Arizona legislature closes as Trump lawyers push for special session to pick electors

The number of migrants found dead after crossing from Mexico into Arizona’s extremely hot deserts, valleys and mountains, could be the highest in 10 years, authorities say. In recent years, border enforcement efforts in California and Texas have helped drive people into Arizona's more difficult terrain.

Meghan McCain called out Donald Trump for his “obsession” with her father, John McCain, after the president launched yet another attack on the late Arizona senator. “Two years after he died, you still obsess over my dad. It kills you that no one will ever love you or remember you like they loved and remember him,” The View co-host tweeted. “He served his country with honor, you have disgraced the office of the presidency.”

Donald Trump Jr. will hold his first in-person events of the Georgia Senate runoffs this week for Sen.

PHOENIX, ARIZ.-- – COVID-19 has taken its toll on the tourism industry, and as we head into winter, it’s now impacting snowbirds and part-time residents. Bob Slack and his wife Lois have been wintering in Florida for the last 22 years, but this year, because of the pandemic, they’re trading in the golf clubs for snow shovels, preparing for the long Canadian winter ahead.

Joe Biden has cleared the 270-electoral-vote mark to formalize his presidential victory with California’s 55 votes. The voting milestone came late Monday when California electors affirmed Biden’s massive 5 million-vote win last month in the nation’s largest state.

With the Electoral College giving its archaic but official stamp of approval to Joe Biden, the election is now over--although it’s not over, and may never be over, for a major chunk of the country. With a unanimous rejection by the Supreme Court, with President Trump unable to break his legal losing streak, he is continuing to assail what he calls a rigged election.

Georgians “understand” what is at stake in the Peach State’s upcoming Senate runoff elections, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said on Monday.

Oprah Winfrey has offered an all-expenses-paid vacation to an emergency room doctor in Arizona who claimed that he was fired from his job after revealing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in the state.  Dr Cleavon Gilman, an ER doctor in Yuma, has been tweeting since November about the state’s Covid response and hospital bed shortages.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is taking over as the new chair of the Republican Governors Association (RGA).

Jimmy Kimmel and “Donald Trump” reenact that “Love Actually” card scene for a festive “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” skit.

The Arizona Republican Party released a tweet Tuesday asking voters if they were “willing” to give their lives to overturn the results of the 2020 November election -- an attitude adopted after President Trump has repeatedly claimed the election was fraudulent. Despite dozens of failed court cases and a lack of evidence pointing to widespread voter fraud throughout the election, Trump and his supporters maintain the belief that the election was rigged.

Arizona reached a grim milestone on Tuesday when more than 12,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in a single day.

Monday marked the 79th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. "It is a day that nobody will ever forget, in my memory or anyone who was there," Lou Conter told "The Story" Monday.

President Trump's legal team's efforts to urge state lawmakers to override the results of the election and appoint their own electors is "furthest along" in Georgia, attorney Rudy Giuliani told “Sunday Morning Futures.” Other efforts are ongoing in Michigan and Arizona, Giuliani said.The former New York City mayor pointed to video from State Farm Arena in Atlanta, which he said gives a “pretty good idea” of how cheating took place.

With the Republican majority on the line in Georgia's Senate runoffs, President Trump returns to the campaign trail Saturday for the first time since last month’s presidential election.

In a last ditch effort to alter the 2020 presidential election results, the Trump campaign filed another lawsuit telling a Nevada judge they had evidence of deceased people voting and thousands of “double votes.” President Trump lost Nevada to President-elect Joe Biden by 33,596 votes, which were certified by the state’s Supreme Court and Gov. Steve Sisolak last week, essentially securing the state’s six Electoral College votes.

Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway on Thursday said President Trump's stance on election integrity "unites the Republican Party" because their concerns predate the 2020 presidential election. “It’s been interesting to see some of this testimony and whistleblowers in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia.

Elliot Page in 2019 (Photo: Joe Seer)