Arizona

A Republican analyst, who voted for Trump, suggested the GOP-backed audit would present its "new record" as the "truth."

On Thursday night, fire officials reported that the Telegraph Fire had damaged/destroyed at least 20 structures, which was an increase of 15 from earlier that morning.

Arizona's secret refurbishment of the gas chamber for use on death row inmates drew backlash from the American Jewish Committee, likening it to the Holocaust.

"I wholeheartedly support what [the Biden administration] is trying to do and I'm sure they're going to receive lots of criticism. But it's a long-term process, so I salute them for getting started," Mayor John Ferguson of Presidio, Texas, told Newsweek.

"Due to extreme drought and wildfire danger, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is temporarily banning campfires and recreational target shooting with a firearm on its 146 wildlife management areas across the state," the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said.

Fire officials described the Telegraph Fire as a "fast moving and dynamic fire," on the InciWeb website.

"The Postal Service will do everything possible to provide service to the community while emphasizing the safety of our employees and customers as our first priority," USPS spokesperson Rod Spurgeon told Newsweek in a statement.

"I'm not looking forward to this summer," Douglas Ruopp, chairman of Humane Borders said. "No matter what we do, people keep dying."

"Do you really not care about cancer patients so much, sir?" a worker at an Arizona wig store told a self-professed member of the "anti-maskers club" during a recent confrontation over the store's face mask policy.

State Rep. David Cook accused GOP leadership of forcing the vote when they were aware that they lacked the votes.

"Extreme fire behavior, burning in mostly shrub and grass, has warranted evacuations from Top-of-the-World and Oaks Flats Campground. The town of Superior is still in 'Set-Be Alert' status," fire officials wrote on the InciWeb system.

The Telegraph Fire and the Mescal Fire have collectively burned around 100,000 acres and both remain mostly uncontained.

2020 was the deadliest year on record for heat-related deaths in Arizona, with 520 fatalities in the state.

"I cannot begin to explain how much I really hate this whole thing," Arizona Senate President Karen Fann wrote.

Trump hopes that recounts in states he lost more than seven months ago will prove his widely dismissed calls of election fraud.

The audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County is being conducted by a company called Cyber Ninjas.

Ten of most popular online articles about the Arizona audit have come from right-wing media outlets, many of which claim that Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election.

The Republican candidate said she would put "Arizona first" in a video posted on social media on Tuesday.

"The U.S. Army Reserve follows the Department of Defense's long standing policy regarding service member involvement in partisan political campaigns to avoid the perception of DoD sponsorship, approval, or endorsement of any partisan political candidate, campaign, or cause," a spokesman said.

More than a million people—most of them Jewish—were murdered at Auschwitz; many were killed using this gas.

The Arizona fire was reported to be 25 percent contained and forward progress had stopped as of late Thursday.

"Dwelling on the past is a dangerous proposition for the GOP's electoral future," said Charles Coughlin, CEO of HighGround in a statement Thursday. "Continued focus on this audit or the fraud narrative will only serve to undermine their electoral success in 2022."

Arizona's highest court said prosecutors have until July 21 to request a warrant to execute Atwood, who was sentenced to death for the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl.

Republican Karen Fann told CNN that she wanted people to have "100 percent confidence in our democracy."

The mayor of Superior, a town at the center of a controversial mining project in Arizona, said the news was "very disappointing."

"It's our expectation that Arizona will be the launchpad to election integrity all over the country," Gaetz said.

Brnovich "never mentions the Crime of the Century, that took place during the 2020 Presidential Election," the ex-president said.

"It is clear the Arizona Senate and its contractors do not intend to retract false allegations defaming the County and its employees," Maricopa County Chairman Jack Sellers, a Republican, said.

Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said she had "grave concerns" that Cyber Ninjas, the company hired to conduct the audit, has not sufficiently protected the equipment during its review of votes.

Though bounce houses remain a regular feature of children's events, they have a poor record when it comes to safety.