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Police block the area after a vehicle caught fire and exploded outside the lobby of President-elect Donald Trump’s hotel Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Firework mortars, gas canisters found in Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, killing suspect

January 2, 2025 at 7:16 a.m.

Firework mortars and camp fuel canisters were found stuffed into the back of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel, killing a suspect inside the vehicle.

FILE – This electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a cluster of norovirus virions. (Charles D. Humphrey/CDC via AP, File)

Nasty norovirus is back in full force with US cases of the stomach virus surging

December 29, 2024 at 8:48 a.m.

Cases of a wretched stomach bug, norovirus, are surging in parts of the United States this winter, according to government data.

Maribel Hidalgo, 23, of Caracas, Venezuela, stands for a portrait with her son, Daniel, 2, outside a shelter for immigrants in New York, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

1 million migrants in the US rely on temporary protections that Trump could target

November 14, 2024 at 8:35 a.m.

Maribel Hidalgo fled her native Venezuela a year ago with a 1-year-old son, trudging for days through Panama’s Darien Gap, then riding the rails across Mexico to the United States.

Border Patrol vehicles survey a steel fence at the Southwest border with Mexico at Sunland Park, N.M., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

Migrant deaths in New Mexico have increased tenfold

October 16, 2024 at 11:34 a.m.

Ten times as many migrants died in New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border in each of the last two years compared with just five years ago.

FILE - In this July 20, 2014 file photo, a bathtub ring of light minerals shows the high water line near Hoover Dam on Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. Six states in the U.S. West that rely on the Colorado River to sustain cities and farms rebuked a plan to build an underground pipeline that would transport billions of gallons of water through the desert to southwest Utah. In a joint letter Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, water officials from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming urged the U.S. government to halt the approval process for the project, which would bring water 140 miles (225 km) from Lake Powell in northern Arizona to the growing area surrounding St. George, Utah. (AP Photo/John Locher,File)

Blazing hot surfaces are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries in the urban desert Southwest

July 3, 2024 at 1:01 p.m.

Sizzling sidewalks and unshaded playgrounds are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries as air temperatures reach new summer highs in desert cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas.

A boy cools off at a fountain outside Wrigley Field before a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals as hot weather descends upon the Chicago area Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

More than 70 million people in the US are under heat alerts. Go indoors and hydrate

June 17, 2024 at 6:34 p.m.

More than 70 million people in the United States were under extreme heat alerts Monday as a heat wave moved eastward, and the mid-Atlantic and New England were likely to...

State Sen. Mitzi Epstein, a Democrat from Tempe, speaks at the Arizona Senate, Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Phoenix, during a debate over a proposal that would ask voters to make it a state crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location other than a port of entry. The measure, which Epstein opposed, was approved by the state Senate on a 16-13 vote and advances to the Arizona House. (AP Photo/Jacques Billeaud)

Arizona voters will decide whether local police can make border-crossing arrests

June 4, 2024 at 4:48 p.m.

The Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a proposal asking voters to make it a state crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location...

Thousands of protesters march around the Arizona Capitol after the Supreme Court decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision Friday, June 24, 2022, in Phoenix.

Arizona’s Democratic governor signs a bill to repeal 1864 ban on most abortions

May 2, 2024 at 3:25 p.m.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed a bill to undo a long-dormant law that bans all abortions except those done to save a patient’s life.

FILE – Pro-life demonstrators walk in the front of the Arizona Capitol prior to the vote on the proposed repeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortions prior to winning approval from the state House on, April 24, 2024, in Phoenix. Democrats at the Arizona Legislature are expected to make a final push Wednesday, May 1, to repeal the state’s long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions that a court said can be enforced. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Arizona lawmakers vote to undo near-total abortion ban, with Gov. Katie Hobbs expected to sign

May 1, 2024 at 3:59 p.m.

The Arizona Legislature approved a repeal of a long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions Wednesday, advancing the bill to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who is expected to sign it.

FILE – Arizona Supreme Court Justices from left; William G. Montgomery, John R Lopez IV, Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, Chief Justice Robert M. Brutinel, Clint Bolick and James Beene listen to oral arguments on April 20, 2021, in Phoenix. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, April 9, 2024, that the state can enforce its long-dormant law criminalizing all abortions except when a mother’s life is at stake. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Arizona abortion ruling upends legal and political landscape from Phoenix to Washington

April 10, 2024 at 5:45 p.m.

Arizona abortion providers are vowing to continue service until forced to stop.

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