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Posted Jun 8, 2022, 2:39 pm
Jaden Edison
/Texas Tribune
Actor Matthew McConaughey, a Uvalde native, called for bipartisan action on mental health reform, stricter gun legislation and consequences for people who violate gun laws in his appearance at the White House on Tuesday.... Read more»
Posted Mar 3, 2022, 1:47 pm
Jennifer Shutt
/Arizona Mirror
The Biden administration is asking Congress to provide $10 billion in assistance to Ukraine and $22.5 billion in COVID-19 funding on a fast timeline — within the next week.... Read more»
Posted Oct 13, 2021, 8:06 am
Jon Marcus
/The Hechinger Report
Colleges have gradually moved the finish line to give themselves credit for success if students graduate in six years — or even eight years, which is what consumers find reported on the government’s newest consumer website, College Scorecard.... Read more»
Posted Sep 24, 2021, 2:38 pm
Joshua Kaplan & Joaquin Sapien/ProPublica
The U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 issued subpoenas on Thursday to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and three other allies of former President Donald Trump.... Read more»
Posted Aug 26, 2021, 9:42 am
Angelo Fichera
/FactCheck.org
Federal employees — including at the White House — must attest to being vaccinated against COVID-19, or else comply with routine testing and mitigation measures, but conservative commentator Charlie Kirk claims that the “White House staff is not required to be vaccinated.” ... Read more»
Posted Nov 3, 2020, 8:10 pm
MacKenzie Belley
/Cronkite News
The post-election victory party – which can only really be a victory for half of those throwing them, after all – has become another victim of COVID-19.... Read more»
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Posted Nov 3, 2020, 2:53 pm
Olivia Munson
/Cronkite News
National and local law enforcement agencies are preparing to respond in case civil disturbances break out after Tuesday’s elections, which experts fear may have a “different venue for challenging election results, namely in the streets.”... Read more»
Posted Oct 22, 2020, 12:36 pm
Adianna Bermudez
/Cronkite News
Arizona is experiencing a COVID-19 surge similar to the one it saw in mid-June, and a vaccine that will get the population closer to herd immunity is in the distant future, the director of ASU’s Biodesign Institute said Wednesday.... Read more»
Posted Sep 28, 2020, 1:45 pm
MacKenzie Belley & Caroleina Hassett/Cronkite News
Almost every Senate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, has come out against President Donald Trump’s plan to rush through a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, saying the nomination should wait until after the election.
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Posted Sep 14, 2020, 10:12 am
Chase Hunter
/Cronkite News
A federal court Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the census, calling the order a clear violation of the law would cause lasting damage.... Read more»
Posted Aug 28, 2020, 12:19 pm
Mythili Gubbi
/Cronkite News
Most Republicans watched President Donald Trump’s acceptance speech from their couches Thursday but Gov. Doug Ducey watched from the South Lawn of the White House.... Read more»
Posted Aug 13, 2020, 3:46 pm
Brandi Buchman
/Courthouse News
During a panel hosted Thursday by National Geographic, Fauci fielded questions with trademark candor about that grim forecast released last week by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.... Read more»
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Posted Aug 12, 2020, 4:02 pm
Jacob Fischler
/Arizona Mirror
Governors, lawmakers and state unemployment agencies on Monday wrestled with confusion created by President Donald Trump's executive action extending unemployment benefits, and it appeared some states could settle for $300 a week in benefits instead of the $400 that the president touted.... Read more»
Posted Jul 20, 2020, 2:34 am
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
Arizona Schools Superintendent Kathy Hoffman said Wednesday that the already delayed Aug. 17 start of in-person classes may have to be pushed back again in light of continuing concerns about COVID-19 safety.... Read more»
Posted Jul 8, 2020, 12:46 pm
Ellie Borst
/Cronkite News
A White House panel of parents, teachers and school administrators said Tuesday that reopening schools this fall should be the nation’s top priority, for the wellbeing of students and parents and as a move to “stabilize our society.”... Read more»
Posted Jun 24, 2020, 9:43 am
Lisa Diethelm
/Cronkite News
As President Donald Trump was hailing the pace of border wall construction Tuesday, Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris Jr. was bemoaning it as a project that continues “to destroy … sacred sites.”... Read more»