(Photo via Getty Images)
‘We are in hell’: The lockdown limbo Arizona’s 3 women on death row faced this month
There are three women on Arizona’s death row, and they got there the usual way.
Wendi Andriano beat her terminally ill husband to death.
Shawna Forde formed an anti-immigrant militia, then staged a home invasion that left a man and his nine-year-old daughter dead.
Sammantha Uriarte and her husband...
A person hold Stop the Steal sign at a rally at the Arizona Capitol on Jan. 26, 2022. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Election deniers and conspiracy theorists top Arizona’s Republican nominees this year
Republican voters in Arizona sent a litany of election deniers to the November ballot, chief among them the nominees for the top three statewide offices. But they’re far from the only ones who advanced to the general election.
The Grand Canyon State has long been at the center of the election conspiracy theories that have become a tenet of the modern Republican Party...
Voters line up outside Shiloh Hills Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia, on Election Day, May 19, 2026. (Photo by Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder)
Flood of poll watchers, observers, monitors to descend on midterm voters
WASHINGTON — Political party poll watchers are showing up more and more, usually outside polling places.
They have a different mission than the nonpartisan election observers long regarded as bulwarks of credibility, and there’s concern that voters will be confused who’s there to influence them and who’s there to protect them...
Federal agents on patrol in Minneapolis, Minnesota in January. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)
Homeland Security agents illegally recorded and retaliated against immigration protesters: lawsuit
Three people who observed federal immigration enforcement during the Trump administration’s sometimes-violent surge said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday the Department of Homeland Security illegally recorded them and revoked their status in the department’s trusted traveler programs.
The suit, filed in the Southern District of California, says the administration violated a federal privacy law, administrative law and the First Amendment by targeting...
A residential duplex set for construction in Chicago. The 21st Century Road to Housing Act is being hailed for allowing municipalities to do more, such as construct affordable housing, with federal grant money. (Photo by Robbie Sequeira/Stateline)
Landmark new federal housing law rewards cities that build and penalizes those that don’t
Championed as one of the most consequential and bipartisan federal housing laws in decades, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act enacted this month makes significant changes across federal housing policy.
Included in the 139-page law are a host of provisions that will restrict some institutional investors from...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center sprawls over 6,500 acres in northern Prince George’s County, Maryland. The Trump administration has proposed closing the center as part of a massive reorganization of the department. (Photo by Danielle J. Brown/Maryland Matters)
USDA union leaders rally against proposed DC downsizing
A group of current and former U.S. Department of Agriculture employees are calling on the Trump administration to halt the mandated relocation of more than 2,500 employees from its Washington, D.C., headquarters to five regional offices across the country.
In an online briefing hosted by federal union leaders Thursday, speakers said the reorganization process USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins has led will amount to widespread layoffs...
ICYMI
Thanks for reading AZ Report. Did you know our weekend digest is also free? Sign up here. And if you enjoyed today’s edition, please forward to a friend. Increasing our readership helps us cover more news.