(Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Arizona’s $18.3B budget passes with $1.4B in Trump tax cuts and a data center freeze
Legislators from both sides of the aisle tripped over one another on Thursday to take credit for provisions of the new state budget that might be popular with their constituents and to blame the opposition for portions that could cause heartburn.
After a day of patting themselves and other members of their parties on the back and lobbing insults at...
Americans for Contraception, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for the passage of legislation across the country enshrining access to contraception as a fundamental right, set up a massive inflatable IUD at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza across the street from the Arizona Capitol on June 11, 2026. (Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez/Arizona Mirror)
With giant IUD outside Capitol, Arizona Democrats call on GOP to protect contraception access
Standing in front of a 20-foot tall, inflatable IUD across the street from the state Capitol, Democratic lawmakers lambasted Republicans for blocking efforts to ensure Arizonans have a right to contraception.
In 2023, on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court eliminating the constitutional right to abortion — a decision that prompted Justice Thomas Clarence...
An Ultimate Fighting Championship ring on the White House South Lawn on Thursday, June 11, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
Corporate logos abound on White House grounds in prep for UFC fight
WASHINGTON — Advertisements for Polymarket and Bud Light lined an eight-sided cage on the White House grounds Thursday ahead of a series of mixed martial arts fights scheduled for Sunday, President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, and billed as a celebration of America’s 250th birthday.
The Las Vegas-based Ultimate Fighting Championship company, whose chief executive is an ally of the president’s, will stage...
An election worker processes mail-in ballots for the June 2, 2026 California state primary election at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 5, 2026 in City of Industry, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
‘The Dumocrats are at it again’: Trump baselessly attacks California election in a midterm preview
California often takes days or even weeks to tally votes after its elections, a product of measures to protect voters and a deluge of mail ballots dropped off on Election Day. Incomplete vote totals reported in the hours after polls close don’t always reflect final results.
None of this is evidence of fraud. But President Donald Trump has spent more than a week baselessly...
Predictions market sites are shown on electronic devices on Feb. 25, 2026. Online prediction market platforms, such as Polymarket and Kalshi, allow people to place bets on wide-ranging subjects such as sports, finance, politics and currents events. (Photo illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Senate Democrats press CFTC to crack down on insider trading in booming prediction markets
WASHINGTON — A group of 16 U.S. Senate Democrats is calling on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to tighten its regulation of prediction markets, citing concerns over insider trading and other consumer harms as betting on future events grows in popularity...
A new report analyzing survey results of 10,000 U.S. adults found widespread healthcare affordability challenges. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
Nearly half of adults struggled to afford healthcare last year, survey finds
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults — regardless of insurance type — reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank.
The report analyzed findings from a December 2025 survey of 10,000 working-age adults across...
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