A Central Arizona Project canal carries Colorado River water to the Phoenix metropolitan area. (Photo by DougVonGausig/Getty Images)
The Trump administration’s ‘draconian’ water cuts could gut Arizona’s Colorado River supply
A new federal plan released Friday could mean cuts of up to 77% to Arizona’s share of Colorado River water, in the midst of a 25-year megadrought, something that state leaders say would cause catastrophic harm to the state’s economy.
“Such reductions would devastate Arizona’s water users and its economy...
Customs and Border Protection vehicles near the border wall between the United States and Mexico in Nogales, Ariz. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Bid to freeze Arizona’s ‘Secure the Border Act’ fails, but fight isn’t over
An attempt to temporarily block an Arizona law allowing state officials to jail immigrants failed, but there’s still a chance that opponents could pause the law’s implementation — though when that might happen and whether it will be too late to prevent any arrests is unclear.
Earlier this month, the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, a nonprofit that...
President Donald Trump on July 31, 2026 defended his “anti-weaponization” settlement fund as he sought confirmation of his nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche. In this photo, Trump looks on during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on May 27, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Trump defends fund to pay ‘great American Patriots’ who attacked the US Capitol to overturn an election
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defended his highly criticized, nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” settlement fund on social media and in a Cabinet meeting Friday, as two key Republican senators withheld support for the president’s nominee for attorney general over Trump’s refusal to formally end the pot of money.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that the fund, in exchange for him dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, would not benefit him, but rather “the great American Patriots who were hunted down like dogs...
Rhode Island Democratic Attorney General Peter Neronha in Providence earlier this year. Rhode Island is one of 25 Democratic-led states that sued the Trump administration over new Medicaid work requirements. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
Medicaid work rules move forward as judge denies bid from AZ, other states, to halt them
States will have to meet a Jan. 1 deadline to implement new Medicaid work requirements, after a federal judge denied 25 Democratic-led states’ request to pause implementation of the rule.
The broad tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed last summer, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, requires states that have expanded Medicaid to cover...
Brandi Swindell, founder and CEO of the Stanton Healthcare network, examines items waiting to be given out to new mothers in the storeroom at the flagship crisis pregnancy center in Meridian, Idaho. (Otto Kitsinger for States Newsroom
Crisis pregnancy centers fight for ultrasound use in clinics without government oversight
The auditors trying to learn how a dozen crisis pregnancy centers in Louisiana had spent nearly $1.2 million ultimately could not figure it out.
Despite a new law, the state had failed to establish a process for the centers or to track how they spent taxpayer dollars. That was surprising enough, auditors said. But then they learned something else...
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