June 24, 2021 at 7:03 pm Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, looks over the printed budget prior to a vote on the Arizona budget at the Arizona Capitol Thursday, June 24, 2021, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
PHOENIX (AP) The Arizona House on Thursday approved a $1.9 billion income tax cut package that mainly benefits the wealthy as majority Republicans began pushing through a state budget plan opposed by Democrats and packed with a conservative wish list of policy changes.
The House joined the Senate in approving the tax cuts and another bill shielding high-earning taxpayers from the effects of a new 3.5% tax surcharge voters approved in November to boost education funding.
WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators have reached an agreement to significantly boost infrastructure spending, though
Judge allows Georgia ballot review case to proceed for now June 24, 2021 at 7:28 pm
ATLANTA (AP) A judge on Thursday allowed a lawsuit alleging fraud in Georgia’s most populous county during the November election and seeking a review of absentee ballots to move forward for now.
Originally filed in December, the lawsuit says there is evidence of fraudulent ballots and improper ballot counting in Fulton County. The county, county elections board and county courts clerk had filed motions to dismiss the lawsuit. They argued, among other things, that the the lawsuit was barred by sovereign immunity, a principle that says state and local governments and can only be sued if they agree to it.