Green Party candidates Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier are running for statewide office using Clean Elections money. At least six voters say that they have no idea why they are listed as having made small-dollar donations to help Lombardo, Collier and GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Neely qualify for the public campaign funding. (Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)
Three candidates now face a criminal probe over public campaign funding fraud allegations
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is investigating three fringe candidates for statewide office facing allegations that they falsely used voters’ information alongside fraudulent $5 donations to qualify for millions of dollars in public campaign funds.
Richie Taylor, spokesman for Attorney General Kris Mayes, told the Arizona Mirror that the office had opened a criminal investigation into reported campaign finance fraud by...
A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower in a report published Sept. 1, 2026, alleged that USPS rushed the development of electronic tools to comply with a Trump administration policy placing new restrictions on mail-in voting. (Photo by Simone Hogan/Getty Images)
USPS whistleblower predicts ‘catastrophic’ harm to elections under Trump vote-by-mail order
The U.S. Postal Service rushed the development of electronic tools to comply with a Trump administration policy placing new restrictions on mail-in voting, and defied a court order to stop work on the system, according to an explosive whistleblower complaint published Tuesday by Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
The unnamed whistleblower predicted the result could be “foreseeable catastrophic disruption to our coming nationwide elections based on the reckless pursuit of...
(Illustration by Joseph Darius Jaafari for LOOKOUT)
Inside immigration camps, trans women are forced off medications. The effects can be deadly.
Valentina was in her cell at Arizona’s Eloy Detention Center when, shortly following an afternoon headcount in June, a corrections officer came for her. With the guard by her side, she was led to an office where a wheelchair and several other officers were waiting.
They patted her down, shackled her wrists behind her back, chained her waist, put her in the wheelchair, and turned on a video camera.
She was told that someone else in detention had accused her of...
Three cases are pending in federal courts that could change access to one of two drugs commonly used to terminate a pregnancy and treat miscarriages. If the lawsuit out of Texas is successful, it would revoke access to the drug entirely in all states. A federal judge in Texas paused the case until at least Dec. 1, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues its safety review. (Photo by Natalie Behring/Getty Images)
Federal judge pauses case on mifepristone access until after midterm elections
A federal judge in Texas on Sunday paused a lawsuit seeking to revoke nationwide approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, saying the case won’t be heard until at least Dec. 1 and granting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s request for a stay to continue its safety review of the drug.
The Republican attorneys general of Florida and Texas filed a lawsuit against the FDA last December seeking to permanently revoke...
The U.S. Capitol on March 3, 2026. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
US House clears spending stopgap backed by Trump that averts government shutdown
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved a short-term government funding bill Tuesday that would avoid a shutdown this fall once President Donald Trump signs it.
The 370-48 vote showed neither Republicans nor Democrats want a repeat of the funding lapse that took place last year when disagreement over...
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