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New leader of Iran vows to avenge dead
In a defiant first message to Iranians as the country’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei promised revenge for Iran’s “martyrs,” including the many children killed in an apparent U.S. strike on a school, and said the critical Strait of Hormuz would...
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Ships attacked in Strait of Hormuz
Iran has taken credit for two of three ships struck by projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on March 11 as the country traded strikes with the United States and Israel across the Middle East and the U.S. average gas price hit $3.59 a gallon. Iranian...
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Pima County sheriff ’s résumé in question
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos’ work history is misrepresented on his public résumé, raising new questions about the sheriff ’s background as he faces the biggest test of his career. Nanos’ résumé posted on the Sheriff’s Department website says he...
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Oil prices soar as Iran names leader
As the U.S.-Israel war with Iran entered its 10th day on March 9, oil prices soared over fears of a prolonged conflict, President Donald Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” and the Pentagon made public the name of the seventh U.S. service member...
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No help for the lakes
HAPPY JACK — There was no reason for the hydrologists who help predict the annual water supply for metro Phoenix to visit the snow survey site here until the last week of February. h Until a storm passed through heading into that week, there had been...
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A deadly mix in extreme heat
Reporters at The Arizona Republic work tirelessly to report the news that makes an impact on the communities across the state. But what about the stories they work on that has made the biggest impact on them personally? Here’s what reporter Ray Stern...
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Trump demands Iran’s surrender
President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” in a social media post the morning of March 6, insisting “there will be no deal” to end his 7-day-old war with the battered Persian Gulf power. The president added in a social media post...
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Trump says he’ll help pick Iran’s next leader
President Donald Trump spoke in favor of a boots-on-the-ground attack on Iran by regional Kurdish forces and said he would take a role in choosing Iran’s next leader. “We want to be involved in the process of choosing the person who is going to lead...
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American sub sinks an Iranian warship
Trump administration officials pledged more firepower in the war with Iran after officials said a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship, with reports of at least 80 people killed. The United States and Israel will soon control Iranian airspace, and...
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Trump criticizes top U.S. allies over war
President Donald Trump slammed top U.S. allies, including the United Kingdom, as the war with Iran expands and warned Americans that they may have to deal with “a little high” oil prices as crude costs soared and the stock market tumbled. “If we have...
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U.S. FIGHTER JETS CRASH IN KUWAIT
The Trump administration’s conflict with Iran will not be “endless,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on March 2, as the United States and Israel’s joint air strikes against Iran expand, the death toll rises and a congressional debate over President...
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Tehran retaliates after leader killed in strikes
Three American service members were killed in action amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, U.S. military officials confirmed, one day after the United States and Israel launched strikes against the country and Tehran quickly hit back. Five others were...
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ATTACK ON IRAN
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Killing of ‘El Mencho’ is impacting U.S. politics
An outbreak of retaliatory cartel violence that rocked Mexico following the killing of Mexico’s most powerful drug lord has subsided for now. But a power vacuum at the top of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, considered the most powerful in Mexico,...
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Iran floats talks for non-nuclear issues
GENEVA – The United States and Iran could reach a framework for a deal if Washington separates “nuclear and non-nuclear issues,” a senior Iranian official told Reuters, adding that remaining gaps need to be narrowed during a third round of talks in...
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Six takeaways for AZ from Trump’s speech
President Donald Trump gave the nation’s longestever State of the Union address to sell his administration’s accomplishments and lay out his vision for the future ahead of a tough midterm election season. In the 107-minute speech, the president...
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Ex-ICE lawyer testifies to Congress
ICE supervisors are teaching “new cadets to violate the Constitution” amid President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations, a former agency lawyer testified to members of Congress. “The ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken,” former...
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‘Tranquility’ returns after day of violence in Mexico
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Feb. 23 that normal activity had resumed following a day of violence in several regions of her country. “Today, there is tranquility,” she said, adding that peace had been secured and blockades largely...
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Drought may be behind rise in abandoned cubs
On a typical day, the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale reverberates with animal cries and the footfalls of gawking visitors. But in the quietest corner of the 10-acre sanctuary, away from the public’s prying eyes, a cohort of most...
