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Posted Jan 13, 2020, 5:21 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
It’s not the first time Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has disagreed with the religious groups over state policy. He was also criticized in 2017 after he made Senate Bill 4, an omnibus, state-based immigration enforcement bill, a legislative priority. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 31, 2019, 12:12 pm
James E. Garcia
/Arizona Mirror
"On Los Días de los Muertos, it’s customary to build a makeshift altar as an act of honor and remembrance. Let these words be my altar."... Read more»
Posted Oct 17, 2019, 12:26 pm
Harrison Mantas
/Cronkite News
Three Arizona Republicans held fast with President Donald Trump as the House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to rebuke the president’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria.... Read more»
Posted Oct 11, 2019, 11:35 am
Harrison Mantas
/Cronkite News
Arizona lawmakers joined a growing bipartisan chorus critical of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull American troops from Northern Syria, even as Trump continued to defend the plan Thursday.
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Posted Sep 27, 2019, 12:41 pm
Kailey Broussard
/Cronkite News
White House officials announced late Thursday that the administration was proposing to cap the number of refugees admitted in the upcoming fiscal year to 18,000 people – with more than half those slots reserved for refugees from specific countries or in certain situations.... Read more»
Posted Jun 13, 2019, 5:58 pm
Molly Stellino
/Cronkite News
The needs of women refugees outpace social services and are further complicated by traditional gender roles.... Read more»
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Updated Aug 21, 2018, 4:02 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
A U.S. Army Special Operations helicopter pilot who was born in Phoenix died Monday after a crash in Iraqi Kurdistan. Flags across Arizona will fly at half-staff on Wednesday in honor of CWO 3 Taylor J. Galvin, Gov. Doug Ducey ordered.... Read more»
Posted Jan 23, 2018, 2:27 pm
Arren Kimbel-Sannit
/Cronkite News
President Trump campaigned on a promise of putting America first by scaling back its foreign involvements and pledging to stem the tide of refugees from Syria and elsewhere to address terrorism.... Read more»
Posted Nov 11, 2017, 3:36 pm
John McCain
/U.S. Senate
"There's nothing 'America First' about taking the word of a KGB colonel over that of the American intelligence community. There's no 'principled realism' in cooperating with Russia to prop up the murderous Assad regime," said U.S. Sen. John McCain, reacting to President Trump's statement that he believed the Russian leader was sincere.... Read more»
Posted Nov 1, 2017, 12:21 am
Fraser Allan Best
/Cronkite News
When Congress first authorized military action against terrorists in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Jeff Flake was a freshman in the House and Tim Kaine was still mayor of Richmond. Today, both are U.S. senators and the county is still waging war under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force – a vote they say it’s time to revisit.... Read more»
Posted Jul 13, 2017, 11:57 am
J.T. Lain
/Cronkite News
Congress has been too willing to cede its constitutional authority to approve the use of military forces and it’s time to take that responsibility back, Sens. Jeff Flake and Tim Kaine said Wednesday.... Read more»
Posted Jun 28, 2017, 2:36 pm
Julia Angwin
/ProPublica
A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression. ... Read more»
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Posted Jun 27, 2017, 9:49 am
Nathan J. Fish
/Cronkite News
The Supreme Court said Monday that the Trump administration can proceed, for now, with a limited version of its restrictions on refugees and travelers from six majority-Muslim countries, a ban that critics called at thinly veiled Muslim ban.... Read more»
Posted Jun 12, 2017, 2:27 pm
Dan Levine & Lawrence Hurley/Reuters
President Donald Trump suffered another legal setback on Monday as a second federal appeals court refused to revive his travel ban on people entering the United States from six Muslim-majority nations in a dispute headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.... Read more»
Posted May 28, 2017, 4:52 pm
Ben Moffat
/Cronkite News
U.S. Sens. Jeff Flake and Tim Kaine introduced a use-of-force resolution that would let the president take military action against “non-state actors” like al Qaeda, ISIS and other terror groups.... Read more»
Posted Apr 8, 2017, 2:18 pm
Alexis Egeland
/Cronkite News
Most Arizona lawmakers agreed Friday that Syria’s apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians called for quick action by the U.S., but some said President Donald Trump went about it the wrong way.... Read more»