Associated Press

The Phoenix City Council has approved the purchase of 4.2 acres of state-owned property for building a structured campground for the city’s growing homeless population.

Gov. katie Hobbs, who signed the executive order Thursday, said it applies to self-administered contraceptives, and patients 18 or older need only complete a screening and a blood pressure test.

Americans will soon celebrate Juneteenth, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free.

Mercury player Brianna Turner tweeted that people at the airport followed them “saying wild remarks.”

If enacted, Biden’s plan would forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 per year.

“This act of aggression does not represent our community,” said City Manager Andrew Ching.

Journalists at two dozen local newspapers across the US walked off the job Monday to demand an end to painful cost-cutting measures and a change of leadership at Gannett, the country’s biggest newspaper chain.

Should the legislation pass the US House and make its way to the President’s desk, it will almost certainly be vetoed.

Phoenix is facing dueling lawsuits as it tries to manage a crisis of homelessness that has converted its downtown into a tent city housing hundreds of people as summer temperatures soar.

Families are being forced out of a plot of land that Grand Canyon University bought for student housing.