PHOENIX, Arizona, June 12 -- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes issued the following news release on June 11, 2024: Attorney General Kris Mayes and 42 other state attorneys general reached a $700 million nationwide settlement to resolve allegations related to the marketing of Johnson & Johnson's baby powder and body powder products that contained talc. "Today's settlement is a significant victory for Arizonans and consumers nationwide," said Attorney General Mayes. "For decades, Johnson & Joh  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 12 -- The Arizona Democratic Party issued the following news release: Kari Lake "proposes massive cuts to Medicaid and Medicare" in a "budget proposal [that] could imperil border security" according to reporting from American Journal News. Lake said "obviously we have to cut spending and [...] I think we can slash the federal government by 50%. Most of it is just grossly overweighted." In order to reduce the federal budget by 50%, Lake would need to cut $3.1 trillion in  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 13 -- The Arizona Democratic Party issued the following news release: Last week, Donald Trump visited Arizona for the first time in two years and after several cancellations. In an interview with ABC15 following Trump's rally with white supremacist organization TPUSA, Trump bragged about defunct built border wall and endorsed HCR 2060, legislation pushed by Republicans in the legislature that would cost Arizonans $40 million, is unconstitutional, and brings back SB1070 ra  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 13 -- The Arizona Democratic Party issued the following news release on June 12, 2024: Kari Lake's efforts to overturn the result of her failed 2022 gubernatorial run have failed, again, and one of Lake's attorneys has been "suspended for lying to [the] Arizona Supreme Court." On Tuesday, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that Lake "will not get a do-over of the 2022 election she lost," "nor is Lake entitled to a new trial." In May, the Arizona Supreme Court "sanctioned  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 12 -- The Arizona Democratic Party issued the following news release: This episode of the Lake Tapes, Kari Lake "[repeats] lies that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump, doing it in front of a flag associated with slavery in the South." Lake's appearance under a confederate flag is just the latest evidence that "she's not someone who's really made an effort to go to the center." Lake "hasn't gotten off the election conspiracy bandwagon," responding t  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 12 -- Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication issued the following news: The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University welcomed almost 40 international media professionals, scholars and student leaders who will spend a portion of their summer studying media law, media literacy and journalism education through the Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI). SUSI programs partner with Ame  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 12 -- Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law issued the following news: The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University -- ranked the nation's most innovative university since U.S. News and World Report created the category in 2015 -- has embraced artificial intelligence by launching a new AI focus area across several degree programs. ASU Law was the first law school in the U.S. to explicitly permit the use of generative AI in t  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 12 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 42 other attorneys general reached a $700 million nationwide settlement to resolve allegations related to the marketing of Johnson & Johnson's baby powder and body powder products that contained talc. Texas, Florida, and North Carolina led an executive committee that included Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Maryland, New York, and Washington. The consent judgmen  more

TUCSON, Arizona, June 12 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: Peering deeply into the cosmos, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is giving scientists their first detailed glimpse of supernovas from a time when the universe was young. A team using JWST data has identified 10 times more supernovas in the early universe than were previously known. A few of the newfound exploding stars are the most distant examples of their type, including those used to measure the univer  more