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Trump administration will make green card hopefuls return to home countries before applying
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/25/repub/trump-administration-will-make-green-card-hopefuls-return-to-home-countries-before-applying/
Published: May 25, 2026 14:55
Immigrants seeking green cards will have to return first to their home countries and wait despite years of potential backlogs, the Trump administration announced Friday.Ā āAn alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to theirā¦
DHS says Democrats are lying about overcrowding and broken toilets at the Mesa ICE facility
https://azmirror.com/briefs/dhs-says-democrats-are-lying-about-overcrowding-and-broken-toilets-at-the-mesa-ice-facility/
Published: May 22, 2026 21:02
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused two Arizona Democrats of lying about what they saw during unannounced oversight visits of a Mesa facility and insisted that reports of overcrowding and overflowing toilets are false, in spite of the agencyāsā¦
Year-round ethanol blend bill passed by US House faces uncertain Senate path
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/22/repub/year-round-ethanol-blend-bill-passed-by-us-house-faces-uncertain-senate-path/
Published: May 22, 2026 19:29
Proponents of ethanol, including lawmakers from corn-growing states, say year-round sales of a gasoline blend containing 15% of the biofuel would give consumers a less expensive alternative to fill their gas tanks, boost energy supplies and benefitā¦
IVF supporters and anti-abortion purists are on a collision course
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/22/repub/ivf-supporters-and-anti-abortion-purists-are-on-a-collision-course/
Published: May 22, 2026 16:39
An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the in vitro fertilization process violates the stateās wrongful death law. The ministry Voice for the Voiceless believes it has a strongā¦
Private equity owns nearly 1 in 4 Arizona apartments ā and renters are paying for it
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/22/repub/private-equity-owns-nearly-1-in-4-arizona-apartments-and-renters-are-paying-for-it/
Published: May 22, 2026 14:26
Private equity firms own nearly 3 million apartment units, about 13% of the total apartments across the country, according to a new analysis from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project.Ā And most have been fairly recent purchases. The companiesā¦
Arizona veterans urge GOP to back War Powers Resolution, honor 13 Americans killed in Iran
https://azmirror.com/briefs/arizona-veterans-urge-gop-to-back-war-powers-resolution-honor-13-americans-killed-in-iran/
Published: May 21, 2026 22:26
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.Ā On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted 50-47 to advance a War Powersā¦
Officers beaten on Jan. 6 call Trumpās $1.8B fund āmost brazen act of presidential corruption this centuryā
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/21/repub/officers-beaten-on-jan-6-call-trumps-1-8b-fund-most-brazen-act-of-presidential-corruption-this-century/
Published: May 21, 2026 21:29
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 andā¦
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap threatens felony charges over āunauthorizedā drop boxes
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/21/maricopa-county-recorder-justin-heap-threatens-felony-charges-over-unauthorized-drop-boxes/
Published: May 21, 2026 20:30
A messy and longstanding feud between Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors over control of the key swing countyās elections has spilled over into a new arena. On Wednesday, Heap sent a letter to the boardā¦
West Valley teen said he āwent Batmanā to stop Surprise ICE detention center, feds say
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/21/west-valley-teen-said-he-went-batman-to-stop-surprise-ice-detention-center-feds-say/
Published: May 21, 2026 20:03
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 warehouseā¦
US House passes a āDonāt say transā bill that would force schools to out students
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/21/repub/us-house-passes-a-dont-say-trans-bill-that-would-force-schools-to-out-students/
Published: May 21, 2026 19:51
WASHINGTON ā The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday that would require parental consent before a public elementary or middle school can update a studentās pronouns, gender markers or preferred name on records in order to receive federal funding.Ā Theā¦
Four Mountain West states join forces to accelerate geothermal energy development
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/21/repub/four-mountain-west-states-join-forces-to-accelerate-geothermal-energy-development/
Published: May 21, 2026 16:53
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. Spencerā¦
High gas prices, Iran war and Trumpās abysmal approval drag down GOP ahead of midterms
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/21/repub/high-gas-prices-iran-war-and-trumps-abysmal-approval-drag-down-gop-ahead-of-midterms/
Published: May 21, 2026 14:33
KANSAS CITY, Missouri ā 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. Houseā¦
Arizona nurses say Prop. 139 should give them the right to perform abortions
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/20/arizona-nurses-say-prop-139-should-give-them-the-right-to-perform-abortions/
Published: May 20, 2026 23:21
Nearly twenty years ago, Republicans in Arizona passed laws barring nurses from providing abortions. That could change under the stateās newly adopted right to abortion, but it will be almost a year before a judge will get a chance to render a verdict.Ā Inā¦
Trump wonāt rule out troops at the polls as fight over election control intensifies before midterms
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/20/repub/trump-wont-rule-out-troops-at-the-polls-as-fight-over-election-control-intensifies-before-midterms/
Published: May 20, 2026 22:00
President Donald Trump is again demanding Congress pass a sweeping set of voting restrictions and refuses to rule out sending troops to the polls, as Democrats and voting rights groups assemble a sprawling effort to guard against federal electionā¦
āNo more business as usualā: Protesters demand accountability after SCOTUS guts Voting Rights Act
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/20/repub/no-more-business-as-usual-protesters-demand-accountability-after-scotus-guts-voting-rights-act/
Published: May 20, 2026 21:00
WASHINGTON ā About 100 rallygoers gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to hear from activists and members of Congress protesting the U.S. Supreme Courtās recent decision to strike down federal protections for the voting power of minorities. The justicesā¦
āIām going homeā: Leroy McGill executed for 2002 napalm attack that killed one, burned another
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/20/im-going-home-leroy-mcgill-executed-for-2002-napalm-attack-that-killed-one-burned-another/
Published: May 20, 2026 19:43
He already looked like a corpse when they opened the curtains. Pale, shaved head, eyes closed, a white sheet up to his neck Leroy McGill, 63, a convicted murderer, lay on a gurney in the death house at the old Florence Prison.Ā At exactly 10 a.m., he hadā¦
Republicans target blue-state districts after US Supreme Court voting rights decision
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/20/repub/republicans-target-blue-state-districts-after-us-supreme-court-voting-rights-decision/
Published: May 20, 2026 18:14
Republicans on a U.S. Senate panel suggested Tuesday a recent Supreme Court decision weakening the federal Voting Rights Act invalidated U.S. House districts in Democratic states where most residents belong to a racial minority group.Ā Sen. Eric Schmitt, aā¦
Arizona leads nation in child deaths by parents in custody cases. A new bill aims to change that.
