Election Day is Nov. 8, but legal challenges already begin
Election Day is 12 days away. But in courtrooms across the country, efforts to sow doubt over the outcome have already begun.
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Rep. Grijalva announces $2.37 million to fund for Somerton school buses
As of Wednesday, October 26, 2022, Arizona Representative announced $2.37 million in federal funds.
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Arizona GOP Senate hopeful Blake Masters gets a boost from Trump’s super PAC
Arizona Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters is getting a boost from Donald Trump as the former President looks to cement his kingmaker status in a state he lost in 2020.
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Pres. Biden and First Lady plant tree in honor of groundskeeper
President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden celebrated longtime groundskeeper Dale Haney for his 50 years of service at the White House, by planting a new elm on the South Lawn.
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Appeals court OKs Jan. 6 panel subpoena to Arizona GOP chair
A federal appeals court panel has upheld a ruling requiring the Arizona Republican Party’s leader to hand over the phone records to the House committee investigating the Jan 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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Senator Mark Kelly to visit Yuma on Tuesday
After traveling across Arizona, Senator Mark Kelly will visit Yuma on Tuesday, October 25, 2022.
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Arizona Clean Elections Commission to interview Kari Lake
On Sunday, October 23, 2022, the Arizona Clean Elections Commission will interview gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
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Trump Org. criminal trial starts on Monday
The Trump Organization will to go on trial Monday for alleged tax crimes.
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Iowa homeowner’s Halloween display focuses on abortion rights
An Iowa homeowner is using her Halloween display to make a point about abortion rights.
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Borrowers left waiting on student debt relief
The Biden Administration is encouraging people eligible for student loan debt relief to keep applying online, despite a court-ordered temporary hold.
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Student debt forgiveness relief halted. What’s next?
On the same day President Joe Biden touted his student loan forgiveness program, a federal appeals court on Friday Put the policy on pause for now.
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Texas secretary of state’s office announces inspection of general election count in most populous county less than week before early voting
With less than a week to go before the beginning of early voting, officials in Harris County, Texas, were notified in a letter Tuesday that the secretary of state’s office will send “inspectors” to observe vote counting for the general election.
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Election deniers could make deep changes to Arizona voting
Gathered at a table in the state Capitol a little less than two years ago, two Republicans and a Democrat took part in a ceremony prescribed by state law that made official Joe Biden’s 10,500-vote victory in Arizona’s 2020 presidential contest.
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‘The containers will remain in place’ state of Arizona responds to federal government
The governor’s office maintains they are happy to remove the temporary containers when the federal government offers a permanent solution.
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House report alleges Trump aides blocked public health officials from providing accurate Covid-19 information during pandemic
Trump administration aides “usurped control of CDC communications and blocked public health officials from providing accurate information about the coronavirus to the American people,” the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, led by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, said in a report released Monday.
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Biden prioritizing abortion legislation before midterms
President Joe Biden will promise Tuesday that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade — if Democrats control enough seats in Congress for Biden to sign abortion protections into law. That’s a big if.
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First on CNN: Next spring the economy will sink into a 1990-style mild recession, Fitch says
Stubborn inflation and the Federal Reserve’s jumbo-sized interest rate hikes will drive the American economy into a 1990-style mild recession starting in the spring, Fitch Ratings warned on Tuesday.
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Exclusive: Bob Woodward releasing new audiobook ‘The Trump Tapes’ with eight hours of recorded interviews
During a December 2019 Oval Office interview with then-President Donald Trump, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward asked whether his bellicose rhetoric toward North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had been intended to drive Kim to the negotiating table.
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Kanye West, Elon Musk and the uncertain promise of a new internet for conservatives
One week ago, Kanye West was temporarily suspended from Twitter for posting antisemitic tweets. Now, the rapper has agreed to acquire Parler, an alternative social platform popular with conservatives, to prevent ever having “to fear being removed from social media again.”
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Prosecutors want Bannon to be sentenced to six months
Federal prosecutors want Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to former President Donald Trump, to be sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of Congress, according to a recommendation filed Monday.
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