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Arizona bill would require supermajority voter approval before cities can deploy surveillance tech
A proposal that would require cities, towns and counties to allow residents to vote on the implementation of automated license plate readers and other mass surveillance programs won bipartisan support Wednesday. The legislation puts a number of regulations in place on how surveillance technology used by law enforcement can be used in Arizona, as well […]
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Judge strikes down Arizona Independent Party name change, calling it a ‘bait and switch’
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes didn’t have legal authority to approve the name change of the “No Labels Party” to the “Arizona Independent Party” a judge ruled last week. In a March 18 order, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Gregory Como voided Fontes’ approval of the name change along with his instruction to county […]
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Everyone who filed to run for Arizona’s state, legislative and federal offices in 2026
More than 260 candidates filed to run in a primary election for Arizona state and federal office in 2026 before Monday’s deadline for would-be elected officials to turn in nominating petitions for this year’s election. Of those, almost 230 are running for the 90 seats in the Arizona Legislature’s 30 districts. There are 31 candidates […]
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Mining industry rallies Republicans to urge Trump to let them open mines on protected land
Arizona’s multibillion dollar mining industry wants Republicans in the state legislature to prod the Trump administration to make it easier for them to mine on federal and state land — including near the Grand Canyon. Since former President Joe Biden officially designated the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in […]
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Maricopa County recorder asks prosecutors to investigate 207 alleged noncitizen voters
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap has formally referred potential noncitizen voters identified by an error-prone federal database to local prosecutors for further investigation ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said in a statement that Heap referred a total of 207 individuals for review — significantly more than the 137 voters […]
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GOP offers DHS deal without immigration reforms, Democrats vow to send it back
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday were waiting to hear back from Democrats after they sent them a new offer to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which has been shut down since mid-February. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said the proposal would fund many of the agencies within DHS, including the Federal […]
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TSA union: Workers are ‘literally starving’ as DHS shutdown enters second month
Transportation Security Administration officers are struggling to afford basic necessities as they approach their second missed full paycheck since a funding lapse began last month, union leaders said at a virtual press conference Tuesday. Officials from the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 44,000 TSA officers nationwide, urged Congress to immediately find […]
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Supreme Court conservatives appear ready to revive Trump’s asylum turn-back policy
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed split Tuesday on whether the Trump administration should be allowed to turn away asylum-seekers who present themselves at ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border. The question presented to the justices was whether migrants have to fully cross into the United States in order to have the right […]
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ICE has been deporting pregnant and postpartum immigrants. Now we know how many.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained and deported hundreds of pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants since the start of the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed for the first time Wednesday. Federal policy says that such individuals should only be detained in limited circumstances. Between January 1, 2025, and February 16, 2026, […]
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Opioid overdose deaths dropped nearly 50% nationally — but not in Arizona
Since their peak less than three years ago, opioid overdose deaths dropped nearly by half as of October, according to a Stateline analysis. The drop comes as a shrinking fentanyl supply has made the drug weaker and less deadly and volunteer efforts get more people into treatment. The weaker fentanyl tracks to a crackdown on […]
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Arizona hires high-powered law firm, setting the stage for a legal battle over Colorado River water
Arizona is preparing for a legal battle over its rights to Colorado River water. Following an extraordinarily dry winter along the river basin and what’s expected to be an exceptionally hot and dry spring across the West, where high temperatures in March have already blown past records, the pressure to maintain access to the state’s […]
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Trump administration pushes to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is again trying to send the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the west African nation of Liberia and urging a federal judge to dismiss a bar on his removal, according to legal documents filed over the weekend. Abrego Garcia, of Maryland, has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, […]
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‘It reeks of a vendor bill’: Arizona radiation protection measure fails on a tie vote
A bill that would have mandated new protections for health care professionals against long-term radiation exposure risks is dead after failing to gain enough support due largely in part to concerns the bill benefited only a few companies. The legislation is a reaction to the increased cancer rate among cardiovascular interventionalists, heart specialists who specialize […]
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Phoenix among airports hit hardest as TSA staffing crisis reaches new peak, Trump deploys ICE agents
Airport security workers missed work Monday at the highest rate since a partial government shutdown began in mid-February, the Department of Homeland Security said, and the Trump administration sent immigration officials to some airports in an attempt to keep lines moving. Travelers reported hourslong security lines at major airports in Atlanta and Houston, while waits […]
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Trump claims ‘good and productive’ talks with Iran to end the war, but Iran calls it ‘fake news’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday said his administration is in talks with Iran about resolving the war, a claim that significantly tamped down oil prices and spurred market increases in Europe and the United States — though Iran denied any progress in negotiations. Writing on his social media platform, Truth Social, the president […]
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Supreme Court conservatives signal skepticism of mail-in ballot grace periods in 14 states
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the validity of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, in a case that could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of voters during the upcoming midterm elections. The high court heard arguments on whether federal law overrides a Mississippi law that requires mail-in ballots […]
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to revive border turn-back policy in asylum fight
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in a case to determine if a migrant on Mexico’s side of a border crossing with the United States can legally apply for asylum when arriving at a U.S. port of entry. The case, which stems from a policy during President Donald Trump’s first term […]
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Justice delayed: The legal chaos that has left Pinal County capital cases in limbo
Everyone was asleep when they kicked in the door, sometime before 8 a.m. Justin Yates was in a chair just outside the apartment, a one-story, yellow-block building in Casa Grande. They shot him in the head. Jose Aguilera and Connie Carrerra were asleep on a couch in the living room. They shot both of them […]
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Budget blow up: Hobbs blames ‘unserious’ Republicans who say she is throwing a ‘tantrum’
The annual battle over Arizona’s budget is getting nasty, after Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs walked away from negotiations because she said GOP lawmakers were “unserious,” while the Republicans who control the legislature responded by accusing her of throwing a “temper tantrum.” Hobbs announced Friday that she was calling off all state budget negotiations until Republicans […]
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DOJ subpoena reveals federal investigators sought virtually all records from Arizona’s 2020 audit
The grand jury subpoena earlier this month that led the Arizona Senate to give the U.S. Department of Justice terabytes of data, including images of ballots, related to the legislative chamber’s partisan review of the 2020 election shows that federal investigators sought virtually all of the records from that “audit.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office for […]
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