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/20/arizona-leads-nation-in-child-deaths-by-parents-in-custody-cases-a-new-bill-aims-to-change-that/
Published: May 20, 2026 14:15
Alec Agape Mater and Lydia Alyssa Mater werenāt at school on Monday, May 20, 2024.Ā Lydia had turned six the week prior. She had excelled in kindergarten and teachers said she was already at first-grade level. Alec was about to finish second grade. At theā¦
Overflowing toilets, no medical care: Democrats call Mesa ICE facility a āpublic health issueā
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/19/overflowing-toilets-no-medical-care-democrats-call-mesa-ice-facility-a-public-health-issue/
Published: May 20, 2026 04:25
Members of Congress are still concerned about a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Mesa after seeing cells still overcrowded and finding out that toilets at the facility āregularly overflowā after an unannounced visit Tuesdayā¦
US Senate votes to advance resolution limiting Trump war in Iran as Cassidy flips
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/19/repub/us-senate-votes-to-advance-resolution-limiting-trump-war-in-iran-as-cassidy-flips/
Published: May 19, 2026 23:07
WASHINGTON ā After voting no seven times, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., flipped and cast the deciding vote to advance a War Powers Resolution to rein in President Donald Trumpās war in Iran without authorization from Congress. In a 50-47 vote, Cassidy joinedā¦
States say Trump admin unlawfully redefined āprofessional degree,ā cutting off loans for healthcare workers
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/19/repub/states-say-trump-admin-unlawfully-redefined-professional-degree-cutting-off-loans-for-healthcare-workers/
Published: May 19, 2026 20:29
WASHINGTON ā A coalition of Democratic attorneys general and governors sued the U.S. Department of Education on TuesdayĀ over forthcoming regulations that will impose new borrowing limits for students pursuing certain advanced degree programs.Ā TheĀ lawsuitā¦
Trump is turning DACA into a deportation pipeline, one expired permit at a time
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/19/trump-is-turning-daca-into-a-deportation-pipeline-one-expired-permit-at-a-time/
Published: May 19, 2026 17:10
Some Dreamers have had enough ā enough of the broken promises and the uncertainty that comes with living in fear of deportation despite pledging allegiance to this country and the U.S. Constitution since childhood. āDACA has done beautiful thingsā¦it hasā¦
Miscarriage patients have fewer treatment options in states with abortion bans, study shows
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/19/repub/miscarriage-patients-have-fewer-treatment-options-in-states-with-abortion-bans-study-shows/
Published: May 19, 2026 14:27
Pregnant patients experiencing miscarriage who live in states with abortion bans have fewer options for healthcare management, according to a new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, published May 18, found a shiftā¦
Trump sued his own government. His DOJ settled. Now thereās a $1.7B āslush fundā for his allies.
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/18/repub/trump-sued-his-own-government-his-doj-settled-now-theres-a-1-7b-slush-fund-for-his-allies/
Published: May 18, 2026 21:39
WASHINGTON ā The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday a new āanti-weaponizationā settlement fund as a condition of President Donald Trump voluntarily dropping his multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service for the leak of hisā¦
Audit find Arizonaās universal school voucher oversight is āhaphazard,ā riddled with gaps
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/18/audit-find-arizonas-universal-school-voucher-oversight-is-haphazard-riddled-with-gaps/
Published: May 18, 2026 20:34
The Arizona Department of Education prioritized appeasing voucher school parents angry about payment backlogs over implementing a new oversight law, a report from the Arizona Auditor General shows.Ā In response to the report, the Education Departmentā¦
Supreme Court has become a āchaos agent in electionsā by allowing last-minute GOP gerrymanders
https://azmirror.com/2026/05/18/repub/supreme-court-has-become-a-chaos-agent-in-elections-by-allowing-last-minute-gop-gerrymanders/
Published: May 18, 2026 19:24
When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texasā gerrymandered congressional map to take effect in December, its conservative majority wrote that a lower court had āimproperly inserted itself into an active primary campaignā when it blocked the map more thanā¦