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PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona prosecutors pressing the case against Republicans who are accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election results in President Donald Trump's favor were dealt a setback when a judge ordered the case be sent back to a grand jury.
PHOENIX (AP) -- A budget airline that serves mostly small U.S. cities began federal deportation flights Monday out of Arizona, a move that's inspired an online boycott petition and sharp criticism from the union representing the carrier's flight attendants.
PHOENIX (AP) -- Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday vetoed a Republican-backed bill intended to support the Trump administration's immigration crackdown by requiring local and state officials in Arizona to cooperate with federal enforcement efforts.
PHOENIX (AP) -- A judge recused himself Tuesday from presiding over Arizona's fake electors case after an email surfaced in which he told fellow judges to speak out against attacks on Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign for the presidency.
PHOENIX (AP) -- Republican David Schweikert has won an eighth term in an affluent congressional district in the Phoenix area by fending off a challenge from a Democratic former state lawmaker.
PHOENIX (AP) -- Republican Eli Crane has won reelection in a Republican-leaning congressional district covering vast swaths of rural Arizona.
PHOENIX (AP) -- A judge has rejected former Donald Trump presidential chief of staff Mark Meadows' bid to move his charges in Arizona's fake elector case to federal court, marking the second time he has failed in trying to get his charges moved out of state court.
PHOENIX (AP) -- A prosecutor urged a judge on Thursday to reject former Donald Trump presidential chief of staff Mark Meadows' bid to move his charges in Arizona's fake elector case to federal court, saying his actions in trying to overturn the 2020 election results weren't part of his job at the White House.
PHOENIX (AP) -- A judge will hear arguments Thursday in a Phoenix courtroom over whether to move former Donald Trump presidential chief of staff Mark Meadows' charges in Arizona's fake elector case to federal court.
PHOENIX (AP) -- A lawyer for Rudy Giuliani said Monday that the charges against his client in Arizona's fake elector case should be thrown out because Giuliani did nothing criminal in contesting Joe Biden's narrow 2020 victory in the state over Donald Trump.
PHOENIX (AP) -- A judge will hear arguments Monday in a Phoenix courtroom over whether to throw out charges against Republicans who signed a document falsely claiming Donald Trump won Arizona in the 2020 election and others who are accused of scheming to overturn the presidential race's outcome.
PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that a proposal that would let local police make arrests near the state's border with Mexico will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot for voters to decide.
PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled a proposal that would let local police make arrests near the state's border with Mexico will appear on the November ballot for voters to decide. That sets up the biggest push to draw local authorities into immigration enforcement since the state's landmark 2010 law that required police to question people's immigration...
The Arizona grand jury that indicted 18 Republican supporters of Donald Trump who falsely claimed he won the state in the 2020 election wanted to consider also charging the former president, but prosecutors urged them not to, according to court documents filed this week.
PHOENIX (AP) -- A Republican activist who signed a document falsely claiming Donald Trump had won Arizona in 2020 became the first person to be convicted in the state's fake elector case.
PHOENIX (AP) -- Former President Donald Trump's campaign attorney Jenna Ellis, who worked closely with Rudy Giuliani, will cooperate with Arizona prosecutors in exchange for charges being dropped against her in a fake electors case, the state attorney general's office announced Monday.
PHOENIX (AP) -- Lawyers Boris Epshteyn and Jenna Ellis and former U.S. Senate candidate James Lamon have pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges for their roles in trying to overturn former President Donald Trump's Arizona election loss to Joe Biden.
PHOENIX (AP) -- Former Donald Trump presidential chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump 2020 Election Day operations director Michael Roman pleaded not guilty Friday in Phoenix to nine felony charges for their roles in an effort to overturn Trump's Arizona election loss to Joe Biden.
PHOENIX (AP) -- A day after lawmakers voted to put a border proposal on Arizona's Nov. 5 ballot, a Latino advocacy group and a Democratic legislator filed a lawsuit challenging the measure because it contains an alleged constitutional defect.