White-powder letter sent to Arizona Secretary of State amid national threat wave

States Newsroom · October 16, 2026

The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office was evacuated Thursday after a worker opened a letter containing an unknown white powder, one of dozens of election offices across the country targeted with similar letters that the FBI and U.S. Postal Service are actively investigating. “Yesterday’s attack was not a harmless…

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