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How Congress will certify Trump’s Electoral College victory on Jan. 6, after Trump tried to stop the count in 2021
This time, Trump is returning to office after winning the 2024 election that began with Biden as his party’s nominee and ended with Vice President Kamala Harris atop the ticket.
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Arizona official who delayed county’s 2022 election certification didn’t have immunity, court says
An appeals court has rejected an Arizona official’s argument that felony charges against him for delaying certification of his rural county’s 2022 election results should be dismissed because he has legislative immunity.
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Canyon de Chelly in Arizona will become latest national park unit to ban commercial air tours
Commercial air tours will soon be prohibited over Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona under a plan approved this week by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Park Service.
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The Hopi Tribe is closer to acquiring more land in Arizona after decades of delay
Federal officials and the state of Arizona have joined forces to begin fulfilling a settlement agreement reached with the Hopi Tribe nearly thirty years ago, marking what tribal officials described as a historic day. Government attorneys filed condemnation documents on Friday to transfer dozens of square miles of state land into trust for the Hopi.…
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Arizona governor urges the state to stop collecting abortion data, citing patient privacy
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is calling for legislators to repeal the state law that requires an annual abortion report, saying that it infringes on patients’ privacy, which echoes other Democratic officials’ push to reduce or eliminate such requirements. “The government has no place in surveilling Arizonans’ medical decision-making or tracking their health history,” Hobbs, a…
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Trump taps immigration hard-liner Kari Lake as head of Voice of America
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s picking Kari Lake as director of Voice of America, installing a staunch loyalist who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor and a Senate seat to head the congressionally funded broadcaster that provides independent news reporting around the world.
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It’s the final holiday stretch at the Biden White House. The theme is ‘A Season of Peace and Light’
It’s the final holiday stretch for President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, who has decked out the White House with some whimsical decorations to evoke the “peace and light” of the season.
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Native American students miss school at higher rates. It only got worse during the pandemic
Out of 34 states with data available for the 2022-2023 school year, half had absenteeism rates for Native American and Alaska Native students that were at least 9 percentage points higher than the state average. After missing 40 days of school last year, Tommy Betom, 10, is on track this year for much better attendance. The…
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DACA recipients worry their protection from deportation won’t last another Trump term
Uncertainty is nothing new for DACA recipients. As many matured from school age to adulthood, they have witnessed a barrage of legal threats to the program. Reyna Montoya was 10 when she and her family fled violence in Tijuana and illegally immigrated to the U.S. Growing up in Arizona, she worried even a minor traffic violation…
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County official in Arizona pleads guilty to embezzling over $38M in public funds
An elected official for an Arizona county has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $38 million in public funds that she used to renovate her luxurious Southwestern ranch home, maintain the family cattle business and buy at least 20 vehicles, including an Airstream camper van.
