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 [...]
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 [...]