Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

This is my first blog post of 2026. I’ve been quiet for many months, as I grappled with what has happened and is happening to the world, my country, and to me. I’m not sure, even as I post this, if these words are appropriate for this work-related blog. But these are the thoughts that have wanted to come through after many months of silence, so here goes:

Regulators have ordered the company representing the US web giant in Finland to stop building data centers until it can demonstrate compliance with environmental laws. Officials are investigating whether trees and soil were cleared before the company carried out an impact study.

The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”

The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.

Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?

Learning to be one human among many has always been a little lonely and discombobulating. But young people around the world are lonelier than ever. Why?