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Pima County Attorney rejects GOP challenge to block ICE from ‘staging’ on county property
A resolution passed by the Board of Supervisors in February barring the use of county property by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers does not violate state and federal law, the Pima County Attorney’s Office maintains.
Earlier this month, Republican state legislators—led by Senate President Warren Petersen — filed a request for an investigation and asked Attorney General Kris Mayes to...
Marimar Martinez, who was shot five times by immigration enforcement agents in Chicago, testifies during a public forum on the violent use of force by Department of Homeland Security agents at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Feb. 3, 2026 in Washington, D.C. She also was a witness at an official congressional hearing on April 22, 2026. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images)
US citizens shot by ICE beg Congress to rein in federal immigration agents
WASHINGTON — Nearly all Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee failed to show up for a Wednesday hearing convened by Democrats to highlight President Donald Trump’s aggressive tactics in his mass deportation campaign that have ensnared U.S. citizens.
It marked a rare full committee hearing that Democrats were allowed to conduct because of ...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
US Senate Dems to force votes on rising costs, immigration crackdown in marathon session
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Democrats will use the unlimited number of amendment votes they are allowed on Republicans’ budget resolution to illustrate policy differences on cost-of-living issues and immigration activities.
“We are for reducing costs for the American people, whether it’s housing or whether it’s health care or whether it’s electric costs or whether it’s groceries or...
Emergency crews work at the site of a US-Israeli strike on a residential building that also destroyed the adjacent Rafi-Nia Synagogue on April 7, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
For the fifth time, Senate Republicans blocking effort to rein in Trump’s Iran war
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, and one Democrat, maintained their support for President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, after blocking for the fifth time a resolution that would force the president to seek congressional authorization for further action in the Middle East.
The vote failed 46-51, largely following...
Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaks at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., in December. Oz said Tuesday that the Trump administration will require every state within 30 days to turn in a plan to revalidate the health care providers that participate in their Medicaid programs. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
In Medicaid fraud crackdown, feds now looking to audit all 50 states
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said Tuesday that the Trump administration will require every state within 30 days to turn in a plan to revalidate the health care providers that participate in their Medicaid programs.
The Trump administration has pledged to root out what it calls rampant fraud in state Medicaid programs. But thus far, it has focused almost exclusively on Democratic-led states, even though...
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