Arizona

TL/DR - Phoenix police are investigating a shooting that resulted from an argument, leaving one man, 39-year-old Prince Lackey, dead and another man, 29-year-old Pedro Vazquez, in custody. Security video footage verified accounts of Vazquez arguing with Lackey and pulling a weapon from his waistband; Lackey was subsequently shot and Vazquez was…

TL/DR - The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the state should follow an extremely restrictive abortion law dating back to the 1860s, which outlaws abortions except in cases where the pregnant person's life is at risk. The law, which makes no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, carries a prison sentence of two to five years for those who…

TL/DR - Amina Tollin, a patient with a chronic nerve condition, polyneuropathy, had her life-saving blood infusion therapy stopped by Medicaid after it stopped covering the $18,000 monthly costs. This was due to an increasingly common process among insurers known as prior authorization, which requires doctors to get approval before insurers pay…

TL/DR - The Mallinckrodt factory in St. Louis, which processed uranium for the Manhattan Project in 1942, has left a troubling legacy; decades later, cancer, autoimmune diseases, and other illnesses are common among local families. Communities exposed to the nuclear waste from the arms race have largely been excluded from a federal law intended…