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GOP lawmakers remove expertise requirements for their own board appointments
Photo by Jim Small | Arizona MirrorThe same legislative Republicans who have accused Arizona’s governor of appointing unqualified people to head state agencies just nixed qualification requirements for...
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Judge blocks Trump order against three federal agencies
President Donald Trump signed an executive order March 14, 2025, imposing dramatic cuts on seven federal agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Photo by Catherine McQueen |...
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Federal appeals court temporarily allows Trump to freeze multibillion-dollar...
Solar panels in Damariscotta, Maine. (Photo by Evan Houk/ Maine Morning Star)WASHINGTON — The legal battle over a Biden-era climate program ramped up late Wednesday when an appeals court halted a...
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Trump 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...
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Trump’s first 100 days test constitutional limits and economic stability, as...
Demonstrators holds signs as a motorist passes with flags supporting President Donald Trump during an April 5, 2025, protest in Columbia, South Carolina. Protestors organized nationwide demonstrations...
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Trump Customs and Border Protection nominee probed on 2010 death in custody
Rodney Scott, President Donald Trump's nominee to be commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, prepares to testify during his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on...
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U.S. Supreme Court appears open to allowing religious charter schools in...
Gov. Kevin Stitt speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court building Wednesday after the Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over the constitutionality of a religious charter school seeking to open in...
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Trump-appointed judge permanently halts administration’s use of Alien Enemies...
Prisoners sit at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, on April 4, 2025, in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador. The Trump administration deported 238 alleged members of Venezuelan...
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Trump’s budget would ax dozens of programs to cut $163B while spending $1T on...
From left to right, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attend a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C....
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States’ nuclear energy growth needs federal action to follow Trump’s vocal...
The shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, pictured on Oct. 10, 2024. The plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, plans to spend $1.6 billion to refurbish the...
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GOP proposals to cut Medicaid could leave millions without health insurance,...
U.S. House Republicans are debating cutbacks to Medicaid, the health care program for lower-income Americans and some people with disabilities. (Photo by Thomas Barwick/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The...
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Arizona Legislature unanimously approves Turquoise Alert System for missing...
Community members wait in line at the water tank in Peridot, Arizona, so that they can place a red hand print of the mural honoring Emily Pike and everyone impacted by the Missing and Murdered...
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Federal judge: Deportations to Libya, Saudi Arabia would ‘clearly violate’...
Deported migrants queue to receive an essential items bag during the arrival of a group of deported Salvadorans at Gerencia de Atención al Migrante on Feb. 12, 2025 in San Salvador, El Salvador....
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In taking up ‘dark money’ disclosure law, AZ Supreme Court could reshape free...
Photo by iStock / Getty Images PlusThe Arizona Supreme Court will decide whether a measure that voters overwhelmingly approved to require disclosure of most anonymous campaign spending is...
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Anti-trans bills and executive orders are reshaping campus life in Arizona
Pride flags wave on the building of a Community Church of Hope on 7th Avenue in Phoenix’s Melrose District on March 3, 2025. The Melrose District is a very popular area for members of the LGBTQ+...
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House Republicans pass bill to rename Gulf of Mexico the ‘Gulf of America’...
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks about her bill renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. (Screenshot via U.S....
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Trump 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...
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Trump Customs and Border Protection nominee probed on 2010 death in custody
Rodney Scott, President Donald Trump's nominee to be commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, prepares to testify during his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on...
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U.S. Supreme Court appears open to allowing religious charter schools in...
Gov. Kevin Stitt speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court building Wednesday after the Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over the constitutionality of a religious charter school seeking to open in...
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Trump’s budget would ax dozens of programs to cut $163B while spending $1T on...
From left to right, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attend a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C....
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