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 [...]
Arizona's 11 fake electors sign a document in Phoenix on Dec. 14 2020, falsely claiming that they were the state's electors and that Donald Trump won the presidential election in [...]
A banner showing President Donald Trump hangs on the Department of Justice on Feb. 20, 2026. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that [...]
ICE agents link arms outside Delaney Hall in Newark, N.J., on May 28, 2026. An ongoing hunger and labor strike at the 1,000-bed migrant detention facility reportedly involves roughly 300 [...]
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., home of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, on July 14, 2025. (Photo by Jacob Fischler/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — [...]
A University of Utah clinic in Salt Lake City displays a sign warning about measles last year. Utah is among the states that already has more measles cases in 2026 [...]
Rep. Justin Heap on March 2, 2023. Photo by Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap is asking a judge to hold the county’s board of [...]
The U.S. Postal Service on May 29, 2026 proposed a rule to carry out President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)The U.S. Postal [...]
Plumes of smoke rise following an explosion on March 5, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Democrats in the U.S. Senate on May 27, 2026, asked that the Congressional Budget Office provide [...]
(Screenshot via YouTube)In her first campaign ads in her reelection bid, Gov. Katie Hobbs is touting her efforts to lower costs for Arizonans and fight for working families across the [...]
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap speaks at a Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Phoenix. On Friday, May 22, 2026, Heap referred 207 voters [...]
Carmen Cancino and her daughter Ximena Lopez at a December protest against arrests of immigrants at green card appointments in Salt Lake City. The Trump administration is threatening to force [...]
An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, including Utah Fertility Center, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the in vitro fertilization process violates the state’s [...]
An airplane sits on the tarmac at Mesa Gateway Airport on the evening of April 9, 2026, outside of the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center, an ICE facility where detainees [...]
Fuel options at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, gas station on Aug. 22, 2025. The nationwide average price of a gallon of gas was $4.55 May 22, 2026, up from [...]
Gov. Spencer Cox speaks with geothermal technology executives and Western Governor's Association officials after announcing the Mountain West Geothermal Consortium. (Alixel Cabrera/Utah News Dispatch)With a newly established Mountain West Geothermal [...]
Leroy McGillHe already looked like a corpse when they opened the curtains. Pale, shaved head, eyes closed, a white sheet up to his neck Leroy McGill, 63, a convicted murderer, [...]
(Illustration by Steve Benson)Some Dreamers have had enough — enough of the broken promises and the uncertainty that comes with living in fear of deportation despite pledging allegiance to this [...]
East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, voters stand in line at an early voting location in 2022. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has suspended Louisiana’s May 16, 2026, party primary elections for [...]
An airplane sits on the tarmac at Mesa Gateway Airport on the evening of April 9, 2026, outside of the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center, an ICE facility where detainees [...]
The sun rises over Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area on July 10, 2025, in Page, Arizona. Lake Powell, a critical Colorado River reservoir, is only at a [...]