Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat with presidential aspirations and a large war chest, has introduced legislation that would significantly alter the Military Commissions Act passed last fall by defining narrowly what it means to be an “enemy combatant” and would restore habeas corpus rights to all detainees in U.S. custody. The proposal is a step in the right direction, after a federal appeals court upheld the sweeping law Tuesday.

Luis Gonzalez remembers the day his mother said goodbye. With a blessing and the sign of the cross, she left him and his two sisters in Tijuana and set off with a human smuggler across the mountains and into San Diego for what she hoped would be a better life.

Luis Gonzalez remembers the day his mother said goodbye. With a blessing and the sign of the cross, she left him and his two sisters in Tijuana and set off with a human smuggler across the mountains and into San Diego for what she hoped would be a better life.

DENVER - A month of intense trade talk by the Diamondbacks anti-climaxed Saturday with one deal — and it did not involve Randy Johnson.

A colleague of mine quipped the other day that the only religion he believes in is his own. “Sure,” I countered. “You piously believe in your own opinion.”

A state senator’s frustration with who finances ballot fights could lead to disenfranchising some of the state’s major corporations. And it may be unconstitutional to boot.

January 9, 2005

President Bush has agreed to appoint experts to figure out how U.S. intelligence agencies got it wrong in saying Iraq was full of weapons of mass destruction. Fine and good. Maybe our spying will be improved, though sometimes investigations make things worse.

Washington -- Arizona is one of 13 states to turn “hostile” toward abortion rights during the last decade, according to a report Thursday from a national reproductive health organization.

Downtown S cottsdale’s greatest challenge may be to develop a unified vision for diverse interests in a city that is known for having its share of squabbles.

Downtown Scottsdale’s greatest challenge may be to develop a unified vision for diverse interests in a city that is known for having its share of squabbles.

WASHINGTON – A bill to legalize Internet gambling might take little, if any, of the nearly $2 billion Arizona’s tribal casinos gross annually, experts say – but that does not mean that tribes don’t have concerns.

Two years ago, Julia Zimmerman went to the emergency room at Banner Desert Medical Center because her blood pressure was out of control.

When our nation’s founders wrote the language in the First Amendment guaranteeing the right to “petition the government for a redress of grievances,” there were no words describing the form of that petition.

We have all seen those strings of legal words in commercials set in type too small to read, even if you push the pause button and affix your eyeball directly to the TV screen.

LOS ANGELES - Thousands of people marched through downtown on Saturday, demanding a way for the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens and condemning President Bush's latest proposal.

NEW YORK - A global women's rights treaty completed 30 years ago has a better-than-ever chance for U.S. Senate ratification this year, yet the hunt for the needed 67 favorable votes is likely to incur the wrath of activists on both the left and right.

Let's get this out of the way first: Larry Bird is not a racist.

WASHINGTON - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.

Prepared text of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's State of the State speech: