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The Arizona Legislature finalized the state budget and adjourned June 15, just in time to prevent the 1864 abortion ban, which it repealed, from taking effect again for a few days in September. (File photo by Ellen O’Brien/Cronkite News)

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Arizona Legislature adjourns just in time to prevent repealed 1864 abortion ban from taking effect

by Sahara Sajjadi June 17, 2024June 17, 2024

Theodore Roosevelt School near Fort Apache serves grades six through eight. (Photo courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt School)

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Bill aims to ease teacher shortage at tribal schools by granting federal pensions to educators

by Alex MacDonald June 17, 2024June 17, 2024

In this May 2020 file photo, Phoenix police officers confront a protester. Protests erupted across the country in 2020 over the death of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. (File photo by Blake Benard/Special for Cronkite News)

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DOJ report says Phoenix Police used excessive force, calls out discrimination and ‘longstanding dysfunction’

by Brianna Chappie June 13, 2024June 13, 2024

Reps. Juan Ciscomani, left, and Greg Stanton discuss the purpose of the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2024. (Photo by Morgan Kubasko/Cronkite News)

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20-run win for Republicans in Congressional Baseball Game with Arizona lawmakers in supporting roles

by Amaia J. Gavica June 13, 2024June 13, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld access to a widely used abortion drug, tossing out a challenge to the way FDA approved mifepristone. (File photo by Haley Smilow/Cronkite News)

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Widely used abortion drug remains legal on 9-0 vote, as Supreme Court says anti-abortion doctors lack standing to challenge mifepristone

by Morgan Kubasko June 13, 2024June 13, 2024

Trucks drive on SR-189 in southwest Arizona on March 10, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Arizona Department of Transportation)

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Arizona troopers warn Congress that lifting weight limit on trucks will make highways more dangerous

by Isabelle Marceles and Morgan Kubasko June 12, 2024June 13, 2024

The Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona in Tucson is the oldest and largest anthropological facility in the Southwest, founded in 1893. (Photo by Christopher Lomahquahu/Cronkite News and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at ASU)

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Low staffing, space crunch hobble state museum’s Native American repatriation work at UArizona

by Reagan Priest and Christopher Lomahquahu June 10, 2024June 12, 2024

The School of Human Evolution and Social Change is the anthropological and archaeological research arm of Arizona State University. The school’s collections include Indigenous human remains and artifacts subject to repatriation under NAGPRA. (Photo by Chad Bradley/Cronkite News and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at ASU)

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Misplaced artifacts, inaccurate inventories and 2% of Native American remains returned to tribes: Inside ASU’s repatriation record

by Sam Ellefson and Aspen Ford June 10, 2024June 12, 2024

A special exhibit at the S’edav Va’aki Museum in Phoenix that closed in May told the story of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, or NAGPRA. (Photo courtesy of the S’edav Va’aki Museum)

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What is the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990?

by Staff June 10, 2024June 10, 2024

Cronkite News and Howard Center reporters, from left, Christopher Lomahquahu, Aspen Ford and Chad Bradley reported on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and wrote about the experience as Indigenous journalists. (Photo by Aspen Ford/Cronkite News and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at ASU)

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Community, healing and justice: Indigenous journalists share what reporting on repatriation meant to them

by Chad Bradley, Aspen Ford and Christopher Lomahquahu June 10, 2024June 12, 2024