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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...
A Mexican wolf stares forward standing in a field of grass. (Courtesy New Mexico Department of Game and Fish)
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 a “global government.”
State Sen. Sylvia Allen also blamed the wolf’s existence for the high cost of beef...
News crews gather outside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center for the 2024 Election in Maricopa County on Nov. 5, 2024, in Phoenix, Ariz. A special prosecutor is looking into whether employees in the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office broke the law by allegedly removing materials from the vote tabulation center amid a local election earlier this year. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza for Votebeat)
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 provisional ballot envelopes from...
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes addresses the crowd at the Arizona Capitol during the No Kings protest on Oct. 18, 2025, in Phoenix, Ariz. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
OPINION | 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...
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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 combat drug trafficking...
An aerial view of Camp East Montana, an immigrant detention center in El Paso, Texas. (Photo courtesy of Government Accountability Office)
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 investigations into...
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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 multiple provisions in the state’s 2025 Elections Procedures Manual violate...
President Donald Trump looks on prior to a game between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks in Game Three of the 2026 NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on June 8, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
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...
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