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Senator Mark Kelly Amasses Nearly $25 Million Campaign War Chest

15 juillet 2026 à 05:03
The Arizona Democrat said he had raised and given away $10 million to fellow members of his party and committees as he mulls a presidential run in 2028.

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Senator Mark Kelly’s fund-raising jumped last year after President Trump accused him and five other Democrats of “sedition” over a video in which they told service members they could ignore illegal orders.

How an Election Fight in Arizona Could Affect the Nation’s Midterms

12 juillet 2026 à 05:00
A bitter struggle between Maricopa County’s Republican-dominated Board of Supervisors and a Trump-allied official over control of elections has ramifications far beyond Greater Phoenix.

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A show of support for the Maricopa County recorder, Justin Heap, during a special meeting of the county’s Board of Supervisors in Phoenix in February.
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  • Arizona man pleads guilty after illegally living in forest for years among ‘1,000lbs of trash’
    Mark Gatz was arrested at illegal campsite in June and had faced multiple citations for residing in Tonto national forestA man in Arizona has pleaded guilty to violating federal fire restrictions and unlawfully residing in a national forest, after authorities said he spent years living at a makeshift campsite surrounded by what officials described as “approximately 1,000 pounds of trash”.Mark Aaron Gatz was arrested on 25 June at his illegal campsite in Arizona’s Tonto national forest, according
     

Arizona man pleads guilty after illegally living in forest for years among ‘1,000lbs of trash’

8 juillet 2026 à 10:02

Mark Gatz was arrested at illegal campsite in June and had faced multiple citations for residing in Tonto national forest

A man in Arizona has pleaded guilty to violating federal fire restrictions and unlawfully residing in a national forest, after authorities said he spent years living at a makeshift campsite surrounded by what officials described as “approximately 1,000 pounds of trash”.

Mark Aaron Gatz was arrested on 25 June at his illegal campsite in Arizona’s Tonto national forest, according to court records. A United States Forest Service (USFS) officer wrote in documents submitted to court that Gatz had been operating an “illegal campsite” with a “hot wood burning campfire” despite fire restrictions and that he had told investigators that he had been living in the forest for about eight years.

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  • Arizona toddler declared dead after near-drowning was alive for hours in ‘cold room’, records say
    Officers say they saw signs of life multiple times, and after hospital treated the child, he was taken to hospital’s morgueA toddler who was declared dead after being discovered in a backyard pool in February was actually alive and found hours later in a room that serves as the hospital morgue, recently released police records show.Two Gilbert police officers saw possible signs of life multiple times, but the child was still taken to the hospital’s “cold room” after being treated by staff, accor
     

Arizona toddler declared dead after near-drowning was alive for hours in ‘cold room’, records say

7 juillet 2026 à 19:45

Officers say they saw signs of life multiple times, and after hospital treated the child, he was taken to hospital’s morgue

A toddler who was declared dead after being discovered in a backyard pool in February was actually alive and found hours later in a room that serves as the hospital morgue, recently released police records show.

Two Gilbert police officers saw possible signs of life multiple times, but the child was still taken to the hospital’s “cold room” after being treated by staff, according to the documents.

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© Photograph: Ross D Franklin/AP

© Photograph: Ross D Franklin/AP

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  • Lake Powell, a vital reservoir, plunges toward unprecedented low levels as water crisis deepens in US west
    Experts say the critical reservoir system is careening toward a breaking point as the US west’s climate warms and driesLake Powell, the US’s second-largest reservoir, threatens to plunge to unprecedentedly low levels this year after a historically bleak snowpack failed to raise its water level, scientists and water experts have said, adding renewed urgency to stalled talks over how to conserve a water source depended on by tens of millions of people in the US south-west.The 185-mile Colorado Riv
     

Lake Powell, a vital reservoir, plunges toward unprecedented low levels as water crisis deepens in US west

7 juillet 2026 à 16:05

Experts say the critical reservoir system is careening toward a breaking point as the US west’s climate warms and dries

Lake Powell, the US’s second-largest reservoir, threatens to plunge to unprecedentedly low levels this year after a historically bleak snowpack failed to raise its water level, scientists and water experts have said, adding renewed urgency to stalled talks over how to conserve a water source depended on by tens of millions of people in the US south-west.

The 185-mile Colorado River reservoir currently stands at about 22% of its capacity, or roughly 5.6m acre-feet. Lake Powell fell below that level for a few months three years ago. But those 2023 levels were recorded in the winter, when the reservoir, which straddles the Utah-Arizona border, hits its lowest ebb. Spring runoff carried the level back up to 9.6m acre-feet by June, according to data from the US Bureau of Reclamation.

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Shootings in Nine States Mar Fourth of July Celebrations

5 juillet 2026 à 17:34
Shootings occurred across the country, including in New York, Florida, Texas, Illinois and Tennessee. More than 50 people were shot, and at least five people have died.

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New York police officers investigate the scene of a shooting early Sunday morning in Brooklyn.

Senator Gallego’s Use of Campaign Funds for Family Trips Prompts Scrutiny

29 juin 2026 à 18:28
The Arizona senator used campaign money to fly his family to Nantucket and the Caribbean. The Justice Department has said it is investigating his campaign finance activity.

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Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona repeatedly took his family to vacation destinations and billed tens of thousands of dollars in flights to his campaign accounts just in 2025.

Supreme Court to Weigh if Arizona Can Demand Proof of Citizenship to Vote

29 juin 2026 à 12:22
The case could open the door to stricter registration requirements at a time when President Trump has been pushing for them.

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The new case does not directly address the role of the federal government in demanding proof of citizenship as President Trump has pushed for, but it could lead to states being granted more power to police their own voter rolls.

Three Firefighters Die as Wildfires Ravage Utah and Colorado

29 juin 2026 à 12:44
Their bodies were taken by helicopter to a Colorado airport, where soot-covered firefighters drove them to the coroner’s office. Fires are raging in the arid Southwest after a warm winter.

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The flag-draped body of one of the three wildland firefighters who died Saturday while battling a blaze was moved from a medevac helicopter to a waiting vehicle Sunday at Grand Junction Regional Airport.
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