U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is [...]
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 [...]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes addresses the crowd at the Arizona Capitol during the No Kings protest on Oct. 18, 2025, in Phoenix, Ariz. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror Arizona [...]
A Republican proposal to change Arizona law would require companies that sell digital downloads or streaming of movies and games to disclose to customers if they’re only purchasing temporary licenses [...]
FBI agents load boxes of election documents onto trucks at an elections warehouse in Fulton County, Ga. State and local election officials are bracing for the prospect of federal action [...]
Chair of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on Feb. 5, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Scott criticized President Donald Trump's use of a [...]
A protestor holds a sign at an April 14, 2024, protest in favor of reproductive rights and abortion access in Scottsdale. Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez | Arizona MirrorA Maricopa [...]
A border patrol agent stands in front of protestors as people gather near the scene of 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue, where federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old man [...]
A demonstrator waves a red cloth as hundreds gather after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good through her car window Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 near Portland Avenue [...]
Photo via Getty ImagesA Republican state senator wants to dissolve the branch of the Arizona Court of Appeals that covers southern Arizona. “I suppose the best way to describe what [...]
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at a roundtable discussion with local ranchers and employees from U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Jan. 7, 2026 in Brownsville, Texas. (Photo [...]
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 [...]
Protesters hold signs criticizing U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement at the state Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 30, 2026. The protest was one of hundreds held across the country in [...]
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman announces charges against Jeffrey Epstein on July 8, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — [...]
Water levels at Lake Mead, Nevada, photographed from the Hoover Dam on Oct. 26, 2022, are at 26% of the reservoir’s capacity, which is visible from the change in color [...]
Musician Nicki Minaj attends the Treasury Department's Trump Accounts Summit with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Jan. 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. [...]
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at a roundtable discussion with local ranchers and employees from U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Jan. 7, 2026 in Brownsville, Texas. (Photo [...]
Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly speaks with reporters in the Mansfield Room of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON [...]
Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller speaks outside the Arizona Senate on Jan. 12, 2026, about upcoming legislation to criminalize interference with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Miller says he's ignoring [...]
People gather near the scene of 26th Street West and Nicollet Avenue, where federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old man Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, the third shooting in as [...]
A detainee boards a 747 that is part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Air Operations at Mesa Gateway Airport on Sept. 23, 2025. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)Two gay men [...]
Federal agents block in and stop a woman to ask her for another person’s whereabouts Monday, Jan. 19, 2026 in south Minneapolis. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)WASHINGTON — The House [...]
(Photo via Getty Images)A trio of Republican bills aimed at addressing long-term radiation exposure risks faced by health care professionals by requiring hospitals to provide new protections received bipartisan support [...]
A Flock Safety license plate reader camera near Casa Grande, Ariz., in October 2025. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)Nearly one-in-four searches of an automated license plate reader database made by [...]
Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks to a crowd of people who held a prayer vigil and rally on his behalf outside the ICE building in Baltimore on Aug. 25, 2025. Lydia [...]
President Donald Trump tours the assembly line at the Ford River Rouge Complex on Jan. 13, 2026 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump promised [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs at a Jan. 16, 2026, press conference touting her tax cut proposal and announcing her veto of a GOP-backed tax conformity bill. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)Democratic [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs speaking with attendees at the 2026 Legislative Forecast Luncheon hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry on Jan. 9, 2026. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA [...]
Residents confront federal agents following a shooting incident on Jan. 14, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday morning to send [...]
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrives for a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 8, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by [...]
Mark Brnovich in 2019 at his inauguration for a second term as attorney general. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is dead at [...]
Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly speaks with reporters in the Mansfield Room of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON [...]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrest a fugitive in 2020. Photo via U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementLast year, Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller signed up the county’s 10 investigators — [...]
U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego speaks with reporters at his Phoenix office on Jan. 9, 2026. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)Arizona Democratic U.S. Senator Reuben Gallego spoke with reporters Friday afternoon [...]
Becky Pepper-Jackson attends the Lambda Legal Liberty Awards on June 8, 2023 in New York City. Her mother sued on her behalf over West Virginia's law barring trans athletes from [...]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks as U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., looks on during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 8, 2026 in [...]
The crashed SUV after an ICE agent shot the driver at point-blank range through the window. The driver died, according to the Department of Homeland Security. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota [...]
Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images via The 19th) [...]
Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorThe Arizona Supreme Court has been evacuated and the streets around it have been cordoned off by Phoenix Police after a potential homemade explosive [...]
White House budget director and one of Project 2025’s key architects Russell Vought speaks with reporters inside the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) In [...]
Smoke is seen over buildings after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard on Jan. 3, 2026 in Caracas, Venezuela. According to some reports, explosions were heard in Caracas and other [...]
As pennies vanish from the American landscape, states are beginning to weigh in on how retailers should respond. (Photo illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)As pennies vanish from the American landscape, [...]
Protestors gather to object to various Trump administration policies, particularly its immigration crackdown, on July 17, 2025 at the Arizona Capitol. Some of the Arizona Mirror's most-read stories in 2025 [...]
The James H. Shannon Building (Building One), on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by Lydia Polimeni,/National Institutes of Health)The Trump administration will review frozen grants [...]
The logo of the Border Security Expo displayed on the wall of a ballroom at the Phoenix center on April 8, 2025. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorThe fast-moving [...]
A person places flowers in front of a photograph of Mother Cabrini, patron saint of immigrants, during an interfaith service on behalf of immigrants in November in Miami. GOP reversals [...]
A homeless teen, holding a sign “Only 19, alone on the street,” asks for help in Manhattan in New York City. A report from the Covenant House and researchers at [...]
Then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman announces charges against Jeffrey Epstein on July 8, 2019, in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — [...]
A nurse gives an MMR vaccine at the Utah County Health Department on April 29, 2019, in Provo, Utah. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)For much of 2025, public-health debates in [...]
Protesters opposing legislation that will require local police departments to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry signs in front of the Arizona Senate building on Feb. 17, 2025. Photo by [...]