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Arizona’s $18.3B budget deal sets up Thursday vote — and leaves little room for changes
Now that legislative leaders from both parties have reached a budget agreement with Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, they’ve entered the annual sprint to pass the package of proposed bills before anyone changes their mind. That doesn’t leave much time for state and local government agencies, much less voters, to point out problems or advocate […]
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Phoenix, Mesa and other cities oppose Republican plan to slash Arizona photo radar fines
The price of tickets issued by speed or red-light cameras would be reduced by more than a third under a proposal that has the backing of the Republican legislative majority, who ignored concerns from cities in Maricopa County that say it would take away a critical incentive for Arizona drivers to follow the law. The […]
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Billions for the next 3 years of Trump’s mass deportation campaign signed into law
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump significantly bolstered funding for immigration enforcement Wednesday when he signed into law a nearly $70 billion package that will keep key federal agencies operating without any new restrictions. Democrats pressed for guardrails after immigration officers shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January. But when talks broke down, […]
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Trump administration’s new prediction market rules hand the industry ‘almost everything it wants’
The Trump administration Wednesday proposed new regulations for online prediction markets that would ban bets on war, assassination and other extreme events, but still allow many sports bets to operate on the growing platforms. Critics say the proposed rules don’t do enough to rein in an industry that has sparked jurisdictional battles between state and […]
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How Mohave County circumvented library policy to purge LGBTQ+ books
When Brian Walter requested a book from his local library, he didn’t expect an email informing him the title had been “weeded” — a library term typically used for removing outdated, damaged or unused materials from circulation. But the book wasn’t removed because it was worn out or unpopular. Instead, it was one of dozens […]
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Critics: Arizona’s ‘religious interference’ bill is a shield for anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion protests
Arizona Republicans want to make it a crime to disrupt religious activities, but critics warn it’s little more than a thinly veiled attempt to protect anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion protestors. On Tuesday, the state Senate gave preliminary approval to House Bill 4117, which would punish “interfering” with a religious service or activity with jail time. At […]
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Homeland Security retreats on plan to harvest data on millions of mail-in voters under Trump executive order
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is walking back, for now, a plan to sweep up data on millions of Americans who vote by mail under President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail ballots. In a federal court filing Monday night, the Justice Department significantly hedged the data-sharing plan, pulling back from a position the Trump […]
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Katie Hobbs agrees to fund 50 state troopers for immigration enforcement
Gov. Katie Hobbs struck a budget deal with Arizona Republicans that hires 100 new state troopers, 50 of which will be dedicated to “immigration enforcement and border security,” though the governor’s office said they won’t be aiding federal agents enforcing immigration laws. Instead, a spokesman for Hobbs said, the new troopers will be working to […]
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GOP lawmaker ties endangered wolves to ‘global government’ as Arizona ban heads to Hobbs
A bill that would disallow the state from transporting Mexican Gray Wolf pups into Arizona or spending any public money or resources on them will be heading to the governor’s desk after one Republican declared that 50 years of efforts to save the species from extinction are really part of a larger conspiracy to create […]
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Special prosecutor investigating latest election-control disagreement in Maricopa County
With mere weeks until voting begins in a high-stakes primary election, a long-standing disagreement over election control in Maricopa County is only getting more combative. In a new twist of the feud, a special prosecutor is looking into whether employees in the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office broke the law by allegedly removing a scanner and […]
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Arizona Republicans, Gov. Hobbs reach budget deal
Arizona’s Republican legislative leaders reached a budget deal with Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Democratic lawmakers, they announced Tuesday, weeks away from the June 30 deadline to avoid a state government shutdown. The $18.3 billion budget deal includes $1.45 billion in tax cuts that will bring the state’s tax code in line with changes made […]
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Iran downs U.S. Apache over Hormuz in major escalation of war Trump insists is over
WASHINGTON — U.S. forces launched renewed strikes on Iran late Tuesday, in response to the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter a day earlier, according to U.S. Central Command. President Donald Trump ordered the operation, which began at 5 p.m. Eastern and was “a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” a social media account for […]
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Arizona’s fake electors deserve a full legal reckoning, not a procedural escape hatch
It would be a lot easier for everyone to forget about the fake electors who schemed to keep Donald Trump in power. But I’m glad Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes doesn’t give up that easily. Mayes has said she’s undeterred after the Arizona Supreme Court dealt a blow to her felony indictments against the 11 […]
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Government watchdog: preventable deaths, millions wasted at Trump’s largest immigrant detention camp
WASHINGTON — A hastily constructed immigrant detention facility on a military base in Texas wasted millions in federal funding and failed to meet basic standards, according to a report released Tuesday by a nonpartisan government watchdog. The report by the Government Accountability Office documenting problems at Camp East Montana is one of the first independent […]
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Mayes: Pima County GOP can’t cite a single time the rules they want blocked were misused
Arizona’s Democratic attorney general and secretary of state are duking it out with Pima County Republicans, who want a U.S. District Court judge to block portions of the state’s elections rulebook ahead of the July 21 primary. The Oversight Project, on behalf of the Pima County Republican Party, argued in a May 1 complaint that […]
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Trump’s $100K fee for high-skilled visas is an illegal tax, federal judge rules
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts Monday struck down the Trump administration’s efforts to require a $100,000 visa fee for highly skilled immigrant workers, finding the policy is an unlawful tax. Judge Leo T. Sorokin found the hefty fee placed on the H-1B visa by President Donald Trump exceeded his authority by creating a […]
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Pentagon drops ‘Christian’ label entirely after dispute over Latter-day Saints chaplain list
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon changed course Monday after its removal of dozens of religious denominations from a list of recognized faiths drew intense criticism over the weekend from Utah Republicans incensed by the failure to classify the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Christian denomination. U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a member of […]
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Arizona ranks among worst states for bilingual preschoolers, new report finds
Despite being one the states with the highest number of bilingual children, Arizona is one of the worst states for them to go to preschool. A new report from the National Institute for Early Education Research found that the Grand Canyon State is among the states with the fewest supportive policies in place for students […]
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Federal judge: Trump freeze on asylum applications from 39 countries violates federal law
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Rhode Island Friday struck down several Trump administration policies that halted processing for asylum seekers following a shooting in Washington, D.C., that left one West Virginia National Guard member dead and another seriously injured. In a searing opinion, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. said the Trump administration “threw the lives […]
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SAVE America Act fails in the Senate as GOP defections doom Trump’s voting restrictions
The U.S. Senate rejected the SAVE America Act on Thursday, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to impose voting restrictions ahead of the November midterm elections. Senators voted 48-50 against advancing an amendment that would have incorporated Trump’s top legislative priority into an immigration-focused spending bill. The vote offered the clearest sign yet that despite […]
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