An airplane sits on the tarmac at Mesa Gateway Airport on the evening of April 9, 2026, outside of the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center, an ICE facility where detainees are temporarily housed before they are put on a plane to either be deported or moved to a different ICE facility. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
DHS says Democrats are lying about overcrowding and broken toilets at the Mesa ICE facility
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused two Arizona Democrats of lying about what they saw during unannounced oversight visits of a Mesa facility and insisted that reports of overcrowding and overflowing toilets are false, in spite of the agency’s own data and information the congresspeople got directly from immigration agents working at the facility.
“Any allegation of overcrowding at AROCC is FALSE ...
An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, including Utah Fertility Center, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the in vitro fertilization process violates the state’s wrongful death law. (Photo by McKenzie Romero/Utah News Dispatch)
IVF supporters and anti-abortion purists are on a collision course
An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the in vitro fertilization process violates the state’s wrongful death law.
The ministry Voice for the Voiceless believes it has a strong case because Utah is one of four states...
Private equity firms own nearly 3 million apartment units, about 13% of the total apartments across the country, according to a new analysis. (Photo by Robbie Sequeira/Stateline)
Private equity owns nearly 1 in 4 Arizona apartments — and renters are paying for it
Private equity firms own nearly 3 million apartment units, about 13% of the total apartments across the country, according to a new analysis from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project.
And most have been fairly recent purchases. The companies acquired more than 1.7 million of those since...
Fuel options at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, gas station on Aug. 22, 2025. The nationwide average price of a gallon of gas was $4.55 May 22, 2026, up from $3.20 a year ago. The steep increase has turned some lawmakers’ attention alternative fuels like ethanol. (Photo by John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight)
Year-round ethanol blend bill passed by US House faces uncertain Senate path
Proponents of ethanol, including lawmakers from corn-growing states, say year-round sales of a gasoline blend containing 15% of the biofuel would give consumers a less expensive alternative to fill their gas tanks, boost energy supplies and benefit agricultural interests.
So why hasn’t Congress...
Carmen Cancino and her daughter Ximena Lopez at a December protest against arrests of immigrants at green card appointments in Salt Lake City. The Trump administration is threatening to force legal immigrants applying for green cards to return home first and wait for processing. (Photo by Annie Knox, Utah News Dispatch)
Trump administration will make green card hopefuls return to home countries before applying
Immigrants seeking green cards will have to return first to their home countries and wait despite years of potential backlogs, the Trump administration announced Friday.
“An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply...
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