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GOP lawmakers mull special session for school voucher deal with teachers union
Republican lawmakers are contemplating trying to call a special session of the Arizona Legislature as they attempt to negotiate a deal that would likely kill a Republican ballot initiative as well as one headed by public school advocates, both aimed at reforms to the state’s school voucher program...
An election worker processes mail-in ballots for the California state primary election at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 05, 2026, in City of Industry, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Trump order limiting voting by mail halted by federal court
A federal judge on Thursday blocked major portions of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, finding he had exceeded his constitutional authority.
The decision halts, at least until a nearly certain appeal is heard, efforts by the U.S. Postal Service to require states to submit the names of likely mail voters...
A family waits in line to apply for asylum at the southern border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 2023. (Photo by Corrie Boudreaux for Source NM)
Supreme Court sides with Trump administration’s efforts to curb asylum claims at southern border
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court sided Thursday with the Trump administration’s request to turn away asylum seekers who present themselves at ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The question the justices considered was whether migrants have to fully...
A 250th anniversary flag on the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, location of the vice president’s office, on 17th Street NW in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
Get ready for the semiquincentennial: Americans celebrate a 250th anniversary
WASHINGTON — Parties, protests, displays of historic documents, odes to the Founding Fathers — and a massive political rally by the president — will mark a deeply polarized nation’s 250th anniversary on this Fourth of July.
Pomp and circumstance will abound for the semiquincentennial as the similarly named America250 and Freedom 250 offer...
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