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Virginia Republican Congressman Bob Good was elected to lead the House Freedom Caucus in a closed-door vote late Monday evening. Good is replacing conservative Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., who is stepping down. He takes command of the approximately three dozen-member caucus in January. The Virginia cong...
Oral arguments in the case to decide abortion laws in Arizona were heard at the state Supreme Court on Tuesday morning. There are two different laws on the books, including one that was signed into law by former Republican Gov. Doug Ducey that bans abortion after 15 weeks with a mother’s health ...
Arizona leaders of both parties continue to rebuke the Biden administration over their management of the southern border, including Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly. Sinema and Kelly wrote to President Joe Biden on Monday reaffirming the points made in Gov. Katie Hobbs’ letter on Friday, which ...
Former President Donald Trump endorsed former Republican Arizona Attorney General nominee Abe Hamadeh in the competitive primary race to replace Rep. Debbie Lesko. The endorsement is notable because former Senate nominee Blake Masters is also in the race, and he was also endorsed like Hamadeh was in...
Indigenous and environmental activists protested outside the Roundhouse this week to urge Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration to promptly phase out the use of fossil fuels in New Mexico. The activists also expressed opposition to what they alleged is the governor’s plan to spend $50...
Attorney General Kris Mayes is warning about gift card scams amid the holiday season. Her office announced that eight individuals were arrested on Thursday regarding an elaborate gift card cloning scheme. “The agents and investigators that make up the Organized Retail Theft Task Force in the Attor...
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is pushing the federal government to reassign National Guard troops and reimburse the state government for border-related expenses. In a letter to President Joe Biden, Hobbs is requesting that the 243 National Guard troops already on federal orders in the Tucson Sector be re...
Hunter Biden’s latest tax indictment has fanned the fire of criticism against the president, who faces an impeachment inquiry by House Republicans and growing evidence that he personally benefited from his son’s overseas business deals. The latest indictment, which features nine more charges rel...
As Texas’ lawsuit continues against the federal government over its right to defend its border, Texas National Guard soldiers continue to erect concertina wire barriers along the Rio Grande River. The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently handed Texas a temporary win in the lawsuit, stayin...
Americans plan to spend nearly $1,000 this Christmas, newly released polling shows. Gallup polling shows that Americans expect to spend $975 this holiday season on Christmas presents and other holiday gifts. That figure is the highest since 1999. “Last year at this time, U.S. holiday retail sales ...
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte visited the United States on an economic development tour focused on the semiconductor industry this week. One of his stops was in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he helped announce the expansion of semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASM International’s presence in Ari...
Former President Donald Trump will remain on the 2024 presidential primary ballot in Arizona despite a legal effort to get him removed. A federal judge tossed a lawsuit filed by Republican presidential candidate John Anthony Castro, who has been trying to use the legal system to get Trump off the ba...
Two Arizona congressmen are asking for answers on when the Lukeville Port of Entry will reopen at the southern border. Rep. Juan Ciscomani, a Tucson area Republican, and Rep. Greg Stanton, a Phoenix area Democrat, wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asking for a timeli...
By Casey Harper |The Center Square Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attacked former President Donald Trump’s age and sparred with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over Trump’s mental fitness to be president during the Republican primary debate at the University of Alabama on Wednesday night. The r...
By Casey Harper | The Center Square Republican leadership on the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Hunter Biden Wednesday, threatening him with a contempt of Congress charge if he skips his scheduled Dec. 13 deposition. Those two committees are helping lead...
By Cameron Arcand | The Center Square Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs recently communicated with leadership at the United States Department of Homeland Security, but conversations with Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have been more scant. The federal government, as well as Arizona officials, have been under s...
By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor In what has been back-and-forth rulings among the courts, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Mondayoverturnedits previous ruling, issuing an administrative stay in a case filed by Texas over the federal government tearing down concertina wire bo...
By Nicole Fisher | Ballotpedia via The Center Square In November, voters in Ohio approved Issue 1, which established the right to an abortion in the state constitution. Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022, which overruled Roe v. Wade, t...
By Cole Lauterbach | The Center Square The Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association announced on Friday the planned closure of a coal-fired power plant in eastern Arizona. The utility said in a document dated Dec. 1 that it will seek to replace the base-level power provided by Springerville...
By Cameron Arcand | The Center Square Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs does not plan on deploying National Guard troops to Lukeville despite U.S. Customs and Border Protection shutting down the legal port of entry on Monday.
By Cameron Arcand |The Center Square As chatter of a possible consent decree on the Phoenix Police Department from the United States Department of Justice intensifies, local law enforcement leaders want the city to outright reject the possibility. The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, theAmerican...
By Casey Harper | The Center Square The rapidly growing debt of the U.S. federal government has hit another milestone, topping more than $100,000 per person. While the U.S. population and the U.S. national debt are large numbers that are difficult to calculate, the rough debt estimate and rough popu...
By Brett Rowland | The Center Square The Treasury Department announced Monday that it is launching a Counter-Fentanyl Strike Force ahead of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's trip to Mexico. The strike force will use Treasury's
Ashley Murray, Alabama Reflector WASHINGTON — The first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court is dead at 93. Sandra Day O’Connor, a groundbreaking justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday in Phoenix, Arizona of complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, an...
By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor Two of three judges on a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel sided with a lower district court and required Texas to move back its marine barriers closer to its shoreline. Texas is appealing to the full court. The panel’s ruling reversed its pre...
By Cameron Arcand | The Center Square Arizona Rep. Quang Nguyen, R-Prescott Valley, told an audience in Scottsdale on Wednesday about what actions Republican lawmakers may take in the next session targeting public universities on free speech issues. “We actually drafted quite a few things, includi...
By Cameron Arcand | The Center Square Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is dialing in on telemarketers. The attorney general settled a lawsuit with Old Town AC, LLC, for $285,000. The company allegedly made illegal telemarketing calls to people who were on the National Do Not Call Registry from 20...
By Cameron Arcand | The Center Square Amkor Technology is pouring roughly $2 billion into a packaging and test facility in Peoria, Arizona, which marks another major development for the semiconductor industry in the state. Once construction is finished on the planned 500,000 square feet – larger t...
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