U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand together at the end of the U.S Army parade on June 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty [...]

A woman holds up a sign criticizing President Donald Trump during a “No Kings Day” protest in Scottsdale on June 14, 2025. The nationwide day of protest seeks to repudiate [...]

The Phoenix Indian center hosted its annual Southwest American Indian 2SLGBTQIA+ Rainbow Gathering on June 12, 2025, at South Mountain Community College. Photo by Shondiin Silversmith | Arizona MirrorIn a time of uncertainty [...]

Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap (second from right) meets with the Board of Supervisors (not pictured) on Jan. 29, 2025, to discuss his budget requests. Heap is suing supervisors, saying [...]

Around 100 people gathered in central Phoenix on June 8, 2025, at an event organized by the Phoenix chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation to call for the release [...]

Image via Getty ImagesArizona’s Democratic governor has vetoed a GOP-backed bill that would ban the teaching of antisemitism in public schools and universities — and allow teachers to be personally [...]

Axon CEO Patrick Smith speaks the Arizona Capitol on March 4, 2025, as part of the company's effort to back legislation that would stop a ballot referendum in Scottsdale brought [...]

An automated license plate reader sits inside a fake cactus at a Paradise Valley roundabout. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror A license plate scanning tool that is marketed [...]

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 worker installs a solar panel on a roof. Photo by Getty ImagesWASHINGTON —  Clean energy manufacturers and advocates say they’re perplexed how the repeal of tax credits in President [...]

Photo by Getty ImagesA federal appellate court is weighing whether to allow President Donald Trump to end the 157-year-old constitutional guarantee that every child born in the country is a [...]

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies before the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Screenshot from committee livestreamWASHINGTON — Education Secretary Linda McMahon took heat [...]

An Aerostar high-altitude balloon as seen from the ground in Tucson. Photo by Dugan Meyer The U.S. Army and a private company are flying high-altitude surveillance balloons over the Tucson [...]

Image via Getty ImagesArizona’s Democratic governor has vetoed legislation that would have barred the Chinese government from owning land in the state.  The GOP-backed measure banned the People’s Republic of [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court, on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Friday said it will allow the Trump administration to remove deportation protections [...]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin [...]

Prison officers stand guard at a cell block at the Salvadoran mega-prison Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, on April 4, 2025. Amid several legal disputes, the Trump administration [...]

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Screenshot from committee webcast)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of [...]

A ruling by judges at the U.S. Court of International Trade on May 28, 2025, stops President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada and nearly all imports into the [...]

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 29, 2025 in Washington, D.C.. [...]

A monument honoring the dead stands in the cemetery at Manzanar National Historic Site on December 9, 2015 near Independence, California. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of 10 internment [...]

Highway 170 in North Hollywood, California. (Photo by Trevor Srednick/Getty Images)The U.S. Senate voted early Thursday to prevent California from enforcing regulations on tailpipe emission from new cars and trucks, [...]

Photo illustration by Jim Small. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorOne GOP state lawmaker has had it with the “performative outrage” of some of the far-right members of his [...]

At a farm market in St. Petersburg, Florida, SNAP recipients were able to use their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards for food. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA).The massive tax and spending bill [...]

President Donald Trump points during a White House event for the release of Make America Healthy Again commission report on May 22, 2025. Also pictured are, from left, Agriculture Secretary [...]

Gov. Katie Hobbs participates in a bill signing ceremony for House Bill 2281 ion May 21, 2025. Photo by Shondiin Silversmith | Arizona MirrorSurrounded by the flags of Arizona’s 22 [...]

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, speaks at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON [...]

Photo via iStock Editorial/Getty Images PlusBehind closed doors, some of our state politicians are busy negotiating to force Arizona taxpayers to fork over up to $1 billion of our hard-earned [...]

Maryland Democratic U.S. Rep. Glenn Ivey, who represents the district where Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife live, led the chant “bring him home” outside the U.S. District Court for [...]

Axon brought a mobile tactical simulator to the Arizona Capitol on March 4, 2025, as part of its effort to back legislation that would stop a ballot referendum in Scottsdale [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday, May 16, 2025, that the Trump administration's attempt to deport a group of Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law "does not pass muster." (Photo [...]

A carbon injection well in Illinois. Photo via Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignArizona will have total control over regulation of underground wells to store carbon captured [...]

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on Jan. 28, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)WASHINGTON [...]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries holds a press conference May 13, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Democrats Tuesday criticized House Republicans [...]

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem walks past reporters after doing a TV interview with Fox News outside of the White House on March 10, 2025 in Washington, [...]

Photo by Faith Miller | Cronkite NewsAfter falling in 2024, marijuana sales in Arizona accelerated their slide in the first quarter of 2025, falling more than 13% over the prior [...]

The death of a friend spurred Democratic U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois to champion the Momnibus Act, legislation aimed at improving maternal health outcomes in the United States. (Photo [...]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent prepares to testify before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing  in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Jan. 16, 2025, in [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court, as seen on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Thursday made an emergency request to the U.S. Supreme Court to [...]

Photo by iStock / Getty Images PlusThe Arizona Supreme Court will decide whether a measure that voters overwhelmingly approved to require disclosure of most anonymous campaign spending is constitutional — [...]

Minister of Justice and Public Security Héctor Villatoro,  right, accompanies Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, center during a tour of the CECOT prison on March 26, 2025 in [...]

Idaho, Kansas and Missouri want a federal judge to let them intervene in a case that’s already been to the U.S. Supreme Court, so they can argue the FDA erred [...]

Photo by Getty ImagesThe trial to determine whether Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby conspired to interfere in the duties of the Secretary of State’s Office when he refused to certify [...]

Image via Getty ImagesGov. Katie Hobbs once again thwarted Republican efforts to facilitate mass deportations in Arizona, vetoing legislation that would have made it easier for federal immigration agents to [...]

From left to right, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attend a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 30, 2025, [...]

The May Day protest of the actions of President Donald Trump on May 1, 2025 in Phoenix ended with a gathering in front of the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse. [...]

Gov. Kevin Stitt speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court building Wednesday after the Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over the constitutionality of a religious charter school seeking to open in [...]

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, joined by GOP Reps. Lisa McClain of Michigan and Troy Downing of Montana, speaks at a news conference following a meeting of the House Republican [...]

President Donald Trump addresses the 2025 Republican Issues Conference at the Trump National Doral Miami on Jan. 27, 2025 in Doral, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald [...]

A doctor holding T-shaped intrauterine birth control device. (Getty Photos) WASHINGTON — The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal [...]