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Private equity owns nearly 1 in 4 Arizona apartments — and renters are paying for it
Private equity firms own nearly 3 million apartment units, about 13% of the total apartments across the country, according to a new analysis from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project. And most have been fairly recent purchases. The companies acquired more than 1.7 million of those, or 57%, since 2018, and about 45% of them […]
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Arizona veterans urge GOP to back War Powers Resolution, honor 13 Americans killed in Iran
Days after the U.S. Senate took a pivotal step that could end the war in Iran, Arizona veterans gathered at the state Capitol to urge Congressional Republicans to coalesce behind that effort. On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted 50-47 to advance a War Powers Resolution that could block President Donald Trump from engaging in further […]
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Officers beaten on Jan. 6 call Trump’s $1.8B fund ‘most brazen act of presidential corruption this century’
Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay people said to be victims of judicial weaponization, saying the fund would aid and encourage the pro-Trump rioters who attacked that Capitol that day and still […]
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Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap threatens felony charges over ‘unauthorized’ drop boxes
A messy and longstanding feud between Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors over control of the key swing county’s elections has spilled over into a new arena. On Wednesday, Heap sent a letter to the board asserting his office’s authority over ballot drop boxes and warning that election workers […]
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West Valley teen said he ‘went Batman’ to stop Surprise ICE detention center, feds say
A 19-year-old West Valley resident is facing federal criminal charges for attempting to set fire to a Surprise warehouse that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to turn into a 1,500-bed detention center. In February, a window at the warehouse was broken and police found a propane tank had been thrown into the building in […]
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US House passes a ‘Don’t say trans’ bill that would force schools to out students
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday that would require parental consent before a public elementary or middle school can update a student’s pronouns, gender markers or preferred name on records in order to receive federal funding. The measure — which succeeded 217-198 — would also bar federal funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act […]
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Four Mountain West states join forces to accelerate geothermal energy development
With a newly established Mountain West Geothermal Consortium, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico are joining forces to tap what could be hundreds of gigawatts of always on, clean energy lying underground in the Mountain West region. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, announced the new group on […]
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High gas prices, Iran war and Trump’s abysmal approval drag down GOP ahead of midterms
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — When Vice President JD Vance pitched voters on electing Republicans to Congress this November during a trip to a Kansas City manufacturing plant on Monday, he delivered the message while standing in a newly gerrymandered U.S. House district. “If you want congressional leadership that fights to lower your taxes, that fights […]
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Arizona nurses say Prop. 139 should give them the right to perform abortions
Nearly twenty years ago, Republicans in Arizona passed laws barring nurses from providing abortions. That could change under the state’s newly adopted right to abortion, but it will be almost a year before a judge will get a chance to render a verdict. In February, the Arizona branch of the American Civil Liberties Union filed […]
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Trump won’t rule out troops at the polls as fight over election control intensifies before midterms
President Donald Trump is again demanding Congress pass a sweeping set of voting restrictions and refuses to rule out sending troops to the polls, as Democrats and voting rights groups assemble a sprawling effort to guard against federal election interference. The fight over election security is intensifying in Washington, D.C., as the White House and […]
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‘No more business as usual’: Protesters demand accountability after SCOTUS guts Voting Rights Act
WASHINGTON — About 100 rallygoers gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to hear from activists and members of Congress protesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down federal protections for the voting power of minorities. The justices diluted a major part of the Voting Rights Act in their 6-3 decision on April 29 that declared […]
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‘I’m going home’: Leroy McGill executed for 2002 napalm attack that killed one, burned another
He already looked like a corpse when they opened the curtains. Pale, shaved head, eyes closed, a white sheet up to his neck Leroy McGill, 63, a convicted murderer, lay on a gurney in the death house at the old Florence Prison. At exactly 10 a.m., he had climbed onto the gurney, visible on a […]
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Arizona leads nation in child deaths by parents in custody cases. A new bill aims to change that.
Alec Agape Mater and Lydia Alyssa Mater weren’t at school on Monday, May 20, 2024. Lydia had turned six the week prior. She had excelled in kindergarten and teachers said she was already at first-grade level. Alec was about to finish second grade. At the upcoming graduation ceremony, he was to be recognized for reading […]
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Overflowing toilets, no medical care: Democrats call Mesa ICE facility a ‘public health issue’
Members of Congress are still concerned about a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Mesa after seeing cells still overcrowded and finding out that toilets at the facility “regularly overflow” after an unannounced visit Tuesday night. This is the second surprise oversight visit to the facility located at Mesa-Gateway Airport known as the […]
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States say Trump admin unlawfully redefined ‘professional degree,’ cutting off loans for healthcare workers
WASHINGTON — A coalition of Democratic attorneys general and governors sued the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday over forthcoming regulations that will impose new borrowing limits for students pursuing certain advanced degree programs. The lawsuit — filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland — challenges a portion of the incoming federal student […]
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Trump is turning DACA into a deportation pipeline, one expired permit at a time
Some Dreamers have had enough — enough of the broken promises and the uncertainty that comes with living in fear of deportation despite pledging allegiance to this country and the U.S. Constitution since childhood. “DACA has done beautiful things…it has given us a lot of opportunities,” said immigration attorney Salvador Macias. “But I’ve always said […]
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Miscarriage patients have fewer treatment options in states with abortion bans, study shows
Pregnant patients experiencing miscarriage who live in states with abortion bans have fewer options for healthcare management, according to a new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, published May 18, found a shift away from managing miscarriages with a two-drug approach that includes mifepristone — which has been the […]
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Trump sued his own government. His DOJ settled. Now there’s a $1.7B ‘slush fund’ for his allies.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday a new “anti-weaponization” settlement fund as a condition of President Donald Trump voluntarily dropping his multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service for the leak of his tax returns several years ago. Trump, his sons Don Jr. and Eric, and the Trump Organization moved to drop […]
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Audit finds Arizona’s universal school voucher oversight is ‘haphazard,’ riddled with gaps
The Arizona Department of Education prioritized appeasing voucher school parents angry about payment backlogs over implementing a new oversight law, a report from the Arizona Auditor General shows. In response to the report, the Education Department defended its practices, saying its lack of action to claw back money paid for unallowable purchases, like a $1,000 […]
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Audit find Arizona’s universal school voucher oversight is ‘haphazard,’ riddled with gaps
The Arizona Department of Education prioritized appeasing voucher school parents angry about payment backlogs over implementing a new oversight law, a report from the Arizona Auditor General shows. In response to the report, the Education Department defended its practices, saying its lack of action to claw back money paid for unallowable purchases, like a $1,000 […]
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