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 [...]

Republican hopeful Neil DeSanti is mounting his fourth campaign for elected office since 2020, hoping to secure a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives for his north Phoenix legislative [...]

Senate Republicans continue to thwart efforts to allow the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind to operate for more than just the next few years.  As senators discussed a [...]

Arizona Republicans want to give students free license to sue their schools if they were allowed to use a shower facility where a person of the opposite biological sex was [...]

WASHINGTON — The future of medication abortion access in the United States went in front of the U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday, where several justices appeared somewhat skeptical as [...]

Until he qualified for Medicare a year ago, Tucsonan James Bier bought his health insurance on the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplace. “I wasn’t working so I didn’t get it [...]

State lawmakers on Thursday rejected a bill to crack down on sober living homes that had already unanimously passed the Senate, opting instead to back a different proposal that is [...]

This week, lawmakers in Congress once again scrambled to avert a government shutdown, and negotiations opened with a Republican proposal that pushed for a national fetal personhood law — which [...]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved a broadly bipartisan $1.2 trillion spending package Friday, sending the legislation to the Senate ahead of a midnight deadline. Senators have just hours to [...]

As Women’s History Month heralds our strides in women’s rights, it’s juxtaposed with the present-day challenges that cast a shadow over these achievements.  The onslaught of restrictive measures by far-right [...]

Arizona business leaders slammed a GOP bill allowing the state to arrest and deport migrants as “anti-business” and “bad for Arizona,” and called on lawmakers to defeat it.  The Republican [...]

In an effort to bypass a veto from Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, Republicans want to ask voters to end early voting by mail, sharply limit early voting in person and [...]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court seemed skeptical Monday of a lawsuit alleging the federal government colluded with social media companies to suppress the freedom of speech, with a majority [...]

For the third time in less than a year, Arizona Republican lawmakers listened intently and offered no pushback during a special hearing at the state Senate that was billed as [...]

GOP legislative leaders and Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne went to court this week to bar two trans girls from playing on school sports teams consistent with their [...]

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 [...]