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Indictment filed in NY makes Trump first US president to face criminal charges tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Donald Trump will face criminal charges after a Manhattan grand jury returned an unprecedented indictment Thursday related to the payment of hush money during his 2016 run for office - the first ever criminal indictment against a current or former U.S. president.

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Facing recall, Wadsack threatens GOP control of Arizona Legislature tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Sen. Justine Wadsack is acting like there's not a book she won't censor and a decision she won't make for parents as their state legislative overlord. Recalling her is tricky. Beating her the old-fashioned way may be easy and the path to Democratic control in the Legislature.

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U.S. judge rules insurers don’t have to cover many free preventive health services tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Health insurance companies may no longer need to cover a wide swath of preventive health care services that were required by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, under a federal judge’s ruling issued Thursday in Texas.

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'Complex' $185 million Major League Baseball deal closes minor leaguer pay saga tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Major League Baseball will pay big in a sprawling class action over whether minor leaguers qualify as year-round employees, after a federal judge repudiated the league's contention that they're seasonal workers, and separately liable for violating Arizona’s record-keeping law.

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Arizona had highest COVID-19 death rate in U.S. over 3 years tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona had the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the nation over three years, a death rate similar to that of the three nations with the highest coronavirus death rates in the world, and Latinos and Blacks were more likely to die of COVID-19 than other racial groups.

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Arizona will fail clean-air standards if other states aren’t 'good neighbors' tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona is doing all it can to improve air quality but will not meet federal standards as long as pollution from other jurisdictions can drift across its borders, the director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality testified Wednesday.

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Report places Arizona first in U.S. for rate of COVID-19 deaths tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona had the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the nation over three years, a death rate similar to that of the three nations with the highest coronavirus death rates in the world, and Latinos and Blacks were more likely to die of COVID-19 than other racial groups.

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Dueling bills aim to allow Az School for the Deaf & Blind to remain open tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Competing bills to allow the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind to remain open were both heard in the state Senate on Wednesday as parents, teachers and former students pushed for lawmakers to keep the school open.

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Postpartum Medicaid expansion is the first step to maternal health equity, experts say tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. maternal mortality rates keep growing, an anomaly compared to other economically similar countries, and nine states - including Arizona - are waiting on approval from the CDC to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage to reduce the numbers.

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State election officials at U.S. Senate hearing discuss threats to workers, call for funding tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Election officials detailed to the U.S. Senate Rules Committee how their states countered threats to election workers and worked to combat misinformation and disinformation during the 2022 midterm election.

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Bernie Sanders confronts former Starbucks CEO over union-busting allegations tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democratic senators grilled the former CEO of Starbucks over allegations that the giant coffee company intimidated, harassed and fired workers who tried to form unions after nearly 300 Starbucks stores have unionized since 202, but the company has yet to ratify a contract.

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Hobbs’ press secretary resigns after outrage over violent tweet tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A spokeswoman for Gov. Katie Hobbs has resigned after Republican backlash erupted when she tweeted an image implying violence against transphobes.

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Robbins: UA had 'systemic failures' before shooting death of Prof. Meixner tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The University of Arizona had a series of systemic failures, including "missed opportunities and mistakes" that ultimately led to the October fatal shooting of Prof. Thomas Meixner, said UA President Robert C. Robbins. The Meixner family is preparing to sue for $9 million.

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J.T. Drake earns 2 saves as Pima baseball wins 12th straight tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (30-8, 17-5 in ACCAC) picked up its 30th win of the season on Tuesday in an ACCAC doubleheader sweep against Chandler-Gilbert Community College (20-16, 10-12).

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Pima softball drops doubleheader to Eastern Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (18-15, 15-9 in ACCAC) hit a bump in the road on Tuesday in its ACCAC doubleheader against Eastern Arizona College (26-12, 23-5).

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Texas Observer will continue publishing after staff crowdfunds more than $300k tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Days after voting to cease publication and lay off its journalists, the nonprofit publisher of the Texas Observer said on Wednesday that it would change course and keep the publication going, following an emergency appeal that crowdsourced more than $300,000 to save the 68-year-old liberal publication.

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Hobbs’ press secretary resigns after outrage over violent tweet tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A spokeswoman for Gov. Katie Hobbs has resigned after Republican backlash erupted when she tweeted an image implying violence against transphobes.

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Migrant detention center fire leaves 40 dead in Juárez tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A fire at a temporary migrant detention center run by the Mexican government in the border city of Ciudad Juárez Monday night left at least 40 people dead, though authorities disagree on the cause.

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SPJ: ''No responsible journalist can accept or excuse Fox News behavior' tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Appealing to confirmation bias and manufacturing outrage with deceptive posturing for profit, popularity or power while turning away from facts is a cynical and hypocritical strategy.

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Why are prices rising more for lower-income college students than their higher-income peers? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Though lower-income students generally still pay less than higher-income ones, nearly 700 universities and colleges have, over the last decade, raised the prices paid by their lowest-income students more than the prices paid by their highest-income ones.

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