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Arizona GOP lawmakers advance firing squad execution proposal
Photo via iStock / Getty Images PlusA Republican proposal that would amend the Arizona Constitution to execute prisoners by firing squad instead of lethal injection passed its first hurdle Tuesday. If...
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Thousands of Arizona children now waitlisted for state child care assistance
An empty classroom at Quality Interactive Montessori in Anthem, Arizona is shown on June 24, 2024. Photo by Izabella Mullady for AZCIRMore than 2,000 Arizona children have been waitlisted for state...
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Legal battles escalate over Trump executive order on birthright citizenship
Four nationwide injunctions have been issued in connection with President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship. (Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Wednesday...
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Small-town mayors set to speak at forum hosted by disgraced former GOP lawmaker
A website advertising a forum of northern Arizona mayors. The forum is being hosted by two companies owned by disgraced former legislator David Stringer, who resigned after child sex charges he faced...
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U.S. Senate Dems issue warning on ‘massive cuts’ to Medicaid predicted in GOP...
From left, Democratic U.S. Sens. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Patty Murray of Washington state, Peter Welch of Vermont and Raphael...
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Trump administration halts legal aid for migrant children
Migrants wait in line near El Paso, Texas to board a transport bus on May 10, 2023. Photo by Corrie Boudreaux for Source New MexicoOver the past four months, 4,073 unaccompanied migrant children have...
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Protesters in D.C. rally against Trump firings of federal scientists, health...
Connor Phillips, 25, told a crowd at a rally for federal workers that he's losing his unpaid research training position at the National Institutes of Health, where he studies therapies for children...
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Arizona House approves ban on birth certificate gender changes for trans...
Photo via Getty Images/Illustration by Jim Small | Arizona MirrorRepublican lawmakers in the Arizona House of Representatives have passed another anti-transgender bill that would bar trans people born...
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States warn CFPB shutdown threatens financial consumer safeguards
Photo via Consumer Financial Protection Bureau /FlickrNearly two dozen states and the District of Columbia are asking a federal judge to issue an injunction blocking the Trump administration from...
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U.S. Senate confirms Kash Patel as FBI director, with two Republicans dissenting
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate...
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Data centers in rural Arizona could build nuclear reactors under GOP proposal
Photo via Getty ImagesA Republican measure that would waive certain state regulations to allow large industrial energy users like data centers build small nuclear reactors in rural Arizona cleared its...
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Arizona Republicans want to pay police bounties for immigrant deportations
GOP Sen. Jake Hoffman speaks on the Senate floor on May 1, 2024. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorArizona police departments would be incentivized to target people they believe are...
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Federal judge maintains temporary block on Trump freeze of grants and loans
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A federal judge will decide in...
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Bill requiring public bathrooms for the homeless dies in the Arizona Senate
A homeless encampment built inside of a west Phoenix alley seen in the early morning of Jan. 28, 2020. The people staying in the alley declined to answer Point-In-Time survey questions. Photo by...
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Election officials blast Trump’s ‘retreat’ from protecting voting against...
A Philadelphia poll worker demonstrates security steps for handling ballots before November’s presidential election. States have relied on federal partners to boost election security. Photo by Matthew...
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Bill giving Arizona police drone-shooting immunity moves forward
Photo by Abadonian | iStock/Getty Images PlusA proposal that would give local law enforcement immunity when shooting down drones near the southern border passed out of committee Thursday despite...
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Helpline callers confused if abortion is legal and want to know how to get...
Nonprofit abortion-access websites and helplines are working to connect pregnant people with resources and to answer questions about the state of access to abortion care in the country under the Trump...
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Federal judge extends order blocking Trump’s ‘devastating’ NIH cap on...
Two National Institutes of Health researchers in the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center lab looking at a 3D model rendering. (Photo by National Institutes of Health)WASHINGTON — A federal...
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UA quietly drops diversity language from Indigenous land statement amid DEI...
Photo by University of ArizonaAs guidelines aimed at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are being implented at educational institutions nationwide in response to policies enacted...
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Trump administration backtracks on defunding legal help for migrant children
Migrants wait in line near El Paso, Texas to board a transport bus on May 10, 2023. Photo by Corrie Boudreaux for Source New MexicoThe Trump administration’s decision to rip federal funding away from...
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