A residential duplex set for construction in Chicago. The 21st Century Road to Housing Act is being hailed for allowing municipalities to do more, such as construct affordable housing, with [...]
Investigators work near the Houston location of a fatal ICE shooting July 7. Statistics released July 20 show a record number of immigration arrests in June and an even higher [...]
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer watches a crowd of protesters at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, 2026. (Photo by Ben Ackman/New Jersey Monitor) WASHINGTON [...]
(Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)The Arizona primary election is today, and the winners will advance to the November ballot, where Democrats hope that a historically unpopular Donald Trump will allow [...]
A masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent knocks on a car window in Minnesota on Jan. 12, 2026. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer) WASHINGTON — In the wake of [...]
Protesters opposing legislation that would require local police departments to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry signs in front of the Arizona Senate building on Feb. 17, 2025. Photo by [...]
(Photo via iStock / Getty Images Plus)A federal judge on Friday appointed Ohio’s former prisons chief to run Arizona’s prison healthcare system, giving her the sole power to determine what [...]
President Donald Trump shakes hands with newly sworn in Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin during a ceremony in the Oval Office on March 24, 2026. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Homeland [...]
U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks at the American Federation of Teachers national convention in Washington, D.C., on July 16, 2026. (Photo by Amelia Twyman/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — U.S. [...]
Voters wait in line at the Memorial Presbyterian Church after the polls closed to vote in the 2024 Election in Maricopa County on Nov. 5, 2024, in Phoenix, Ariz. The [...]
U.S. Sen. Darline Graham, left, Republican of South Carolina, participates in a reenactment of her swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol on July 14, 2026, alongside her husband, Larry Nordone, and [...]
President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on the sidelines of the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France. (Photo by Anna [...]
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks as South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster looks on during a press conference in the governor’s office at the Statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina, on Aug. [...]
Rogelio Bolufé poses for a picture at a Trump resort in Florida in an undated photo. The 43-year old Cuban was deported by ICE in May 2026 and claims mistreatment [...]
A laptop shows Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI. The Trump administration is continuing its pushback against state AI laws that it views as ideologically [...]
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Arizona on April 2, 2026, alleging the state is violating federal law by trying to regulate Kalshi and other online prediction markets. (Photo by [...]
A man gets a checkup at a mobile health clinic in Parlier, Calif. A new report details preliminary Obamacare insurer premium rate increases. (Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)Health insurance [...]
A resident sits on a bench at Make the Road New York, a community center in Corona, Queens, in New York City. An appeals court ruling against mandatory detention applies [...]
A person pushes a cage full of Maricopa County mail ballot envelopes at Runbeck Election Services during the March 2024 presidential preference election. Runbeck could provide some, but not all, [...]
Steve Gallardo, a Democrat who sits on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, celebrates the increase in early voting sites for the state’s primary election and criticizes the county recorder’s [...]
Merchandise tied to America’s 250th birthday is sold in a stall at Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2026. (Photo by Sam Gauntt/States Newsroom) [...]
Fencing along the Freedom 250 construction site on the National Mall near Madison Drive and 7th Street NW on June 22, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)I’ve been celebrating our [...]
(Illustration by Alex Cochran for Stateline)Democrats are seizing the mantle of states’ rights to oppose the agenda of President Donald Trump, who has sought to reset Washington’s relationship with the [...]
Students celebrate their graduation from Boulder Creek High School on May 14, 2026, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. In 2022, 63% of Boulder Creek graduates continued their education after [...]
Photo by Getty ImagesTo avoid the governor’s veto stamp and enshrine their policies in the Arizona Constitution, Republican lawmakers sent some of their most controversial proposals to voters. Now they’re [...]
Ruben Gallego in August 2024. (Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee has dismissed a complaint against Sen. Ruben Gallego, writing in [...]
Attendees sit in the grass in front of the Ferris wheel at the Trump administration's Freedom 250 Great American State Fair on the National Mall on Thursday, June 25, 2026. [...]
Three New World screwworm larvae. (Photo by Sohath Yuseff-Vanegas, USDA Agricultural Research Service) WASHINGTON — Members of the New Democrat Coalition asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday to [...]
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former National Security Advisor John Bolton departs U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland after a plea deal hearing on June [...]
A family waits in line to apply for asylum at the southern border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 2023. (Photo by Corrie Boudreaux for Source NM)WASHINGTON [...]
Ahead of the May 2024 primary, a drop box for mail-in ballots sits outside the Shelby County Courthouse Annex in Shelbyville, Kentucky. (Photo by McKenna Horsley/Kentucky Lantern) The U.S. Postal [...]
An observer is detained by ICE agents after they arrested two people from a residence on Jan. 13, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — An [...]
Voting at the Portland Expo in Maine’s June 9, 2026 primary election. (Photo by Jim Neuger/Maine Morning Star) The Trump administration illegally overhauled a U.S. Department of Homeland Security computer [...]
Illustration by Niyazz | iStock / Getty Images PlusWhen Arizona voters go to the polls in November to decide who will be the next governor and hold the other statewide [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs in January 2025. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Arizona’s Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs on Friday signed 72 pieces of legislation and vetoed another 88. Her [...]
Open Democracy, a New Hampshire voting rights group, has spent several years working to improve the registration rate among 18-year-olds. Shown are New Hampshire voters. (Photo by Will Steinfeld/New Hampshire [...]
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Farmville Detention Center in Virginia, pictured in December 2019. (Photo: Screenshot of ICE courtesy video)WASHINGTON — When the overhead lights turn off at the [...]
The Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain outside of Union Station in Washington, D.C., on June 16, 2026. The Columbus Circle fountain is one of nine ornamental fountains in Washington, D.C. that [...]
A construction worker works on a new apartment complex in Paramus, N.J. Builder confidence has dropped recently because of higher material and financing costs. (Photo by Tim Henderson/Stateline) May housing [...]
Voters wait in line at the Memorial Presbyterian Church to vote in the 2024 Election in Maricopa County on Nov. 5, 2024, in Phoenix, Ariz. In November, voters will decide [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs signs the fiscal year 2027 budget on June 13, 2026. (Screenshot via Arizona Governor's Office)Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an $18.3 billion state budget into law on [...]
(Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)The Arizona Legislature adjourned for the year early Saturday morning, after four days of rapid-fire votes on hundreds of pieces of legislation and a marathon last [...]
Various advertisements, including those for Bud Light beer and Polymarket live betting, surrounded the Ultimate Fighting Championship ring, or "octagon," on the White House South Lawn on Thursday, June 11, [...]
An election worker processes mail-in ballots for the June 2, 2026 California state primary election at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 5, 2026 in City of [...]
Illustration by Jospeh Darius Jaafari for LOOKOUT. (Photos from Wikipedia, Mohave County)When Brian Walter requested a book from his local library, he didn’t expect an email informing him the title [...]
President Donald Trump looks on prior to a game between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks in Game Three of the 2026 NBA Finals at Madison Square [...]
U.S. Senator Mike Lee speaking with attendees at the 2022 Student Action Summit at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)WASHINGTON — The Pentagon [...]
Montanans stand in line to register to vote at the Lewis and Clark County Elections Office on Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Blair Miller/Daily Montanan)The U.S. Senate rejected the SAVE [...]
A federal judge on June 5, 2026, struck down several Trump administration policies that halted processing for asylum-seekers following a shooting in Washington, D.C. of two members of the National [...]
Ty and Allisha Setty pose with the two-bedroom house in suburban Cincinnati they bought in May for $170,000. Unlike many new homebuyers, the couple didn't need family help with the [...]