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Reporters at The Arizona Republic work tirelessly to report the news that makes an impact on the communities across the state. But what about the stories they work on that has made the biggest impact on them personally? Here’s what reporter Catherine...
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Cottonwoods draw black hawks to AZ
TUBAC — At a park near the Santa Cruz River, crowds gathered for a twice-a-year desert spectacular that was about to unfold in the sky. Armed with binoculars and scopes, revelers set up tents and lawn chairs on the parking lot’s dusty gravel. The...
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U.S.-Iran ceasefire is on shaky ground
President Donald Trump’s ceasefire with Iran was on tenuous ground on April 9 after Israel launched its deadliest day of strikes on Lebanon yet and Tehran vowed not to desert its allies. A day after announcing the Iran war ceasefire, Trump took to...
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State media: Iran has closed Strait of Hormuz
Hours after the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, attacks were reported across the Middle East on April 8, and Iran said it closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli air strikes on Lebanon, Iran’s semiofficial Fars News...
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Cases may alter elections
At least 18 cases were filed by a 5 p.m. April 6 to keep a number of candidates off the November ballot. If successful, the cases could significantly shape some of the state's major elections in the July primary and again in November.
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‘Given to our people to bring us together’
SACATON – The Parker Boys came to play – and win. Adolph Hodge, Rilee Carlyle and Dusty Yazzie, all members of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, competed for top honors on March 14 during the 61st Annual Mul-Cha-Tha Fair and Rodeo in the Gila River...
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TRANSPARENCY
Emily Schumacher and her rescue dogs Poncho and Lady Bird sit along the beach at Tempe Town Lake in Tempe on March 18. Temperatures reached into the triple digits, the earliest in the year in Arizona history. Record-breaking March heat wave roasts...
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Petals of faith
Bold white, trumpet-shaped Easter lilies have been a symbol of spring and, for Christians, resurrection, for centuries. h “The Easter lily has become a powerful symbol in the Christian imagination, especially when we hear Jesus say in the Gospel of...
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World leaders and markets skeptical after Trump speech
prices rose sharply and Iran threatened retaliation after President Donald Trump stepped up his threats against Iran during a prime-time address. In the April 1 speech, Trump simultaneously repeated previous suggestions that the war would end in two...
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Birthright citizenship under review
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court gave a tough – but not dismissive – review of President Donald Trump’s effort to redefine who is an American, debating April 1 as Trump added to the historical significance of the case by becoming the first sitting...
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Hegseth: Expect ‘decisive’ turn in war
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth on March 31 said the upcoming days in the war with Iran will be “decisive,” as President Donald Trump demanded allies reopen the Strait of Hormuz themselves and average gas prices rose above $4 a gallon. Hegseth, speaking...
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President warns Iran it risks more attacks
President Donald Trump on March 30 said the United States was engaged in “serious discussions” with Iranian officials on a deal to end the war – but threatened to launch strikes on the country’s power, oil and water facilities if negotiations...
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‘Trump wants to rule over us as a tyrant’
Demonstrators across the country hit the streets for the biggest-ever No Kings nationwide day of protest. The March 28 protests marked the fourth nationwide day of demonstrations against President Donald Trump during his second term in the White...
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Hoops madness
ELITE EIGHT: Arizona in action vs. Purdue for Final Four spot HOST CITY: Phoenix welcomes the NCAA Women’s Final Four
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DHS shutdown hits major hurdle
WASHINGTON – Republicans in the House of Representatives revolted at the 11th hour against a deal to end the six-week-long Department of Homeland Security shutdown, hurling the prospects of any impending solution into serious political jeopardy. After...
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Envoy: U.S. has sent ‘action list’ to Iran
The Trump administration on March 26 confirmed for the first time that it has passed a 15-point “action list” to Iran through Pakistani officials to end the war. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed the diplomatic efforts at a Cabinet meeting, saying...
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UNFETTERED POSSIBILITY
We could all use a little optimism. h Maybe more than a little. We are in so many ways a nation divided, by so many things. Sometimes it seems as if nothing can unite us again. Is there nothing we can rally behind, all of us? h And just like that, here...
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ICE joins Sky Harbor security operations
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have started assisting the Transportation Security Administration with security at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. A sign at the queue for the TSA security checkpoint at Sky Harbor’s “A” gates in...
