Sep 24 Watch 5:16 How Arizona’s election review is providing a national playbook for disgruntled politicians By PBS NewsHour Republicans in the Arizona State Senate had commissioned a review of 2020 ballots in Maricopa County even though election officials found no large-scale fraud. But a partisan group called Cyber Ninjas undertook a controversial review of the vote and affirmed… Continue watching
Sep 24 WATCH: GOP review finds no proof Arizona election was stolen from Trump By Bob Christie, Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press A Republican-backed review of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona’s largest county ended Friday without producing proof to support former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election. Continue reading
Aug 27 Arizona becomes 13th state to pass 1 million COVID-19 cases By Terry Tang, Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press "I don't think the human brain can process it," a longtime nurse said of Arizona hitting 1 millions cases and 18,600 deaths. "I don't think when you are an individual that you can fathom that number. It's incomprehensible."… Continue reading
Aug 23 Arizona Senate GOP’s 2020 election report delayed due to COVID By Jonathan J. Cooper, Bob Christie, Associated Press The delay is the latest for the unprecedented partisan review. It has so far taken more than double the 60 days it was originally supposed to take. Continue reading
Aug 05 WATCH: U.S. to probe Phoenix police over excessive force allegations By Michael Balsamo, Bob Christie, Associated Press Earlier this year, the Justice Department announced it was opening similar investigation into police forces in Minneapolis, after the death of George Floyd, and in Louisville, Kentucky, after the death of Breonna Taylor. Continue reading
Jul 25 AP FACT CHECK: Trump is relentless in election fabrications By Calvin Woodward, Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press In mid-May, partisan investigators hired by Arizona state lawmakers backed off their allegation that the state’s most populous county had destroyed its 2020 election database. Confronted with proof that the data still existed, they admitted everything was there. Continue reading
Jul 23 Watch 6:23 Here’s how Border Patrol apprehends, aids migrants stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border By Lorraine Rivera, Arizona Public Media The number of apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border have climbed steadily this year. In May alone, border agents reported more than 180,0000 encounters with migrants. Lorraine Rivera of Arizona Public Media reports from the ground with U.S. Customs and Border… Continue watching
Jul 16 AP report: Few AZ voter fraud cases, discrediting Trump’s claims By Bob Christie, Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press While it's possible more cases could emerge, the numbers illustrate the implausibility of Trump's claims that fraud and irregularities in Arizona cost him the state's electorate votes. Continue reading
Jul 12 More migrant deaths recorded in heat along Arizona border By Anita Snow, Associated Press The bodies of an unusually large number of migrants who died in Arizona's borderlands are being recovered this summer amid record temperatures. The nonprofit group Humane Borders maps the discoveries with data from the medical examiner in Tucson. Continue reading
Jul 09 Wildfires continue to burn in the West as high temperatures return By Associated Press Climate change is considered a "key driver" of a trend that is creating "longer and more intense dry seasons that increase moisture stress on vegetation and make forests more susceptible to severe wildfire."… Continue reading