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Politics
A HighGround poll shows Katie Hobbs up 17 points on Andy Biggs. Arizona Republicans hold a 300,000-voter registration edge but retain only 68-75% of their base - far below the 90-95% floor needed to compete. Independents break for Hobbs 58% to 20.5%.
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Congress's tough immigration law couldn't outsmart a rounding rule. USCIS FY2027 fees leave EAD renewals frozen at zero increase while ICE enforcement costs balloon to $5,300 - a bureaucratic own-goal written into the bill itself.
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Trump publicly said he didn't fire new White House Spokesperson Katie Zacharia - he just asked if the job suited her. His own White House confirmed her exit the same day. She lasted four days.
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Memphis council delayed a data center moratorium vote twice, canceled public comment, then banned the people who protested - right before the actual vote. Justin Pearson is suing.
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A federal court in New York blocked Trump's sanctuary city agenda again - using the Tenth Amendment anti-commandeering doctrine that conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote. Trump has now lost close to a dozen of these cases in roughly a year.