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World News | US: Nationwide Protests Against Immigration Raids Escalate, Leading to Arrests and Curfews
Austin, Jun 12 (AP) Protests over federal immigration enforcement raids are flaring up around the US, as officials in cities from coast to coast get ready for major demonstrations against President Donald Trump over the weekend. While many...

Take Us North Kickstarter campaign launches for game about crossing the U.S.-Mexico border
Anima Interactive has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its game, Take Us North, about the experiences of migrants and asylum seekers on crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Take Us North is an adventure/survival game that follows the journeys of...

Challenging and costly pathway to citizenship for immigrants fearing deportation
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — There are more than 506,000 undocumented immigrants in Arizona, according to the latest data from the Migration Policy Institute. As anti-ICE protests continue to erupt across the country amid mass deportation efforts, some...

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Arizona attorney has stern warning for protesters amid ICE operations
Deportation proceedings have started for a mother in Mesa who overstayed her tourist visa when she was a kid, surprising her family. Jazmin Urias got a letter last weekend from the feds asking her to appear in front of an immigration judge for a...

Nationwide protests against immigration raids escalate
AUSTIN, Texas — Protests over federal immigration enforcement raids are flaring up around the country, as officials in cities from coast to coast get ready for major demonstrations against President Donald Trump over the weekend. While many...

Protests over immigration raids continue across US with more planned
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Protests over federal immigration enforcement raids are flaring up around the country, as officials in cities from coast to coast get ready for major demonstrations against President Donald Trump over the weekend. While many...

Tom Horne criticizes veto of Arizona antisemitism education bill
PHOENIX (KVOA) - State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has voiced strong disapproval following Gov. Katie Hobbs' veto of a bipartisan bill aimed at addressing antisemitism in Arizona's public school classrooms. "This is a terrible...
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Pritzker defends Illinois’ immigration laws in theatrical congressional hearing
Gov. JB Pritzker spent hours Thursday defending his governing record and Illinois’ immigration policies as he was peppered with questions from members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee. Pritzker and Democratic governors Kathy Hochul of New...

Arizona governor vetoes bill banning teaching antisemitism, calls it an attack on educators
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a proposal that would have banned teaching antisemitism at the state’s public K-12 schools, universities and colleges and exposed educators who violate the new rules to discipline and lawsuits....

Key Republican lawmaker defends Arizona House budget, says Hobbs has been MIA
Arizona House Republicans have unveiled their budget proposal for the fiscal year that starts on July 1. The more than $17 billion plan includes a pay raise for corrections officers and money for road and other infrastructure projects. What it...

Mark Kelly blasts GOP education cuts, $5B voucher program as ‘horrible idea’ at DC rally
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly joined education advocates, parents, teachers and students Thursday to blast congressional Republicans’ proposed cuts to education. The Arizona Democrat and demonstrators spoke out against GOP lawmakers’ “big,...

Arizona Jewish Historical Society breaks ground on Holocaust Education Center
The Arizona Jewish Historical Society has officially broken ground on the Hilton Family Holocaust Education Center, a 30,000-square-foot facility that aims to transform Holocaust education across the state. Set to open in spring 2027 in downtown...

Ignore the stats; grittiness defines Arizona baseball’s run to College World Series
The numbers don’t favor the Arizona Wildcats in Omaha. When you look at several of the statistics that usually portend success in baseball — batting average, OPS, ERA, WHIP, fielding percentage — Arizona doesn’t stack up well against the field in...

Immigrant advocates warn of ICE workplace raids Tuesday: What to know
Editor's note: Phoenix New Times has reporters in the field trying to track down ICE activities. Read our report. *** As the city of Los Angeles reels from large-scale immigration raids and the resulting civil unrest, immigration attorneys and...

Arizona governor vetoes bill banning teaching antisemitism, calls it an attack on educators
Hobbs, a Democrat, said Tuesday that the bill was not about antisemitism but rather about attacking teachers. “It puts an unacceptable level of personal liability in place for our public school, community college, and university educators and...

Arizona man bitten twice by rattlesnake, taken to hospital
The man was apparently bitten on each ankle while walking in the dark near his home in southern Arizona TUCSON, Ariz. — A 72-year-old man from Green Valley is recovering after a rattlesnake bit him on both ankles while walking in the dark near his...

Ranking Arizona: Top 10 architecture companies for 2025
Here are the Top 10 architecture companies in Arizona, based on public voting for the 2025 edition of Ranking Arizona, the state’s biggest and most comprehensive business opinion poll. Ranking Arizona is based purely on opinion and ranks companies...

Iowa bans Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for adults
It's not just youth — Iowa's Medicaid program is now banned from covering gender-affirming care for adults, too. House File 1049 prevents Medicaid from paying for hormone therapies or gender-affirming surgeries, though it does not prohibit...

Immigration battles playing out in Arizona high school classrooms, sports
By Sebastian Mondaca Sepulveda | Cronkite News PHOENIX — While President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to Los Angeles has garnered national attention, a quieter storyline is unfolding within Arizona high schools. Young...