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Suspicious letters, some of which contained unknown substances, were sent to three of Arizona’s Democratic members of Congress, just days after the Secretary of State’s Office was evacuated because of an envelope filled with white powder. In a joint statement, U.S. Reps. Adelita Grijalva, Yassamin Ansari and Greg…
Democrats have used President Donald Trump’s unpopularity to expand the midterm map, and analysts project the party carries momentum heading into the final two weeks of the election cycle, even as Democrats are expected to flip fewer U.S. House seats than wave elections this century. The Cook Political Report with Amy…
Democratic U.S. Congressman Greg Stanton learned that the Department of Homeland Security was using a Federal Emergency Management Agency building as an immigration court, but when he went to inspect it, he was met with roadblocks. “No. 1, there is no signage indicating this is an immigration court room,” Stanton told…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. The new division is set to work with the agency’s existing Office of Research on Women’s Health, which was established in 1990 and “has served as the focal point for…
If Republicans can’t hold on to a pair of legislative seats in a competitive and wealthy legislative district, Democrats could find themselves in control of the Arizona House of Representatives for the first time in 60 years. While Republicans labor to maintain the majority they’ve held in the chamber uninterrupted…
Party control is up for grabs in 15 state legislative chambers across the country as Republicans are increasingly on the defensive this midterm election cycle, a new analysis found. The nonpartisan newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics released its final analysis of state…
WASHINGTON — A couple hundred people carrying decorated umbrellas walked from the former Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House to the U.S. Capitol lawn Saturday for a No Kings get-out-the-vote event in the nation’s capital. No Kings, a coalition that has drawn millions of Americans to protests three times…
Tens of thousands of Arizonans rallied and voted early on Saturday as part of the fourth No Kings day of protest that saw 44 demonstrations across the Grand Canyon State in opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies. The protests and marches in Arizona were part of some 3,000 similar events…
A last-minute order from a federal appeals court on Friday delayed a takeover of the state prison healthcare system. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry was slated to lose control of healthcare operations on Monday. But in a new order, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to put…
The Grand Canyon State announced Friday that it intends to join Nevada’s lawsuit challenging the federal government’s most recent plan for the future of the Colorado River. The announcement comes after years of unsuccessful negotiations among the seven states that depend on Colorado River water to develop a plan to…
Gun safety advocates are investing millions of dollars in Arizona and other battleground states, where they hope to convince voters to topple the state’s GOP legislative majority and elect candidates that will support stricter gun ownership laws. Earlier this week, Everytown for Gun Safety, a national organization…
Schemes to disrupt elections became frighteningly real in Arizona on Thursday when a hazardous-materials response team swarmed the state Capitol after election officials received an envelope containing an unknown white powder. The Executive Tower was briefly evacuated on Thursday afternoon. Thankfully, no one was…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has a flurry of travel on deck in the final frantic weeks leading up to the end of the midterm elections, in which the GOP is vying to maintain its control of both the U.S. House and Senate. But that outlook looks increasingly less favorable for Republicans, as analysts say
The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office was evacuated Thursday after a worker opened a letter containing an unknown white powder, one of dozens of election offices across the country targeted with similar letters that the FBI and U.S. Postal Service are actively investigating. “Yesterday’s attack was not a harmless…
WASHINGTON — The No Kings movement that has brought millions to the streets across the United States three times since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term is staging its next event at the polls. Organizers across hundreds of advocacy groups will pull together thousands of events nationwide Saturday to…
The state’s highest court is set to determine whether the Clean Elections Commission has the power to investigate whether two Green Party candidates fraudulently obtained millions in public campaign funds and then claw back the money if it concludes they did. Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier, the Green Party nominees…
A progressive advocacy group is calling for Republicans who took money from a political action committee founded by the head of one of Arizona’s largest charter school networks to return it as the PAC is being investigated for alleged campaign finance law violations. Glenn Way is the CEO of Charter One LLC and the…
Inflation grew to a 3.7% annual rate in September, according to an Oct. 14 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 3.4% in August. In the last consumer price inflation report before midterm elections, with voters already fed up with higher prices, September’s number was the highest since May, when it…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday announced that the execution of a man convicted of the Fort Hood shooting will not be livestreamed, a reversal after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that Nidal Hasan’s death by firing squad would be public. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might…
