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House conservatives are pushing for House Speaker Mike Johnson to stop President Biden's "open border" policies with the federal funding bill that Congress has to pass before a Friday deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. Congress has passed six appropriations bills in the form of a "minibus" spending package to fund certain cabinet agencies but both the House and Senate still have to pass another package to fund the remaining agencies. Read More.

Arizona's presidential preference election on Tuesday is on track to have predictable results. Read More.

Kari Lake and Mark Finchem filed a Petition for Certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, appealing the dismissal of their lawsuit against Arizona officials to stop the use of electronic voting machine tabulators. The 210-page petition added new allegations stating that the defendants lied to the court and that new evidence had surfaced exposing the vulnerabilities of the machines to bad actors. “New evidence from other litigation and public-record requests shows defendants made false statements to the district court regarding the safeguards allegedly followed to ensure the accuracy of the vote, on which the district court relied,” the petition asserted. Read More.

The border crisis in Arizona is hitting yet another tipping point as some federal funding is set to dry up in April, which could lead to Read More.

An Arizona election official who resigned from her former position in Cochise County over her refusal to hand count ballots in the 2022 elections is now the statewide election director after a promotion from Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. Lisa Marra was appointed by Fontes to become the Arizona Elections Director and will oversee equipment testing, candidate filings, election night reporting and canvassing during the 2024 elections. Read More.

Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake turned in her petition signatures to qualify for the July 30 primary ballot on Friday morning. Read More.

The Biden administration appears poised to put the government’s thumb on the scale in the 2024 election, House Republicans say. The administration’s lack of transparency about implementing President Joe Biden’s executive order for federal agencies to help get out the vote—combined with a warning from Attorney General Merrick Garland—has sparked some concern among lawmakers. Read More.

Inflation in the Phoenix metropolitan area appears to be calming down, according to new Consumer Price Index data from February. Read More.

Officials in Pinal County are reportedly working to address toxic garbage caused by illegal camping by the homeless after the Bureau of Land Management displaced them by closing 1,000 acres of public land in Apache Junction and the Tonto National Forest to create a new recreation area. Pinal County Supervisor Jeff Serdy confirmed local authorities are left to confront the numbers of "boondockers," "nomads" and "truly homeless" who were displaced after BLM closed the acreage to build a recreation area in remarks to ABC 15. Read More.

The chorus of voices in opposition to the Internal Revenue Service's taxation of a state rebate many Arizona families received last year continues to grow. Read More.

Former President Donald Trump announced what his first major moves would be if he is re-elected back to the White House in 2024. Read More.

A bipartisan group of Arizona lawmakers is asking Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs to sign the "Arizona Starter Homes Act." Read More.

A recent risk-based audit of Grand Canyon University conducted by the Arizona State Approving Agency (SAA) for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs did not “show any findings” related to the institution’s doctoral disclosures, which have been targeted by the Biden administration’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) through a $37.7 million fine. Read More.

Arizona Republicans are going to put forth more concurrent resolutions in order to push forward border security policy. Read More.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday the sentencing of a Phoenix man who led a human smuggling ring which moved illegal immigrants from Central America and held them in Arizona before driving them to destinations across the United States. Tony Cardenas, a 36-year-old man from Phoenix, was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release earlier this month for his role as "the leader of a Phoenix-based human-smuggling operation" involving a total of at least 19 criminals, the DOJ announced. Cardenas is of no known relation to U.S. Representative Tony Cardenas (D-CA-29). Read More.