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Supreme Court Gives GOP Partial Victory on Arizona Elections

State can enforce measures requiring proof of citizenship to register

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Thursday effectively came down on both sides of an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, in a partial victory for Republicans who had filed an emergency appeal in the case. The 5-4 ruling lets Arizona enforce measures passed in 2022 requiring...

Man Sought After Threats to Trump Is in Custody

Candidate was in the same Arizona county as the search, giving a speech at the Mexico border

(Newser) - An Arizona sheriff's department announced Thursday it has taken a man into custody after a search prompted by online threats to Donald Trump. Ronald Syvrud, 66, was found and taken into custody Thursday afternoon, KSAZ reports. Cochise County officials said Ronald Syvrud posted the threats on social media in...

Heat Dome Takes 3-Digit Temperatures to Texas, Testing Grid

Forecasters warn residents can expect little relief at night

(Newser) - A heat dome inflicting extreme temperatures on southwestern states arrived in Texas on Wednesday, prompting warnings of the danger to residents as the grid hits record demand. The same dome brought almost 90 straight days of three-digit highs to Phoenix. In central Texas, the National Weather Service predicted an extended...

Truck Driver Gets 22 Years for Crash Involving TikTok

Officials said Danny Glen Tiner saw four videos just before the crash

(Newser) - After Danny Glen Tiner crashed his tractor-trailer into stopped traffic on I-10 near Chandler, Arizona, he told officials he had been reading a message on his "electronic work tablet" and didn't have enough time to brake after he looked up. The crash killed five—and AZ Family reports...

School District Uses Settlement From Juul to Detect Vaping

Sensors are placed in student bathrooms to alert administrators

(Newser) - School districts receiving a slice of a multistate settlement with a manufacturer of e-cigarettes have to put the money toward improving student health. In many places, that's meant hiring nurses, counselors, or health educators. A California district is among those coming at the problem from another angle, by placing...

Arizona Can Tell Voters Fetuses Are 'Unborn Human Beings'

Arizona's highest court OKs the controversial language in informational pamphlet

(Newser) - An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters, who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion, can refer to an embryo or fetus as an "unborn human being," the state's highest court ruled Wednesday. The Arizona Supreme Court justices sided with Republican...

Abortion Rights Will Be on Ballot in 2 More States

Officials in Arizona, Missouri say measures have more than enough signatures

(Newser) - Abortion-rights measures have made it onto the ballot in two more states—including Arizona, a swing state where high turnout could decide the presidential election. The Arizona secretary of state's office has certified 577,971 signatures collected to put a constitutional amendment on abortion rights on the ballot, the...

In Search of a Girl, Giant Tortoise Goes On the Lam

'Stitch' busted trying to cross Arizona interstate

(Newser) - A giant tortoise escaped a petting zoo in Arizona last month and traveled several miles, apparently in quest of a female friend, before he was spotted just in time. The sulcata tortoise named Stitch was trying to cross Interstate 10 between Tucson and Phoenix on July 30 when a driver...

Trump Plane Takes Unexpected Detour Before Montana Rally

Meanwhile, Dem VP nominee Tim Walz pokes fun of Trump over crowd size at own rally with Harris

(Newser) - Both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris headlined campaign rallies on Friday, with Trump in Montana, and Harris and running mate Tim Walz in Arizona. Trump's visit was intended to drum up support for ousting the state's Democratic senator, but, per the AP , the former...

Kari Lake Wins Closely Watched Arizona Senate Primary

She's facing off with Ruben Gallego to fill Kyrsten Sinema's seat

(Newser) - Kari Lake won the Republican nomination for US Senate in Arizona on Tuesday, setting up a fierce battle against Democratic US Rep. Ruben Gallego for a seat that could be crucial to deciding Senate control, the AP reports. In Maricopa County, which includes metro Phoenix and 60% of Arizona's...

