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Arizona indicts man for using AI to create child sex abuse images
A Chandler man will be the first person in Arizona prosecuted under a new law that makes it a felony to create AI-generated child pornography. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office on Tuesday announced that it had indicted William Powderly, 44, for possessing child sexual abuse material, including two images in which AI was used to […]
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Maricopa County’s election IT fight isn’t about IT. It’s about democracy.
Democracy in Maricopa County is dangerously close to falling into the hands of a partisan actor with direct ties to President Donald Trump’s election conspiracy machine. On April 17, the Maricopa County Superior Court issued a landmark ruling that could hand Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap total control over our election IT infrastructure. While the […]
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Senate panel advances Hobbs’ National Guard nominee after combative GOP-led hearing
Republican senators spent hours on Monday grilling the Democratic governor’s nominee to lead the Arizona National Guard and criticizing him for perceived transgressions like his “lawyerly attitude” toward decisionmaking. The Arizona Senate Director Nominations Committee hearing was marked by the contentious exchanges and focus on political talking points that have become a hallmark of the […]
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Some immigrants face indefinite detention, likely leading to Supreme Court case
As appeals courts split on the constitutionality of mandatory detention for millions of immigrants, the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to decide the matter. A Trump administration policy threatening imprisonment without bond has been struck down by three appeals courts, which could soon be joined by a fourth, but upheld by two others. The conflicting […]
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Prosecutors seek death penalty against man who confessed to killing 3 at Tucson prison
More than a year after he confessed to stabbing and beating three men to death at a Tucson prison, the Pinal County Attorney’s Office has filed its intent to seek the death penalty against Ricky Wassenaar. Wassenaar, 63, was already serving 16 life sentences for crimes he committed while trying to break out of prison […]
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Supreme Court keeps telehealth abortion access alive for now, but May 14 deadline looms
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended a highly anticipated stay blocking an appellate court’s pause on telehealth abortion access until May 14. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approved medication-abortion regimen remains available via telehealth until then, following a week of uncertainty among abortion patients and providers. “With this critical temporary administrative stay extended, […]
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Blue states fight back as Trump withholds billions in congressionally approved funding
Editor’s note: This is the second article in The 50 vs. The One, an occasional series examining the current fraught moment and what evolving — and often deteriorating — state-federal ties mean for the country. Read the first article here. President Donald Trump is wielding power in unprecedented ways to bring states to heel, marking […]
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Arizona lawmakers will collect $200K in per diem during their month off, work or not
While the Arizona legislature is on break for the rest of May, lawmakers will collectively make nearly $200,000 in daily subsistence payments, whether or not they travel to the Capitol or do any work. The Republicans who control the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona Senate voted on May 5 to adjourn for the […]
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Trump so far failing in quest for power over elections as midterms approach
As President Donald Trump tries to assert power over U.S. elections, he has raged on social media, cajoled Republican lawmakers and unleashed the Department of Justice on his political enemies. What has he accomplished with all that effort? Not a lot. Six months before the November midterm elections, the Trump administration’s quest to exercise authority […]
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Teachers warn GOP union-busting bill could worsen Arizona’s near-last school funding rank
Just a few dozen former and current public school teachers showed up for an announced union rally in downtown Phoenix against Republican efforts to legislate the state’s largest teachers union out of existence because it is spearheading a ballot measure to sharply curb the state’s universal private school voucher program. Decked out in bright red […]
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Republicans want Arizona to opt into a federal voucher scam ripe for waste and fraud
Are you tired of hearing reports about millions misspent on voucher-funded Disneyland trips, appliances and lingerie? Well, if Arizona Republicans at the state legislature have their way, get ready for a whole lot more stories of voucher waste, fraud and abuse. This week, Republican lawmakers pushed through an irresponsible, non-negotiated budget (which Gov. Katie Hobbs […]
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How a legal challenge over gender dysphoria became a fight for disability rights
Charlotte Cravins’ son Landry turned 2 in January. He’s a smiley little boy who loves singing “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and recently got his first pair of glasses. Landry was born with Down syndrome and has impaired vision. He receives publicly funded therapies that have helped him learn to crawl, to pull himself up to stand, […]
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As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages
From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that usually blankets the high country well into the summer. That snowpack is like a savings account that the West draws on when the hot, dry months arrive. It moistens the landscape as it melts, […]
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Once again, federal courts blocked Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s trade agenda faced another major setback Thursday when the U.S. Court of International Trade handed a win to two small businesses and the state of Washington after they challenged the president’s 10% global tariffs, imposed after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his previous emergency tariff regime. In a 2-1 […]
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Mark Kelly calls Trump’s attempt to strip his retirement rank over free speech ‘absurd’ and ‘outrageous’
WASHINGTON — Attorneys for the Trump administration argued before a federal appeals court Thursday the Pentagon should be able to reprimand Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly for reminding members of the military they can refuse illegal orders, and for criticizing the Defense Department. Lawyers from the Justice Department told the three-judge panel that even though […]
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Campaign launched to enshrine vote-by-mail in state constitution and counter GOP restrictions
A coalition of Arizona Democrats have an uphill battle as they work to enshrine voting rights, including the right to no-excuse vote-by-mail, into the state constitution. During a Wednesday evening livestream, U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari announced the launch of the Committee to Protect the Vote Arizona, a campaign to collect 500,000 voter signatures to put […]
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Pima County can require judicial warrants before letting ICE onto its property, Mayes says
Pima County can legally refuse to allow federal agents to use county property for immigration enforcement actions because neither federal nor state law mandate the county’s cooperation, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes concluded And that means there’s no basis to the complaint GOP state lawmakers lodged against a county policy requiring a judicial warrant for […]
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Trump’s acting AG vows foreign terrorism charges for American street gangs
Interim U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday that federal prosecutors intend to pursue terrorism charges against members of American street gangs as an extension of President Donald Trump’s move last year to designate foreign drug cartels as terrorist organizations. Blanche told attendees at the 2026 Border Security Expo in Phoenix that federal prosecutors intend […]
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Protesters outside the White House call for ending detention for migrant families, kids
By Naisha Roy/Medill News Service WASHINGTON — Dozens of people gathered on a sandy lot in front of the White House construction zone Tuesday evening, carrying posters peppered with monarch butterflies and unfurling massive banners reading “Set kids free.” The butterflies symbolized immigrants without legal status, as the protesters called to abolish all detention facilities […]
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Rising healthcare costs threaten Republican margins as midterms approach, poll finds
WASHINGTON — Voters, including those within the Make America Healthy Again movement, say the rising cost of healthcare is a significant concern that will have an impact on whom they support in November’s midterm elections, according to a poll released Wednesday by KFF. Sixty-one percent of respondents to the survey, which asked how important several health-related […]
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