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing OpenAI over its ChatGPT feature, saying it violates the state’s consumer fraud protections and endangers children. In a wide-ranging, 87 page lawsuit filed in Maricopa County Superior Court on Wednesday, Mayes argues that OpenAI should be forced to implement stronger safety…
Proponents of Proposition 144 say that it will make Arizona’s elections faster and more secure, but critics say it’s unlikely to significantly speed up results — and it could spell the end of no-excuse voting by mail, by far the most popular way to vote in the Grand Canyon State. Prop. 144 would make numerous
WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection need to improve oversight and guidance for federal immigration officers’ use of body-worn cameras, according to a Wednesday report from independent federal investigators. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security…
Executions are conducted like rituals, at least in Arizona. The witnesses are ushered in as solemnly as at a funeral and seated as precisely as guests at a wedding: government officials, families of the victims, guests of the soon-to-be decedent, journalists. A disembodied voice announces over a speaker that the…
As the nation’s physician shortage worsens, some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States. Among all U.S. doctors, an estimated one quarter were educated abroad. But they make up an…
The director of the Clean Elections Commission told the Arizona Supreme Court that two Green Party candidates being investigated for campaign finance fraud are working to “recklessly vilify public servants” through their lawsuit against the commission. “Snide soundbites, cloaked in hyperbolic opinion and lacking…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal to overturn hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal sanctions against lawyers who represented failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and made baseless claims about election fraud in her bid to upend how Arizona conducts elections. The high court released a list…
As a college student in South Phoenix and someone who was once undocumented myself, I know deportation is not an abstract political talking point. I have watched friends and neighbors disappear from our community after being deported and the lasting damage that separation leaves behind. A neighbor shared how her…
Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge. The blistering court decision comes after the Department of Justice pressured or sued states…
Arizonans will soon weigh in on the future of the state’s elections — and once again, they face a choice between a defender or a skeptic. Democrat Adrian Fontes, a lawyer and former county recorder who has spent years championing the state’s voting system, is seeking a second term as secretary of state in this
As candidates debate public safety ahead of the midterm elections, a new assessment of the nation’s historic homicide decline suggests there is no single explanation for the drop — and that some widely discussed enforcement strategies may have played little role. A survey of nearly 50 crime scholars convened by the…
The Trump administration’s order to allow import of Russian diesel violates a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports while the country’s war with Ukraine is ongoing, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. Following an Oct. 9 call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump this week will journey out West in an effort to galvanize support for Republican candidates three weeks before the midterm elections and convince voters to support his party amid low presidential approval ratings. As the deeply unpopular war in Iran enters month eight, resulting in…
Measles cases for the calendar year surpassed 4,000 for the first time in decades, with as many as five deaths in Pennsylvania, as the federal government steps in with financial help for states but also fans vaccination fears and skepticism. A weekly report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed…
In the course of a single election cycle, the backlash against data centers has grown from an issue at local planning commission and city council meetings to become a flashpoint in state and federal races across the country. Candidates who once touted data centers as an economic boon have backtracked, and voters in at…
Leaders across religions are warning against political violence in November’s midterms, calling for peaceful, respectful participation from both candidates and voters. In a letter published on Oct. 7, the heads of multiple religious groups, including the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arizona, the United Islamic Center of…
The Arizona Corporation Commission voted unanimously this week to redact parts of a public meeting, including the transcript and the video recording, to remove references to a former employee whose firing was the sole topic of debate, seemingly in blatant violation of the state’s open meeting law. The commissioners…
Urban hospitals are closing at roughly the same rate as rural ones, and the shuttered hospitals are more likely to have served communities with high poverty rates and fewer transportation options, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal JAMA. Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
On Friday morning, the prediction market platform Kalshi gave the Democratic candidate in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race an 87% chance of winning. The volume of trading on the outcome exceeded $1.8 million. This is exactly the type of activity Minnesota and numerous other states want to shut down. “They jeopardize…
A perfect storm of harsh immigration enforcement, aging journeymen and a building boom for data centers is wreaking havoc on the nation’s supply of skilled trade workers. Automakers and construction contractors say they need more access to workers through accelerated training, steady immigration and a cultural shift…
It took Christa Pike nearly a week to regain consciousness after the Tennessee Department of Corrections failed to kill her with two doses of the barbiturate pentobarbital, a drug used to put animals to death and to execute humans by lethal injection in Arizona and other states. She was confused and angry. She…
