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Next month will mark three years since Russian despot Vladimir Putin took Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner hostage and a week later launched...
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In the early morning of Dec. 4 in midtown Manhattan, a man with a 9 mm handgun and silencer shot Brian Thompson repeatedly in the back. Thompson,...
As if the original call wasn’t weird enough: Things were about to get even weirder. Roughly two hours after all that, some guy shows up at Sky...
On Sunday, Karrin Taylor Robson grabbed the brass ring, one of the biggest prizes in modern Republican politics — the Donald Trump endorsement....
As we try to comprehend the frenzy over drones on the East Coast, understand this. These are friendly aircraft. Because there is no way, NO WAY,...
Are we really going to go there? Because if that’s where we are as a country, then the most important story on the shooting death of...
The best argument for Arizona to create an election system that is fast and accurate is this: It can be done. Other states are proving every cycle...
On Sunday, Joe Biden broke his word and granted his son one of the most generous pardons ever issued by an American president. Hunter Biden will...
As its name implies, the motion picture “Die Hard” isn’t going to go away any time soon. You’ve probably seen the film, but to understand the...
If you were a Mormon kid growing up in Phoenix in the early 1970s, this was the game you dreaded. Brigham Young vs. Arizona State. One of your two...
The Ruben Gallego makeover is complete. Only a few years ago, he was a bomb-throwing, back-bench liberal who called a conservative lawmaker an “...
Denial is a river you can watch in real time. At the moment it flows from social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to social platform BlueSky,...
That’s some heat Mark Kelly just threw at Donald Trump’s new pick for U.S. Defense secretary. The U.S. senator from Arizona and former astronaut...
Never will you see retreat wrapped in so much tough talk and chest thumping as Kris Mayes displayed at her Tuesday press scrum. The Arizona...
On Nov. 5, when the Democratic Party had become a smoldering mass of debris, a member of the Fourth Estate tweeted out: “I don’t understand. I just...
Democrats are doing it again. They’re threatening to bolt to Canada after Donald Trump got elected president. In 2016, they so overwhelmed the...
“Hitler” is not a metaphor. He moves among us as Donald Trump, imploring us to grant him dominion over the U.S. government and its armed forces. ...
It had reached the point where no one could break through. The presidential election had turned into a blur of cannon fire with each side shooting...
For about the first five minutes of Wednesday’s U.S. Senate debate in Phoenix, you saw what Kari Lake could have been. Well pressed and pinpoint in...
So, it turns out Donald Trump was right about the bipartisan immigration bill. We didn’t need it to stop historic levels of illegal immigration....
Mark Kelly used to lay low in the U.S. Senate before Kamala Harris named him as a potential running mate earlier this year. Before then, caution was...
The most important moment in Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate was not spoken. You can’t put quote marks around it, because it was said visually,...
You had to be a target of critical social justice to truly understand how insidious it is. When I say “critical social justice,” I mean the new...
Mormons were never entirely monolithic in their politics. There was a time long ago when members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
This column has been updated to correct a typo. Mesa Mayor John Giles is a man of high character, so I respect his decision to vote against his...