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TRUMP POSTPONES STRIKES ON IRAN
President Donald Trump on March 23 said the United States has engaged in “very strong talks” with Iran and reached “major points of agreement” that could end the war – claims Iranian officials quickly denied. Trump said U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and...
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New HIV prevention shot shows promise
A twice-yearly shot could be the catalyst for stopping a recent spike in new HIV diagnoses that’s disproportionately hitting young men of color, but the challenge is creating awareness among people who will benefit from it. The drug lenacapavir, which...
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A heat emergency
The temperature in Phoenix reached 100 degrees last week for the first time in 2026, the earliest first 100-degree day on record. It probably caught some people unprepared, without ample water or air conditioning, and some of them may have landed in a...
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Troops deployed to Middle East region
Despite President Donald Trump’s promises of the war with Iran ending soon and broad domestic disapproval of further involvement, the United States is sending more troops to the region, a defense official said. The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit,...
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Oil sites hit amid Iran war escalations
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth wants billions more from Congress to fund the war with Iran as gas prices hit $3.90 a gallon nationwide and global oil prices surged amid the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The national average price per gallon...
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TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT
Call it spring hellfire, the Heat Miser’s meddling or the harbinger of summer — a historic heat wave is descending on Arizona, bringing three-digit temperatures to Phoenix. But this week’s record-breaking heat is not the stuff of myth or legend,...
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U.S. intelligence official quits over war
The head of the National Counterterrorism Center resigned in protest over the Iran war as Israel said on March 17 it had killed Iran’s top intelligence official. Joe Kent, a conservative politician and decorated former Army Ranger and CIA paramilitary...
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TRUMP URGES NATIONS TO ‘QUICKLY’ JOIN WAR
President Donald Trump on March 16 “strongly urged” nations who rely on the Strait of Hormuz for oil shipments to “get involved with us” quickly and “with great enthusiasm” to guard the waterway as oil prices stayed at $100 a barrel amid the ongoing...
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AZ lawmaker: ‘This abuse of power cannot continue’
A congressman, activists and residents gathered outside a Surprise warehouse owned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to criticize the federal government’s swift actions to convert it into an ICE center for processing detainees. U.S. Rep....
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Crash kills 6 U.S. service members
Six more U.S. service members were killed when their refueling aircraft crashed after a midair collision over western Iraq, officials said March 13, as the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran reached the two-week mark with few signs of slowing down. The...
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New leader of Iran vows to avenge dead
In a defiant first message to Iranians as the country’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei promised revenge for Iran’s “martyrs,” including the many children killed in an apparent U.S. strike on a school, and said the critical Strait of Hormuz would...
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Ships attacked in Strait of Hormuz
Iran has taken credit for two of three ships struck by projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on March 11 as the country traded strikes with the United States and Israel across the Middle East and the U.S. average gas price hit $3.59 a gallon. Iranian...
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Pima County sheriff ’s résumé in question
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos’ work history is misrepresented on his public résumé, raising new questions about the sheriff ’s background as he faces the biggest test of his career. Nanos’ résumé posted on the Sheriff’s Department website says he...
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Oil prices soar as Iran names leader
As the U.S.-Israel war with Iran entered its 10th day on March 9, oil prices soared over fears of a prolonged conflict, President Donald Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” and the Pentagon made public the name of the seventh U.S. service member...
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No help for the lakes
HAPPY JACK — There was no reason for the hydrologists who help predict the annual water supply for metro Phoenix to visit the snow survey site here until the last week of February. h Until a storm passed through heading into that week, there had been...
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A deadly mix in extreme heat
Reporters at The Arizona Republic work tirelessly to report the news that makes an impact on the communities across the state. But what about the stories they work on that has made the biggest impact on them personally? Here’s what reporter Ray Stern...
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Trump demands Iran’s surrender
President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” in a social media post the morning of March 6, insisting “there will be no deal” to end his 7-day-old war with the battered Persian Gulf power. The president added in a social media post...
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Trump says he’ll help pick Iran’s next leader
President Donald Trump spoke in favor of a boots-on-the-ground attack on Iran by regional Kurdish forces and said he would take a role in choosing Iran’s next leader. “We want to be involved in the process of choosing the person who is going to lead...
