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Arizona’s July 21 primary: Where to vote, what to bring and when to expect election results
The Arizona primary election is today, and the winners will advance to the November ballot, where Democrats hope that a historically unpopular Donald Trump will allow them to retain control of key statewide offices in the Grand Canyon State.
All registered voters in the state, even those not registered with a political party, are eligible...
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School voucher advocates sue to keep ESA reform measure off the November ballot
The Goldwater Institute is attempting to convince a court to block the “Protect Education, Accountability Now Act” from the November ballot by disqualifying tens of thousands of voter signatures supporting it.
The citizens initiative, headed by public schools advocacy organization, Save Our Schools Arizona, turned in more than 420,000 signatures to...
The Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport houses a temporary holding facility for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that houses people detained for immigration violations before they are either flown to long-term detention centers or are deported. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
From Sky Harbor to Bangui: How a Turkish man with U.S. torture protections ended up deported
Yagiz Doruk Hallac had been granted special protections by an immigration judge in New York in 2023 and thought that, combined with his lack of criminal history, meant he could visit friends in Arizona in late February.
Four months later, the 24-year-old was on a 22-hour flight with 20 others who...
A masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent knocks on a car window in Minnesota on Jan. 12, 2026. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)
Border czar Tom Homan pledges body cameras for ICE traffic stops after 22 shootings this term
WASHINGTON — In the wake of two fatal shootings in Texas and Maine, U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers will wear “at least one body camera” during traffic stops, Tom Homan, the president’s border czar, said over the weekend.
Homan, who President Donald Trump has tasked with leading his mass deportation campaign, said...
Fomer U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks last year at Louisiana State Penitentiary to announce the opening of Camp 57, a facility at the prison that will house immigrant detainees. An appeals court covering Louisiana and other states with large detention centers is at the center of a court fight over mandatory detention for many immigrants. (Photo by Piper Hutchinson/Louisiana Illuminator)
Amid ‘flood’ of court rulings freeing immigrants, Trump administration seeks indefinite detention
Seeking to stop a “flood” of court cases freeing immigrants from mandatory detention, the Trump administration is asking an appeals court to put three immigrants back in detention.
The immigrants were freed by Texas federal judges in February and March in a case that was upheld by an appeals court panel for Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, which found that such immigrants have the right to...
For decades, federal wildlife officials have protected old-growth forests as critical habitat for northern spotted owls. But a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act issued by the Trump administration removes protections for wildlife habitat. (Photo by Tom Kogut/U.S. Forest Service via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Flickr)
The feds no longer protect endangered species habitat. States say they can’t pick up the slack.
The Trump administration is removing protections from the key places where endangered species live, saying states can keep the areas safe.
But experts say states aren’t equipped for the task.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act, rolling back protections for...
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