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Arizona GOP moves to defund teachers union after it targeted school voucher program
The Arizona Education Association is the state’s largest teachers union, and it frequently advocates for or against legislation and political candidates on behalf of its more than 22,000 members. Republican lawmakers want to make it harder for the union to exist. Last month, GOP legislators gutted a bill about minimum wage to create a proposal […]
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Arizona Republicans advance bill that would make it easier for politicians to sue critics
Republican lawmakers would be able to sue people who use social media to criticize them and call them names under a bill they approved that would make it easier for politicians to file defamation cases against their critics. Among other things, the proposal would lower the long-held legal standard for public figures — like politicians […]
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Dems demand answers on US strike that killed 168 at Iranian elementary school
WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense must quickly release the results of its investigation into whether the U.S. military bombed a girls’ elementary school in Iran that left at least 168 people dead, according to a letter sent Wednesday that was signed by nearly every Senate Democrat. “To be clear, the war against Iran is […]
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DNC files suit after Trump officials won’t say if armed agents will patrol polling places
WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee Tuesday filed a lawsuit in federal court aiming to force the Trump administration to admit if it plans to send armed federal law enforcement or U.S. troops to polling locations in the upcoming midterm elections. The suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charges that 11 […]
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Top Arizona officials urge counties to withhold voter data as FBI, DHS relitigate state’s elections
Arizona’s top law enforcement official and chief election officer are warning county officials not to hand over full, unredacted voter files to the federal government amid probes by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security into the state’s 2020 election. Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes […]
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Trump’s Iran war is estimated to cost in the billions already, with no end in sight
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have not formally authorized a war in Iran, though they may soon be expected to approve emergency funding for the endeavor without any projection from the Trump administration as to how long it may last or the full cost, not just in dollars but in American troop and civilian lives. […]
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Arizona Senate passes bill targeting doctor pay for vaccine rates amid measles surge
An Arizona senator and vaccine skeptic says legislation she proposed would help unvaccinated children get access to health care, but her bill doesn’t address the reason that many pediatricians’ offices say they won’t treat unvaccinated kids. Sen. Janae Shamp, a vaccine skeptic who says she was fired from a nursing job for refusing the COVID-19 […]
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Democrats fuming after Iran War briefing: ‘I’m not sure what the end game is’
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats tasked with overseeing defense left a classified briefing Tuesday incensed about President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, as the United States and Israel continue their joint bombardment and families prepare to bury seven American service members killed in the conflict. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who sits on the Senate Armed Services […]
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GOP bill to extend child support to conception is really an abortion ban, critics say
Republican lawmakers want to allow pregnant women to seek child support dating back to the first positive pregnancy test, a move that critics say is an attempt to ban all abortions in Arizona by enshrining fetal personhood into state law. The legislation would allow judges to issue orders mandating child support payments that cover pregnancy-related […]
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Arizona Senate moves to force counties back to precinct voting, hamper ballot initiatives
Republicans in the Arizona Senate have passed legislation that would make getting citizen initiatives on the ballot more difficult and revert all counties to precinct-based voting. GOP lawmakers in the Grand Canyon State have been trying for years to put more hurdles in front of citizens who want to put initiatives directly to voters. House […]
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Trump sends mixed signals on Iran war end, pushes election overhaul bill
President Donald Trump on Monday told House Republicans, who were gathered in Florida for a policy retreat, that he expects the war in Iran will wrap up “quickly,” though he didn’t give a specific date or detail exactly what he wants to do before ending the hostilities. “We took a little excursion because we felt […]
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Maricopa County pushes back on Trump’s viral claim of FBI election records subpoena
Despite claims from an online news outlet with a history of posting false information that have been amplified by President Donald Trump, Maricopa County has not received a subpoena from the FBI for election information. On Monday morning, Trump shared an article that claimed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had issued a grand jury […]
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Trump’s Iran War sends gas prices soaring at one of the fastest rates in years
WASHINGTON — Americans are paying more for gas Monday as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran chokes off a significant route for roughly one-fifth of the world’s petroleum products. Global prices for Brent crude oil, the international standard, climbed over $100 a barrel. Prices were just above $70 a barrel in the days before the U.S. […]
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Hobbs vetoes Charlie Kirk license plate bill
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill that would have created a specialty license plate in honor of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed while speaking at a college campus in Utah last year. “Charlie Kirk’s assassination is tragic and a horrifying act of violence,” Hobbs wrote in her veto letter. […]
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Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ will slash state Medicaid budgets by $665 billion, report finds
State Medicaid budgets will be reduced by a total of $665 billion over the next decade, after President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts federal investment in the health insurance program, according to a new analysis. Researchers from RAND Health, a policy and research nonprofit, analyzed state and federal data to estimate how […]
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Jobs losses, rising unemployment and Iran War sparks recession fears
WASHINGTON — The United States lost 92,000 jobs in February, edging unemployment up slightly according to the latest employment figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report showed, for the third time in the last five months, losses among nonfarm jobs and highlighted a continued “trend down” in the information sector and federal […]
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‘They’re giving me up to die’
Greg Parr was sentenced to10 years in prison for possession of child pornography in 2016. He was a talented artist, and he told his wife he was using the images for drawings he planned. As flimsy as that excuse was, and as revolting as the images may have been, he was not sentenced to death […]
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Blue states push to ban ICE at the polls amid federal voter intimidation fears
Several Democratic states are moving to bar federal immigration agents from being near polling places and other election sites, amid persistent worries that President Donald Trump will use federal law enforcement or the military to disrupt the midterm elections. Measures to restrict federal agents from operating at or near election-related locations have been offered in […]
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Arizona families say AHCCCS left autistic children stranded without therapy options
The families of hundreds of children with autism spectrum disorder fear they’ll lose access to therapies they rely on, and they say that Arizona’s Medicaid program is to blame. Families and advocates gathered Thursday at the state Capitol in Phoenix to call on the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state’s Medicaid plan, to […]
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Judge gives Arizona 8 months to fix unconstitutional school funding system
A judge ordered state lawmakers to properly fund school construction and maintenance in Arizona, a move that comes more than six months after he ruled that the state has unconstitutionally underfunded public schools. In a final judgment in a case that began in 2017, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dewain Fox wrote that state lawmakers […]
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