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Where heat, housing and human cost collide
Reporters at The Arizona Republic work tirelessly to report the news that makes an impact on the communities across the state. But what about the stories they work on that has made the biggest impact on them personally? Here’s what reporter Joan...
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U.S. Supreme Court strikes down tariffs
WASHINGTON − A furious President Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court after a landmark decision striking down his power to impose sweeping tariffs. “I’m ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do...
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AVALANCHE KILLED 8 DESPITE WARNINGS
The warnings were clear and eerie. A winter storm warning forecast up to 8 feet of snow in California’s Lake Tahoe region and avalanche conditions were considered “very dangerous.” Blackbird Mountain Guides, now under scrutiny for its role in the...
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ICE runs license plates in Arizona
Immigration authorities in Arizona have found a new place to find people in the country illegally: the parking lot of a Home Depot store in west Phoenix, where agents checked license plates of vehicles parked there against an immigration database. The...
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Streamers’ speculation pushes Guthrie coverage
True-crime reporter Jonathan Lee Riches, who operates under the moniker JLR Investigates, was outside Nancy Guthrie’s house on Feb. 16, live streaming when he heard that a car was being towed from a house that law enforcement had swarmed days...
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Guard fully withdrawn from 3 cities
National Guard soldiers have fully withdrawn from Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon, military officials said, ending federalized troop operations in half of the cities where the Trump administration launched them last year. The troops...
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SRP stocks Grand Canal with 2,500 worker fish
Shane Leistikow drove through the night, bringing a truckload of live fish to a canal in the heart of the Valley at dawn. h Slippery and scaly, the fish somersaulted out of a metal chute attached to Leistikow’s tanker truck and into the Grand Canal,...
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Judge quashes Kelly’s demotion
A federal judge has emphatically blocked the Pentagon’s move to demote Sen. Mark Kelly, saying retired veterans don’t forfeit their First Amendment rights, even on matters relating to the military. The Feb. 12 ruling is a victory, at least for now,...
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BORDER CZAR: ICE IS LEAVING MINNESOTA
The Trump administration said it is ending the controversial immigration operation in Minnesota that sparked nationwide protests after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in January. White House border czar Tom Homan on Feb. 12 said he...
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Search for Guthrie resumes in Tucson
TUCSON — FBI agents scoured the neighborhoods surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills area on the morning of Feb. 11, hours after authorities detained a “person of interest” whom they ultimately released. Agents were conducting an...
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6 more suspects found in Epstein files, officials say
WASHINGTON – Two House members who led the effort to force the Justice Department to release more documents about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein said they discovered at least six more suspected accomplices. The department began Feb. 9 allowing...
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Hundreds protest against ICE outside Super Bowl
SANTA CLARA, CA – They came, they marched, they chanted − all under a close watch. But it wasn’t ICE agents who patrolled the streets on Super Bowl Sunday, as many had anticipated. Hundreds of people on Feb. 8 took over a main thoroughfare less than 2...
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Electric golf returns
There was a lot of interest entering into Sunday’s fourth round of the 2026 WM Phoenix Open in Scottsdale on Feb. 8, with anticipation for a great final round at TPC Scottsdale. Fourteen golfers entered the final round within four shots of tournament...
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MAGA vs. Bad Bunny is a Super Bowl split
Sen. Tommy Tuberville was thrilled to attend the Super Bowl in 2025 when he hitched a ride on Air Force One, joining President Donald Trump and several other Republican lawmakers for the big game. “Happy Super Bowl Sunday,” the Republican senator for...
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U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty comes to end
WASHINGTON – A 15-year-old treaty that restricted how many nuclear weapons the United States and Russia can maintain has come to an end, as experts warn that no new agreement could portend a new arms race not seen since the Cold War. The New START...
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GA county fights back on 2020 ballot seizure
Fulton County, Georgia, challenged the Trump administration in court Feb. 4 over its seizure of ballots in an investigation tied to the 2020 election, a county spokesperson said. The county asked a federal court to limit the warrant to provide an...
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Officers in Minneapolis to wear body cameras
WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said immigration officers in Minneapolis will begin wearing body cameras immediately, following the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens amid the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown. The...
