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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge on Friday declined to put her order that allowed enforcement of a pre-statehood law making it a crime to provide an abortion on hold, saying abortion right groups that asked her to block the order are not likely to prevail on appeal. The ruling from Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson means the state's abortion providers will not be able to restart procedures. Abortions were halted on Sept. 23 when Johnson ruled that a 1973 injunction must be lifted so that the Civil War-era law could be enforced. Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich sought the order lifting the injunction. Attorneys with his office told the judge that, since the U.S. Supreme Court's June 24 decision said women do not have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion, there was no legal reason to block the old law. Planned Parenthood and its Arizona affiliate had … [Read more...] about Arizona judge won’t suspend ruling that halted all abortions

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 6 PHOENIX (AP) — All Arizona parents now can use state tax money to send their children to private or religious schools or pay homeschooling costs after an effort by public school advocates to block a massive expansion of the state's private school voucher law failed to collect enough signatures to block it. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs announced Friday that her office's review of signatures turned in a week ago to refer the expansion to the ballot came up short of the nearly 119,000 that were needed. Hobbs is a Democrat running for governor who opposed the plan. Republican Gov. Doug Ducey championed the plan and signed it into law in July. He celebrated on Twitter, saying “Let's Roll!” and “Parents Prevail.” Arizona now has the nation's most expansive private school voucher law. It allows parents of the more than 1.2 million school-age children to get … [Read more...] about Huge Arizona school voucher plan in effect after foes fail

Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, Kari Lake, has released a compelling video chronicling her journey from modest beginnings as a little girl in Iowa to being a fixture in Arizona news media to her gubernatorial launch. I’ve shared a lot of stories with you over the last few decades, but I've never shared mine. Join me on my journey: https://t.co/XJKyq7uzXn Please share this video! pic.twitter.com/doE6BXex2K — Kari Lake (@KariLake) September 30, 2022 One common theme throughout all periods of Lake’s life has been her faith in God. At the start of the video, seen above, the former Fox 10 Phoenix anchor recounted her childhood. The youngest of nine siblings, Lake was raised in the Hawkeye State, where the “midwestern work ethic” was instilled in her. “We were poor; my family was very poor,” Lake recalled. “ We didn’t have food in the house.” “I lived off of a gravel road, we didn’t even have a house number,” she laughed. “A couple of times a winter, … [Read more...] about WATCH: Arizona Republican Kari Lake Chronicles Life-Long Faith in God

Arizona GOP Representative Paul Gosar came under fire on Twitter Friday after promoting a documentary that follows Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist with whom Gosar has a history. In the tweet, Gosar, who represents Arizona's fourth district, reposted a trailer first published in August about the documentary "The Most Canceled Man in America," a film that follows "young political activist" Fuentes after he has been "openly targeted by the U.S. government for his involvement in nationwide protests and the events of January 6," reads the documentary's IMDb page . Gosar made a comment about "persecuted" Christians and conservatives along with the tweet, saying that the treatment they have received from "the Biden Regime brings great dishonor to our country." "If Americans do not have the freedom to dissent, then they have no freedom at all," Gosar added. The tweet received a wave of backlash, including from Christian Vanderbrouk, a member of the organization 43 Alumni for … [Read more...] about Paul Gosar blasted for promoting Nick Fuentes’ “Most Canceled Man” film

Kari Lake , the Republican candidate for governor in Arizona, on Monday rescinded her endorsement of an Oklahoma state Senate candidate who has made repeated homophobic and anti-Semitic comments, as well as peddled conspiracies such as saying that "COVID shots kill." Lake, a 2020 election denier who is in a tough race of her own, initially called Republican Jarrin Jackson a "winner." Jackson, too, maintains that "Trump won" the last presidential election. Jackson edged Ally Seifried in the June primary and will face her again in a runoff election on August 23, with the winner taking on Democrat Jennifer Esau in November. Jackson has described his campaign as "a return to the basics, to repent for our obedience to tyrannical government and to obey God." Andrew Clark, a spokesperson for Lake , said that the endorsement has been rescinded, referring Newsweek to an Axios story in which Lake is quoted as saying: "if [Jackson's] comments were true," she would take back her … [Read more...] about Kari Lake pulls endorsement of Oklahoma state Senate candidate Jackson

