leave the profession in the next two years if working conditions don’t improve, according to a new study examining...
View ArticleImmigrants and allies at U.S. Capitol urge Biden to act before Trump...
Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, left, speaks at a press conference hosted by immigrant youth, allies and advocates outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024....
View ArticleWhat it looks like to prepare for a second Trump term
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a House Republican Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on Nov. 13, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Allison Robbert-Pool | Getty Images...
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