Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks to reporters on June 1, 2026, announcing a lawsuit accusing MultiPlan and health insurers of colluding on prices in violation of Arizona law. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Arizona sues MultiPlan, major insurers, alleging a ‘cartel’ that underpaid doctors and hospitals
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced a lawsuit Monday against MultiPlan, which last year renamed itself Claritev, alleging the company conspired with insurers for years to under pay doctors and hospitals, oftentimes leaving patients footing the bill for out-of-network care.
“This wasn’t an accident,” Mayes told reporters Monday. “It was a coordinated deliberate scheme...
Mark Lamb in March 2024. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)
OPINION | The Mark Lamb scandal isn’t just hypocrisy. It’s a Republican Party in moral free fall.
Few things are more predictable in politics than self-proclaimed moral crusaders getting caught in their own hypocrisy.
Mark Lamb, the self-described “family man” who built his public image as a gun-slinging Pinal County Sheriff, tough on Mexican cartels and wrapped in “family values,” now finds himself in a sex scandal and accusations involving racist remarks...
Gov. Katie Hobbs participates in a bill signing ceremony for House Bill 2281 on May 21, 2025. (Photo by Shondiin Silversmith/Arizona Mirror)
‘Deeply grateful to the Tribal leaders’: Katie Hobbs completes visits to all 22 tribal nations
Sharing acorn stew with tribal leaders in San Carlos. Zip lining at Grand Canyon West on Hualapai tribal land. Riding the country’s only tribally-owned mountain roller coaster at Sunrise Park Resort. And kids running alongside a small pack of Rez dogs to greet a state SUV rumbling down a remote reservation road.
These are some of the moments Jason Chavez — director of Tribal Affairs in the Governor’s Office — says best capture the spirit of...
A mob of Trump supporters gathers in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. An “anti-weaponization” fund was created by the Department of Justice in May 2026 that could make payments to those who took part in the Jan. 6 attack. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
Trump’s $1.8B ‘slush fund’ for loyalists has no modern precedent, presidency scholar says
President Donald Trump’s extraordinary $1.776 billion fund to pay off allies and others who say they have been wronged by past administrations has drawn widespread condemnation by opponents, including some Republicans, who characterize it as an act of brazen corruption.
But the Trump administration’s push to reward its supporters also harkens back to an earlier era of American cronyism...
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., home of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, on July 14, 2025. (Photo by Jacob Fischler/States Newsroom)
Trump’s transgender military ban driven by ‘desire to harm,’ appeals court rules
WASHINGTON — Transgender military members won a temporary victory against the Trump administration in federal appeals court Monday when two judges ruled a policy banning them from service violated their constitutional right to equal protection under the law.
Judges Judith W. Rogers and Robert L. Wilkins for the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia upheld a lower court ruling allowing...
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