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American sub sinks an Iranian warship
Trump administration officials pledged more firepower in the war with Iran after officials said a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship, with reports of at least 80 people killed. The United States and Israel will soon control Iranian airspace, and...
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Trump criticizes top U.S. allies over war
President Donald Trump slammed top U.S. allies, including the United Kingdom, as the war with Iran expands and warned Americans that they may have to deal with “a little high” oil prices as crude costs soared and the stock market tumbled. “If we have...
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U.S. FIGHTER JETS CRASH IN KUWAIT
The Trump administration’s conflict with Iran will not be “endless,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on March 2, as the United States and Israel’s joint air strikes against Iran expand, the death toll rises and a congressional debate over President...
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Tehran retaliates after leader killed in strikes
Three American service members were killed in action amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, U.S. military officials confirmed, one day after the United States and Israel launched strikes against the country and Tehran quickly hit back. Five others were...
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ATTACK ON IRAN
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Killing of ‘El Mencho’ is impacting U.S. politics
An outbreak of retaliatory cartel violence that rocked Mexico following the killing of Mexico’s most powerful drug lord has subsided for now. But a power vacuum at the top of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, considered the most powerful in Mexico,...
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Iran floats talks for non-nuclear issues
GENEVA – The United States and Iran could reach a framework for a deal if Washington separates “nuclear and non-nuclear issues,” a senior Iranian official told Reuters, adding that remaining gaps need to be narrowed during a third round of talks in...
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Six takeaways for AZ from Trump’s speech
President Donald Trump gave the nation’s longestever State of the Union address to sell his administration’s accomplishments and lay out his vision for the future ahead of a tough midterm election season. In the 107-minute speech, the president...
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Ex-ICE lawyer testifies to Congress
ICE supervisors are teaching “new cadets to violate the Constitution” amid President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations, a former agency lawyer testified to members of Congress. “The ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken,” former...
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‘Tranquility’ returns after day of violence in Mexico
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Feb. 23 that normal activity had resumed following a day of violence in several regions of her country. “Today, there is tranquility,” she said, adding that peace had been secured and blockades largely...
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Drought may be behind rise in abandoned cubs
On a typical day, the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale reverberates with animal cries and the footfalls of gawking visitors. But in the quietest corner of the 10-acre sanctuary, away from the public’s prying eyes, a cohort of most...
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Where heat, housing and human cost collide
Reporters at The Arizona Republic work tirelessly to report the news that makes an impact on the communities across the state. But what about the stories they work on that has made the biggest impact on them personally? Here’s what reporter Joan...
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U.S. Supreme Court strikes down tariffs
WASHINGTON − A furious President Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court after a landmark decision striking down his power to impose sweeping tariffs. “I’m ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do...
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AVALANCHE KILLED 8 DESPITE WARNINGS
The warnings were clear and eerie. A winter storm warning forecast up to 8 feet of snow in California’s Lake Tahoe region and avalanche conditions were considered “very dangerous.” Blackbird Mountain Guides, now under scrutiny for its role in the...
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ICE runs license plates in Arizona
Immigration authorities in Arizona have found a new place to find people in the country illegally: the parking lot of a Home Depot store in west Phoenix, where agents checked license plates of vehicles parked there against an immigration database. The...
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Streamers’ speculation pushes Guthrie coverage
True-crime reporter Jonathan Lee Riches, who operates under the moniker JLR Investigates, was outside Nancy Guthrie’s house on Feb. 16, live streaming when he heard that a car was being towed from a house that law enforcement had swarmed days...
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Guard fully withdrawn from 3 cities
National Guard soldiers have fully withdrawn from Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon, military officials said, ending federalized troop operations in half of the cities where the Trump administration launched them last year. The troops...
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SRP stocks Grand Canal with 2,500 worker fish
Shane Leistikow drove through the night, bringing a truckload of live fish to a canal in the heart of the Valley at dawn. h Slippery and scaly, the fish somersaulted out of a metal chute attached to Leistikow’s tanker truck and into the Grand Canal,...
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Judge quashes Kelly’s demotion
A federal judge has emphatically blocked the Pentagon’s move to demote Sen. Mark Kelly, saying retired veterans don’t forfeit their First Amendment rights, even on matters relating to the military. The Feb. 12 ruling is a victory, at least for now,...
