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GOP-backed ‘preborn child’ legislation could imperil future abortion access
Over a year ago, Arizona voters told Republican lawmakers to stay out a woman’s decision to terminate a pregnancy. That hasn’t stopped them from pushing laws that include phrases like “unborn” or “preborn child,” and reproductive rights experts say that’s an intentional strategy to chip away at abortion access. Israel Cook, the state legislative counsel […]
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Rhetoric versus reality: Facts about the abortion pill
As telehealth access to abortion medication has grown in the years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, anti-abortion groups and attorneys general from states with abortion bans are accelerating efforts to ban access to the medication, including by attempting to revoke the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill sued […]
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Trump’s DHS pick Markwayne Mullin would inherit Kristi Noem’s messes
WASHINGTON — If Oklahoma GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin is confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of Homeland Security, he will take over an agency that has faced a weeks-long funding lapse, public blowback to its immigration enforcement strategy and a bottleneck of disaster relief awards left by his predecessor that drew bipartisan ire. […]
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Rural Arizonans fight bill that would let a hedge fund sell their water to Phoenix
A New York City-based hedge fund wants to pump water from an aquifer in rural La Paz County to sell it to Phoenix. Despite fierce opposition from the people who live there and rely on the aquifer, a GOP-led push at the state Capitol to let that happen is attracting bipartisan support. The McMullen Valley […]
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DOJ lost three voter data lawsuits. Now it’s suggesting it won’t accept the midterm results as legitimate.
The U.S. Department of Justice has begun connecting its push to obtain sensitive personal data on millions of voters to whether the upcoming midterm elections will be fair and secure, laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to potentially cast doubt on the results. The Justice Department has sued 29 states and the District of […]
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Hospital administrators push back on bills to protect doctors, nurses from radiation exposure
A trio of Republican bills with bipartisan backing aimed at requiring hospitals to provide new protections for health care professionals against long-term radiation exposure risks is running into stiff opposition from hospital administrators. The legislation is a reaction to the increased cancer rate among cardiovascular interventionalists, heart specialists who specialize in surgeries and procedures that […]
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Federal order seeks major capacity increase at proposed Marana ICE detention center
A former prison in Marana slated to become an immigration detention center has a capacity of 513 people, according to state documents. But a procurement order released by the federal government aims to push that capacity to 775. That’s a change that local advocates say would be devastating for detained people. “There is no way […]
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Arizona’s 2020 election lies are back — and the people who spread them now work for Trump
Arizona is once again at center stage for false election claims after federal agents subpoenaed 2020 election information from the state Senate and unfounded allegations from President Donald Trump have led to a flurry of debunked election conspiracy theories resurfacing online. On Monday morning, Trump shared an article that claimed that the Federal Bureau of […]
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Trump keeps delaying action on abortion pill, and the anti-abortion movement is losing patience
For the second time this year, the Trump administration is trying to at least delay another legal attempt to curb access to medication abortion. The U.S. Department of Justice late Friday afternoon asked a federal court in Missouri to either pause or dismiss a lawsuit over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision last year to approve […]
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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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