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Housing starts sink to pandemic levels as builders worry about inflation
May housing starts fell to the lowest level since the pandemic disrupted construction six years ago, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Builder confidence has dropped recently because of higher material and financing costs. The change threatens to exacerbate housing shortages and disrupt recent progress in most states toward building enough new housing for new […]
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Election officials reel over ‘logistical nightmare’ as Trump’s mail ballot order takes shape
As election officials across the country steel themselves for the midterm elections in less than five months, President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail threatens to upend their preparations. The executive order instructs the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver ballots in states that don’t provide lists of voters or meet other […]
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Mayes marks DACA anniversary by vowing legal fight as Trump targets Dreamers
On the 14th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes vowed to keep defending the Dreamers who were brought to the country as children and remain undocumented. “I want every Dreamer in Arizona to know this: You have an attorney general in me who will fight for your […]
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Kennedy Center under wraps: Tarp hides facade days after Trump name was forced down
Days after President Donald Trump’s name was removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a large tarp and scaffolding was still blocking the building’s facade from public view Monday afternoon. Construction crews took Trump’s name off the center early Saturday morning after a federal appeals court upheld a Friday deadline for its […]
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Republican legislators put measure to change voting procedures on November ballot
In a contentious late-night vote, the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature on Friday placed a measure on the November ballot that, if passed by voters, would significantly alter voting in the state. The measure, HCR 2001, would make various changes to voting procedures, most notably requiring all voters, even those who vote by mail, to provide “valid […]
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Trump celebrates 80th birthday with UFC bloodsport, conspiracy theories at the White House
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump celebrated his 80th birthday Sunday cageside at a multimillion-dollar bloody mixed martial arts event staged on the White House South Lawn, punctuated by fighter jet flyovers, a live military band and fireworks to mark the country’s 250th anniversary. It also included the airing of a conspiracy theory about a former […]
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Hobbs signs $18.3B Arizona budget, calling Trump-conforming tax cuts a ‘historic’ win
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an $18.3 billion state budget into law on Saturday, about two weeks ahead of the deadline to avoid a state government shutdown. The package of budget bills that garnered wide bipartisan support was the result of weeks of negotiations between the Republicans who control both chambers of the Arizona Legislature, […]
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AZ Legislature ends 2026 session after late-night GOP push to send conservative agenda to voters
The Arizona Legislature adjourned for the year early Saturday morning, after four days of rapid-fire votes on hundreds of pieces of legislation and a marathon last day that saw Republicans send a series of measures to the November ballot in the hopes that voters let them enact policies Gov. Katie Hobbs won’t. Legislators started the […]
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After compromise dies, Arizona GOP rushes through ballot referral to block voucher reforms
In the final hours of the annual legislative session, Republican lawmakers pushed through a ballot referral that, if approved by voters, would nullify two citizen-led initiatives aimed at regulating the state’s billion-dollar school voucher program. The move came after a failed last-ditch effort to avoid a public vote on the voucher program led by the […]
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Congress let a key spying law expire amid distrust of Trump moves on national security
WASHINGTON — For the first time in nearly two decades, Congress missed a deadline for reauthorization of a key surveillance authority, raising questions about whether the U.S. government can continue to monitor certain communications. Lawmakers have regularly approved short- and long-term extensions for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act since 2008, clearing the […]
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UFC fight on White House lawn will go on Sunday after judge denies emergency challenge
The Ultimate Fighting Championship cage matches set to take place on the White House South Lawn on Sunday will go on as scheduled, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta denied an emergency petition from two Virginia plaintiffs to stop the fight until the court litigates allegations that the […]
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Judge blocks Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ slush fund until government agrees it’s been dissolved
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a preliminary injunction Friday halting the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for one week, giving the government time to sign a “clear, unambiguous” agreement that the fund is dead. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said from the bench the agreement […]
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As AI use in schools grows, lawmakers and districts scramble to set up guardrails
With many students and educators already using widely available artificial intelligence tools, state lawmakers and school districts are playing catch-up on AI policies. In Maryland, for example, AI usage policies for K-12 schools are “all over the map,” Democratic state Sen. Katie Fry Hester said. In some school districts, she said, AI use is encouraged, […]
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Arizona’s $18.3B budget passes with $1.4B in Trump tax cuts and a data center freeze
Legislators from both sides of the aisle tripped over one another on Thursday to take credit for provisions of the new state budget that might be popular with their constituents and to blame the opposition for portions that could cause heartburn. After a day of patting themselves and other members of their parties on the […]
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With giant IUD outside Capitol, Arizona Democrats call on GOP to protect contraception access
Standing in front of a 20-foot tall, inflatable IUD across the street from the state Capitol, Democratic lawmakers lambasted Republicans for blocking efforts to ensure Arizonans have a right to contraception. In 2023, on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court eliminating the constitutional right to abortion — a decision that prompted Justice Thomas […]
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Corporate logos abound on White House grounds in prep for UFC fight
WASHINGTON — Advertisements for Polymarket and Bud Light lined an eight-sided cage on the White House grounds Thursday ahead of a series of mixed martial arts fights scheduled for Sunday, President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, and billed as a celebration of America’s 250th birthday. The Las Vegas-based Ultimate Fighting Championship company, whose chief executive is […]
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Nearly half of adults struggled to afford healthcare last year, survey finds
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults — regardless of insurance type — reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank. The report analyzed findings from a December 2025 survey of 10,000 working-age adults across the nation. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson […]
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Senate Democrats press CFTC to crack down on insider trading in booming prediction markets
WASHINGTON — A group of 16 U.S. Senate Democrats is calling on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to tighten its regulation of prediction markets, citing concerns over insider trading and other consumer harms as betting on future events grows in popularity. The senators, led by Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee ranking Democrat Amy Klobuchar, of […]
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‘The Dumocrats are at it again’: Trump baselessly attacks California election in a midterm preview
California often takes days or even weeks to tally votes after its elections, a product of measures to protect voters and a deluge of mail ballots dropped off on Election Day. Incomplete vote totals reported in the hours after polls close don’t always reflect final results. None of this is evidence of fraud. But President […]
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Utah senator: AZ it will forfeit millions in conservation aid if it sues over Colorado River water
WASHINGTON – The chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee warned Arizona and two other states that rely on the Colorado River on Wednesday that they will lose access to hundreds of millions in conservation aid if they pursue litigation over water rights. Roughly $354 million is still available under a 2022 climate […]
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