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 [...]

The U.S. Education Department said it will start garnishing wages from student borrowers in default. (Catherine Lane/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration will start garnishing the wages of student [...]

A photograph of President Donald Trump and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is displayed after being unofficially installed in a bus shelter. (Leon Neal/Getty Images).WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of [...]

Federal Medicaid cuts could cripple rural health care organizations. (Photo by Wichayada Suwanachun/Getty Images)When Dr. Ed Paul visits Nogales, he sees well-trained, hardworking doctors and nurses. Yet as in many [...]

Brown University President Christina Paxson speaks to reporters gathered at the Providence Public Safety Complex on Dec. 16, 2025. Gov. Dan McKee, far left, and Providence Mayor Brett Smiley are [...]

The floor of Veterans Memorial Coliseum during the Arizona Senate's audit of the 2020 general election in Maricopa County. Photo by Courtney Pedroza | Washington Post/poolOne of the contractors for [...]

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building on Dec. 19, 2025 in Washington, D.C.  (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice began releasing records Friday related to the [...]

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 18, 2025. Oz and other Trump [...]

Members of the National Guard patrol near Union Station on Aug. 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that National [...]

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters inside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said [...]

Rep. Joseph Chaplik, R-Scottsdale. Photo by Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Scottsdale Republican state Rep. Joseph Chaplik announced he is entering the race for Arizona’s Congressional District 1 to [...]

Photo via FacebookWhen Arizona Public Service, the state’s largest utility company, announced plans a couple of months ago for a massive new natural gas plant capable of adding up to [...]

There were 105 immigration arrests in October at a horse racetrack in Wilder, Idaho. Idaho saw one of the country’s largest increases in immigration arrests this year through mid-October compared [...]

U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks with reporters inside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)The Democratic National [...]

The attorneys general of Florida and Texas are suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, challenging access to and federal approval of mifepristone, a drug used to terminate early pregnancies. [...]

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters during a press conference on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. Also pictured from left are Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain of Michigan, [...]

Tom Horne on Jan. 13, 2025, in the Arizona House of Representatives. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0The Arizona Department of Education will have to develop its own [...]

Nurse practitioner Carol Biocic treats a Marine Corps veteran at a podiatry clinic for veterans in 2023 in Chicago. New professional student loan caps might make it more difficult for [...]

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speak with reporters during a press conference in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on [...]

U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Arizona, speaks to the media during a primary election-night party at El Casino Ballroom in South Tucson on July 15, 2025. Grijalva claims she was pepper-sprayed [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday justices will hear a case to decide if President Donald Trump’s order [...]

U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., points to text messages by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during an annual worldwide threats assessment hearing at the Longworth House Office Building on March 26, [...]

U.S. Marshals and Homeland Security Investigations agents take a man into custody at the intersection of 14th and N streets NW in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 3, 2025. (Photo by [...]

A store displays a sign accepting Electronic Benefits Transfer, or EBT, cards for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program purchases for groceries on Oct. 30, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by [...]

A makeshift memorial of flowers and American flags honoring the late West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom stands outside the Farragut West Metro station on Dec. 1, 2025 in [...]

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a Nashville press conference on July 18, 2025, to discuss arrests of immigrants during recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps. (Photo by [...]

FBI Director Kash Patel, left, at a press conference on Nov. 27, 2025, looks at photos of the two West Virginia National Guard soldiers shot in Washington, D.C., the previous [...]

Boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic rest on a pharmacy counter in Los Angeles. Drugs like Ozempic have grown in popularity to treat obesity, prompting more than a dozen states [...]

Children are pictured at an Autism Speaks Light it Up Blue Autism Awareness Celebration at Chicago Children's Museum in April 2017. State Medicaid agencies are struggling to pay for applied [...]

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 [...]

An ICE agent stands guard on 6th Avenue in Mesa after a collision involving an ICE agent and the man they were attempting to apprehend. (Screenshot courtesy of a witness)Immigration [...]

U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on March 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense announced [...]

A U.S. Department of Education regulation slated to take effect in July 2026 would give the secretary broad discretion to decide which organizations qualify for a program to forgive student [...]

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 [...]

Farmworkers gather produce near Hemet, Calif. The Trump administration is making it easier for farmers to employ guest workers from other countries. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)In a tacit admission [...]

President Donald Trump prepares to speak after watching as members of the U.S Army participated in the 250th birthday parade of the U.S. Army June 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. [...]

Masked federal immigration officers talk while they patrol at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York City on Oct. 16, 2025. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — [...]

Sky Roberts, left, brother of Virginia Giuffre, who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, and his wife Amanda Roberts hold up a photo of Giuffre during a news conference on the [...]

Austin Smith on July 31, 2023. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Former Republican state legislator Austin Smith pleaded guilty Monday to what he previously called “ludicrous” charges that [...]

Rep. Alexander Kolodin, R-Scottsdale, heads an ad hoc legislative committee considering possible regulation of AI in an effort to protect elections. The committee met in Phoenix on Friday to hear [...]

Ricardo Reyes, a veteran and the executive director of VetsForward, speaks out against the deportation of José Barco in front of the local ICE office in Phoenix, Ariz., on Nov. [...]

Planes line up on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on Nov. 10, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The record 43-day government shutdown that ended [...]

A Flock Safety license plate reader camera near Casa Grande, Ariz., in October 2025. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)The Glendale Police Department used an anti-Romani slur last year when conducting [...]

A photograph of President Donald Trump and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is displayed after being unofficially installed in a bus shelter. (Leon Neal/Getty Images).WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats investigating [...]

Workers and volunteers help distribute food boxes to those in need at a large-scale drive-through food distribution, in response to the federal government shutdown and SNAP/CalFresh food benefits delays, on [...]

President Donald Trump attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked Friday night a lower court’s order that the Trump administration pay for a [...]

A protester holds a sign at an abortion rights rally at the state Capitol on May 3, 2022. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorRepublicans defending laws that require women [...]

The entrance to a Big Lots store in Portland, Oregon. (Stock photo by hapabapa/Getty Images)The U.S. Department of Agriculture told states Friday it was releasing full November funding for the [...]