It’s been a little over a year since the EPA rolled out the first legally enforceable limits on some PFAS chemicals in drinking water. The regulation came after years of research tying the human-made chemicals to a range of health issues.
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A bill to allow the use of state and local taxes to pay for stadium repairs for the Arizona Diamondbacks passed out of the state Legislature on Monday – and Gov. Katie Hobbs has already signaled she will sign it.
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U.S. law gives congressional lawmakers the authority to show up and tour ICE detention, even if they arrive with no notice. The process is one of the accountability mechanisms lawmakers have to ensure a facility's conditions are up to legal standards.
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Attorneys general from more than 20 states and Washington, D.C., filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging billions of dollars in funding cuts made by the Trump administration that would fund everything from crime prevention to food security to scientific research.
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A major coal power plant in Arizona will soon be converted to natural gas generation. The Salt River Project Board approved the plan Tuesday.
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Maricopa County will spend about $5 million on a new plane for the sheriff’s office to extradite criminal suspects arrested outside of Arizona.
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Plans to build a passenger rail line between Phoenix and Tucson are picking up steam. The Arizona Department of Transportation is moving into the next phase of a federally backed development program.
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State and local officials are raising awareness of the number of deaths on the highway linking Payson to Show Low.
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The effort aims to crack down on drug smuggling across the Mexico-U.S. border.
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When a Navajo woman was invited to attend a friend’s church in Gallup, New Mexico, she was so offended by what she saw that she decided to record it.
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Slate editor Dahlia Lithwick doesn’t think that supporters of President Donald Trump will suddenly discover a sense of compassion when they start to feel adverse effects from Trump’s actions.
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While snowpack was 92% of average, only 54% of average runoff made it into Lake Powell. Central Arizona Project Analyst Nolie Templeton says that’s due to a number of factors related to higher temperatures.
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Under a new antitrust settlement, there will be a new revenue-sharing model for the next decade that will allow universities — for the first time — to directly pay their student-athletes.
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President Trump has said U.S. strikes on Iran obliterated the country's nuclear program. An early intelligence assessment finds the strikes may only have set it back "a few months."
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Foster + Partners architecture firm beat out four competitors to design the memorial, which will also feature statues of the queen and her husband Prince Philip.
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"If you've made grilled cheese in a pan and you put a lid on there, it melts the cheese faster because the lid helps trap the heat," a National Weather Service official told NPR.
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China is closely watching whether Israel and Iran can broker a ceasefire. Beijing gets much of its crude oil imports from Iran through a "dark fleet" of vessels to evade American sanctions.
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The meandering trial of the hip-hop mogul can be difficult to parse. Here's a broad overview of the charges and the case the government has presented to the jury.