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Attorney General Mark Brnovich is going to begin enforcing Arizona's civil rights laws against private employers who discriminate based on someone's sexual orientation.

In a deal reached Thursday, two groups who challenged the law will not pursue their claim that it is unconstitutional to refuse to count ballots that have not arrived in the mail by 7 p.m. on Election Day.

  Former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, who was accused of paying women from the Marshall Islands to deliver their babies in the U.S. and of organizing the children’s adoption to American families, today pleaded guilty to four fraudulent charges. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is for now declining to get involved in an ongoing debate by citizens and in Congress over policing, rejecting cases Monday that would have allowed the justices to revisit when police can be held financially responsible ...

A new ruling Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court on gay rights is imposing new restrictions on Arizona employers that neither the state legislature nor state courts were willing to do.

An attorney for the state asked the Arizona Court of Appeals to block the Citizens Clean Elections Commission from enforcing certain laws that regulate how much candidates and others can spend on campaigns.

The state and national Democratic parties are challenging a state law that denies some people the right to vote because they forgot to sign their mail-in ballots.

It may sound obvious. But the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that people can’t be convicted in Arizona of disorderly conduct if they didn’t actually disturb the peace of those who police say were their victims. The case stems ...

A Tucson-based national organization of doctors has sued the federal Department of Health and Human Services for putting roadblocks in the path of physicians who want to prescribe hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19. The lawsuit, filed in Michigan, asks a federal ...

Arizonans won't be learning which nursing homes have residents who have contracted or died from COVID-19, at least not from the state.