Gov. Katie Hobbs in January 2025. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)
Katie Hobbs adds 88 vetoes to her record, rejecting GOP bills on schools, wolves and elections
Arizona’s Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs on Friday signed 72 pieces of legislation and vetoed another 88.
Her signatures and vetoes came after a busy final week for the Republican-controlled state legislature, in which they voted on and sent her more than 150 bills. Many of those bills, which supported a far-right agenda, were...
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Arizona voters will decide 10 GOP-backed ballot measures in November on schools, elections, taxes
When Arizona voters go to the polls in November to decide who will be the next governor and hold the other statewide offices, they’ll also get to weigh in directly on some of the policy priorities of the Republicans who currently run the state legislature.
In all, legislators sent 10 measures to this year’s ballot, where voters will get the final say. Half of those seek to...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Farmville Detention Center in Virginia, pictured in December 2019. (Photo: Screenshot of ICE courtesy video)
As Trump’s immigration dragnet grows, so do complaints of ICE detention center conditions
WASHINGTON — When the overhead lights turn off at the Farmville Detention Center in Virginia, it not only means that night has arrived for Aliaksei Scharbachenia, but that panic attacks will soon follow.
The attacks, which started after his detention began last August, he said, have only grown worse, stemming from...
Maine’s Graham Platner is the Democratic candidate for what’s considered one of the nation’s most competitive battles for the U.S. Senate. Platner, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, is shown at a rally at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland on April 18, 2026. (Photo by Jim Neuger/ Maine Morning Star)
9 Senate races to watch as Democrats eye an uphill path to the majority in November
Democrats are growing hopeful they can recapture the U.S. Senate in this fall’s midterm elections amid President Donald Trump’s plummeting approval ratings.
But they still need nearly everything to break their way against a map that put them at a starting disadvantage...
A couple sits with their newborn inside their Bentonville, Arkansas, home. The Trump administration is shifting the federal Title X program, which has traditionally provided access to contraception, toward an emphasis on childbearing. (Photo by Antoinette Grajeda/Arkansas Advocate)
Trump overhauls federal birth control program to promote ‘family formation,’ fertility awareness
A federal poverty-fighting program focused on reducing unintended pregnancies is about to undergo a major overhaul.
Reproductive health clinics use Title X federal grant money to provide birth control, cancer screenings and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections to people with little or no health insurance. Title X money cannot...
Various birth control pills available at a Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas. The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association and a family planning organization in Pennsylvania sued the Trump administration on Thursday alleging that it is politicizing the Title X grant funding program. (Todd Wiseman/The Texas Tribune)
Family planning organizations sue Trump administration over Title X funding announcement
The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association and a family planning organization in Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Health and Human Services agency on Thursday alleging that it is politicizing the Title X grant funding program and violating the intent of the law...
Open Democracy, a New Hampshire voting rights group, has spent several years working to improve the registration rate among 18-year-olds. Shown are New Hampshire voters. (Photo by Will Steinfeld/New Hampshire Bulletin)
When teens drive less, they don’t register to vote. Here’s how civic groups are adapting.
American teens are driving less than in previous decades, prompting civic advocates to warn that fewer young people may register to vote.
Yet at least one state — New Hampshire — offers insight into how civic groups can work around...
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