Immigrant rights group seeks to nullify ‘Secure Border Act’ over missing funding
LUCHA Executive Director Alejandra Gomez speaks on April 2, 2025, about the lawsuit her organization filed challenging the constitutionality of the Secure Border Act, which voters overwhelmingly passed...
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U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a chart while speaking during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleThe cruelty of isolation: There’s nothing ‘humane’ about how we treat the...
Photo by Peter Dazeley | Getty ImagesOn March 19, I served as a witness to the execution of a man named Aaron Gunches, Arizona’s first since 2022. During his time on death row, he begged for death and...
View ArticleVexed by judicial restraints on Trump, U.S. Senate GOP floats bill to...
Opponents of President Donald Trump’s executive order indefinitely halting refugee resettlement in the U.S. rally on the steps of the federal courthouse in Seattle on Feb. 25, 2025, after a judge...
View ArticleEight international students at ASU have had their visas revoked
Emily Sotelo leads Arizona State University students in a march to express support for their undocumented classmates in Tempe, Ariz. on Jan. 31, 2025. Sotelo is the co-chair of Aliento at ASU, an...
View ArticlePentagon watchdog will probe ‘Signalgate,’ in response to senators
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty...
View ArticleEconomists blast calculations for ‘bombshell’ Trump tariffs as faulty while...
New Nissan cars are driven onto a rail car to be transported from an automobile processing terminal located at the Port of Los Angeles on April 3, 2025 in Wilmington, California. The Japanese...
View ArticleArizona schools warned to end DEI programs or lose federal funding
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C., pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)This story was updated at 6:44 p.m. EDT. WASHINGTON...
View ArticleJudge to temporarily block Trump administration from yanking $11B in health...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. departs after testifying in a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions at the Dirksen Senate...
View ArticleAZ joins Democratic AGs in suing Trump over ‘illegal’ elections executive order
President Donald Trump speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 22, 2025. Photo...
View ArticleAZ Supreme Court: ‘Unborn human being’ in abortion ballot description wasn’t...
Photo by Jim Small | Arizona MirrorNearly eight months after the Arizona Supreme Court allowed “unborn human being” to be included in a description of the state’s abortion rights initiative, the court...
View ArticleEx-lawmaker’s conviction for child sex crime upheld on appeal
Tony Navarrete, bottom right, makes his initial appearance in court on Aug. 6, 2021, for multiple felony child sex crimes. Maricopa County Superior Court Commissioner Steve McCarthy, left, presided...
View ArticleAs parents plead for disability funding, Republicans blame the governor
Brandi Coon, an advocate for the Parents as Paid Caregivers Program, speaks at a rally at the state Capitol on April 3, 2025. Photo by Caitlin Sievers | Arizona MirrorAs families anxious that they’ll...
View ArticleSenate Republicans advance budget resolution, set stage for major spending...
The U.S. Capitol, wrapped in fog, on Dec. 18, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday advanced a budget resolution that, once approved by both...
View ArticleContempt finding possible for Trump officials behind deportation flights,...
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing on Jan. 15, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Judge James E....
View ArticleElection certification refusals could gain legal protection under GOP proposal
Rep. Rachel Keshel, R-Tucson, in March 2023 at a press conference at the Arizona Capitol. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Even after winning the presidential election and increasing their...
View ArticleGOP budget would add an ‘unprecedented’ $5.8 trillion to the deficit,...
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Thursday, March 14, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released...
View ArticleThe Trump administration has until April 7 to return a man deported...
Protestors outside the U.S. District Court of Maryland in Greenbelt rally in support of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who was deported to El Salvador in an "administrative error,”...
View Article‘Fill in that gap’: Arizona hopes to have Missing Endangered Persons alert...
Miss Indigenous stands near community activists holding a poster with the names of Native American people lost to violence. The position is an Arizona State University student-led effort to bring...
View Article‘Hands Off’ protests to target Trump and Musk with 1,000 protests, including...
A sign objecting to Elon Musk's work to dismantle the federal government at the 50501 protest at the Arizona Capitol on Feb. 17, 2025. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorHundreds of...
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