Once candidates qualify to receive public campaign funds, there’s nothing the Clean Elections Commission can do to claw back that funding, even if fraud is later discovered, two Green Party candidates being investigated for fraudulently qualifying for millions in public campaign funds told the Arizona Supreme Court…
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Florence has had fire alarms going off throughout the day for at least two months, according to detainees who spoke with the Arizona Mirror. One detainee said that the alarm has been going off every few hours for the week he has been held in the
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said late Wednesday that it expects to complete its long-awaited safety review of abortion pills by mid-December and issue a report evaluating the results by March 2027. The agency disclosed the information in a court-mandated status report it submitted in the federal lawsuit…
Democratic lawmaker Aaron Lieberman hopes to unseat Republican Sen. Carine Werner in one of the Arizona Legislature’s most competitive races in November, with a focus on pragmatism instead of partisan fighting. Lieberman told the Arizona Mirror that his door-knocking efforts have mostly focused on reaching…
WASHINGTON — Rebecca Myers lives in one of the nation’s most hotly contested congressional districts, and tariffs were on her mind as she voted early and in-person in Suffolk, Virginia in late September. The 44-year-old trained social worker said she and her husband, who recently retired after 25 years in the U.S…
Former Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely and emergency room doctor Amish Shah faced off in a tense debate Wednesday evening over who is best suited to represent Congressional District 1, with each painting the other as a party loyalist who will do nothing more than fall in line in Washington D.C. Congressional…
Democrats are hoping to hold onto a Mesa legislative district in their bid to capture the state legislature, fending off a challenge from a Republican with ties to Kari Lake. Legislative District 9, which stretches across Mesa’s downtown core and much of the west side of the city, leans Democratic but is among the most
WASHINGTON — Every child in the United States with a valid Social Security number is now enrolled in a tax-advantaged investment account, titled a “Trump Account,” President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. Parents must claim the accounts by downloading a Trump Account mobile app. Children born from 2025 through 2028…
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using undercover agents to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups. The reports from May and June by…
Republican Warren Petersen is making a play for Latino voters with a Spanish-language digital ad featuring state Rep. Lydia Hernandez, his Mexican-born wife and other Latinos. The 30-second ad is Petersen’s attempt to show that his conservative politics can draw Latino voters — and that Hernandez can help him do it in…
For years, the psychoactive compound kratom has been sold across much of the United States as an herbal supplement, available in powders, capsules and extracts with few of the restrictions applied to controlled substances. But the market is changing. Products containing a potentially dangerous kratom derivative known…
Two Green Party candidates under investigation for fraudulently obtaining millions in public campaign funds are attempting to dodge subpoenas for records related to the accusations against them. And the Arizona Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected their bid to block the investigation from happening at all, the second…
As President Donald Trump refuses to rule out taking extreme action in the midterm elections, voting rights advocates and civil rights leaders are bolstering their voter protection efforts in anticipation of possible federal interference. The focus by activists comes amid uncertainty among advocates and election…
Young voters in the Grand Canyon State overwhelmingly prefer Democratic to Republican candidates in statewide races, a new survey found. A new poll conducted by YouGov of 3,310 voters aged 18-29 across eight swing states, including Arizona, found high levels of support for Democrats. With President Donald Trump facing…
Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Eli Crane, a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, handily won a second term in his rural congressional district in 2024. He’s remained loyal to President Donald Trump, even as his approval ratings have been in a freefall for much of the past year. But Jonathan Nez, the Democrat…
WASHINGTON — Democrats are more motivated to vote in November’s midterm elections than Republicans, potentially giving the party an advantage to flip at least one chamber of Congress, according to a poll released Tuesday by the nonpartisan health organization KFF. Democratic candidates also held an edge with voter…
Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after protesters protected it for more than 70 days. Activists in Lochiel said at least 12 people had been arrested as of 8
President Donald Trump wants to sharply curtail mail ballots. He’s called them “inherently corrupt” and baselessly condemned them as a major source of fraud. But with Republicans falling behind in the polls, the president is now urging his supporters to vote in the midterm elections any way they can, including by…
WASHINGTON — Democrats expect they’ll gain a majority of seats in the U.S. House following November’s midterm elections, giving the party a platform to serve as a check on the president’s power. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Suzan DelBene said during an interview Monday that curbing the war in Iran…
The progressive PAC Will of the People is putting $1 million toward its campaign opposing four ballot propositions that Republican state legislators sent to voters this year. “Arizona voters will have the final say, and they deserve to know exactly what these measures would do before they cast their ballots,” Alison…
