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Gallego and Kelly demand answers over planned closure of Phoenix BIA office
U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego and U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly. Photos by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Concerns are growing about President Donald Trump’s planned closure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in...
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The Trump administration has dumped a program to support states on election...
Photo via Getty ImagesThe federal government has halted election security activities and ended funding for the system that alerts state officials of election security threats across state lines, a...
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New mass firings and buyouts slash Dept of Education workforce nearly in half
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought (center), Education Secretary Linda McMahon (right) and White House adviser Elon Musk (back row, left) appear during a Cabinet...
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Bill to fast-track small nuclear reactors for data centers advances in Senate
Photo via Getty ImagesA Republican measure that would waive certain state regulations to allow data centers and other large industrial energy users to build small nuclear reactors in rural Arizona...
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Anti-abortion laws remain on books despite Arizona’s constitutional amendment
Erika Mach, the chief of external affairs for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, criticized Republican efforts to continue restricting abortion despite voters making the procedure a...
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U.S. House GOP pushes through bill averting shutdown on Friday; Senate is next
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, speaks alongside Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., left, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., right, during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on...
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U.S. House Republicans urge local coordination with ICE for immigration...
Migrants from Mexico and Guatemala are apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers after crossing a section of border wall into the U.S. on Jan. 4, 2025, in Ruby, Arizona. (Photo by Brandon...
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‘Jesus is better than a psychologist’: Arizona Republicans want chaplains to...
Image via Getty ImagesRepublican politicians who accuse public school teachers of indoctrinating students with a “woke agenda” are pushing to bring religious chaplains into the same schools to provide...
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Trump admin cancels $21 million in funding for schools and food banks to buy...
Photo by SDI Productions | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling roughly $1 billion in already-promised spending on local food purchases for schools and food banks nationwide,...
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Arizona delegation pushes largest tribal water rights settlement in US history
The Colorado River as it flows around Horseshoe Bend on June 23, 2021, in Page. Severe drought is causing concern and heartache among those who rely on water from the Colorado River Basin. Photo by...
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Shutdown looms as ‘unified’ U.S. Senate Dems oppose GOP’s stopgap spending bill
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a press conference following a policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on March 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty...
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U.S.-made beer, bourbon, motorcycles and more on tariff list in Trump trade...
Wooden bourbon barrels are shown stacked up and aging in a rickhouse in Kentucky. U.S.-made bourbon would be slated by the EU for retaliatory tariffs in response to President Donald Trump’s taxes on...
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Trump administration to roll back many EPA regulations, revisit contested...
Shown is an electric car charging station. The EPA under the Trump administration plans to change emissions standards for cars and trucks that some Republicans have said equate to an electric vehicle...
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Republican plan to exempt developers from water restrictions fails in Arizona...
Photo via Getty ImagesA Republicans plan to give a break to housing developers who they say were treated unfairly by updated groundwater supply modeling is dead in the lack of water. The plan to...
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Trump’s massive Education Department layoffs spark concerns about services to...
Protesters rally outside the headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on Feb. 5, 2025. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Education Department’s move Tuesday to cut...
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The human cost of Arizona’s proposed Medicaid restrictions
Image via iStock / Getty Images PlusSeeing patients at the free clinic is not just a welcome reminder that I can start piecing different information together as a medical student. It is also a reminder...
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Judge orders rehiring of thousands of fired probationary federal employees
Demonstrators outside the U.S. Senate buildings on Capitol Hill protest billionaire Elon Musk's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development on Feb. 5, 2025. (Photo by Ashley...
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Arizona joins 20 states suing Trump administration over Education Department...
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks to reporters in Phoenix on March 13, 2025, about a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's firing of half the employees at the U.S. Department of...
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Trump wants Supreme Court to let him mostly carry out birthright citizenship...
The Trump administration Thursday called on the U.S. Supreme Court to take action on three cases from lower courts dealing with the president's executive order ending the constitutional right to...
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Rep. Raúl Grijalva, environmental protection champion, dies at 77
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva in 2019 at a town hall with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Tempe. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0U.S. Congressman Raúl Grijalva has died at the age of 77, his office...
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