Opponents of failed legislation that would have forced local police departments into 287(g) agreements to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers protest in front of the Arizona Senate building on Feb. 17, 2025. Activists in the city of Mesa are working to flip their city council to put an end to their city's own long-running 287(g) agreement. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Eyeing upcoming elections, Arizona activists want their city officials to stand up to ICE
It’s a sweltering 105 degrees on a Sunday afternoon in June when Jillian Ryan sets out to tell voters in east Mesa that their city has a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow local police officers to be a cog in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.
The 39-year-old mother of two is...
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former National Security Advisor John Bolton departs U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland after a plea deal hearing on June 26, 2026 in Greenbelt, Maryland. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)
Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling sensitive documents
John Bolton, a national security adviser to President Donald Trump in his first term, pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of mishandling classified information, the Department of Justice said in a news release Friday.
The plea resolves an 18-count indictment against Bolton, who lives in Bethesda, Maryland. He has agreed to pay...
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., amid fog on Dec. 10, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
GOP dreams of another big budget bill dashed by Trump demands for SAVE America Act
WASHINGTON — Republicans have one more opportunity to use the complex process they relied on to enact their “big, beautiful” law and provide tens of billions in additional funding for immigration enforcement — a chance that becomes less likely the more...
Three New World screwworm larvae. (Photo by Sohath Yuseff-Vanegas, USDA Agricultural Research Service)
Moderate US House Dem group questions USDA’s Rollins over screwworm response
WASHINGTON — Members of the New Democrat Coalition asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday to provide fresh details about the nation’s screwworm outbreak and demanded that the Trump administration allocate more resources to containing the spread...
Attendees sit in the grass in front of the Ferris wheel at the Trump administration’s Freedom 250 Great American State Fair on the National Mall on Thursday, June 25, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
States show their stuff: The Great American State Fair opens in D.C.
WASHINGTON — Visitors from across the United States traveled to the National Mall Thursday for the opening day of the Great American State Fair, a days-long event that is part of President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration of the nation’s semiquincentennial.
States and territories showed...
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