AI education push from Trump administration draws cautious optimism from tech...
Education tech advocates welcomed the Trump administration’s move to incorporate AI into schools, but they say more detail – and money – is needed to guarantee success. (Photo by PeopleImages/Getty...
View ArticleHobbs vetoes GOP bills that would force cooperation with ICE
Image via Getty ImagesGov. Katie Hobbs once again thwarted Republican efforts to facilitate mass deportations in Arizona, vetoing legislation that would have made it easier for federal immigration...
View ArticleLawmakers fear AI data centers will drive up residents’ power bills
Construction proceeds at a data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, in 2021. Across the country, some state lawmakers are concerned that the growing data center industry is creating a surge in demand for...
View ArticleEx-prosecutor’s phony gang charges against protesters were ‘egregious,’ high...
April Sponsel looks on during her disciplinary hearing on Oct. 23, 2023. Photo by Kevinjonah Paguio | Cronkite NewsFormer Maricopa County prosecutor April Sponsel deserved to have her law license...
View ArticleJudge: ‘Nothing has been done’ by Trump officials to return wrongly deported...
A crowd gathered outside U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 10, 2025, to protest the government's erroneous deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran...
View ArticleSenator blocked from meeting wrongly deported man in notorious CECOT prison...
Protesters outside the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Greenbelt rally on April 4, 2025, in support of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who was deported to El...
View ArticleCiscomani urges GOP leaders to protect Medicaid despite voting for budget...
U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani in April 2023. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0An Arizona Republican congressman who voted for a budget resolution that all but mandates cuts to Medicaid said in a...
View ArticleMilitia founder wrongly identified as ICE agent in viral window-smashing video
Left: Michael “Lewis Arthur” Meyer in an April 15 livestream from the Oklahoma Capitol building. Right: An ICE agent in New Bedford, Mass., uses an axe to smash a car window during an apprehension of a...
View ArticleHobbs sides with Axon over Scottsdale voters, signs bill to cancel election...
Axon brought a mobile tactical simulator to the Arizona Capitol on March 4, 2025, as part of its effort to back legislation that would stop a ballot referendum in Scottsdale brought by residents...
View ArticleHobbs vetoes Republican bill that would have brought ICE agents into Arizona...
An opponent of the Arizona ICE Act displays a poster referencing the message welcoming refugees inscribed on the Statue of Liberty at the Arizona Capitol on Feb. 10, 2025. Republican lawmakers have...
View ArticleGOP threatens 2026 ballot measure after Hobbs vetoes Arizona ICE Act
Senate President Warren Petersen speaks at an April 21, 2025, press conference at the Arizona Capitol. Petersen and other Republicans said Gov. Katie Hobbs was wrong to veto their "Arizona ICE Act"...
View ArticleGOP’s 1,000-voter precinct plan would cost Arizona counties $53 million
Photo via Getty ImagesA Republican proposal to force voters to cast their ballots at neighborhood voting sites would cost Arizona counties more than $50 million the first year and more than $20 million...
View ArticleTrump signs education orders, including overhaul of college accreditations
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office on April 23, 2025. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer and...
View ArticleFBI arrests Wisconsin judge for ‘obstructing’ when ICE showed up to arrest an...
The Milwaukee County Courthouse. Photo by Isiah Holmes | Wisconsin ExaminerFBI agents arrested Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday, accusing her of obstructing an immigration enforcement...
View ArticleArrest of Wisconsin judge ‘escalation’ in Trump-judiciary conflict, Democrats...
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 — A handful of...
View ArticleResearchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy...
In the village of Noatak in Alaska’s Northwest Arctic region, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data showed the community had lower breastfeeding initiation and six-week breastfeeding...
View Article‘I wanted to kill them all’: Inmate admits to targeting child sex offenders...
Photo via Getty ImagesRicky Wassenaar killed three men at an Arizona State Prison near Tucson on April 4. Two were serving life sentences for sexual conduct with a minor. The third had raped and killed...
View ArticleAre local officials duty-bound to certify elections? Arizona ruling creates...
Cochise County supervisors meet in Bisbee. The supervisors have decided not to defend the county's 2023 jail tax election, and are pursuing a settlement that may include throwing out the election...
View ArticleTrump is working to restrict trans rights. That’s not what Americans want.
People participate in the Trans Day Of Visibility rally on the National Mall on March 31, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Photo by Kayla Bartkowski | Getty Images) via The 19th President Donald Trump has...
View ArticleArizona GOP passes ‘impossible’ voting bill requiring 4,000 new polling...
Voters wait in a long line outside of the vote center at the Tolleson Civic Center on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Caitlin Sievers | Arizona Mirror Republican lawmakers passed legislation that would cost...
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