Jobs across the United States rose by 29,000 in September, a disappointing result as recent growth was also revised down in Friday’s monthly jobs report, the last one before midterm elections. September growth was a large dip from a strong August number that was revised down from 162,000 to 133,000 in the new report…
The Pinal County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to file a bar complaint against Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller, the latest development in a tumultuous year of legal disputes over everything from hiring practices to taking on federal immigration enforcement responsibilities. During a special session on…
Democrats and clean energy advocates are hoping rising electricity bills fuel voter turnout in November and drive voters to reject the two Republicans seeking seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission. “We can literally elect folks that are going to lower our electricity bills,” Rep. Mariana Sandoval, D-Goodyear…
State auditors found multiple problems with the Arizona Department of Housing’s policies and training, and found that it took the department months in some cases to notify property owners of “health and safety” issues. The report the Arizona Auditor General’s Office released this week is the second Housing Department…
When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared in September that Immigration and Customs Enforcement could serve warrants on individuals at polling places this fall, officials in Denver, a liberal city where roughly 14% of residents are foreign-born, quickly sued. “Every day we find new things to be…
The Arizona State Board of Education voted Monday to raise the proficiency and growth targets that determine schools’ A-F letter grades, which are published on the state’s AZ School Report Card. Under the new targets, more students will have to pass state standardized tests for a school to earn an A. In July, The Beam
WASHINGTON — This summer, arrests of immigrants in the United States soared to the highest levels since President Donald Trump returned to office. An unprecedented increase in cooperation between local and state law enforcement and federal immigration officers through collaborations known as 287(g) agreements helped…
A court battle that began when conservative-led states sued to block protections for transgender people has ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities — a result disability advocates have feared for months. At the end of August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services joined the handful…
Christa Pike, the Tennessee death row prisoner who survived an attempted execution by lethal injection Wednesday night, was still in critical condition as of Thursday afternoon. Hers was the second botched execution in the Volunteer State this year. And there’s a direct line between those executions and problems…
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Arizona corrections officials’ last-ditch attempt to delay a court-ordered takeover of the state’s unconstitutional prison healthcare system. After facing rejections from the federal trial court judge who imposed the receivership and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Arizona…
In the hotly contested Congressional District 1, roughly 175,000 people receive Social Security, a program whose fate could be decided by whoever wins control of Congress. Jay Feely, the Republican on the ballot this year, has called the program a “liability” and called it a “Ponzi scheme.” That could matter immensely…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a case challenging a Trump administration policy that threatens millions of immigrants with mandatory and indefinite detention while fighting their court cases. The policy, put into place in July 2025, requires people picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
The path to Democrats taking control of the Arizona House of Representatives for the first time in 60 years runs through a rural blue legislative district that spans four counties where Republicans have managed to hold a seat for four years. That makes Legislative District 23, which spans four counties and stretches…
Republican candidate for Attorney General Warren Petersen has been campaigning with an man that Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes is prosecuting for fraud. Phoenix civil rights activist Rev. Jarrett Maupin was indicted earlier this year on nine felony counts that include allegations of check fraud dating back to…
President Donald Trump is scheduled to kick off a month-long blitz of campaign stops with a Thursday rally in deep-red Oklahoma before heading to other states with strong Republican leanings. The first events in the closing stretch of the midterm election campaign suggest his strength with swing voters is limited, as…
In a heated debate full of name-calling and personal barbs, Republican Alexander Kolodin promised Arizonans that, as the state’s top election official, he would deliver election-night results — something that Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said was impossible. During the hour-long Arizona Citizens Clean…
A federal appeals court on Wednesday said Arizona’s law that forces disclosure of anonymous campaign spending is constitutional, rejecting the claims of a conservative group that argued that the law violated the First Amendment rights of people who want to secretly influence voters. The ruling by a three-judge panel…
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New York to invalidate the so-called “shield laws” that have allowed providers in those states to send abortion medication…
A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for unlawfully voting in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, highlighting the administration’s effort to keep election security a top issue, in line with President Donald Trump’s longstanding unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. The indictments…
