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Los Angeles (AFP) - Arizona has charged 18 people over a scheme to subvert the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump, the state's attorney general said Wednesday, with US media identifying the ex-president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani among those indicted. The felony indictments, which allege a conspiracy to award Arizona's slate of electors to the defeated real estate magnate, are the latest effort by a state to hold accountable those who backed Trump's false claim that he won the presidential vote. Arizona's Attorney General Kris Mayes said a grand jury had returned indictments on 11 local Republ...
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Tucson (AFP) - Democrats came out swinging at Donald Trump on the divisive issue of abortion on Friday, blaming him for unpopular restrictions they said are turning back the clock on women's rights ahead of November's presidential election. Days after Arizona became the latest state to declare almost all abortions illegal, Vice President Kamala Harris told a rally the populist former president was the architect of the ban, and warned worse was to come if he wins the White House. "Here's what a second Trump term looks like: More bans, more suffering and less freedom," Harris told supporters in...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The top court in Arizona on Tuesday ruled a 160-year-old near total ban on abortion is enforceable, thrusting the issue to the top of the agenda in a key US presidential election swing state. The ruling -- allowing for doctors to be jailed for up to five years -- is the latest in a series of state-level measures on the deeply divisive issue of reproductive rights, which is expected to play an outsize role in this November's contest between President Joe Biden and his Republican challenger Donald Trump. In a statement issued almost immediately after the Arizona news broke, B...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Arizona's Democratic governor said Friday she is sending National Guard soldiers to areas around the US border with Mexico, accusing President Joe Biden's government of "refusing to do its job" on migration. Katie Hobbs, whose state is a key target for Republicans, last week took fellow Democrat Biden to task after a major crossing was closed, purportedly to allow officials to concentrate their resources on stemming illegal migration. "Yet again, the federal government is refusing to do its job to secure our border and keep our communities safe," Hobbs said in her order Fr...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - New houses that rely on dwindling groundwater supplies around one of the United States' biggest cities are to be banned, officials said Thursday, in a sign of the strains that drought and climate change are causing across the US west. Water managers in Arizona say there is a significant shortfall in the Phoenix area, and that any more development in the fast-growing city must rely on other sources of water -- such as under-strain rivers. "Over a period of 100 years, the Phoenix (area) will experience 4.86 million acre-feet of unmet demand for groundwater supplies," the Ariz...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Donald Trump loyalist and prominent election denier Kari Lake has lost her bid to be governor of Arizona, US networks projected Monday, rounding out a difficult week for the former president as he readies a new run for the White House. Lake, a former TV anchor, had been seen as one of Trump's most reliable picks heading into the midterm elections, but her defeat caps a run of results that have raised doubts about the former president's place in the Republican Party. The projections by major US TV networks come after a week of intense scrutiny of the vote count in Arizona, w...
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Phoenix (AFP) - Officials in an Arizona county at the center of unsubstantiated right-wing claims of fraud during the US midterm election said Wednesday there was no criminality involved in isolated problems with voting machines. Accusations of rigging mushroomed on social media platforms and were amplified by former president Donald Trump after Maricopa County reported a minority of tabulation machines were not working during Tuesday's vote. "With regard to comments like 'criminal' or 'rigged,' there's absolutely no basis for that statement," Bill Gates, chairman of the Maricopa County Board ...
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Phoenix (AFP) - In three decades of involvement in conservative politics, Rusty Bowers has never been so worried by the gap between perception and reality that currently plagues Arizona's Republican Party. Ahead of the November 8 midterm elections, masked poll watchers, some of them armed, have been looming over ballot drop boxes in a bid to prevent a repeat of the vote-fixing they are convinced took Donald Trump's presidency away from them in 2020. No such conspiracy exists, says Bowers, and a party that was once more pragmatist than propagandist is now fully in thrall to unhinged theories --...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House on Saturday blasted a court ruling in Arizona that imposes a near-complete ban on abortions in the southwestern US state as "catastrophic, dangerous and unacceptable." On Friday, a judge in Arizona's Pima County had ruled that the stricter ban -- imposed in 1864 and expanded by a 1901 law, years before Arizona became a state -- must be enforced. "If this decision stands, health care providers would face imprisonment of up to five years for fulfilling their duty of care; survivors of rape and incest would be forced to bear the children of their assaulters; and...
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Washington (AFP) - A hand count from a controversial review of the 2020 US presidential election results in Arizona's largest county closely tracked the official tally showing Joe Biden beat Donald Trump, a draft copy of a report released on Friday showed. The Republican-funded review found that the Democrat won Maricopa County by about 45,000 votes, a slight widening of the official margin of victory. The review by Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based cybersecurity firm with no experience in election audits, is unlikely to stop Trump from continuing to attack America's democratic system as he mulls ...
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