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Republicans back plan to force more classroom spending by threatening funding cuts
More than 1,000 teachers walked away from the profession last year, the latest fallout from the state’s yearslong inability to keep teachers in the classroom. To address that, Republicans don’t want to boost school funding to increase salaries, but instead want to force school districts to spend the majority of their existing budgets on classroom […]
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White House calls Arizona’s nearly $5 gas a ‘short-term disruption’ as Hegseth refuses to rule out ground troops
WASHINGTON — The White House defended skyrocketing gas prices Tuesday as a “short-term disruption” during the ongoing war in Iran, as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the administration will not “foreclose any option” in the conflict, including boots on the ground. Briefing publicly for the first time since March 19, Hegseth said it will […]
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White House calls Arizona’s nearly $5 gas a ‘short-term disruption’ as Hegseth refuses to rule out ground
WASHINGTON — The White House defended skyrocketing gas prices Tuesday as a “short-term disruption” during the ongoing war in Iran, as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the administration will not “foreclose any option” in the conflict, including boots on the ground. Briefing publicly for the first time since March 19, Hegseth said it will […]
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‘Everyone born here is a citizen alike’: Supreme Court poised to reject Trump’s birthright citizenship order
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday seemed poised to reject the Trump administration’s attempt to redefine the constitutional right to birthright citizenship, and instead uphold the country’s long understanding of citizenship by birth on American soil. If a majority of Supreme Court justices strikes down President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship […]
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Arizona part of coalition of states suing Trump administration over toxic air rule rollback
A coalition of 21 state and local governments filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of a 2024 rule that established limits for toxic air pollutants. The regulation, known as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule, limits emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants. It covers pollutants including mercury, arsenic, lead and […]
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Trump escalates election takeover bid with ‘clearly unconstitutional’ executive order targeting mail-in voting
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that attempts to restrict mail-in voting, a White House priority certain to face significant legal challenges. The order directs the U.S. Department of Homeland Security along with the Social Security Administration to compile a list of voting-age American citizens in each state and share it […]
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Supreme Court sides with Christian counselor in conversion therapy free speech case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a conservative Christian counselor who argued that Colorado’s 2019 law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ minors may violate her First Amendment right to free speech. The court’s 8-1 opinion, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, holds that the Colorado law seeks to “regulate speech based on viewpoint,” and […]
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Is the United States becoming like Germany in the 1930s? Yes and no.
Editor’s note: This essay is now being incorporated into an emergency collection of prose and poems called ICE OUT: MINNESOTA AUTHORS RISING UP, published by Minnesota-based Afton Press and Calumet Editions. “Was Germany in the 1930s anything like the US now?” I get asked that a lot, not because I was there but because my […]
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Rep. Walt Blackman faces ballot challenge over $168,000 in unpaid campaign finance fines
Republican Rep. Walt Blackman is facing an election challenge from a former political rival who says the northern Arizona Republican should be disqualified from seeking reelection because he owes the state more than $168,000 in fines and penalties for late campaign finance filings. Steve Slaton, who owns the Trumped Store in Show Low, a popular […]
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States pass laws allowing crisis pregnancy centers to evade regulation and countersue for damages
States with and without abortion bans are advancing bills that would shield anti-abortion pregnancy resource centers from certain government mandates and attempts at regulation, allowing them to sue for damages if any part of the law is violated. At least four states introduced the legislation this session, and two of them, Kansas and Wyoming, made it […]
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Arizona wipes Cesar Chavez Day from state law in bipartisan rebuke of the labor icon
Just a day before the statewide celebration of Cesar Chavez, the Arizona legislature agreed to repeal the law establishing it in a bipartisan rebuke of the former labor leader’s sexual abuse against women and girls. More than two decades ago, lawmakers enshrined March 31 into state law as Dr. Cesar Estrada Chavez Day. The farmworker […]
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Trump wants the Supreme Court to redefine who is American by reinterpreting the 14th Amendment to end birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case that could reshape the understanding of who is American by birth. The case, Trump v. Barbara, challenges President Donald Trump’s executive order that redefines citizenship to exclude children born to parents who either do not have legal status, or hold temporary legal […]
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Reproductive health care restrictions likely to repel provider workforce, research shows
When an Alabama clinic’s only OB-GYN left the state to provide abortion care in Colorado, the head of operations thought the facility would have to close. But Robin Marty, executive director at WAWC Healthcare in Tuscaloosa, hired a doctor in August who she called a “unicorn” — someone who’s from Alabama and, after training outside […]
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Trump’s war on states is pushing American federalism to a breaking point
As the United States of America marks its 250th anniversary this year, the relationship between the states and the federal government is approaching a breaking point. Led by a bellicose president, the executive branch has moved to dominate states, resulting in more than a year of escalating confrontations between the two levels of government. President […]
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Democrats take a page from the GOP playbook with new partisan voter registration program
In a move to stanch a yearslong drop in the number of voters who register as Democrats, the Democratic National Committee is taking a page out of the GOP’s playbook and is launching a partisan voter registration program. For most of the past decade, Democrats have largely outsourced voter registration efforts to allied nonprofit organizations. […]
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‘Without those checks, he’s a king’: Thousands rally across Arizona against Trump for No Kings
Dripping sweat onto the pavement as they marched through downtown Phoenix on Saturday afternoon, thousands of protesters withstood unseasonably hot March weather to tell President Donald Trump that the U.S. is a country with “No Kings.” They came to Phoenix’s main No Kings Day protest and marched several miles to the state Capitol carrying signs, […]
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No Kings Day rallies draw crowds large, small throughout country as Americans protest Donald Trump
Protesters took to the streets in cities and rural communities Saturday to rally against President Donald Trump’s policies in the third No Kings demonstration since the Republican’s return to office last year. Organizers said there were more than 3,000 events across the nation expected to draw millions. It came one month after the U.S.-Israeli war […]
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Arizona won’t put Charlie Kirk’s name on a freeway after Hobbs vetoes a GOP bill
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday blocked Republicans from renaming the Loop 202 freeway in the East Valley after the slain conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. This veto comes just weeks after the Democrat vetoed another GOP-backed bill that would have created a specialty license plate in honor of Kirk. That proposal would have given $17 […]
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Bipartisan bill aims to fix communication failures that contributed to Emily Pike’s death
A bipartisan group of state legislators hopes that improving communication between the state’s Native American tribes and the Arizona Department of Child Services will help to prevent tragedies like the murder of 14-year-old Emily Pike from happening again. A member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, Pike had run away from a DCS-operated group home […]
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As No Kings protests grow, a bigger question looms: What comes next?
Thousands of protests are scheduled across the United States on Saturday as part of the “No Kings” movement opposing President Donald Trump’s administration. Organizers expect millions of people to turn out for this third round of No Kings demonstrations, with more than 3,000 local-level events mapped on the movement’s official website. Previous No Kings protests, […]
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