The UN panel is made up of independent rights experts focused on whether countries are honoring the International Covenant ON Civil and Political Rights — a rights treaty signed by the U.S. and other countries.

The Trump administration enacted the policy in the spring on 2018, giving border officers the ability to refer adults for criminal prosecution and send their children to separate holding facilities.

A group of Arizona sheriffs say they need more funding from the state to assist with border-related crimes like drug smuggling.

The border town of Douglas, Arizona, is known for having four churches of different denominations located on the same intersection. A local man is now facing hate crime charges in connection with the suspected arson of two those churches in May.

A Chandler woman who had more than 50 dogs seized from her home and was charged with animal cruelty and neglect was in court Wednesday, seeking to regain custody of some of the animals.

The next Arizona judicial retention elections are in 2024, and this month the public has a chance to weigh in on what the voter pamphlet should say about judges seeking to keep their job.

House Speaker Ben Toma and Senate President Warren Petersen have joined the Goldwater Institute, after Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed legislation that would have reformed the way appeals court judges are retained.

The Biden administration is waiving more than two dozen environmental protection laws to build a steel bollard wall and roads along almost 20 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Arizona lawmakers and advocates are calling on him to reverse course.

Friends and colleagues of slain University of Arizona professor Thomas Meixner gathered in Tucson for memorial services on Thursday. The day marked one year since Meixner was shot and killed on campus.