One of the leaders of GOP efforts to regain control the U.S. Senate said he believes the swing states of Nevada and Georgia are likely to make the difference as the party ramps up spending entering the final stretch of the 2022 midterm election season. In the coming weeks, both parties have combined to spend millions more in Senate races there than in any other battleground states, according to AdImpact data . Reserved advertising buys in the campaign's closing weeks are outpacing spending even in the media blitzes exhibited in the highly contentious Pennsylvania campaign between Republican Mehmet Oz and Democrat John Fetterman. And Republicans intend to win. According to AdImpact data, the GOP outspent Democrats by nearly $5 million in those races through September. Meanwhile, GOP-aligned special interest groups like the Club For Growth have pumped their own millions into the Nevada Senate race, where Republicans have rapidly closed the polling gap between Adam Laxalt … [Read more...] about Rick Scott sees Georgia, Nevada as GOP’s “logical” path to Senate control

Six colleges and universities are being recognized for the first time for their focuses on and efforts to boost Latino college completion. In 2019, Excelencia in Education , one of the country’s leading education think tanks focused on Latino college completion, first offered the Seal of Excelencia , a certification valid for three years that is earned by colleges that serve Latino students as demonstrated through data, evidence-based practices and leadership. Six new institutions have earned Seals of Excelencia this year: Mercy College in New York City, San Antonio College in Texas, Texas State University in San Marcos, the University at Albany-State University of New York, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Texas at Arlington. Mercy College is the first private Hispanic-serving institution to earn a seal. The school led private Hispanic-serving institutions in awarding bachelor’s degrees to Latinos for the 2019-20 academic year and helped … [Read more...] about Fifteen colleges and universities earn Excelencia seal for advancing Latino higher education

Several key midterm election states have seen the economies decline by a significantly greater margin than the rest of the country, according to data published on Friday. The measure of GDP state by state showed that several key states have economies that are shrinking faster than the national average. In particular, Arizona , Michigan, Oregon and Wisconsin have seen GDP falls of more than one percent greater than the 0.6 percent national decline. Conversely, the swing state of Nevada saw GDP grow by one percent, one of only 10 states nationally that saw economic growth. With the midterm elections on November 8, the GDP data published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis is one of the last official indicators of how each state is performing economically. The map below has Q2 GDP data for each state. According to Pew Research, voters care about the economy above any other issue, with 77 percent saying it was very important in considering how they vote in the 2022 … [Read more...] about Key midterm states see faster economic decline than average

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Floridian farmers need illegal immigrants in their state to “pick the crops” during a press conference Friday. “Right now the best thing we can do for our economy is to have comprehensive immigration reform. We have a shortage of workers in our country and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying why are you shipping these immigrants up north, we need them to pick the crops down here,” Pelosi said. (RELATED: Tim Ryan Brags About Voting ‘With Trump On Trade’ In Campaign Ad) “But that doesn’t mean that we don’t recognize our moral responsibility to as well,” she added. Nancy Pelosi suggests we need illegal migrants to work in the fields in Florida. “We need them to pick the crops down here.” pic.twitter.com/g4DlYOh5Ge — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 30, 2022 Pelosi’s comments come weeks after Florida governor Ron DeSantis sent two flights of illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard in … [Read more...] about Pelosi: Farmers Need Illegal Immigrants ‘To Pick The Crops’

SATURDAY BASEBALL 10a Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees MLB Net 1p Arizona at Giants NBCSCA (104.5,680) 1p A’s at Seattle NBCSCA (960) 2:30p Boston at Toronto, joined in progress MLBNet 4:15p N.Y. Mets at Atlanta Channel 2 Channel 40 7p Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, joined in progress MLBNet COLLEGE FOOTBALL 9a Michigan at Iowa Channel 2 Channel 40 (1050) 9a Navy at Air Force Channel 5 Channel 13 Channel 46 9a Oklahoma at TCU Channel 7 Channel 10 9a Kentucky at Mississippi ESPN 9a Purdue at Minnesota ESPN2 9a Georgia State at Army CBSSN 9a Temple at Memphis ESPNU 9a Illinois at Wisconsin Big Ten 9a Louisville at Boston College ACCNet 11a Oregon State at Utah P12Net 12:30p Alabama at Arkansas Channel 5 Channel 13 Channel 46 (1050) 12:30p Oklahoma State at Baylor … [Read more...] about Bay Area sports calendar, Oct. 1-2