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 [...]
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, joined by GOP Reps. Lisa McClain of Michigan and Troy Downing of Montana, speaks at a news conference following a meeting of the House Republican [...]
President Donald Trump addresses the 2025 Republican Issues Conference at the Trump National Doral Miami on Jan. 27, 2025 in Doral, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald [...]
A doctor holding T-shaped intrauterine birth control device. (Getty Photos) WASHINGTON — The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal [...]
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 action last week. [...]
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 Democratic U.S. [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs signs a bill to provide $122 million in emergency funding for the Division of Developmental Disabilities, avoiding an end to services for some 60,000 disabled Arizonans. Photo [...]
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 by [...]
U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari speaks to reporters on April 22, 2025, at Sky Harbor International Airport following her return from El Salvador, where she and other Democrats tried to visit [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)The U.S. Supreme Court early Saturday temporarily blocked a new round of deportations under the wartime Alien Enemies Act until the [...]
Technology is making it easier to pull off financial crimes, and the U.S. is lacking a central agency to track them, experts say. (Getty Images)It started with a seemingly routine [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs said on April 17, 2025, that she won't sign any bills that aren't already on her desk unless Republicans negotiate an end to the funding crisis that [...]
Photo by Bayne Froney | Cronkite NewsWith a single signature, Gov. Katie Hobbs could give law enforcement technology company Axon a carve-out in state law that would let it avoid [...]
Former President Biden speaks about Social Security at a disability conference in Chicago on April 15, 2025. The remarks were his first in public since leaving office in January. (Image [...]
OMB Director Russ Vought testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Jan. 15, 2025. (Screenshot from committee webcast)WASHINGTON — A nonprofit organization filed suit against the [...]
Minister of Justice and Public Security Héctor Villatoro, right, accompanies Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, center, during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center, or CECOT on March [...]
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 [...]
A section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall near El Paso, Texas, on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump late Friday signed a memorandum directing [...]
Photo by Jim Small | Arizona MirrorFollowing the lead of the Trump administration, Republicans in the Arizona Legislature want to ban state government from using diversity, equity and inclusion in [...]
The U.S. Capitol, as seen on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson postponed a vote on the budget resolution that was supposed [...]
A group of coal miners watch as President Donald Trump speaks at the White House shortly before signing executive orders on the coal industry on April 8, 2025. (White House [...]
President Donald Trump is displayed on a television screen as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 7, 2025, in New York City. [...]
A sign held by a protester at the Arizona Capitol on April 5, 2025. The protest was one of more than 1,300 across the nation aimed at galvanizing people against [...]
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 [...]
A man holds the Ukrainian and U.S. flags at a ceremony at the Holodomor Genocide Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 4, 2025, as the three-year anniversary of the Russian [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Sen. Cory Booker's 25-hour-plus speech broke a record previously held by a South Carolina senator who tried to prevent passage of the Civil Rights Act. Photo by John Partipilo | [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]