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ICE, DHS pressed to honor tribal IDs
The Navajo Nation Council has passed legislation calling on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE to formally recognize Navajo Nation-issued tribal identification and respect the political status of Navajo citizens. The vote comes more than...
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Area students take a stand against ICE
Students across the state, from college through high school, took part in protests Jan. 30 against immigration enforcement actions, with walkouts during school hours and events planned afterward. Protests at Agua Fria Union High School District...
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Still waiting
Reporters at The Arizona Republic work tirelessly to report the news that makes an impact on the communities across the state. But what about the stories they work on that has made the biggest impact on them personally? Here’s what reporter Arlyssa...
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DHS deal may not prevent shutdown
Lawmakers appeared to be closing in on a deal endorsed by President Donald Trump to avoid an extended government shutdown, but a key player said a brief government closure may be inevitable as there still was work to be done Jan. 30 as funding was set...
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Pinal County attorney says he’ll keep ICE deal
The prosecutor for a rural Arizona county who signed an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement allowing his office to enforce federal immigration laws said he vows to press forward, despite county supervisors ordering him to stop. The...
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LOOKING FOR A LITTLE SUN AND SHELTER
Rodney Scott was searching for sunny skies and warmer weather when he moved from Dallas to Phoenix in 2024. Less than two years later, he’s sleeping on the street. When Scott arrived in the Valley, he found a job operating a forklift in a shipping...
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Crowd underscores outrage of residents with agents
Anahi Lucero knew something was off when she saw police tape on her way out of the gym at Park Central in midtown Phoenix. She noticed that the TVs on the Zipps Sports Grill patio next door had been turned off. There was a crowd forming on the...
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Trump reports ‘very good call’ with Walz
MINNEAPOLIS – President Donald Trump on Jan. 26 said he had a “very good call” with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and the two “seemed to be on a similar wavelength” amid the fallout from the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents. h “Governor...
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Is ICE violating the Fourth Amendment?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing scrutiny over its assertion that federal officers can forcibly enter a home without a judicial warrant – a move constitutional scholars, immigration experts and a federal judge say is a clear violation of...
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End of Arizona Trail trek
Every night for about eight weeks last fall, my phone buzzed with a text that its sender – Republic climate reporter Joan Meiners – called her “proof of life.” Sometimes the texts were from here and included updates on her day; sometimes they were sent...
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Minnesotans start strike to protest ICE
MINNEAPOLIS – Scores of businesses across Minnesota were closing up for the day on Jan. 23 in what religious leaders and labor unions described as a general strike to protest President Donald Trump’s deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement...
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Trump touts launch of Board of Peace
President Donald Trump wrapped up a high-profile trip to the World Economic Forum international summit Jan. 22 touting the launch of a yet-to-be-defined peace initiative and success in expanding the U.S. footprint in Greenland. He told Fox Business...
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Trump seeks ‘immediate’ Greenland negotiations
President Donald Trump said in remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that he was seeking “immediate negotiations” to acquire Denmark’s Greenland territory and that he does not intend to use military force to gain control of the...
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PARADISE LOST?
Two years ago, Hollie Tolmachoff bought her home in the mismatched outskirts of the West Valley, where fields of cattle and orange groves butt up against new shopping plazas. h She calls it her rural oasis and it has a place for everything: her “Taj...
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RISING TEMPS, RISING CONCERN
Three heat milestones in recent days — for Phoenix, the United States and the planet — are raising not only temperatures but concerns about the widening effects of climate change. In Phoenix, 2025 was the second-warmest year on record, and the United...
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Hobbs swiftly vetoes GOP tax cut package
Gov. Katie Hobbs is again calling for lawmakers to establish an income cap on families to receive private school vouchers, a longshot request that is among her policy goals for her fourth year in office. Hobbs’ aides detailed the governor’s plans to...
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Machado gains little in White House visit
WASHINGTON – Venezuelan opposition leader Marina Corina Machado got her courtesy luncheon with President Donald Trump on Jan. 15 but gained little else politically after the White House secured a $500 million deal for Venezuelan oil through ongoing...
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AZ woman accuses pastors of betrayal
When Hailey Osborn-Merris and Cameron Merris shared intimate details about their marital problems with their church’s pastors, they assumed it was in confidence. An unexpected text message months after they had talked to the pastors changed that...
