Franks, lone Arizona congressman at RNC, urges support for Trump
CLEVELAND – The only Arizona congressional Republican to show up at the party’s national convention this year defended his absent colleagues Wednesday, calling it a busy time of year for officeholders facing re-election this fall.
No surprises: Arizona delivers all 58 delegation votes for Trump
CLEVELAND - Arizona delegates cast all 58 of their votes Tuesday for Donald Trump, helping him complete his run to be the unlikely presidential nominee of the Republican Party in a red, white and blue sea of chanting convention delegates.
Parties bring 21st-century tech to 19th-century conventions
CLEVELAND - Need to find a bathroom at the Republican National Convention? There's an app for that. Kind of.
State Republicans call for unity on first day of fractious convention
CLEVELAND - Arizona GOP leaders called for unity Monday as they kicked off the Republican National Convention, just hours before the party erupted into chaos over a procedural rules vote on the floor.
Grijalva bill would give deported vets a chance to come back to U.S.
WASHINGTON - Hector Barajas' Army service should have guaranteed him military benefits after he was honorably discharged.
ACLU says lack of reporting allows abuses by Border Patrol agents
WASHINGTON - ACLU attorneys from Southwest border states said Tuesday that a lack of reporting on stops by Customs and Border Protection officers opens the door to police abuse and makes it difficult to hold officers accountable for their actions.
Trump, Flake spar during likely GOP nominee’s visit to Congress
WASHINGTON - Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill to reach out to Republican lawmakers Thursday but ended up criticizing several instead, saving his sharpest comments for Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, according to published reports.
Arizona would get $21 million to fight opioid abuse under White House plan
WASHINGTON - Arizona would get $21 million over two years to combat opioid abuse as part of a $1.1 billion proposal pushed Wednesday at the White House to tackle the spread of the epidemic.
Sanders’ campaign got more money, more donors, fewer votes in Arizona
WASHINGTON - Sen. Bernie Sanders' web-driven, grass-roots campaign had close to three times as many contributions from Arizonans and brought in about $123,000 more than Hillary Clinton, out of the $3 million Democratic presidential hopefuls raised in the state.
Arizonans gave Trump their votes but not their dollars – yet
WASHINGTON - He may have received close to half the primary votes in the state, but presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump got just 3 percent of the money Arizonans gave to 2016 Republican presidential campaigns, according to the latest campaign finance numbers.
War of words: Senate panel debates use of ‘radical Islam’ in war on terror
WASHINGTON - Refusing to use terms like "radical Islam" in the fight against terror is giving in to what ISIS, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups want, a Valley resident told a Senate panel Tuesday.
Tears, cheers as Supreme Court lets stand deferred deportation case
WASHINGTON - Immigration reform advocates cried at the steps of the Supreme Court Thursday as they learned that the justices would not overturn lower courts that had blocked plans to defer deportation for millions of immigrants here illegally.
