An explosion of data center facilities, including the one pictured here in northeast Oregon on May 18 have been built along the Columbia River Gorge during the last few years. [...]
Disability rights advocates gather Feb. 26, 2025, at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix to urge Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Republican legislative leaders to remedy a funding shortfall in the [...]
Election workers sort ballots at Contra Costa County's election operations facility on May 27, 2026 in Martinez, California. (Photo by Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)A U.S. Postal Service rule restricting mail-in voting, [...]
Photo via Getty ImagesThe Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday declined to make its ruling last month that kicked a GOP measure to protect school vouchers off the ballot into binding [...]
Olympian David Hearn, center left, walks out of District of Columbia Superior Court with his attorneys after a hearing on Sept. 4, 2026. (Photo by Ariana Figueora/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — A [...]
Karen Kost took part in the North Dakota primary election early voting available June 3, 2026, at City Hall in Casselton, North Dakota. (Photo by Dan Koeck/North Dakota Monitor)WASHINGTON — [...]
A Utah County election worker picks up mailed ballots from the United States Postal Service office on Oct. 26, 2020 in Provo, Utah. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)President Donald Trump’s [...]
A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower in a report published Sept. 1, 2026, alleged that USPS rushed the development of electronic tools to comply with a Trump administration policy placing new [...]
(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday declined the Trump administration’s request to overturn the temporary restraining order she signed last week that blocks the U.S. Postal [...]
A voter drops off a ballot on primary Election Day at the Salt Lake County Government Center on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. (Photo by Marco Lozzi for Utah News Dispatch)WASHINGTON [...]
Photo by Devon Christopher Adams (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0More than one in every eight Arizonans identify as LGBTQ, making up a demographic group that may prove consequential in the [...]
(Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)A federal judge’s order blocking Arizona from prosecuting online prediction market company Kalshi for violating the state’s gambling laws is living on borrowed time after [...]
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)WASHINGTON — The U.S. [...]
Quitobaquito Springs sits right along the border and is directly in the path of President Donald Trump's border wall. A new lawsuit aims to stop that construction because the oasis [...]
A voter drops off a ballot on primary Election Day at the Salt Lake County Government Center on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. (Photo by Marco Lozzi for Utah News Dispatch)WASHINGTON [...]
Absentee ballots are prepared to be mailed at the Wake County Board of Elections on September 17, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — With just [...]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, D.C., pictured in Feb. 3, 2026. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Fentanyl seizures decreased by 39% during the first year of [...]
Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks to reporters on June 1, 2026. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)Attorney General Kris Mayes says there’s no evidence that Gov. Katie Hobbs broke the law [...]
The Central Arizona Project canal runs past homes in Peoria on June 8, 2023. The project carries diverted Colorado River water through a 336-mile long system to help serve 80 [...]
Save Our Schools Arizona filled the lawn outside the Arizona House of Representatives denouncing a Republican plan to expand Empowerment Scholarship Account vouchers to all Arizona students on June 22, [...]
Caption and credit: Children’s Aid, a 170-year-old organization in New York City, told Stateline in July that their nearly $1 million grant that served 1,200 youth each year was cancelled. [...]
A sign held by a teacher at a rally at the Arizona Capitol on June 5, 2024, to advocate for restrictions on the state's school voucher system, known as Empowerment [...]
Adrian Fontes in January 2026. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)Tensions between state election officials and the Trump administration are rising as we head into the heart of the midterm [...]
U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani (center) tours the Lucid electric vehicle factory in Casa Grande in 2023. (Photo via @RepCiscomani/X)Since it was created in 2021, Congressional District 6 has been Arizona’s [...]
(Photo via Getty Images) This story deals with sexual abuse and assault of minors. If you or someone you know has been a victim of this crime call 800-656-HOPE for [...]
Photo via Getty ImagesThe Arizona Supreme Court shot down a request from Republican lawmakers to preserve their summary of the voucher-regulating Protect Education Act in a voter education pamphlet, ruling [...]
The border wall separating the United States and Mexico runs for hundreds of miles across southern Arizona. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)An immigrant rights group scrapped its legal challenge that [...]
Students study on laptops inside an elementary school in Farmington, Arkansas, on March 19, 2026. School districts nationwide are grappling with which artificial intelligence tools to invest in. (Photo by [...]
John Giles speaks to a journalist from Fox10 at a September 2024 presidential debate watch party. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)Former Republican and Mesa Mayor John Giles is Gov. [...]
Brentwood, Tenn.-based CoreCivic reported a 27% revenue jump tied to contacts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate detention facilities. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)Revenue grew more than 27% for private [...]
Illustration via Getty ImagesRepublican legislative leaders deny that a measure they proposed was aimed at heading off a rival measure to regulate the state’s school voucher system – but say [...]
Photo via Getty Images/Illustration by Jim Small | Arizona MirrorArizona law already forbids trans girls from joining school sports teams that align with their gender identity, but Republican lawmakers want [...]
McKenna Melby of the North Dakota State College of Science speaks with a job fair attendee in Fargo, North Dakota, on July 28, 2026. Melby was recruiting potential students for [...]
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., Clarence Mitchell, and Patricia Roberts Harris exchange greetings after the signing of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965 in [...]
A federal judge ruled it was unlawful that the EPA canceled $1.6 billion in environmental and climate justice grants. (Photo by the Washington Department of Ecology via Washington State Standard) [...]
Photo by Matthew Hendley | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0The Hobbs administration says a federal judge went for the nuclear option too soon when she turned over control of the state’s prison [...]
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., amid fog on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — Leaders of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee announced a [...]
Customs and Border Protection vehicles near the border wall between the United States and Mexico in Nogales, Ariz. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)An attempt to temporarily block an Arizona law [...]
A Central Arizona Project canal carries Colorado River water to the Phoenix metropolitan area. (Photo by DougVonGausig/Getty Images)A new federal plan released Friday could mean cuts of up to 77% [...]
Rhode Island Democratic Attorney General Peter Neronha in Providence earlier this year. Rhode Island is one of 25 Democratic-led states that sued the Trump administration over new Medicaid work requirements. [...]
Voters fill out their ballots at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, polling place during the South Dakota primary election on June 2, 2026. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) WASHINGTON [...]
Demonstrators chant and hold signs outside U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2026 in Washington, D.C. The court heard arguments challenging the termination of Temporary Protected Status for immigrants. (Photo [...]
The exterior of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Johnston, Rhode Island. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) WASHINGTON — Federal asylum officers can deny interviews to asylum [...]
U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego and former President Barack Obama at an October 2024 campaign rally in Tucson. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)Democratic U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego donated $17,500 his [...]
Federal agents on patrol in Minneapolis, Minnesota in January. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer) Three people who observed federal immigration enforcement during the Trump administration’s sometimes-violent surge said in a federal [...]
A person hold Stop the Steal sign at a rally at the Arizona Capitol on Jan. 26, 2022. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)Republican voters in Arizona sent a litany of [...]
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 [...]