Media
Latest News
The new round of endorsements includes 23 incumbent House members, including six freshman members of Congress, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and two Senate challengers.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Two groups of Arizona doctors have signed on to open letters calling on Gov. Doug Ducey to require people to wear masks in public.
The pandemic is flaring in many parts of the South and West, while waning in much of the Northeast and Midwest.
Cases have increased in at least 21 states over the past two weeks, according to a June 15 analysis by The New York Times. Another 20 states and Washington, D.C., are seeing cases fall, while nine states are seeing the number of new cases stay the same.
Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) said on Twitter Sunday the escalating coronavirus crises in the Grand Canyon state is the "direct result of poor decision making and failed leadership."
Arizona has emerged as a new national hot spot for the coronavirus, recording more than 4,400 new cases from Friday through Sunday.
Cases of the novel coronavirus in Alabama climbed to at least 25,615, including 773 deaths, as of Monday, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University.
The state's latest daily case count was 1,014, the Alabama Department of Public Health reported Sunday, with over 1,000 new infections seen in 24 hours for the first time since the outbreak began.
Around 4,400 novel coronavirus cases in Arizona were reported in the last three days, bringing its latest confirmed cases to 35,706, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
Congressman Greg Stanton stated Sunday in a post on his official Twitter account: "Arizona is the new national hotspot for COVID-19 with more than 4,400 new cases in just the last 72 hours. Per capita, Arizona's infection rate is now more than three times higher than New York state. It's spreading like wildfire."
PHOENIX-Arizona's rapidly rising COVID-19 infection and death rates have done more than make the state's response a national embarrassment. The troubling trend puts more Arizonans in harm's way and local economies at greater long-term risk.
"The level of crisis we have in Arizona is unnecessary and a direct result of poor decision-making and failed leadership," Rep. Greg Stanton said today. "State officials can make us safer by taking urgent steps to save lives-but they have to act quickly. Time is running out."
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Rep. Greg Stanton provided remarks today during the House Judiciary Committee's oversight hearing on policing practices and law enforcement accountability. His statement as prepared for delivery is below:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for moving quickly to hold this necessary hearing during a time of significant pain for our nation. And I want to recognize and thank Congresswoman Bass for her leadership to heal that pain. The "Justice in Policing Act" is an essential first step.
WASHINGTON – The brother of George Floyd, whose death at the hands of Minneapolis police sparked nationwide protests, told a somber House committee Wednesday that he hopes his testimony can bring changes so that Floyd's "death will not be in vain."
"People have come together to make change," said Philonise Floyd, the lead witness in a daylong hearing by the House Judiciary Committee on police practices and accountability.