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BORDER CZAR: ICE IS LEAVING MINNESOTA
The Trump administration said it is ending the controversial immigration operation in Minnesota that sparked nationwide protests after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in January. White House border czar Tom Homan on Feb. 12 said he...
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Search for Guthrie resumes in Tucson
TUCSON — FBI agents scoured the neighborhoods surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills area on the morning of Feb. 11, hours after authorities detained a “person of interest” whom they ultimately released. Agents were conducting an...
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6 more suspects found in Epstein files, officials say
WASHINGTON – Two House members who led the effort to force the Justice Department to release more documents about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein said they discovered at least six more suspected accomplices. The department began Feb. 9 allowing...
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Hundreds protest against ICE outside Super Bowl
SANTA CLARA, CA – They came, they marched, they chanted − all under a close watch. But it wasn’t ICE agents who patrolled the streets on Super Bowl Sunday, as many had anticipated. Hundreds of people on Feb. 8 took over a main thoroughfare less than 2...
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Electric golf returns
There was a lot of interest entering into Sunday’s fourth round of the 2026 WM Phoenix Open in Scottsdale on Feb. 8, with anticipation for a great final round at TPC Scottsdale. Fourteen golfers entered the final round within four shots of tournament...
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MAGA vs. Bad Bunny is a Super Bowl split
Sen. Tommy Tuberville was thrilled to attend the Super Bowl in 2025 when he hitched a ride on Air Force One, joining President Donald Trump and several other Republican lawmakers for the big game. “Happy Super Bowl Sunday,” the Republican senator for...
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U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty comes to end
WASHINGTON – A 15-year-old treaty that restricted how many nuclear weapons the United States and Russia can maintain has come to an end, as experts warn that no new agreement could portend a new arms race not seen since the Cold War. The New START...
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GA county fights back on 2020 ballot seizure
Fulton County, Georgia, challenged the Trump administration in court Feb. 4 over its seizure of ballots in an investigation tied to the 2020 election, a county spokesperson said. The county asked a federal court to limit the warrant to provide an...
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Officers in Minneapolis to wear body cameras
WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said immigration officers in Minneapolis will begin wearing body cameras immediately, following the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens amid the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown. The...
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ICE, DHS pressed to honor tribal IDs
The Navajo Nation Council has passed legislation calling on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE to formally recognize Navajo Nation-issued tribal identification and respect the political status of Navajo citizens. The vote comes more than...
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Area students take a stand against ICE
Students across the state, from college through high school, took part in protests Jan. 30 against immigration enforcement actions, with walkouts during school hours and events planned afterward. Protests at Agua Fria Union High School District...
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Still waiting
Reporters at The Arizona Republic work tirelessly to report the news that makes an impact on the communities across the state. But what about the stories they work on that has made the biggest impact on them personally? Here’s what reporter Arlyssa...
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DHS deal may not prevent shutdown
Lawmakers appeared to be closing in on a deal endorsed by President Donald Trump to avoid an extended government shutdown, but a key player said a brief government closure may be inevitable as there still was work to be done Jan. 30 as funding was set...
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Pinal County attorney says he’ll keep ICE deal
The prosecutor for a rural Arizona county who signed an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement allowing his office to enforce federal immigration laws said he vows to press forward, despite county supervisors ordering him to stop. The...
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LOOKING FOR A LITTLE SUN AND SHELTER
Rodney Scott was searching for sunny skies and warmer weather when he moved from Dallas to Phoenix in 2024. Less than two years later, he’s sleeping on the street. When Scott arrived in the Valley, he found a job operating a forklift in a shipping...
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Crowd underscores outrage of residents with agents
Anahi Lucero knew something was off when she saw police tape on her way out of the gym at Park Central in midtown Phoenix. She noticed that the TVs on the Zipps Sports Grill patio next door had been turned off. There was a crowd forming on the...
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Trump reports ‘very good call’ with Walz
MINNEAPOLIS – President Donald Trump on Jan. 26 said he had a “very good call” with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and the two “seemed to be on a similar wavelength” amid the fallout from the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents. h “Governor...
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