Members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors are publicly calling out County Attorney Allister Adel for not being present. The Show spoke with Adel about those concerns as well as her stint in rehab.

The top federal prosecutor in Arizona says there has been a rise in the number of threat cases both locally and nationally. Gary Restaino, the new U.S. attorney for Arizona, said when a person is accused of making threats, their political and religious beliefs don’t factor into the case.

The new director in charge of independent oversight of Phoenix police estimates it will take six to eight months until his office is fully staffed.

In neighboring Sonora, two police officers were killed in a coastal town, where violence and murders have been on the rise for several years.

A federal case has been filed against a man charged with assaulting a Border Patrol agent in a remote border stretch in Cochise County.

A national survey in Mexico reports that corruption by police and other public servants is sky high in the country.

In a letter sent to Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus this week, the heads of Congress’ Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Homeland Security say they’ll investigate the Border Patrol’s so-called Critical Incident Teams.

An Indigenous woman facing federal charges for blocking construction of former President Trump’s border wall in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was found not guilty on religious freedom grounds.
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Human rights organizations in Mexico are asking the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute what they call crimes against humanity perpetrated or ignored by the Mexican state.