Attorney General Kris Mayes announces a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Apr 24, 2026 that seeks to stop the renovation of a commercial warehouse facility in Surprise into an immigration detention center. (Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez/Arizona Mirror)
Arizona AG sues Trump over Surprise immigration detention warehouse
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing the Trump administration over its plan to turn a warehouse in Surprise into an immigration detention center, saying that federal law prohibits its construction because the building is directly across the street from a hazardous chemical storage facility.
During a Friday news conference announcing the lawsuit, Mayes argued the building was never meant to...
CEO of Strauss Media Richard Strauss, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Kerry Kennedy, daughter of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Boston Globe DC Bureau Chief Jackie Kucinich, and D.C. Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss hide under tables after an incident at the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner April 25, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
Trump: Suspect in Washington press dinner shooting created a ‘manifesto’ for attack
The alleged shooter at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., wrote a “manifesto” ahead of his planned attack, President Donald Trump said in a Sunday morning interview on Fox News and later in the day on the CBS show “60 Minutes.”
Meanwhile, Trump and MAGA allies online said security flaws exposed by the incident prove the need for a new secure ballroom at the White House...
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OPINION | Andy Biggs caved on FISA surveillance. Every Arizonan with ties abroad should care.
Arizona is in the spotlight as Congress is currently considering reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, one of the most powerful mass surveillance tools in the U.S. government’s arsenal. The need to reform this spying tool has been one of the few issues where people on the right and the left have been able to find common ground ...
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)
Appeals court says Trump administration must open borders to asylum-seekers
An appeals court on Friday struck down the Trump administration’s closing of United States borders to asylum-seekers.
An executive order by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day last year, and later guidance to turn asylum-seekers around without a court hearing, are “unlawful” and...
Transgender rights supporters and opponents rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as the high court hears arguments in a case on transgender health rights in December 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Court ruling limiting adult gender-affirming Medicaid coverage could have national impacts
A U.S. appeals court ruling last month that upheld West Virginia’s ban on Medicaid coverage for adult gender-affirming surgeries could embolden other states seeking to impose similar restrictions...
President Donald Trump’s budget for the coming fiscal year proposes to end federal funding for libraries. (Getty Images)
Trump wants to gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums nationwide.
But congressional appropriators — who rebuffed similar efforts to gut the agency in fiscal 2026 — expressed little enthusiasm for the proposed cut...
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