The commissioner will review and provide transparency on how Arizona gets its chemicals for lethal injection and gas chamber, execution protocols and staffing, including how they are trained and their level of experience.
House Republicans flailed through a long second day of fruitless balloting Wednesday, unable to either elect their leader Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or come up with a new strategy to end the political chaos that has tarnished the start of their new majority.
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press
While Trump has long claimed that being president cost him millions of dollars, the filings show that his election technically gave Trump a raise by some measures.
In one of the tightest elections in state history, Democrat Kris Mayes was ahead of Republican Abraham Hamadeh by 511 votes out of 2.5 million before the recount began in the attorney general’s race.
The lawsuit says Hamadeh and the RNC aren’t alleging fraud or manipulation by elections officials, but to make sure all legal votes are counted and illegal votes are not.
By The Associated Press and MATT O'BRIEN and BRIAN P. D. HANNON
Twitter had announced that users will no longer be able to link to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and other platforms the company described as “prohibited.”
By The Associated Press and FARNOUSH AMIRI and HOPE YEN
The presentation is expected to be the committee’s closing argument as it wraps up a year-and-a-half-long inquiry and prepares to release a final report detailing its findings about the insurrection in the nation’s capital on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is considering recommending the Justice Department pursue three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, including insurrection.
The lawsuit says Hamadeh and the Republican National Committe aren’t alleging fraud or manipulation by elections officials, but are filing to make sure all legal votes are counted.
The Arizona Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs, emailed a letter to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, asking him to conduct a criminal investigation into Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby, both Republicans.
Cochise County has ended its stalemate with the state over the 2022 election certification by voting 2-0 to the canvass the election as required by state law. Supervisor Tom Crosby failed to show up for the vote.
The California Democrat, who rose to become the nation’s first woman to wield the speaker’s gavel, said she would remain in Congress as the representative from San Francisco.