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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a man outside his Flagstaff home Wednesday morning in the first known enforcement action since ICE opened a local field office.
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Arizona Department of Transportation officials have closed a portion of Highway 160 east of Kayenta following severe flash flooding Wednesday night.
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The flood comes after a different deluge on Aug. 29 destroyed infrastructure and led to the deaths of three hikers.
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Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, a longtime Republican lawmaker from Arizona who shaped landmark water policies in the U.S. West has died. According to his family, Kyl died Wednesday night from a neurological disorder.
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Human remains found in the Grand Canyon this week were those of the last remaining person missing after the deadly flash flooding in late August, the victim's wife said Thursday.
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Navajo police say two adults and a juvenile were washed away by a flood near Newcomb, New Mexico early Wednesday. Several other areas on the Navajo Nation are also dealing with flooding.
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The Central Arizona Project board is voicing disagreement over whether federal water reclamation plans are fair to Arizona and other lower basin states.
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An audit report of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Missing and Murdered Unit reveals staffing challenges, a backlog of hundreds of case referrals and families left without required victims' services.
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More than eight decades ago, pioneering Museum of Northern Arizona geologist Major L.F. Brady made a surprising find in sedimentary rocks high up on the east flank of Mt. Elden.
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The National Park Service says human remains were found on the Colorado River near Crystal Rapid Monday, more than two weeks after a deadly flash flood swept through the Grand Canyon.
NPR News
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The Houthis' biggest land grab in years reignited Yemen's 12-year civil war and pushed up global fuel prices, extending their reach to a key maritime chokepoint and threatening Saudi Arabia's oil exports.
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The latest lawsuit, first reported by NPR, argues the Trump administration's repeated suggestions that federal officers could be at polling sites is a form of illegal voter intimidation.
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An SUV driver was under the influence of drugs when she swerved into the wrong lane, blew a red light and slammed into a Los Angeles city bus, killing two riders, prosecutors said as they charged her with murder.
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Texas officials have tried to take action to punish clinics encouraging "birth tourism." But there are laws that can be used there, if there's evidence and they're enforced.
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A new study on ancient human remains finds evidence for the habitual use of betel nuts, dating back to the Ice Age. The finding offers some of the oldest archaeological evidence of psychoactive drug use, and potential insights into how use of betel nuts, now popular for their stimulant effects, evolved.
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Sunny, seasonably warm afternoons and cool overnights are forecast daily into the final weekend of summer. The equinox is Tuesday.
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