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The Arizona recount results are in for the AZ AG race. The AG Democrat Candidate's lead shrank a bit, but the results still show her having won it.
thehill.com

Arizona attorney general recount affirms Democratic win in razor-thin race
The razor-thin Arizona attorney general race tightened even further on Thursday following an automatic recount, but the results pave the way for the Democratic candidate to be certified as the winn…

Democrat Kris Mayes led Republican Abe Hamadeh by just 280 votes out of more than 2.5 million ballots cast following the recount, a gap of 0.01 percentage points that marks one of the closest contests in the state’s history.
The state’s canvass earlier this month had shown Mayes leading by 511 votes, triggering an automatic recount under Arizona law for the attorney general contest and two other races close enough to fall within the threshold.
An Arizona judge ordered counties to keep the recount results confidential until Thursday’s hearing.
The updated standings tightened Mayes’s lead by nearly half after a discrepancy, although the judge did not specify during the hearing which county adjusted its results.