Nearly a year after Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes announced a crackdown on a sprawling Medicaid fraud scheme that preyed on vulnerable Indigenous people across Arizona, state [...]
In the 10 months since Arizona officials announced an investigation into massive Medicaid billing fraud, they’ve maintained the abuse was mostly limited to a small share of the Arizona Health [...]
Two projects in Arizona have been preliminarily selected as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s funding for community-driven energy projects aimed at lowering energy costs and enhancing energy security [...]
GOP legislation that passed through the Senate on Monday would ask voters to amend the Arizona Constitution to allow lawsuits against citizen ballot initiatives before the initiative goes to the [...]
President Joe Biden’s budget request for fiscal 2025 would continue several administration goals to lower costs for most families while raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, spend on climate [...]
One Arizona senator helped to involuntarily commit his brother who now refuses to speak to him. Another whose brother has been in and out of treatment and incarceration now works [...]
A lawsuit launched by Arizona schools chief Tom Horne last year in the hopes of shutting down dual language instruction across the state was tossed out of court on Friday. [...]
Jennifer Vollstedt and Ariel Cavanaugh-Okhah have never met, but they are connected by fatal chromosomal abnormalities that affected their wanted pregnancies, and the stress and heartbreak that comes with it. [...]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to deliver his State of the Union address Thursday night, with a grueling reelection campaign already fully underway and speaking to a chamber [...]
Illustration via Getty Images Arizona legislators introduced more than a dozen bills focused on amending marijuana laws this year, but just five are left standing as lawmakers have passed the [...]
WASHINGTON — Congress is on track to approve a staggering $468 billion in government spending this week, finishing part of the work it was supposed to complete by Oct. 1 [...]
Former President Donald Trump painted a bleak picture Saturday of what would happen to the United States should voters reelect Joe Biden to the Oval Office in November. The front-runner [...]
Arizona Republicans want to let ranchers in southern Arizona legally shoot and kill undocumented immigrants who cross their land. A bill moving through the state House of Representatives would make [...]
Arizona voters might get the chance to decide in November whether to expand the use of E-Verify to keep undocumented immigrants out of the construction industry and away from public [...]
Arizona Republicans backed a trio of proposals on Wednesday that would make it a state crime for migrants to cross the border, waving away questions about constitutionality despite a near [...]
Tori Nielsen is a reunification camp survivor. Throughout her 13-year-long family court case, she and her younger brother have repeatedly reported the abuse they have endured at the hand of [...]
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s days fighting criminal charges in two courts could be arriving soon. Special Counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday not to [...]
WASHINGTON — In their second attempt in as many weeks, U.S. House Republicans impeached Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, marking an inflection point in the growing [...]
WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to further delay his federal criminal trial on charges he attempted to subvert the 2020 election, contending his [...]
Republicans would throw out any city or school district bond election if fewer than 60% of voters cast a ballot — even if it passes. The goal, according to Rep. [...]
A new group of Republicans is suing Arizona’s Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, over his new Election Procedures Manual, which they say is “designed to undermine election integrity.” [...]
A Republican bill that would allow individuals with concealed carry weapon permits to bring their firearms onto college campuses passed an initial hurdle, though it’s all but certain the proposal [...]
Faced with the certainty of Gov. Katie Hobbs’ veto, GOP lawmakers are hoping to circumvent her entirely by sending a proposal to voters in November that would restrict how teachers [...]
In the weeks following the Colorado Supreme Court’s historic 4-3 decision barring former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot under a Civil War-era insurrection clause, the case was formally [...]
If you want to see what happens when a dog catches a car, look at Republicans in Congress. For decades, the GOP has increasingly been focused on immigration, spurred by [...]
Senate Republicans are, again, attempting to take power away from the State Bar of Arizona and the state Supreme Court, the entities that have disciplined several attorneys over the past [...]
Sen. Janae Shamp, R-Surprise, discusses her bill to mandate detransition care in Phoenix, Ariz. on Feb. 1, 2024. Behind her stands Chloe Cole, a detransition activist from California. Photo by [...]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined nearly two dozen other Democratic attorneys general to push back on the effort to eliminate the DACA program, warning a federal court that doing [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has been inundated with dozens of organizations seeking to weigh in on the future of the abortion pill by filing “friend of the [...]
Republican lawmakers have proposed a series of bills this year aimed at trying to regulate online pornographic content that critics say would run afoul of the constitutional free speech protections. [...]
Minutes before the Arizona House of Representatives was set to vote on expelling her from the chamber in the wake of an ethics probe that found she engaged in “disorderly [...]
The Republicans in charge of the Arizona Department of Education and the state Senate say that the state’s school voucher program saves taxpayers money, and that any statements to the [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 26 in the case that could significantly curtail access to a prescription drug used for both abortions and [...]
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated each year on January 27 in conjunction with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. In 1945, as Soviet troops began closing [...]
Arizona voters likely won’t be deciding this fall whether to ban the use of red light and photo radar cameras after state senators on Monday rejected a plan to send [...]
A bipartisan resolution proposed by Arizona lawmakers would see the state replacing the statue of a Jesuit explorer who helped Europeans settle in Arizona that’s currently on display in Statuary [...]
A fundamental respect for the dignity of all people is the driving force behind legislation ensuring that pregnant prisoners are not forced to schedule an induction of labor before their [...]
Fifty-one years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to protect abortion as a fundamental constitutional right of women, but in 2022 a newly conservative bench overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving [...]
Arizona Democrats are hoping to sweep the November elections, bolstered by a reproductive rights stance that sharply contrasts attacks on abortion access from Republicans. “While Republicans are running on their [...]
WASHINGTON — Passage of a multi-billion-dollar supplemental package hinges on curbing an executive authority used to grant immigration protection, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said during a Wednesday press conference. [...]
Republican lawmakers grilled Gov. Katie Hobbs’ budget team Tuesday over her proposed budget that they have already dismissed as an “unserious mess.” Last week, Hobbs released her proposed $16 billion [...]
As we remember and reflect on the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., there are valuable lessons that should give us hope that we can overcome what [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday released her proposed $16 billion budget for the 2025 fiscal year, as well as her plan for shoring up what she estimates will be a [...]
Republicans were quick to dub Gov. Katie Hobbs’ budget proposal an “unserious mess,” pointing to her call for limiting the use of school vouchers as the chief reason why wasted [...]
The officials who run Arizona’s elections put out a blunt reminder last week: If lawmakers don’t soon change key dates related to the upcoming presidential election, military voters may get [...]
Arizona voters have long relied on unstaffed ballot drop boxes to conveniently cast their ballots, but challenges to their use persist and a new state rulebook does little to clarify [...]
Like so many other longtime Arizonans, searching out the latest Steve Benson cartoon has been a part of my regular routine. Since the 1980s, he’s been skewering Arizona leaders and [...]
Marti Gerdes remembers living in Prescott as a kid and, every winter, he and his family would make snow ice cream, mixing milk and sugar with snow. This story is [...]
WASHINGTON — On the cusp of a 2024 election season like none other in U.S. history, former President Donald Trump’s legal and political worlds are set to converge. Trump’s lawyers [...]
After learning that an upcoming mission to the moon will include cargo holding cremated human remains, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation [...]