An ethics complaint filed against Republican state Rep. Austin Smith, after he was accused of petition signature fraud, was dropped by the House Ethics Committee Friday. Smith dropped his reelection [...]
Graduation season is typically a time for celebrating the success of students making it through their education programs. For some Indigenous students, part of that celebration includes having tribal regalia [...]
As the standoff between Chinese and U.S. trade continues, President Joe Biden’s administration is seizing the opportunity to invest in a key battleground state ahead of the 2024 election by granting [...]
Arizona Republican leaders on Wednesday filed a pair of lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency’s new tailpipe pollution standards for cars and heavy-duty trucks, a day after they joined a [...]
A group of Democratic mothers in the Arizona Legislature want to know if candidates running for office can use their campaign funds for child care. Led by Sen. Eva Diaz, [...]
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel Thursday ruled that a blanket prohibition on convicted felons possessing firearms violates their Second Amendment rights, at least when it comes to [...]
April Ignacio wanted to be able to create a safe space for people in her community to come together and get information about the laws in Arizona that are impacting [...]
Republican David Cook’s name will be on the primary ballot for the Arizona Senate’s Legislative District 7, the Arizona Supreme Court decided on Thursday. His opponent, Republican incumbent Wendy Rogers, [...]
In Citrus County, we are faced with a decision. Spend a few thousand dollars of our rapidly disappearing budget on some additional cybersecurity measures or invest in more training for [...]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Thursday it’s proposing changes to the asylum system that would allow immigration officials to reject asylum seekers who have a criminal record that poses [...]
The Maricopa County Republican Committee has censured all seven of Arizona’s Supreme court justices for “failure to perform their duties fairly and impartially” because they rejected bids by Kari Lake [...]
WASHINGTON — Adult film star Stormy Daniels told a Manhattan jury Tuesday about meeting Donald Trump in a penthouse suite in 2006, where he told the actress not to worry [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene plan to meet privately Tuesday amid her calls for him to resign or face a floor vote [...]
They can’t say they weren’t warned. When Republican lawmakers pushed a bill that would rewrite state law to include “only two sexes” and specifically rejected “gender identity,” Gov. Katie Hobbs told them [...]
The Arizona House of Representatives is your House, so long as you don’t disagree with the Republicans who run the chamber. That’s the only conclusion to reach after this week’s [...]
A Glendale Republican lawmaker who was present for the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and is facing criminal charges for being a fake elector used legislative video [...]
The Arizona Republican Party’s lawsuit challenging the post-election hand-count process in 2020 wasn’t groundless or filed in bad faith, and the party doesn’t have to pay attorney’s fees for the [...]
The Arizona Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit filed by debt collectors and homeowners associations that sought to void the debt reforms that voters overwhelmingly approved in 2022 [...]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday requested that the state Supreme Court pause its ruling that reinstated a near-total abortion ban from more than a century ago, saying that [...]
One year after restarting the pre-pandemic review process for enrollment in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System cut coverage for 611,144 recipients [...]
Attorney General Kris Mayes has released the names of five more people who were indicted by a grand jury for the part they played in Arizona’s 2020 fake elector scheme [...]
On the same day that the Arizona House of Representatives voted to repeal an abortion ban from the 19th Century, a trio of anti-abortion Republicans launched an ethics complaint against [...]
Less than a week after the Republican National Committee unveiled a “historic” new program to monitor the polls for fraud, a top lawyer with the committee was among those indicted [...]
Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Wednesday that a grand jury had indicted 18 people in a fake elector scheme that aimed to install Donald Trump as president after he lost [...]
U.S. Supreme Court justices spent two hours Wednesday debating whether a federal law about emergency treatment encompasses abortion care even in states with strict abortion bans, with no clear indication [...]
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York appeared to strongly disagree Tuesday with the former president’s lawyers’ explanation for why he should be considered in compliance with [...]
As Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives devised and executed a plan on April 17 to block Democrats’ efforts to repeal the state’s 1864 abortion ban, scores of opponents [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced a final rule that will update Title IX regulations governing how schools respond to sexual misconduct, undoing changes made under [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Friday moved one step closer to approving billions in military and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, with Democrats providing crucial support to [...]
As an Arizonan and mother of three, it has been truly sad to witness recent legislative hearings that have been held and the bills that have advanced relating to science [...]
A California congressman wants to know why the U.S. Department of Defense lobbied Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs to veto a bill aimed at spurring “starter home” construction. “To me, this [...]
Republicans reveled in their cowardice on Wednesday, as they hid behind obscure procedural rules to scuttle an effort to repeal a near-total abortion ban written during the Civil War that [...]
There’s a bit of good news as negotiations on state spending between GOP leaders and Gov. Katie Hobbs have begun in earnest: The state’s projected budget deficit is about $400 [...]
NEW YORK — The trial of former President Donald Trump kicked off Monday in a lower Manhattan courtroom, marking the first time in U.S. history that an ex-president has been [...]
A bill aimed at limiting the presence of pedestrians on medians and intersections was one of the five bills vetoed by Gov. Katie Hobbs earlier this week. The measure, House [...]
The Republican Party of Arizona has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to accept Kari Lake’s tabulator case, claiming that lower courts across the country have set the bar too high [...]
Even before the Arizona Supreme Court decided that a near-total abortion ban first adopted in 1864 is the law of the land, the state had a long history with restricting [...]
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed her first Republican election bills this year. On April 10, Hobbs vetoed bills passed by the GOP-controlled legislature that would ban those convicted of [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger sought to ease concerns from the lawmakers in charge of his agency’s budget on Wednesday, saying the department is preparing for [...]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is standing firm in her vow to protect those seeking or providing abortions following the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a near-total ban on [...]
As a measure to ban reunification treatment in Arizona heads to the governor, advocates and survivors are puzzled by Democratic opposition to the bill in both legislative chambers. Reunification treatment [...]
As a Latina mom of two boys who faced the challenges of air pollution every day while growing up, I not only support, but need, the Environmental Protection Agency to [...]
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is seeking $36,820 in attorney fees from Abraham Hamadeh, after the Republican’s latest attempt to take the office he lost two years ago was [...]
Republican lawmakers and Gov. Katie Hobbs have begun negotiations on the state’s budget, but a deficit and partisan infighting could complicate plans to have it done by next month like [...]
A recent federal push for a switch to electric vehicles to support plans for a zero-emissions future has raised human rights concerns regarding the use of forced labor and child [...]
A state legislator on Monday used his time delivering a sermon that said a holiday to celebrate trans people was “dark,” proof of America being “unrighteous,” and then denounced non-Christians. [...]
More than 250 candidates filed to run for state and federal office before Monday’s deadline for would-be elected officials to turn in nominating petitions. Of those, 200 are running for [...]
Justin Heap pals around with and panders to election deniers, whether or not he’ll admit to being one himself. The Republican state representative from Mesa is now running for Maricopa [...]
Kari Lake and her allies have spent the last couple of days criticizing anyone who said she had given up on defending herself in a defamation suit filed by Maricopa [...]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and nearly two dozen other Democratic-led states urged the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve the ability of emergency room doctors to provide abortions, arguing that [...]
