The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating an attempted arson of a Surprise warehouse purchased by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
West Valley teen said he ‘went Batman’ to stop Surprise ICE detention center, feds say
A 19-year-old West Valley resident is facing federal criminal charges for attempting to set fire to a Surprise warehouse that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to turn into a 1,500-bed detention center.
In February, a window at the warehouse was broken and police found a propane tank had been thrown into ...
A ballot drop box stands outside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap is challenging the board of supervisors’ authority to set drop box locations, escalating a fight over election control ahead of the 2026 midterms. (Photo by Jen Fifield/Votebeat)
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap threatens felony charges over ‘unauthorized’ drop boxes
A messy and longstanding feud between Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors over control of the key swing county’s elections has spilled over into a new arena.
On Wednesday, Heap sent a letter to the board asserting his office’s authority over ballot drop boxes and warning that election workers who handle ballots deposited in “unauthorized” receptacles could...
Democratic state Rep. Aaron Marquez, a veteran, called on Congressional Republicans to back an effort to end the Iran War on May 21, 2026. Marquez joined progressive veterans advocacy group Veterans Forward at the state Capitol to highlight the deaths of 13 service members. (Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez/Arizona Mirror)
Arizona veterans urge GOP to back War Powers Resolution, honor 13 Americans killed in Iran
Days after the U.S. Senate took a pivotal step that could end the war in Iran, Arizona veterans gathered at the state Capitol to urge Congressional Republicans to coalesce behind that effort.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted 50-47 to advance a War Powers Resolution that could block President Donald Trump from engaging in further military conflict against Iran without...
President Donald Trump, seen on April 1, 2026, wants lawmakers to attach the SAVE America Act to unrelated housing and surveillance legislation after it stalled in the U.S. Senate. (Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)
Officers beaten on Jan. 6 call Trump’s $1.8B fund ‘most brazen act of presidential corruption this century’
Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay people said to be victims of judicial weaponization, saying the fund would aid and encourage the pro-Trump rioters who attacked that Capitol that day and still harbor desire to harm the officers...
A classroom at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in South Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps/Utah News Dispatch)
US House passes a ‘Don’t say trans’ bill that would force schools to out students
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday that would require parental consent before a public elementary or middle school can update a student’s pronouns, gender markers or preferred name on records in order to receive federal funding.
The measure — which succeeded 217-198 — would also bar federal funding under...
Gov. Spencer Cox speaks with geothermal technology executives and Western Governor’s Association officials after announcing the Mountain West Geothermal Consortium. (Alixel Cabrera/Utah News Dispatch)
Four Mountain West states join forces to accelerate geothermal energy development
With a newly established Mountain West Geothermal Consortium, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico are joining forces to tap what could be hundreds of gigawatts of always on, clean energy lying underground in the Mountain West region.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, announced the new group on Wednesday after a Western Governor’s Association...
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe, left, talks with U.S. Vice President JD Vance after he arrived at Kansas City International Airport, May 18, 2026 in Kansas City, Missouri. Vance on his visit pitched voters on keeping Republicans in control of Congress. (Photo by Eric Lee-Pool/Getty Images)
High gas prices, Iran war and Trump’s abysmal approval drag down GOP ahead of midterms
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — When Vice President JD Vance pitched voters on electing Republicans to Congress this November during a trip to a Kansas City manufacturing plant on Monday, he delivered the message while standing in a newly gerrymandered U.S. House district.
“If you want congressional leadership that fights to lower your taxes, that fights to put more money in your pockets and fights to protect your jobs, the only game in town is Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans...
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