An advertisement for Kratom at a shop in Phoenix. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorThe federal government is seeking to restrict a synthetic kratom product that is already banned [...]
A container ship arrives at the Port of Oakland on Aug. 1, 2025 in Oakland, California. President Donald Trump announced that his Aug. 1 deadline for trade deals will not [...]
Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorA Democratic PAC aimed at supporting statewide Democrats in 2026 launched its campaign against their GOP opponents Thursday, taking aim at their support of [...]
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin stands outside Woodlawn Coffee and Pastry in Portland, Oregon, on July 31, 2025. (Photo by Jacob Fischler/States Newsroom)PORTLAND, Oregon — Democrats must be more [...]
Turning Point USA co-founder and Executive Director Charlie Kirk at a TPUSA event in Florida in July 2025. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0A student-led Democratic PAC has [...]
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora, operated by private prison firm GEO Group, is pictured on Jan. 30, 2025. U.S. Rep. Jason Crow said he was denied [...]
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, center, announces his agency's plans for deregulation from an Indianapolis trucking facility on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. At left is Indiana Gov. Mike Braun and at [...]
President Donald Trump and European Union leaders announced a trade framework over the weekend that will set 15% import taxes on EU goods. (Photo by Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald [...]
A Texas man’s lawsuit against a California physician he accused of sending abortion pills to his partner is the first test of a reproductive health shield law in federal court. [...]
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's order blocking President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship order from going into effect nationwide, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court [...]
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C., in a file photo from November 2024. Photo by Shauneen Miranda | States NewsroomWASHINGTON — The Trump administration said [...]
National Public Radio headquarters on North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C., on July 15, 2025. Photo by Jacob Fischler | States NewsroomPresident Donald Trump signed into law Thursday the bill [...]
A hacker changed candidate photos on Arizona election results pages to this image of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the revolution that established Iran as an Islamic republic. Photo courtesy [...]
Federal agents block people protesting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a nearby licensed cannabis farm in Ventura County, California, on July 10, 2025. Photo by Mario Tama | [...]
President Donald Trump holds up the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that was signed into law during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White [...]
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration confirmed Friday that it’s releasing funds that [...]
The Trump administration is asking for voter lists and other election information from at least nine states, including Arizona. (Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking [...]
Arizona's appellate court says state Superintendent Tom Horne does not have the right to sue to block schools from using dual-language education. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)The state appellate [...]
Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is taking criticism for not disclosing more broadly. that a hacker had gained access to the web portal Arizona candidates use to upload information about [...]
A “no trespassing” sign outside of Northwest ICE Processing Center, also known as Northwest Detention Center. (Photo by Grace Deng/Washington State Standard)WASHINGTON — Immigration advocacy groups sued the Trump administration [...]
Keri Rodrigues, president of the National Parents Union, speaks at a rally on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C, protesting the U.S. Education Department’s mass layoffs and President Donald [...]
Attorney General Kris Mayes. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorArizona and nearly two dozen other states are taking the Trump administration to court over its decision to freeze more [...]
A protester holds a photo of Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia as demonstrators gather to protest against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador outside the Permanent Mission of El [...]
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Salt Lake City is pictured on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (McKenzie Romero/Utah News Dispatch)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge Friday [...]
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona, speaks to a group of union workers, advocates and community members on July 11, 2025, in Phoenix about the impacts of deep [...]
comPima County Attorney Laura Conover during a press conference in April 2024. Photo by Paul Ingram | TucsonSentinel.comIn the early morning hours of June 30, Ricky E. Miller Sr. was [...]
Two Navajo community members look at a map of the Oak Ridge Fire boundaries during a town hall meeting at the Window Rock Fighting Scouts Field House on July 8, [...]
Navajo Nation Council Delegate Brenda Jesus talks with her team as they prepare to visit homes in the Oak Springs area on July 4, 2025, to deliver donations to support [...]
Planned Parenthood has about 600 clinics in 48 states, and according to their calculations, more than 1.1 million patients could lose access to care because of a provision in the [...]
The U.S. Capitol as lawmakers worked into the night on the "big beautiful bill" on July 2, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans cleared the “big, [...]
Federal authorities detain a man after attending a court hearing at immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on July 1, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by [...]
President Donald Trump holds up the "big, beautiful bill" that was signed into law as during a Fourth of July military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs gives the annual State of the State address in the Arizona House of Representatives on Jan. 13, 2025. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0In Arizona, [...]
Customs and Border Protection agents question families who have presented themselves at the Paso del Norte bridge to request asylum on May 11, 2023. (Photo by Corrie Boudreaux for Source [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs speaks at a press conference on July 1, 2025, after a ceremonial signing of the budget she officially signed last week. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona [...]
Eagletrail Mountains Wilderness, an area west of Phoenix managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Photo by Bob Wick | Bureau of Land ManagementHunters, hikers and outdoors lovers of [...]
Photo via Getty ImagesThe U.S. Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the go-ahead to begin stripping away the constitutional right to citizenship from hundreds of thousands of children with [...]
Photo by Jim Small | Arizona MirrorArizona’s budget drama is finally over. After weeks of feuding between the Republicans who control the state House of Representatives and Senate, long nights [...]
Image via Getty ImagesBefore ending Arizona’s legislative session for the year, the state Senate voted to pass several lingering pieces of legislation that would do things like provide compensation for [...]
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., right, meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident who was erroneously deported to El Salvador by ICE agents. (Photo courtesy Van Hollen's office)This report [...]
Photo by Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesA federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate federal funding for electric vehicle chargers in Arizona and more than [...]
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought is one of 12 federal agency directors named in a new federal lawsuit filed by Democratic state attorneys general contesting abrupt funding [...]
Image via Getty ImagesWith a week left before an impending government shutdown, the spat between Republicans in the Arizona legislature shows no sign of ending, and a plan for the [...]
A ribbon of highway stretching to the horizon in North Dakota. (Photo by Getty Images)A Rhode Island federal judge blocked an order that would have yanked billions of federal dollars [...]
California National Guard members stand guard at an entrance to the Wilshire Federal Building on June 13, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Vice President J.D. Vance [...]
Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorAfter a planned budget vote evaporated on Thursday and the chamber unexpectedly adjourned for the weekend, Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives met [...]
Workers moving equipment and road signs on a highway. (Getty Images) A Rhode Island federal judge seemed likely Wednesday to block the U.S. Department of Transportation’s move to yank billions in [...]
Photo by Getty ImagesThe Arizona Senate on Wednesday pushed back its plans to vote on the chamber’s state budget proposal, with signs pointing to a possible deal with Republicans in [...]
An Arizona State University climate tech project uses AI to provide water conservation information and suggestions for responsible water use via a simple, personable chatbot called “Blue.” (Screenshot of azwaterbot.org)Environmental [...]
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., right, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., hold a press conference on the Republican budget bill at the U.S. Capitol on [...]