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Hate groups’ political influence growing, watchdog says tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
More than 1,200 hate and anti-government extremist groups were active across the U.S. in 2022, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center report on the prevalence of extremists who target people of color, LGBTQ people, Jewish communities and other religious minorities.

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As northern Arizona county makes ballot hand-count plan, Secretary of State steps in tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes sent a letter stating he is concerned that moving forward would would put the county’s election officials in “serious legal jeopardy,” after Mohave County supervisors voted to request a plan to hand-count ballots in the 2024 presidential election.

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Lake to appeal Az election outcome again, she isn’t sanctioned but Finchem is tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Kari Lake filed her intent to appeal the outcome of her bid to overturn the results of Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial election, while failed Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem and his lawyer were ordered to pay more than $48,000 for bringing a case the judge called “groundless.”

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Tucson's final city budget will spend big on climate tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Tucson City Manager Mike Ortega makes it plain that the city's budget does not short-change climate relief. All told it reaches up to $80.5 million. Plus, more in local government meetings this week.

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Record 106 vetos: Gov. Hobbs says 'no' to GOP bills criminalizing homelessness, ranked-choice voting tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Hobbs has racked up more than 100 vetoes, rejecting Republican-backed bills that criminalized homelessness, banned ranked-choice voting, and a bill that created penalties for filming sexually explicit acts on school property - but also threatened educators with prison.

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Federal trial in 'forever chemicals' case delayed as 3M nears PFAS settlement tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The bellwether trial over PFAS contamination of public water systems was expected to offer legal observers their first glimpse into a sprawling case that could rival the asbestos crisis in its impact, but the case is on hold as attorneys told the court they were nearing a settlement.

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Dollar stores, giant grocery chains push healthy food out of reach for many tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Huge grocery chains and ubiquitous dollar stores are limiting some rural and urban communities’ access to healthy food at the same time they bankrupt the farmers who produce it.

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Tucson puts CART captions forward in City Council meetings tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Hearing-impaired residents will now have better access to the Tucson City Council, as a new on-screen captioning system will provide more accurate real-time transcriptions of what elected leaders and others say during meetings.

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Arizona claims immunity in negligence case over foster home sex abuse tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona claimed qualified immunity as a child sex abuse victim argued for partial summary judgment in a negligence suit against the state over its placement of foster children in the care of former civilian army leader David Frodsham and leaving him there despite numerous complaints.

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True the Vote leadership accused of using donations for personal gain tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Conservative activists Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips used the conspiracy-peddling nonprofit True the Vote to enrich themselves, with the group making loans to founder Engelbrecht and issuing contracts to director Phillips that may have violated state and federal law.

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Eating disorders marked by diagnosis, treatment gap for men, women of color tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Eating disorders are on the rise in the U.S.,and while attention still centers on women, who are most likely to suffer from eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia, research, diagnosis and treatment lags for men, LGBTQ individuals and Latina and Black women.

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Feds defend Mexican wolf recovery plan before 9th Circuit panel tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A 9th Circuit panel heard arguments over whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must once again rewrite its recovery plan for the endangered Mexican wolf, as conservationists argued the new plan didn’t include site-specific management data and is too similar to the old one.

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Tucson puts CART captions forward in City Council meetings tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Hearing-impaired residents will now have better access to the Tucson City Council, as a new on-screen captioning system will provide more accurate real-time transcriptions of what elected leaders and others say during meetings.

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Federal trial in 'forever chemicals' case delayed as 3M nears settlement tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The bellwether trial over PFAS contamination of public water systems was expected to offer legal observers their first glimpse into a sprawling case that could rival the asbestos crisis in its impact, but the case is on hold as attorneys told the court they were nearing a settlement.

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Despite GOP senator's claims, no 'practice of filming porn' in Az schools tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican Arizona Sen. Jake Hoffman is urging the Arizona governor to sign a bill that would end the “practice of filming pornography in K-12 schools,” something that is currently not allowed or encouraged at public schools in the state.

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Az GOP senator proudly flies flag adopted by 'fringe' far-right extremists tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Republican state Sen. Janae Shamp proudly displays a flag tied to Christian nationalism and other extremist movements on her desk at the Arizona Senate, and says she embraced the symbol for its historical meaning and doesn’t care that “fringe groups” have adopted it.

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Why top abortion rights groups could sit out Arizona’s key 2024 Senate race tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Abortion is set to be a major issue in 2024’s most competitive Senate races, but abortion rights groups could stay on the sidelines in Arizona after a party switch by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, whose seat is up next year.

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Arizona advocates push back against 'feral' classification of historic horses tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Roughly 500 horses inhabit an area along the Black River through Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona, and while some say the herd descends from Spanish colonial horses, others say the herd is more recent and doesn’t belong on the land it now grazes.

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No rules for Maricopa as it replaces faulty ballot printers, spends $8 million tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
After relying on retail-grade printers to print hundreds of thousands of ballots on the spot and then experiencing a countywide Election Day breakdown, Maricopa County is planning on spending millions to buy much larger, high-performance printers for each of its 2024 polling places.

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AI is used widely, but lawmakers have set few rules tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Artificial intelligence tools - defined broadly as technologies that can perform complex analysis and problem-solving tasks - frequently determine many aspects of Americans' lives, but federal legislation on the technology has stalled, creating a patchwork of state and municipal laws.

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