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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  ā€œAn alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their…

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 agency’s…

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 companies…

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 Powers…

Officers beaten on Jan. 6 call Trump’s $1.8B fund ā€˜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 and…

Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap threatens felony charges over ā€˜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 county’s elections has spilled over into a new arena. On Wednesday, Heap sent a letter to the board…

West Valley teen said he ā€˜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 warehouse…

US House passes a ā€˜Don’t say trans’ bill that would force schools to out students

Published: May 21, 2026 19:51

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.Ā  The…

High gas prices, Iran war and Trump’s abysmal approval drag down GOP ahead of midterms

Published: May 21, 2026 14:33

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…

Trump won’t 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 election…

ā€˜No more business as usual’: Protesters demand accountability after SCOTUS guts Voting Rights Act

Published: May 20, 2026 21:00

WASHINGTON — About 100 rallygoers gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to hear from activists and members of Congress protesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down federal protections for the voting power of minorities. The justices…

ā€˜I’m 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 had…

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, a…

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 weren’t 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 the…

Overflowing toilets, no medical care: Democrats call Mesa ICE facility a ā€˜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 ā€œregularly overflowā€ after an unannounced visit Tuesday…

US Senate votes to advance resolution limiting Trump war in Iran as Cassidy flips

Published: May 19, 2026 23:07

WASHINGTON — 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 Trump’s war in Iran without authorization from Congress. In a 50-47 vote, Cassidy joined…

States say Trump admin unlawfully redefined ā€˜professional degree,’ cutting off loans for healthcare workers

Published: May 19, 2026 20:29

WASHINGTON — 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 lawsuit…

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 shift…

Trump sued his own government. His DOJ settled. Now there’s a $1.7B ā€˜slush fund’ for his allies.

Published: May 18, 2026 21:39

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday a new ā€œanti-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 his…

Audit find Arizona’s universal school voucher oversight is ā€˜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 Department…

Supreme Court has become a ā€˜chaos agent in elections’ by allowing last-minute GOP gerrymanders

Published: May 18, 2026 19:24

When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas’ gerrymandered congressional map to take effect in December, its conservative majority wrote that a lower court had ā€œimproperly inserted itself into an active primary campaignā€ when it blocked the map more than…