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VIDEO: From Ukraine’s Battlefield to America’s Borderlands

In Ukraine's war with Russia, drones have become essential tools for both warfare and border surveillance. Now, those tools ...
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Ukraine’s ‘battle-tested’ drones are accelerating militarization along the U.S.-Mexico border

As U.S. law enforcement agencies adopt drone systems “battle-tested” in Ukraine, experts question whether existing safeguards are sufficient to govern increasing levels of surveillance on U.S. soil.
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Author Archives: P. Nick Curran

P. Nick Curran is a filmmaker based in Morgantown, West Virginia and Director of Video for the non-profit newsroom 100 Days ...
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Arizona’s Hualapai Valley now a ‘de facto transfer basin’ for out-of-state investors and corporate farms

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. When controversial Las Vegas developer Jim Rhodes abandoned plans for a sprawling community near the ...
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Our methods: Arizona’s Hualapai Valley now a ‘de facto transfer basin’ for out-of-state interests

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Previous AZCIR reporting has revealed regulatory weaknesses in how Arizona manages its groundwater, ...
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Yes. Starting Nov. 1, the Arizona Department of Economic Security is set to suspend Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) assistance, affecting more than 900,000 Arizonans. Most of the ...
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Arizona colleges face ‘devastating impact’ after Trump slashes grant funds to minority-serving institutions

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Ten community colleges and universities in Arizona will lose at least $13 million after President Donald ...
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Amid student fear and uncertainty, Arizona colleges split on clear policies for ICE on campus

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In January 2025, Arizona State University junior Britney Vera scrolled past a social media post she thought ...
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Was a Marana prison sold to a private company that runs ICE facilities?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In July 2025, Arizona sold a former Marana prison to Management & Training Corporation (MTC). The company ...
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Tribal water settlement aims to repair generations of exclusion

Guiding a Toyota pickup along a narrow dirt road south of Second Mesa, rancher Robinson Honani gestures toward a patchwork of farm plots tucked into the dusty terrain of the Hopi Reservation, perched ...
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Does Phoenix have three times as many mosques as Detroit?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. The most recent U.S. Mosque Survey, conducted in 2020, found that the greater Detroit area had the ...
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Director of Arizona Medicaid agency resigns following fraud scheme response

Carmen Heredia resigned this week as director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System ahead of a state Senate confirmation hearing. Republican lawmakers had criticized her response to a ...