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Pro-choice advocates set to turn in around 800,000 signatures for Arizona abortion ballot measure
PHOENIX (AP) — Pro-choice advocates are set to deliver petition signatures Wednesday in hopes of getting the abortion rights issue on Arizona’s November general election ballot. Organizers collected about 800,000 signatures and need 383,923 of them to be deemed valid. If that...
Giuliani is disbarred in New York as court finds he repeatedly lied about Trump's 2020 election loss
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump's 2020 election loss. The Manhattan appeals court ruled...
Planned Parenthood says it will spend $40 million on abortion rights ahead of November's election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Planned Parenthood will spend $40 million ahead of November's elections to bolster President Joe Biden and leading congressional Democrats, betting that voters angry at Republican-led efforts to further restrict access to abortion can be the difference in key races around the...
Arizona governor signs budget into law after fierce negotiations to make up a massive shortfall
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a series of fiercely negotiated budget bills into law on Tuesday, erasing a shortfall of over $1 billion by cutting back on higher education, trimming funding for state agencies and raiding some special funds. An agreement on the...
Arizona lawmakers agree to let voters decide on retention rules for state Supreme Court justices
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona lawmakers voted Wednesday to send an initiative to the November ballot that would protect two state Supreme Court justices targeted for removal from the bench over their support for a near-total abortion ban dating back to the Civil War. Both chambers of the...
Kari Lake loses Arizona appeals court challenge of 2022 loss in governor race
PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Kari Lake has lost an Arizona appeals court challenge arguing that thousands of Phoenix-area mail ballot signatures were not properly verified when she lost the 2022 governor election to Democrat Katie Hobbs. The state Court of Appeals upheld on Tuesday a...
Trump, in his first post-trial rally, demands that appeals courts reverse his felony conviction
PHOENIX (AP) — Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Thursday with a trip to Arizona, his first appearance in a battleground state since he was convicted in a hush money scandal, repeating his critiques of the case against him as politically motivated and calling for his conviction to be...
In a rare step, 3 South Dakota counties are set to vote on counting ballots by hand
Voters in at least three rural South Dakota counties are set to decide Tuesday whether to return to counting ballots by hand, the latest communities around the country to consider ditching machine tabulators based on unfounded conspiracy theories stemming from the 2020 presidential election. ...
100 years ago, US citizenship for Native Americans came without voting rights in swing states
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Voter participation advocate Theresa Pasqual traverses Acoma Pueblo with a stack of sample ballots in her car and applications for absentee ballots, handing them out at every opportunity ahead of New Mexico's Tuesday primary. Residents of the tribal...
After a deadly heat wave last summer, metro Phoenix is changing tactics
PHOENIX (AP) — Terrified of being assaulted in a shelter, Pearl Marion couch surfed with family members and friends during last year's blistering summer so she didn't have to sleep outdoors. This year, the 65-year-old woman plans to spend Phoenix's dangerously hot summer nights in...
