Rep. Justin Heap on March 2, 2023. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)
Maricopa County recorder asks judge to hold board of supervisors in civil contempt of court
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap is asking a judge to hold the county’s board of supervisors in civil contempt, escalating a longstanding and messy dispute over election control as the state primary creeps closer.
Heap’s filing in Maricopa County Superior Court accuses supervisors of flouting an April 16 judgment from the same bench that ordered them...
The U.S. Postal Service on May 29, 2026 proposed a rule to carry out President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)
USPS moves to implement Trump mail voting order, would require states to share voter lists
The U.S. Postal Service on Friday took its first major step to carry out President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, proposing a rule that would require states to submit lists of voters before mailing ballots.
But the proposed rule appears to smooth over some of the rougher edges of the executive order, which has been condemned...
President Donald Trump gives a speech at the World Economic Forum on Jan. 21, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Judge halts Trump’s $1.8B ‘slush fund’ critics call a payoff to political allies
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with a fund that opponents fear will be used to pay off the president’s political allies.
Judge Leonie Brinkema in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a brief order halting the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department and other high-ranking administration officials from...
Quitobaquito Springs sits right along the border and is directly in the path of President Donald Trump’s border wall. A new lawsuit aims to stop that construction because the oasis is the only place in the world that the tine springsnail exists. (Photo by Paul Ingram/TucsonSentinel.com)
Enviros sue to protect snail in Quitobaquito Springs from border wall construction
The Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity has sued the Trump administration for failing to protect a tiny snail, which only exists in Quitobaquito Springs—a Southern Arizona desert oasis threatened by plans to build a secondary border wall through the protected landscape.
In an 11-page complaint, the environmental organization said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to...
A University of Utah clinic in Salt Lake City displays a sign warning about measles last year. Utah is among the states that already has more measles cases in 2026 than in all of 2025, when cases reached the highest annual level since 1991. (Photo by McKenzie Romero/Utah News Dispatch)
Measles, whooping cough spike amid low vaccination rates
Vaccine hesitancy fed by misinformation is causing new surges of measles and whooping cough, while COVID-19 hotspots persist in some states and a new threat looms from an Ebola outbreak in central Africa.
Nationally there have been 1,983 measles cases this year, nearly...
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