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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at DHS headquarters in Washington on Jan. 28, 2025.  (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A federal judge in California on Monday blocked the [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The Trump administration submitted an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in an effort to resume the rapid deportations of Venezuelans accused [...]

A roadside memorial sign in Sells on Feb. 17, 2024. Photo by Becky Pallack | Arizona LuminariaA critical report created to address the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People in Arizona and across the [...]

Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has been named ambassador to Serbia. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Arizona’s former Attorney General, Republican Mark Brnovich will be the next U.S. ambassador to Serbia.  In [...]

A sign made by an attendee at a rally in support of public lands at the Arizona Capitol on March 27, 2025. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorHunters, anglers, birders and more showed up [...]

Border Patrol agents intercept immigrants near Eagle Pass, Texas, in August 2019. Photo by Jaime Rodriguez | U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionA political climate dominated by concern over border security has put Gov. Katie Hobbs [...]

Flags representing the 22 federally recognized tribes in Arizona are displayed in the rotunda of the Executive Tower. Gov. Katie Hobbs is housing the flags, which were removed from the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical [...]

Illustration by wildpixel | iStock / Getty Images PlusThe SAVE Act isn’t about Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility — it’s about making it harder for millions of American citizens to vote by imposing unnecessary and burdensome [...]

Attendees watch from the overflow room — the cafeteria of North High School in North St. Paul — the second stop in a series of “Community Impact Hearings” hosted by five blue-state attorneys general on [...]

A young woman holds up a sign calling for an end to violence against Indigenous people on May 5, 2022 at the state Capitol. Photo by Gloria Gomez | Arizona MirrorYolanda Bydonie remembers how difficult [...]

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 results. Screengrab from Cochise [...]

The Carl T. Hayden Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Phoenix. Public domain imageThe flags of Arizona’s 22 tribal nations have been removed from the Carl. T. Hayden VA Medical Center in central Phoenix and given [...]

Illustration via Getty ImagesRepublican measures aimed at bolstering cryptocurrency usage in the state by deeming it “legal tender” and creating a “strategic reserve” moved forward, despite concerns over volatility and the lawmakers connections to the [...]

Photo by Parker Michels-Boyce | Virginia Mercury/States NewsroomAmericans are facing the highest death toll from influenza since 2018, just as more people become vulnerable because of growing vaccine skepticism taking hold in statehouses and the [...]

U.S. Sens. Mark Kelly (left) and Ruben Gallego (right) speak at a Scottsdale town hall on March 17, 2025, about the prospect of GOP-backed cuts to Medicaid. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorU.S. Sens. [...]

Rep. Raúl Grijalva talks during the first-ever candidate forum hosted by Indivisible Tohono in Sells, Arizona, on the Tohono O’odham Nation on June 29, 2018. Photo Courtesy of Indivisible TohonoTribal nations and leaders throughout Arizona [...]

Family members of Emily Pike accept hugs from community members during a prayer vigil held by the Gila River Indian Community's Victim Services Department on March 13, 2025, in Sacaton. Photo by Shondiin Silversmith | [...]

A slide from the presentation Forest Service officials gave this week to staffers for Southwestern congressional staffers. An aide told Source NM that officials refused more than 10 times to say how many Forest Service [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 constitutional right during a March 11, 2025, press conference. [...]

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 him to [...]

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 [...]

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 to their states.  Arizona [...]

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 [...]