The Arizona context From Arizona Mirror In 2022 Republicans in the Arizona legislature, along with then-Gov. Doug Ducey, passed a bill requiring all interscholastic sports to narrowly define gender, effectively [...]
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs is urging Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne not move forward with a plan to automate the approval process for some of Arizona’s school voucher [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday cleared a national defense authorization bill celebrated for troop pay raises but condemned by Democrats for targeting transgender children in military families, sending [...]
More than half of public school teachers in Arizona say they may leave the profession in the next two years if working conditions don’t improve, according to a new study [...]
The Navajo Nation Council fired Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch during a special session held on Monday. The council approved legislative action to remove Branch as the Navajo Nation [...]
In a note he was carrying when he was arrested, Luigi Mangione paints himself as a man radicalized by statistics. “The US has the #1 most expensive health care system [...]
WASHINGTON — A top Republican on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that when President-elect Donald Trump takes office and the GOP takes control of the Senate, lawmakers’ first [...]
For 21-year-old Rebeca Damico, ChatGPT’s public release in 2022 during her sophomore year of college at the University of Utah felt like navigating a minefield. The public relations student, now [...]
The ability of trans kids in Arizona to be who they are at school is once again under attack, as Republican lawmakers, buoyed by November’s electoral wins, revive bills restricting [...]
On Wednesday, the day after a federal judge in Oregon and a state judge in Washington blocked a merger between two supermarket giants, Albertsons canceled the $24.6 billion merger agreement [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs will pick Arizona’s newest Supreme Court justice from five nominees — including two judges and three attorneys — recommended to her by a judicial screening panel. The [...]
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump wants to jail former and current members of Congress who investigated his incitement of the violent Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and [...]
Western states that rely on the Colorado River are in a heated deadlock over how to manage the troubled river, and are doubling down on their own regional plans, despite [...]
WASHINGTON — Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. touted multiple changes and improvements on Thursday to his agency in the wake of two assassination attempts against Donald Trump earlier [...]
The law Congress passed this year to force the Chinese parent company of social media giant TikTok to either sell the service or face a U.S. ban is constitutional, a [...]
With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is back on the chopping block. More [...]
A conservative U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready to side with Tennessee Wednesday in upholding the state’s ban on gender affirming care for minors, a case likely to set legal precedent [...]
After voters last month approved sweeping constitutional protections for abortion in Arizona, two local doctors and Planned Parenthood are suing to void the state’s 15-week gestational ban. Last month, more [...]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son from federal gun and tax crimes —and any other offenses over a nearly 11-year period — has drawn outrage from [...]
Once again, Arizona voters showed overwhelming support for local public schools in the 2024 election. School boards across the state saw many pro-public education candidates sail to victory, with 61 [...]
Though former President Donald Trump handily won the Electoral College vote, his popular vote margin was one of the slimmest in history. But even with that, almost every county in [...]
BRANDON, SOUTH DAKOTA — Incoming U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, signaled Tuesday he’s willing to push back against potential attempts by President-elect Donald Trump to expand presidential [...]
WASHINGTON — Incoming White House budget director Russ Vought has spent much of his career learning the detailed, often convoluted mechanisms that make up the Office of Management and Budget. [...]
Arizona officially certified the results of the 2024 General Election Monday morning. The election results had been already certified at the county levels last week, allowing for the recount process [...]
Lisa Urias, Gov. Katie Hobbs’ pick to head the Arizona Office of Tourism, tendered her resignation Friday. Her resignation followed a report that revealed a relative of the head of [...]
A panel that screens judicial hopefuls winnowed down the applicants to fill a vacant seat on the Arizona Supreme Court to eight semi-finalists on Friday. The new justice, who will [...]
Some venture capital investors, who have funded the tech boom in Silicon Valley and beyond, say they are excited by the prospect of a lighter regulatory environment under a new [...]
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors certified results of the general election Thursday afternoon, clearing the way for recounts to officially begin. Maricopa County Election officials and some members of [...]
Paul Begay, Anne Curley, Ella Mae Begay and Everett Charley are the names of only a handful of Navajo people missing that Navajo Nation Council Delegate Eugenia Charles-Newton shared as [...]
Donald Trump has promised voters that he would carry out a range of immigration actions, including deporting, with the help of the National Guard or military, millions of immigrants living [...]
It’s Sunday morning before the big event, and Jennifer Liewer is standing outside the elections center in downtown Phoenix, inspecting a metal tent frame that contractors are erecting in the [...]
Inflation has slowed down, and real incomes – typical wages adjusted for inflation – have bounced back to levels last seen before the COVID-19 pandemic. Democrats campaigned in 2024 on [...]
John McLean, a Democratic candidate for the state Senate who lost last week’s election, was killed in a traffic collision near Broadway and Houghton Road on Friday morning, police said. [...]
The most alarming part of the email, for Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly, was that it included the address of her office. “Hello, I’ve planted a bomb (lead azide) in [...]
I was shocked by the results of this election. Americans’ rejection of the Harris-Walz ticket broke with so many other signs pointing to a repudiation of Donald Trump and his [...]
Former Democratic state lawmaker Kirsten Engel conceded her race against incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani Wednesday afternoon. Engel was aiming to unseat Ciscomani in the hotly contested battle to [...]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes revealed Tuesday that two-thirds of Arizona’s counties — twice as many as was previously known — received bomb threats on Election Day. The FBI said [...]
Indigenous people have relied on traditional healing practices within their communities for generations and continue to do so alongside Western medicine within various tribal health care facilities across Arizona. Even [...]
Republican Eli Crane has won a second term in the U.S. House of Representatives after defeating Democratic challenger Jonathan Nez in Arizona’s Second Congressional District. “I’m grateful to every voter [...]
Arizona Republicans are in line to pick up a third new seat in the state House of Representatives — and are on the verge of adding a fourth to that [...]
The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the anti-dark-money law that voters approved in 2022, ruling Friday that it was constitutional to force disclosure of the source of political spending. This [...]
FLORENCE, Arizona — In the early morning hours after Election Day, shortly after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had claimed victory, thousands of ballots from polling places were still piled [...]
Arizona is still waiting on election results it expected to have by Wednesday morning, with some ballots cast at polling places on Election Day yet uncounted, along with hundreds of [...]
As Arizonans head to the polls across the state to cast their ballots, more than half of the votes that will determine the next president, who will control the state [...]
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake has claimed that all of the emails that might contain evidence pertinent to a defamation suit filed against her have been wiped, so she [...]
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is expecting former President Donald Trump to declare victory on election night no matter the actual results, a senior official told reporters on [...]
The winners of a north Phoenix district could determine which party takes control of the legislature next year, and a slate of newcomers from across the political spectrum are competing [...]
WASHINGTON — Before a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden late last month, former President Donald Trump bellowed that the United States is “occupied” by illegal immigrants and that he [...]
WASHINGTON — As the last weekend before Tuesday’s presidential election approaches, voters who want more insight on where the candidates stand on major policy issues can get up to speed [...]
A man accused of shooting at a local Democratic National Committee Office and putting up anti-Democratic signs with razor blades and bags of white powder attached to them has been [...]
