TUCSON, Arizona, Dec. 20 -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the following news release: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld District Court Judge Reed O'Connor's decision that the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) is unconstitutional, now that the thin reed supporting it--the taxing power of Congress--has been removed. But it has remanded the issue of severability to the District Court. If the mandate is not severable, the whole  more

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Dec. 20 -- The Alliance Defending Freedom issued the following statement: The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Kate Anderson regarding a federal district court's ruling Wednesday that acknowledged that East Lansing passed an unconstitutional ordinance. The case, Country Mill Farms v. City of East Lansing, will proceed to trial next year. Alliance Defending Freedom represents Country Mill Farms. "All Americans should be free to   more

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Dec. 20 -- The Alliance Defending Freedom issued the following statement: The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Zack Pruitt regarding ADF's comment submitted Thursday, in support of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' notice of proposed rulemaking to address a federal regulation that forced child welfare providers to abandon their deeply held religious beliefs to continue receiving federal funding to serve children in n  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Dec. 21 -- The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry issued the following news release: Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry President and CEO Glenn Hamer announced a commitment from Intel, Microsoft and the Water Funder Initiative to support the Arizona Drought Contingency plan and shore up water levels in Lake Mead. The first of several agreements was signed between the Arizona Department of Water Resources and Business for Water Stewardship to transfer $350,000 to AD  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Dec. 20 -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the following news release: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the District Court decision by Judge Reed O'Connor that the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) individual mandate to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. In its opening summary, the Court quotes the perspective that the Act "has deprived patients nationwide of a competitive market for affordable high-deductible health insuranc  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Dec. 19 -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the following news release: Many American physicians are wondering whether they still can be physicians. "We physicians have lost control of our profession, our patients' safety, and our ability to freely practice patient-centered Hippocratic medicine in the United States," writes San Antonio ophthalmologist Kristin Held, M.D., in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Held i  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Dec. 17 -- The Astrophysical Journal, a research journal from the American Astronomical Society that says it is devoted to recent developments, discoveries and theories in astronomy and astrophysics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its Dec. 10, 2019 edition: * Discovery of a Disrupting Open Cluster Far into the Milky Way Halo: A Recent Star Formation Event in the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream? * Disentangling Planets from Photoelectric In  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Dec. 18 -- The Astrophysical Journal, a research journal from the American Astronomical Society that says it is devoted to recent developments, discoveries and theories in astronomy and astrophysics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its Dec. 20, 2019 edition: * Anisotropic Mass Segregation in Rotating Globular Clusters * Camouflage of the Phase Transition to Quark Matter in Neutron Stars * Cosmological Constraints from the Redshift Dependence of  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) yesterday introduced the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act. The bill will make permanent a ban on new uranium mining on about 1 million acres of public land adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park. A companion bill has already passed the House with bipartisan support, following an effort led by tribal members and leaders, particularly the Havasupai Tribe with the supp  more

TUCSON, Dec. 16 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: * * * - Bartram's Stonecrop, Beardless Chinchweed Threatened by Rosemont Copper Mine * * * In response to a petition and lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity, two southern Arizona plants were proposed for Endangered Species Act protection. Bartram's stonecrop and beardless chinchweed are two of a dozen imperiled animals and plants threatened by the proposed Rosemont Copper Mine near Tucson,  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Dec. 19 -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the following news release: Abortion providers are encouraging women to choose the medical abortion option, but studies consistently show that the rate of complications is four times higher than for a surgical procedure, writes San Antonio obstetrician Ingrid Skop, M.D., in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Currently, about 39 percent of abortions in the U.S. are drug-induc  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- The National Wildlife Federation issued the following news release: The Arizona Wildlife Federation and the National Wildlife Federation applaud legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to permanently protect the Grand Canyon and surrounding area from uranium mining. The bill would prevent new uranium mining on a million acres around the national park, making permanent a temporary mineral withdrawal that was enacted seven years ago. "The Grand Ca  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Dec. 16 -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued the following news release: Teamsters and their allies in Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, and Florida rallied at Grupo Mexico's CMX Theaters to demand that U.S. and Mexico step in to stop violations of labor law. For more than ten weeks, nearly 2,000 mine workers in Arizona and Texas, represented by the Teamsters, USW, IBEW, IAM, UA, IUOE, and the Boilermakers, have been on strike to dema  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- Trout Unlimited issued the following news release: Protecting the land and water values of the Grand Canyon from the impacts of uranium mining has been a top priority for Trout Unlimited and sportsmen in Arizona. Today Congress moved one step closer to permanent protection for this special place with Senator Sinema's introduction of legislation in the Senate in coordination with the recent passing of the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act in the House. "Arizonans h  more