A class action trial over conditions at Border Patrol detention facilities in Arizona kicked off Monday with testimony from an expert witness who said he has never seen more overcrowded holding cells.
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President Donald Trump is currently tied with former Vice President Joe Biden among Arizona voters, according to a poll by the left-wing Public Policy Polling.
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Arizona agreed Monday to a settlement to provide more effective voter registration services to people who move so they do not suddenly find themselves bumped from the voter rolls.
Read moreAn attorney’s claims against Arizona relating to a state law that prohibits public entities from contracting with companies that “engage in a boycott of Israel” are moot, the Ninth Circuit ruled. The law was amended in 2019 so that it now applies only to companies with 10 or more full-time employees and contracts valued at $100,000 or more.
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When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service takes a species off the endangered list, the move is typically greeted with effusive praise from wildlife conservation groups and offered as proof that conservation in concert with recovery programs works.
Read moreWildlife officials in Arizona said they have shot three mountain lions that fed on human remains found near a popular hiking trail.
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In hypothetical head-to-head matchups, former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg statistically tie President Donald Trump in Arizona – a state Trump carried in 2016 – according to a poll released Monday.
Read moreNine members of an Arizona family, together for the Thanksgiving holiday, were in an oversized military-style truck when they got stuck in a raging creek swollen by runoff from a powerful storm.
Read moreHumanitarian aid worker Scott Warren testified in his federal trial in Arizona Tuesday that he had a simple goal in mind when he helped two Central American men in January 2018 at an aid station in a remote desert town: keeping people alive in a hostile environment.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a double-digit lead over his 2020 Democratic rivals in Arizona, though it is mainly concentrated within Arizona’s most populated counties, according to polling data released Tuesday.
Read moreThe owner of a now-closed body donation facility was found civilly liable Tuesday for mishandling remains in about half of 21 cases filed by families of the dead.
Read moreA chapter of the Satanic Temple’s civil rights claims against Scottsdale, Arizona, may continue, a federal court in the state ruled. The chapter was not allowed to give an invocation at a city council meeting. The court ruled the plaintiffs have shown that their beliefs are “sincerely held.”
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A humanitarian aid worker on trial for a second time for helping two undocumented immigrants in Arizona never intended to break the law and without that intent there is no crime, his attorney told the jury in opening arguments in a federal court in Arizona Tuesday.
Read moreA Cochise County, Arizona jail inmate claims in state court that a jail chaplain forced her to give him oral sex in the jail.
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Documents released this week by a federal agency raise questions about whether a self-driving Uber SUV that ran down a pedestrian last year should have been allowed on public roads for test purposes.
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A string of violence south of Arizona’s border with Mexico has sparked warnings by U.S. authorities and is forcing people who say they won’t stop crossing into Mexico to consider how to travel safely.
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Voters in Tucson, the home of the sanctuary movement that swept the nation in the 1980s, soundly rejected a return to those roots Tuesday.
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A court-appointed investigator concluded that high-ranking managers for former metro Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio disregarded a federal judge’s order for Arpaio to halt immigration sweeps targeting Latinos, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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