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via:yahoo Ending nearly two weeks of suspense, a 64-year-old substitute teacher and single parent from Arizona claimed a $95.3 million Powerball jackpot. Sheila Verke, a Fort Mohave resident, presented the single-winning ticket to lottery officials in Phoenix on Monday. She opted to take a lump sum payment of $49.9 million, saying she plans to buy a […]

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            By Charles B. Stockdale, Michael B. Sauter, Douglas A. McIntyre via:yahoofinance Some parts of the United States have begun to run low on water. That is probably not much of a surprise to people who live in the arid parts of America that have had water shortages for decades […]

Texas on the Potomac shares some of the best national political content from the Texas Tribune. This story is written by the Trib’s Ross Ramsey. Nearly half of all Texans would repeal the constitutional promise of citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil, and

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Check out the question of the day regarding the new Arizona immigration reform law.

via:theatlanticwire.com A mural painted on the side of Miller Valley Elementary School in Prescott, Arizona depicts a group of children of different races. This spring, as the mural was being painted, it attracted the ire of a certain percentage of locals, including city councilman Steve Blair, who wondered on his radio show why the mural […]

Via MSNBC: Michael Clausen owns the Quality Inn in Nogales, Ariz. For now. Clausen says the hotel, which caters to people streaming across the Mexican border just seven blocks away, is in danger of closing, thanks to the state’s new illegal immigration law and the official and unofficial boycotts it has inspired. The Sunday night […]

Since the controversial immigration bill passed in Arizona, several Houston groups are coming together to form an immigration protest across the United States.

President Barack Obama on Thursday criticized a pending Arizona law that would make it a state crime to be in the United States illegally and require anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant to produce identification.