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Arizona’s GOP budget: Tax breaks for data centers and Roth IRAs, cuts for the people who need food
Arizonans’ budgets are strained with sky-high gas and grocery prices, paired with cuts to safety net programs, but the legislators who created the GOP’s budget proposal for the state brushed off concerns that most working families are struggling to pay their bills...
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Arizona GOP budget clears legislature on party-line votes, heads straight for Hobbs’s veto pen
The Arizona Senate voted along party lines Monday to pass a package of GOP budget bills that are now headed for a veto from the state’s Democratic governor.
The Republicans who control the state legislature introduced their $17.9 billion budget package...
Hugh Lytle, an independent candidate for governor, held a press conference on Feb. 16, 2026, outside of the state house to criticize a bill that would make his party name, the Arizona Independent Party, illegal and he said would derail his campaign. (Photo by Dermont Stevenson/Cronkite News)
Hugh Lytle can stay on governor ballot despite UPS Store address, AZ Supreme Court rules
Even though Hugh Lytle used the address of his private mailbox at a UPS Store on his nominating paperwork instead of his home address that state law demands, the Arizona Supreme Court said the No Labels Party candidate for governor nonetheless “substantially complied” with the requirements and will remain on the ballot.
In this situation, Lytle listing a P.O. box address in central Scottsdale that...
Fuel prices are displayed at a Brooklyn, New York, gas station on April 28, 2026. As negotiations over the war in Iran continue to stall and show few signs of a resolution, gasoline prices in the United States hit their highest level in four years on Tuesday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Gas prices jump again as Trump turns to new plan for Strait of Hormuz
WASHINGTON — Americans saw prices at the pump sharply rise in recent days as the nationwide average cost for a gallon of regular gas shot up 38 cents over the past week, according to GasBuddy.
The motor club AAA clocked the average price of regular gas at $4.46 per gallon and diesel at $5.64, as Iran and the U.S. remain at a stalemate over...
Ballots that had arrived by mail or were set aside on Election Day, 2024, sit on a table at the Cass County Courthouse in North Dakota on Nov. 18, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)
Federal agencies haven’t started on Trump order restricting voting by mail, DOJ says
Federal agencies say they have yet to take steps to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, as the Department of Justice fights a Democrat-led lawsuit against it.
The Justice Department late Friday filed documents asking a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit and to...
Mifepristone is one of two drugs that can be used before 10 weeks to terminate a pregnancy and to treat miscarriages.(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
US Supreme Court issues temporary stay preserving nationwide abortion drug access
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on an appeals court ruling from Friday that was blocking remote access to an abortion drug, restoring access until at least May 11.
The administrative stay, issued by Justice Samuel Alito, pauses Friday’s decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. That ruling blocked...
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