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New rules announced Friday by the Barack Obama administration could nix crime suppression sweeps and immigration raids conducted by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is among the top-ranking U.S. officials who plan to address the Border Security Conference in El Paso next month.

F rom the political notebook: * Gov. Jan Brewer used her veto pen to increase spending by hundreds of millions of dollars, and perhaps billions.

PHOENIX a ' The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Arizona and other states permission Tuesday to enact their own regulations to reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions from cars and trucks.

State Senate President Bob Burns' 20/20 hindsight might be strong, but his foresight is pretty dim.

As Arizona lawmakers struggled to pass a budget, they pushed final votes on non-budget items to the last minutes of their legislative session and sent Gov.

Forget about the quandary South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford faces as a result of his personal indiscretions.

Senate President Bob Burns criticizes Gov. Jan Brewer. June 10, 2009. Stung by the veto of key elements of the Republican budget plan, Senate President Bob Burns on Thursday said Gov.

It's no longer a war on transnational terrorism? Before Dr. Emile Coue's method of psychotherapy, self-improvement based on the healing power of optimistic autosuggestion, becomes our national security comfort blanket, it would behoove us all to take a deep breath and snap out of creeping amnesia.

War on poverty, war on drugs, war on cancer, war on hunger, war on crime, war on obesity, war on illiteracy, even war on guns.

The Arizona Senate on Tuesday approved two abortion-related bills, including one that would increase requirements for obtaining abortions in the state and one that would increase penalties for performing a certain abortion procedure later in pregnancy, the Arizona Republic reports.

While it was gratifying to see President Barack Obama's much-delayed summit on immigration take place today, and for the President to declare after the meeting that, "My administration is fully behind an effort to achieve comprehensive immigration reform," the message was still one of "hurry up and wait," with nothing promised to alleviate the ...

Reporting from Phoenix -- In recent years, the onset of summer in Phoenix meant two things -- triple-digit temperatures and a budget battle between the Republican-dominated Legislature, which regularly pushed to cut taxes, and Democratic Gov.

State senators gave preliminary approval Friday to making it illegal to send or read text messages while driving.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has decided to kill a controversial Bush administration program to use U.S. spy satellites to collect domestic intelligence for counter-terrorism, law enforcement and security, a senior Homeland Security official said Monday evening.

She estimates that would generate $1 billion a year, although lawmakers question those figures given the economic climate.

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer proposed a temporary tax hike this winter just as members of her own party were coalescing under a populist anti-tax, anti-spending banner and as an invigorated conservative movement was sharpening its small- government message.

As America's busiest immigrant smuggling hub, Arizona has earned the distinction as a place that's tough on people who sneak across the border.

Some of the publicly funded television spots, billboards and glossy reports that prominently display names and images of elected state officials could become a thing of the past, under a bill advancing in the Legislature.

A brawl between Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and her own party's leaders shows the tensions engendered by scarce resources during this recession.