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The latest CDC data, which runs through January 3, shows the weekly rate of hospitalizations, largely driven by H3N2 subclade K or the 'super flu' strain, is up 53 percent from the week before. Overall hospitalizations for the season are also up 37 percent compared to the week before. Read More.

Arizona taxpayers will actually save more than the original estimate of $1.1 billion over the next three years if the Republican majority in the Legislature passes its tax plan, according to a think tank. Read More.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is set to reach agreements with major technology companies to prevent the rapid expansion of data centers from increasing utility bills in the United States. Read More.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, leading a massive multi-state coalition, has expanded a legal challenge against the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Read More.

US President Donald Trump has told several of the world’s major oil companies that he guarantees “total safety” in Venezuela, urging them to invest $100 billion in the South American nation’s oil industry. Read More.

Voters from 36 states across the country will return to the polls to elect their next governors in 2026. Several governors races are expected to see fierce competition between parties as they battle for control of their states. Read More.

President Donald Trump announced in an early Friday morning Truth Social post that he has "cancelled the previously expected second Wave of Attacks" against Venezuela in light of the "cooperation" between the foreign nation and the U.S. Read More.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has announced a major settlement involving groundwater usage. Speaking Thursday afternoon in Cochise County, Mayes said the deal between Arizona and Riverview LLP will reduce the dairy’s groundwater usage and deliver $11 million for well-drilling, water hauling and groundwater access. Read More.

President Trump said on Wednesday that he had a call with Colombian President Gustavo Petro and he looks forward to meeting him in the “near future.” Read More.

A community activist is not happy with Banner Health mandating masks at all its facilities in Arizona during a flu surge. The mandate also applies to Banner Health's facilities in California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming. Read More.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller insisted Monday evening that Greenland should be part of the US, predicting that “nobody’s going to fight the United States” about the future of the world’s largest island. Read More.

A new year means new laws, and that is certainly the case for Arizona in 2026. On Jan. 1, the state’s minimum wage rose to $15.15 an hour. In Tucson, it is now $15.45 an hour. This is due to Tucson Proposition 206, an initiative that voters approved in 2021. Read More.

President Trump slapped down the Kremlin’s accusation that Ukraine targeted a residence of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin last week, saying Sunday night that he doubted such an attack ever took place. Read More.

Southwestern members of Congress reacted along party lines after the U.S. military captured Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Read More.

Nicolas Maduro, the dethroned Venezuelan dictator indicted on major drug trafficking and weapons charges in the United States, is expected in a federal court in New York Monday for his arraignment, days after American forces captured him in his own presidential palace. Read More.