The Arizona Department of Education is revising its science standards for K-12 education by....... deleting several references to evolution and calling it a “theory” in other parts of the document.
On Thursday, educators across Arizona are staging walkouts in protest of poor working conditions and low wages, adding to a national movement of teachers engaged in direct action and solidarity in the face of longstanding austerity conditions.
A piece of legislation (known as SB 1394), which would make it mandatory for hospitals and clinics to ask women seeking abortions about their reasons for wanting the procedure, passed the Arizona state House of Representatives on Monday.
After a certain point, you almost have to admire how committed Republicans are to defending and enforcing their racism. Arizona state Rep. David Livingston, R-Peoria, has sponsored a bill that he says will encourage insurance companies to translate policies “into multiple languages for the benefit of consumers.”…
After an investigation substantiated accusations of harassment from seven women, the Arizona House nearly unanimously voted to expel Rep. Don Shooter (that’s his name, folks) from office for “dishonorable behavior,” the Arizona Republic reports. He is apparently the first state lawmaker of the #MeToo era to be removed…
Donald Trump may have the power to alter history by pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but he can’t also retroactively efface that history. I mean, in this particular case he can’t, according to a judge.
Employees at the two Motel 6 locations in Phoenix told the Phoenix New Times that it was common practice at the chain to share guest information with ICE. If true, this would mean that an American motel company is willingly referring paying customers to a ruthlessly overzealous deportation force that was recently…
One year and a lifetime ago, American society was vaguely stable and fundamentalist Mormon cult leader Lyle Jeffs was facing federal charges for food stamp fraud and money laundering. Jeffs disappeared while awaiting trial, with his court-appointed lawyer dryly suggesting that perhaps he’d been raptured into Heaven. …
Senate Bill 1367 passed through the Arizona Senate in February, then through the House Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety on Wednesday. If signed into law, the bill would force doctors to perform useless procedures on unviable fetuses.
Since Donald Trump’s inauguration there has been much to protest, and Republicans are working as hard as they can to make that protesting illegal.
In December of 2015, the state of Arizona agreed to halt the use of the controversial sedative midazolam. Midazolam is one drug in a three-part mix used for executions, and it has a long track record of not working.
At least seven protesters were arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday night after Guadalupe García de Rayos, a 35-year-old mother of two American teenagers, was arrested and set for deportation in accordance with Donald Trump’s executive order expanding the definition of “criminal alien.”
This week, the Arizona Department of Corrections called a halt to executions that use the controversial sedative midazolam. The drug is the first in a three-part cocktail, meant to sedate the prisoner before they are given a paralyzing drug and then an injection that stops the heart. The efficacy of the sedative has…
Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, a racist police officer who used his position of power for racial profiling, illegal arrests and creating unconstitutional and horrific jail conditions, was charged Tuesday with criminal contempt of court for charges allegedly related to ignoring a federal judge’s order in a racial…
Among all the injustices committed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Arizona police officer/virulently racist troll/stupidly insistent Obama truther, bleeding the taxpayers in his own county is probably a lesser infraction compared to other actions like unconstitutional jail conditions, illegal arrests and racial profiling.…
While best friends Drake and Future were performing in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday night, a thief (or thieves) broke into one of the rappers’ tour buses and stole a briefcase containing what TMZ reports amounted to “2 to 3 million dollars in bling.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has discovered that Russian hackers attacked Arizona’s voting systems. Illinois was the target of a second infiltration though the culprits are thus far unknown.
Former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who is supporting Donald Trump, who is good buddies with human rights nightmare Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and who signed an insanely draconian anti-immigrant bill into law, is sick of people suggesting that Republicans are racist. Oh?
A former Arizona police officer has been taken into custody after killing his wife and a man that tried to save her outside of the city of Phoenix.
When Vanessa Hudgens etched a heart into a wall of red rock in Sedona Arizona, she was enjoying a Valentine’s Day sojourn with boyfriend Austin Butler. But the United States Forest Service was unmoved by the romantic gesture and fined her $1,000.