Family Reunion Hike Goes Awry in Scorched Arizona

Thirteen hikers in Scottsdale, including several kids, rescued amid extreme heat; 4 hospitalized

(Newser) - Three children and one adult were hospitalized after being rescued along with nine others on a hiking trail amid oppressive heat in Arizona. Citing a release from the Scottsdale Fire Department, ABC News reports that the group, in town for a family reunion, decided to go on an early morning...

'How Could I Do This?' Asks Dad in Hot-Car Death

2-year-old daughter of Christopher Scholtes died in Arizona

(Newser) - Another child has died after being left inside a car on a blistering hot day, but this case out of Arizona has some unusual circumstances:
  • Christopher Scholtes, 37, has been charged with murder in the death of his 2-year-old daughter in Marana, reports NBC News . Scholtes told police he returned
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In Case of Missing Wife, a 'Stunning and Swift Resolution'

Arizona's Daniel Paduchowski pleads guilty to murder, is expected to get 16 years without parole

(Newser) - Less than a week after an Arizona man reported his wife missing , launching an expansive search that quickly turned into a criminal investigation, he admitted to killing her and pleaded guilty to murder, authorities announced Friday. As part of a deal with prosecutors in Coconino County, Daniel Paduchowski pleaded guilty...

Man Who Reported Wife Missing Is Now Charged

Daniel Paduchowski made unusual movements before calling police, is suspected of killing her

(Newser) - An Arizona man who reported his wife missing on Sunday is now suspected of killing her, police say. Daniel Paduchowski told Flagstaff police that Kelly Paduchowski, 45, went for a run and swim around 1:30pm local time on Sunday but failed to return. Her phone had pinged near Schultz...

Welcome to the Poozeum. Yes, It's a Poop Museum

Arizona museum has some record-setting pieces of feces on display—and a lot of them

(Newser) - One way to tell how a Tyrannosaurus rex digested food is to look at its poop. Bone fragments in a piece of fossilized excrement at a new museum in northern Arizona—aptly called the Poozeum—are among the tinier bits of evidence that indicate T. rex wasn't much of...

Feds: Man Planned to Start Race War With Mass Shooting

Mark Prieto allegedly planned to target rap concert in Atlanta

(Newser) - An Arizona man planned to carry out a mass shooting at a rap concert to ignite a race war, federal prosecutors say—but two men he believed shared his racist beliefs were really FBI informants. Mark Adams Prieto, 58, was indicted last week on charges including one count of transfer...

Dozens of Hikers Got Very Sick After Visiting Famed Waterfalls

Arizona tourist destination may have been hit by virus outbreak

(Newser) - Dozens of hikers say they fell ill during trips to a popular Arizona tourist destination that features towering blue-green waterfalls deep in a gorge neighboring Grand Canyon National Park, the AP reports. Madelyn Melchiors, a 32-year-old veterinarian from Kingman, Arizona, said she was vomiting severely Monday evening and had a...

New Mugshot, '9/11 Lung Disease' Claim for Giuliani

Lawyers say he can't be forced to get a job

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani's lawyers say he has "possible" lung disease related to his response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks as they argue he should not have to get a job to pay the $148 million defamation judgment against him. The former mayor of New York, who spent days at...

These States' Economies Are Pulling Their Weight

Washington tops WalletHub's rankings

(Newser) - How well the US economy is doing is dependent on how well the states themselves are doing, and WalletHub looked at all 50 states and the District of Columbia to see which ones boast the best economies. Three main categories are in play: economic activity (including startup activity, exports per...

11 End Up in Hospital While Waiting for Trump Rally

Heat-related injuries took place in Phoenix, where temps reached a record 112 degrees

(Newser) - Neither a series of criminal indictments or even a guilty verdict is keeping fans of Donald Trump away from his rallies—nor is extreme heat. Temps around Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport hit 112 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday, breaking the previous daily record from eight years prior, but that didn'...

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