While the president is overseas this week, Arizona’s congressional contingent is reacting to the latest news from Washington, D.C., surrounding investigations of the Trump administration’s ties to Russia.

The Maricopa County Stadium District has unanimously approved a roughly $10.3 million tentative budget for the next fiscal year, and officials will vote on an official budget in June.

Arizona Theatre Company, the state’s high-profile professional troupe, has produced much-acclaimed work for decades. Now a nationwide search has yielded David Ira Goldstein’s successor. David Ivers comes from Utah, where he’s been serving as artistic director of the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

Researchers at University of Arizona recently looked at why children growing up on the Mexican side of the border in southern Arizona, and children growing up just a few miles away on the U.S. side may have different chances of becoming asthmatic.

Americans have a growing number of media choices, and that has splintered where we get our news. We spoke with Noah Rothman, associate editor for Commentary magazine, about whether the actual news is the same regardless of what network you pay attention to — and the opinions are where the differences come in.

Mexico is considered the most dangerous country in the world for journalists. We checked in with the Editorial Board at The Arizona Republic to talk more about the issue and what the U.S. could be doing to help. We spoke with Phil Boas, director of the Republic’s Editorial Department.

Climate scientist Ben Horton came from England to work in the United States because of the strength of the science here. Now, he's leaving.

President Trump is on his first foreign trip as president. That’s just one of the big international stories playing out this week. With me to walk through some of the biggest is the BBC’s Rob Hugh-Jones.

It’s been said that no single organism has affected the Earth’s atmosphere more than Thomas Midgley Jr., who invented the first of the CFC refrigerants known by the trade name Freon. These stable, nontoxic refrigerants changed the world, transforming food storage, expanding Sun Belt populations, even helping early movie theaters succeed. But they also wrecked the ozone layer — Earth’s shield against harmful ultraviolet radiation.