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 [...]
The Milwaukee County Courthouse. Photo by Isiah Holmes | Wisconsin ExaminerFBI agents arrested Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday, accusing her of obstructing an immigration enforcement action last week. [...]
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing on Jan. 15, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A handful of Democratic U.S. [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs signs a bill to provide $122 million in emergency funding for the Division of Developmental Disabilities, avoiding an end to services for some 60,000 disabled Arizonans. Photo [...]
President Donald Trump speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 22, 2025. Photo by [...]
U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari speaks to reporters on April 22, 2025, at Sky Harbor International Airport following her return from El Salvador, where she and other Democrats tried to visit [...]
Opponents of President Donald Trump’s executive order indefinitely halting refugee resettlement in the U.S. rally on the steps of the federal courthouse in Seattle on Feb. 25, 2025, after a [...]
An opponent of the Arizona ICE Act displays a poster referencing the message welcoming refugees inscribed on the Statue of Liberty at the Arizona Capitol on Feb. 10, 2025. Republican [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)The U.S. Supreme Court early Saturday temporarily blocked a new round of deportations under the wartime Alien Enemies Act until the [...]
Technology is making it easier to pull off financial crimes, and the U.S. is lacking a central agency to track them, experts say. (Getty Images)It started with a seemingly routine [...]
Gov. Katie Hobbs said on April 17, 2025, that she won't sign any bills that aren't already on her desk unless Republicans negotiate an end to the funding crisis that [...]
Photo by Bayne Froney | Cronkite NewsWith a single signature, Gov. Katie Hobbs could give law enforcement technology company Axon a carve-out in state law that would let it avoid [...]
Former President Biden speaks about Social Security at a disability conference in Chicago on April 15, 2025. The remarks were his first in public since leaving office in January. (Image [...]
OMB Director Russ Vought testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Jan. 15, 2025. (Screenshot from committee webcast)WASHINGTON — A nonprofit organization filed suit against the [...]
Minister of Justice and Public Security Héctor Villatoro, right, accompanies Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, center, during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center, or CECOT on March [...]
April Sponsel looks on during her disciplinary hearing on Oct. 23, 2023. Photo by Kevinjonah Paguio | Cronkite NewsFormer Maricopa County prosecutor April Sponsel deserved to have her law license [...]
A section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall near El Paso, Texas, on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump late Friday signed a memorandum directing [...]
Photo by Jim Small | Arizona MirrorFollowing the lead of the Trump administration, Republicans in the Arizona Legislature want to ban state government from using diversity, equity and inclusion in [...]
The U.S. Capitol, as seen on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson postponed a vote on the budget resolution that was supposed [...]
A group of coal miners watch as President Donald Trump speaks at the White House shortly before signing executive orders on the coal industry on April 8, 2025. (White House [...]
President Donald Trump is displayed on a television screen as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 7, 2025, in New York City. [...]
A sign held by a protester at the Arizona Capitol on April 5, 2025. The protest was one of more than 1,300 across the nation aimed at galvanizing people against [...]