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Tradition and Education Honored at SKC Graduation

Tradition and Education Honored at SKC Graduation

PABLO — Salish Kootenai College honored its Class of 2025 during a commencement ceremony filled with pride, language, and resilience on a warm spring morning. "It is my great honor to welcome all of you to the Salish Kootenai College 2025...

Arizona governor vetoes bill banning teaching antisemitism, cites litigation worries

Arizona governor vetoes bill banning teaching antisemitism, cites litigation worries

PHOENIX — 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. The...

Letter: What is the immigration plan?

Letter: What is the immigration plan?

How many more administrations is it going to take to pass comprehensive immigration legislation? What happens after we deport "all the bad people"? Do we have a plan or a number of immigrants we can take in seeking asylum? Both houses of Congress...

Opinion: What Arizonans can learn from Brazil’s near-total abortion ban

Opinion: What Arizonans can learn from Brazil’s near-total abortion ban

This is the powerful translation of Nem Presa, Nem Morta, the name of an advocacy organization that is leading the resistance against anti-abortion laws in Brazil. In a country with a near-total ban, this is more than a name, it is a rallying cry...

What To Know About The New COVID Variant Nimbus In Arizona

What To Know About The New COVID Variant Nimbus In Arizona

The New COVID Variant Hitting Arizona Experts at the Centers for Disease Control are warning that the latest strain of the new COVID-19 variant, NB.1.8.1, nicknamed "Nimbus," is presenting with some strange new symptoms. The Omicron subvariant was...

Boxing legend Mike Tyson teams up with Arizona leaders, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley to champion youth fitness

Boxing legend Mike Tyson teams up with Arizona leaders, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley to champion youth fitness

Boxing legend Mike Tyson addresses youth from Phoenix-area Boys and Girls Clubs at the Arizona State Capitol on June 5, 2025. (Photo by Kayla Christenson/Cronkite News) PHOENIX — Mike Tyson has traded the boxing ring for a different kind of fight,...

Protests across US as immigration raids escalate

Protests across US as immigration raids escalate

Austin: Protests against federal immigration enforcement raids are escalating around the US, as officials prepare for large demonstrations against President Donald Trump this weekend. While many protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

USA Fencing declines to explain reason for policy changes on national anthem, prioritizing pro-LGBTQ states

USA Fencing declines to explain reason for policy changes on national anthem, prioritizing pro-LGBTQ states

USA Fencing chair Damien Lehfeldt was grilled by the DOGE subcommittee after Stephanie Turner was punished for refusing to face a trans competitor. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! USA Fencing announced changes to two of its...

Joe Rogan breaks with Trump on a 'crazy' aspect of his 'mass deportation' plan

Joe Rogan breaks with Trump on a 'crazy' aspect of his 'mass deportation' plan

By CHARLIE SPIERING, SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER, WASHINGTON, DC Published: 15:55 EDT, 18 June 2025 | Updated: 15:55 EDT, 18 June 2025 Podcaster Joe Rogan expressed his concerns about President Donald Trump's escalation of ICE immigration raids in...

Multi-agency effort in Arizona leads to arrest of 72 in child exploitation

Multi-agency effort in Arizona leads to arrest of 72 in child exploitation

A multiple-agency effort that started in April resulted in the arrests of 72 people involved child exploitation, officials said Thursday. Operation Safe Online Summer, led by the Phoenix Police Department, targeted child predators and those...

US protests against immigration raids spark arrests and curfews

US protests against immigration raids spark arrests and curfews

An anti-immigration raid protester walks in front of the California National Guard as they stand patrol on the backside of the Federal Building during anti-immigration raid protests on June 12, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. [Getty] Protests...

Highest-rated Class of 2026 men's basketball recruits from Arizona

Highest-rated Class of 2026 men's basketball recruits from Arizona

sportoakimirka // Shutterstock Highest-rated Class of 2026 men’s basketball recruits from Arizona From the roaring crowd to squeaking sneakers on the hardwood, high school basketball is a beloved American pastime. The sport’s school roots date...

Illegal Immigrants Do Raise Crime Rates

By José Niño As pro-immigration Democrats rally against the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, new data challenges their core claims about immigrant crime rates. To support their opposition to Donald Trump’s deportation...

New San Diego State baseball coach Kevin Vance is ‘back home and excited to be here’

New San Diego State baseball coach Kevin Vance is ‘back home and excited to be here’

Kevin Vance’s lingering memory of San Diego State’s Tony Gwynn Stadium is from the 2007 CIF championship game. “We lost,” said Vance, Torrey Pines High School’s 3-2 loss to Granite Hills seared into his memory. “I made an error in left field in...

Arizona attorney has stern warning for protesters amid ICE operations

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...

Arizona governor vetoes bill banning teaching antisemitism, calls it an attack on educators

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....

Arizona Jewish Historical Society breaks ground on Holocaust Education Center

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...

Immigrant advocates warn of ICE workplace raids Tuesday: What to know

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...

Diving in the desert: Southern Arizona's scuba community is bigger than you’d think

Diving in the desert: Southern Arizona's scuba community is bigger than you’d think

TUCSON — Near the intersection of Campbell Avenue and Prince Road, red and white PADI flags flap in the air like a fish out of water, flying above the dirt, dry bushes and cacti near the intersection. The striped flags of the Professional...

Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Trans Health Care

Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Trans Health Care

U.S. Supreme Court building – Photo: Jimmy Woo, via Unsplash The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Tennessee law banning doctors from prescribing gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender youth with gender dysphoria. A group of...

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