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Hobbs focuses on an affordable Arizona
Gov. Katie Hobbs put her focus squarely on making life more affordable for Arizonans feeling the pinch of higher costs in the final State of the State speech of her first term as governor. Hobbs’ 45-minute speech was given to Arizona lawmakers and...
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Hobbs shares 2026 vision for Arizona
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs will propose two new fees — on nights stayed in short term rentals and data centers that slurp water — as she begins her fourth year in office and seeks reelection to another term. The Democratic governor outlined her policy...
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Furor continues over ICE shootings
Tensions remained high Jan. 9 after shootings involving immigration agents in Minneapolis and in Portland, Oregon, drew protesters to the streets and deepened fractures between federal and state officials. In Portland, a U.S. Border Patrol officer...
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MADURO OPPONENT VOWS TO RETURN
WASHINGTON – Venezuela’s main opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has vowed to return home quickly, praising President Donald Trump for toppling President Nicolás Maduro and declaring her movement ready to win a free election. Trump appears,...
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Arizonans express mixed views on Venezuela attack
More than 120 protesters in Arizona peacefully demonstrated Jan. 3 against the U.S. military strikes in Venezuela that resulted in the capture and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The protesters came from many different backgrounds, but...
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Nature center aims to change perspective
PINETOP-LAKESIDE – Wintertime in the White Mountains is tourist offseason, yet the playhouse of its only nature center is packed with visitors. Its indoor amphitheater spans 70 feet, and in the backdrop stretches a photo of a forest landscape that will...
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U.S. CAPTURES VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT MADURO
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DACA holders urged to act fast on renewal
Lawmakers and activists called on DACA recipients to begin the renewal request process six to eight months before the expiration of their DACA approval. They made the plea at a press conference outside the state capitol on Dec. 30. U.S. Rep. Yassamin...
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FULL CIRCLE
Growing up on Long Island, New York, my dad, Andrew, fostered what would eventually become a passion for traveling, seeing new places and going on road trips. h My dad’s appreciation for simple pleasures — and insistence on making your own fun when...
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‘I was shocked’
Obaidullah Durani flew combat missions against the Taliban before he was evacuated to the United States in 2021. h He was a U.S.-trained fighter pilot in the Afghan Air Force and fought along side the U.S. military during the post-9/11 War on Terror,...
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Experts eye gains for economy in ’26
A seesaw year for the U.S. economy in 2025 looks set to give way to a stronger 2026 thanks to tailwinds from President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, less uncertainty around tariffs, the ongoing artificial intelligence boom and a late-year run of interest...
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Heat, rain, dust fill a wild year of weather
Imagine Arizona’s state climatologist Erinanne Saffell behind the DJ booth, headphones on, cueing up the tracks for the state’s annual Weather Wrapped. The playlist for 2025 is instantly recognizable: extreme heat on repeat, a major weather-fueled...
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The right visuals
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Turning Point USA gains ground on campuses
Apair of students stood in the Indiana University Indianapolis student center asking a simple legal question: “Is ‘hate speech’ protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution?” Students slowed to read the white board, and many shuffled toward...
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For many families, ‘it isn’t Christmas without tamales’
When Pauline Alvarado thinks about the Christmases of her childhood, she remembers the whole family packed in the kitchen making tamales. She remembers her little hands kneading masa dough, wiping them off on her mama’s well-loved apron. She remembers...
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Buy-in from players smooths Ott’s start
Phoenix Suns head coach Jordan Ott was 90 or so minutes from facing the Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto. com Arena on Dec. 1, looking to snap a two-game skid. So maybe it wasn’t the ideal time for him to address how he gained immediate buy-in from his...
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System failure
The chaos of broken glass, blood and screams for help from inside the Levinson family home was a jarring contrast to the quiet community beneath Sedona’s scenic red rocks where the attack unfolded early one morning. The victims in the June 22, 2024,...
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Woman posted a GIF and ‘lost everything’
If you ask Tempe’s police chief, Kathleen Tierney’s social media post was a threat that stoked immediate fear and panic. It forced the last-minute cancellation of a public meeting that about 100 people had gathered to attend, and it so worried Tempe...
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Route 66 Fun Run
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