Republicans and powerful conservative organizations who say public schools spend too much on administration and unnecessary programs are urging voters to change state law to override local control and force public schools to spend a bigger percentage of their funding on “direct instruction.” Democrats and public…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own. The decision will allow the Trump administration to carry out its aggressive deportation method of quickly removing immigrants to one…
Republicans want to sell off more of Arizona’s trust land to alleviate the housing shortage, but the head of the state Land Department says doing so doesn’t guarantee more houses would be built. “It’s not just if we sold all this land, all this housing would be built, because there are so many other factors
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call propaganda come under bipartisan attack. The Trump administration recently moved the funds into a U.S. Customs and…
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit from two embattled Green Party candidates who sought to block the Citizens Clean Election Commission from ordering them to repay millions in public campaign funds they’re accused of fraudulently obtaining. But the judge said they could refile their lawsuit…
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alleged role in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Judiciary Committee Republicans repeatedly dissected Smith’s work…
WASHINGTON — The three news organizations that President Donald Trump barred from entering the White House grounds earlier this month have asked a federal judge to ensure their reporters continue to have access after a temporary restraining order expires in early October. Attorneys for CNN, MS Now and Politico filed…
In the early months of 2022, Democrats in Congress came close to passing an appropriations bill that did not include a provision barring federal funding for abortions — maybe the closest it had ever come in more than 40 years. But those who wanted the Hyde Amendment included won the battle in the end. Three
Five weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s sprawling effort to identify and remove noncitizen voters hasn’t produced the kind of large purges that could meaningfully affect the midterm elections. Even a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision giving states access to a supercharged Department of Homeland…
The U.S. Attorney for Arizona responded to concerns by the state’s top lawyer and election chief raised about how the Trump administration is using state data to identify noncitizen voters by telling them that the federal government will not back down. Last week, Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State…
Most Maricopa County voters flagged as potential noncitizens by an error-prone federal system are citizens after all, according to county detectives. Rachel Mitchell, the county’s top prosecutor, said on Monday her office had completed a monthslong investigation into 60 suspected noncitizens who had cast ballots in…
A group of Scottsdale residents fighting a massive development project by law enforcement technology company Axon filed an appeal Monday in their bid to overturn a state law that now bars voters from weighing in on the project, arguing that it is unconstitutional. The group behind the appeal, Taxpayers Against Awful…
The challenges and dire threats surrounding the unchecked growth of artificial intelligence appear unlikely to move Congress or President Donald Trump to act as the U.S. Senate enters its last week before the midterms. The rapid emergence of the technology has sparked a host of policy debates, with some warning of an…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress. The $810 million in the “pocket rescission” would have gone to refugee assistance programs at the Department of Health and Human…
New federal rules likely will force three dozen states to reduce their annual Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals by a total of more than $50 billion — potentially shrinking the number of providers willing to see Medicaid patients, according to a new analysis. The analysis in the peer-reviewed Health Affairs…
A federal effort to identify noncitizen voters using voter registration information might be violating state privacy laws, according to Attorney General Kris Mayes. In a letter sent earlier this week to Timothy Courchaine, the U.S. Attorney for Arizona, Mayes and Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes requested…
During my time in the Air Force, fighter pilots were the golden boys. In combat, they were the tip of the spear. But they never fought alone. They depended on aircraft maintenance crews, airfield managers, security forces, civil engineers, personnel specialists and countless other support personnel. Everyone had a…
Attorney General Kris Mayes wants an appeals court to dissolve a trial court judge’s order that blocked her from prosecuting online prediction market company Kalshi for violating Arizona’s gambling laws. Her request comes after appellate judges in a different case ruled last month that gambling on sporting events is…
Law enforcement agencies outside of Arizona are some of the biggest users of Flock data gathered by the Maricopa County Sheriff Office and Lake Havasu Police Department, records obtained by the Arizona Mirror show. Both agencies say they’re limiting that data sharing, but privacy advocates are still concerned. The…
WASHINGTON — Despite skyrocketing fuel prices and sinking approval ratings for President Donald Trump’s conflict in Iran ahead of the November midterms, Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ efforts Thursday to check the president’s unfettered military action in the Middle East. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa…
The attorney for two Green Party candidates accused of fraudulently obtaining public campaign funding and lawyers for the commission that regulates that funding sparred in Maricopa County Superior Court Thursday over whether the commission has the power to make candidates repay ill-gotten funding. Tim La Sota, the…