President Donald Trump canceled the signing of landmark bipartisan housing legislation, just hours before a scheduled ceremony on Wednesday, to demand passage of the major voter identification bill that has failed to advance in the Senate.
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Nearly half of American voters blame wars and conflicts for elevated gas prices, and two thirds say fuel costs will influence their vote in November, a new national poll finds. Read More.
The Trump administration plans to issue $17.5 billion in loans to support the development of 10 new large nuclear power reactors, with the hope that the reactors will be under construction by the end of the decade and operational by the mid-2030s.
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Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap filed an appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court after a state Court of Appeals issued a stay motion favoring the county Board of Supervisors in the ongoing lawsuit about who controls certain election functions.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has indicated that it is looking into the matter after a Delta Air Lines flight carried out a go-around at an airport on Saturday due to another aircraft leaving from an intersecting runway.
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Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that Iran was “honoring” the terms of its preliminary peace deal with Washington — as a 60-day clock started to hash out a final agreement.
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced over $700 million in new funds for programs tackling substance abuse, mental health challenges and homelessness during an event in Clinton Township on Monday. Read More.
Senate Bill 1221, which passed recently along party lines in the state House and Senate, requires the Arizona Department of Revenue to inform the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee of new interpretations of tax law that will adversely affect taxpayers. Read More.
On Saturday, Gov. Katie Hobbs signed Arizona’s new $18.29 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2027, which includes approximately $1.45 billion in tax relief for Arizonans over the next four years.
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SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, giving Elon Musk's artificial intelligence empire a leg up in the chatbot coding race currently led by frontier AI labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Read More.