Jacques Billeaud

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  • Passengers walk in front of Mesa Gateway Airport, where Avelo Airlines started making deportation flights on behalf of the federal government on Monday, May 12, 2025, in Mesa, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)Politics

    Budget airline Avelo begins ICE deportation flights from airport near Phoenix as protestors calls for traveler boycott

    By Jacques Billeaud and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. Arizona attorney general Kris Mayes says Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state’s fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Mayes posted the news regarding the Trump-aligned lawyer on her X account late Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)Politics

    Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty to felony charges in attempt to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Arizona

    By Jacques Billeaud and The Associated Press
  • Michael LaceyPolitics

    Backpage founder claims he was helping the government catch sex predators as he faces trial over prostitution-related ads

    By Jacques Billeaud and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A construction worker continues building at a large housing development, April 21, 2020, in Phoenix. Arizona will not approve new housing construction on the fast-growing edges of metro Phoenix that rely on groundwater thanks to years of overuse and a multi-decade drought that is dwindling its water supply. In a news conference Thursday, June 1, 2023, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced the pause on new construction that would affect some of the fastest-growing areas of the nation’s 5th largest city. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)Environment

    Arizona is cutting housing construction near Phoenix because there’s no longer enough water

    By Jacques Billeaud, Suman Naishadham, and others
  • Joe ArpaioPolitics

    ‘Tom, This Is the Sheriff.’ Joe Arpaio Runs for Old Job

    By Jacques Billeaud and The Associated Press