A federal appeals court Friday reaffirmed its decision that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because of the phrase ‘‘under God,’’ a decision that immediately cast a cloud over the way the pledge is recited in schools and other public arenas in Arizona.

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush administration will renew its effort to find out what people have been looking for on Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine, continuing a legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government.

On paper, the issue the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Monday is simple: should Arizona lawmakers be forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to comply with a judge’s ruling that they do more to ensure students learn English?

When Paul Clement walks into the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday he’s going to try to convince at least five justices that Arizona has an inherent right to enforce federal immigration laws.

When Paul Clement walks into the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday he’s going to try to convince at least five justices that Arizona has an inherent right to enforce federal immigration laws.

September 22, 2004

AJO – Maria Barragan has a business in Mexico and a home in Arizona. Her three children, all U.S. citizens, attend school in the Ajo Unified School District.

Gov. Jan Brewer is making a bid this week to salvage part of what's left of the law she signed in 2010 aimed at illegal immigration.

A federal appeals court refused to block timber cutting on land in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests burned in the Rodeo-Chediski wildfire last year.

PHOENIX -- Arizona will get its last legal shot this spring to finally enforce all of its 2-year-old immigration law.

Saying the federal government has "largely ignored'' pleas for help, Arizona asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to let state and local police enforce new laws aimed at illegal immigrants.

Saying the federal government has "largely ignored'' pleas for help, Arizona asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to let state and local police enforce new laws aimed at illegal immigrants.

Saying the federal government has "largely ignored'' pleas for help, Arizona asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to let state and local police enforce new laws aimed at illegal immigrants.

WASHINGTON – Illegal re-entry became the most-frequent federal criminal charge in the United States during the first six months of fiscal 2011, a pattern that was mirrored in Arizona during that period.

A custodian at Saguaro High School accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on the Scottsdale campus is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and shouldn’t have been eligible to work in the United States, an immigration official said Wednesday.

A custodian at Saguaro High School accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on the Scottsdale campus is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and shouldn’t have been eligible to work in the United States, an immigration official said Wednesday.

December 3, 2004

TUCSON - Dozens of new federal prosecutor positions are being created in states bordering Mexico to beef up prosecutions of suspected drug and human smugglers, gun runners and illegal immigrants, the Justice Department said Thursday.

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is defending new federal rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls.

WASHINGTON - The government's first criminal case under a new law outlawing some types of spam e-mails was based on low-tech investigative methods: Authorities followed the money.

A federal judge late Wednesday upheld a 4-year-old state law which requires people to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote and produce certain types of identification before they can cast a ballot.

PHILADELPHIA - Relatives of a former U.S. hostage held in Lebanon for more than five years were awarded $91 million by a U.S. judge for emotional distress in a lawsuit filed against Iran.

PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet pornography, striking down a 1998 U.S. law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access "harmful" material.