Millions of people, including 600K in AZ, could lose Medicaid coverage under...
Medicaid sign at U.S. Senate Democrats’ press conference on Feb. 19, 2025. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — A report released Thursday by Democrats details how many people in...
View ArticleTrump: ‘Good people’ shouldn’t lose federal jobs, but Musk is doing an...
Billionaire Elon Musk, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, arrives for a meeting with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol on March 5, 2025. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)WASHINGTON —...
View ArticleSenate Republicans push voting changes that could limit voting centers
Photo by Jim Small | Arizona MirrorArizona’s Republican legislators are taking another crack at voting law changes, after the Democratic governor vetoed their recent attempt to make the state’s...
View ArticleTrump, again, walks back tariffs in trade war with Canada and Mexico
President Donald Trump, accompanied by White House staff secretary Will Scharf, delivers remarks before signing an executive order on expanding access to IVF at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Feb. 18, 2025...
View Article‘Donald J. Trump Highway’ proposal fails in Arizona Senate by a single vote
Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears ahead of the start of jury selection at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 15, 2024, in New York City. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business...
View ArticleElectric vehicle industry will persist, experts say, despite Trump funding cuts
Long planning times and increasing competition internationally mean U.S. carmakers will continue to develop electric cars, despite funding cuts from the Trump administration, experts say. (Photo by...
View Article‘Say her name’: Hundreds gather to honor Native teen Emily Pike, demanding...
A sign that read “Justice for Emily Pike. No More MMIW” was held up during a candlelight vigil outside the Encounter AZ church in Mesa on March 6, 2025, to honor and support San Carlos Apache teen...
View ArticleAs Republicans prepare to cut Medicaid, two-thirds of GOP voters want no cuts...
A poll by the non-partisan health research organization KFF released March 7, 2025, found 82% of those surveyed said Congress should keep spending on Medicaid about the same or increase it. (Photo by...
View ArticleArizona court: Saying ‘no snitching’ is felony witness intimidation
Photo by Andrew Brookes | Getty ImagesSnitches may get stitches, but telling that to an accomplice or witness to a crime is a felony in Arizona, an appellate court ruled. Doing so is intimidation and...
View ArticleAGs sue over ‘reckless and illegal’ mass firings of probationary federal workers
Photo via Getty ImagesA group of 20 attorneys general are suing the Trump administration over mass layoffs of probationary federal employees, which they claim is illegal and is causing irreparable harm...
View ArticleArizona’s public health feels the weight of federal orders
Protesters gather at the Arizona Capitol on March 4, 2025, in opposition of recent executive orders targeted at the LGBTQ+ community, among other actions related to immigration and U.S. involvement in...
View ArticleThe ‘transgender mice’ lie: How Trump’s war on science is harming real people
Photo by Adam Gault | Getty ImagesThe latest manufactured outrage from the far right? “Transgender mice.” It’s the perfect viral talking point — designed to sound absurd, evoke outrage and make people...
View ArticleAll the ways Donald Trump wants to exclude transgender people from public life
Illustration by Emily Scherer | The 19th Federal agencies are carrying out executive orders from President Donald Trump that all share a common goal: removing transgender and nonbinary people from...
View ArticleTrump administration arrests pro-Palestine protest organizer in ‘first of many’
A demonstrator at an encampment at Columbia University in New York City waves the Palestinian flag on April 29, 2024. U.S. immigration authorities arrested an organizer of the protests in support of...
View ArticleRepublicans control Congress, but need Democrats to help avert a shutdown...
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes a question from a reporter during a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 25, 2025 in...
View ArticlePentagon nominee and Arizona GOP lawmakers spoke at an alien conspiracy...
Mel Carmine, the organizer of the Quantum Summit 2 conspiracy theory conference, in the event's opening video showing the alleged logo of a cryptocurrency in the clouds that he claims God is telling...
View ArticleHouse rejects proposal that would bolster ‘free speech’ protections for...
State Rep. Alexander Kolodin, R-Scottsdale. Photo by Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0A Republican lawmaker wants to fortify what he called “free speech” protections for people who harass...
View ArticleASU receives warning letter from Education Department amid Gaza protest...
A woman holds up a Palestinian flag during a Students for Justice in Palestine rally on Oct. 12, 2023, on the campus of Arizona State University. People were at the rally "to make sure that the...
View ArticleI’ve been fighting for trans rights since high school. It’s only getting harder.
Hundreds of people gathered at Washington Square Park in New Orleans on March 31, 2023, for a march to mark Transgender Day of Visibility. Photo by Greg LaRose | Louisiana IlluminatorThese past few...
View ArticleTrump withdraws threat of double tariffs on Canadian metals in dispute over...
Transmission towers that carry high-voltage electricity are shown on March 8, 2025, in East China Township, Michigan. Ontario, Canada Premier Doug Ford put a 25 percent tariff on electricity that the...
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