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Women rally for reproductive rights as they look to the 2024 elections tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Hundreds of Arizonans gathered on Saturday across the street from the state Capitol to commemorate the fall of Roe v. Wade, and call for the election of pro-choice candidates.

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Proposed Az bill would outlaw forcing pregnant inmates to give birth before due dates tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A fundamental respect for the dignity of all people is the driving force behind Arizona legislation ensuring that pregnant prisoners are not forced to induce labor before their due dates, and that strip searches are only performed by correctional officers of the same gender as the prisoners.

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Women & minorities bear the brunt of medical misdiagnosis tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Nearly 1 in 4 hospital patients who died or were transferred to intensive care had experienced a diagnostic error, and women and racial and ethnic minorities are 20% to 30% more likely than white men to experience a misdiagnosis.

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Immigration courts clearing cases at 50% higher rate amid backlog tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Immigration judges completed double the amount of cases during the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period a year ago, with almost 200,000 cases completed between October and December 2023, compared to 132,000 cases completed during the same time the year prior.

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Roe is gone, but Arizonans still join abortion opponents marching in D.C. tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Thousands turned out for the 51st annual anti-abortion rally held to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade - and though Roe was overturned in 2022 and the fight has moved to states - including Arizona - abortion opponents still march with the ultimate goal to “make abortion unthinkable.”

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Biden says he’s ‘ready to act’ on ‘significant’ changes at the border, including asylum tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Joe Biden said he backs “significant policy changes” to asylum law, amid ongoing immigration policy negotiations between the White House and Senate tied to passage of a global security package.

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Ron DeSantis drops out of 2024 presidential race tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Florida governor Ron DeSantis ended his bid for the Republican nomination on Sunday after disappointing results in the Iowa caucuses and dwindling poll numbers, throwing his support behind former President Donald Trump.

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Rylei Waugh nets 23 but No. 16 Pima women's basketball falls off table vs. No. 6 Mesa tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team (12-6, 7-4 in ACCAC) played another tight game at Mesa Community College (13-4, 8-3) on Saturday in a battle between two NJCAA Division II nationally ranked programs.

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Oldham & Sika's double-doubles help Pima men stop skid at Mesa tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s basketball team (15-3, 7-3 in ACCAC) got back in the win column on Saturday at Mesa Community College (4-13, 2-9).

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Valenzuela breaks one-mile school record as Pima men's track sets 10 nat'l qualifying marks to open 2024 season tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s track & field team opened the 2024 season with a lot of noise on Saturday as it hosted the Jim Mielke Memorial Invitational at the West Campus Aztec Track.

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PCC's Moseley & Thompson each set 2 nat'l qualifying marks, Bethea breaks 400m school record to open 2024 season tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s track & field team opened the 2024 season on Saturday and set a total of seven NJCAA National Qualifying marks at the Jim Mielke Memorial Invitational held at the West Campus Aztec Track.

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Biden signs short-term funding extension to avoid government shutdown tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Biden signed a short-term budget to fund the federal government through early March, the third time since September 2023 that Congress has kicked a long-term spending plan down the road as Republicans block measures that don’t address the U.S.-Mexico border.

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America’s health system isn’t ready for the surge of seniors with disabilities tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The number of older adults with disabilities will soar in the decades ahead, as baby boomers enter their 70s, 80s, and 90s, but the American health care system isn’t ready to address their needs.

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Native nations with scarce internet are building their own broadband networks tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Native nations historically have lagged in access to high-speed internet, because of the cost and incomplete broadband coverage data, among other barriers, so some nations are taking the matter into their own hands by building their own high-speed internet networks.

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Former Pima County Supervisor Ed Moore dead at 88 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Ed Moore, who served on the Pima County Board of Supervisors during a tumultuous period between 1984 and 1996, died Wednesday at age 88.

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Ciscomani, Grijalva & others in Congress want to name Az post office for Sandra Day O'Connor tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-Dist. 6) wants to name the post office in Duncan, Ariz., after O’Connor, who became the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court after she was appointed by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

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Arizona man charged with smuggling weapons, ammo & gun parts into Mexico tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A 25-year-old man was arrested after Douglas-area border officers stopped him as he drove into Mexico with nearly 26,000 rounds of ammunition, three rifles, as well as dozens of parts to modify or build dozens of additional weapons.

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Wife of Az polygamist church leader pleads guilty to tampering with investigation tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The first of more than 20 wives of a former polygamist church leader accused of sexually abusing underage girls pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to obstruct an FBI investigation into the leader and his followers.

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Amid GOP attacks on LGBTQ Arizonans, Democrats continue to push for a nondiscrimination law tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
For the ninth year in a row, Democratic lawmakers are trying to make discrimination against gay and transgender Arizonans illegal, but they face an uphill battle in a Republican-controlled legislature that continues to propose anti-LGBTQ measures.

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Hispanic & progressive Democrats protest proposals to limit asylum for immigrants tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Lawmakers from the Congressional Hispanic and Progressive caucuses appealed to U.S. Senate negotiators Thursday to abandon a plan to curb U.S. asylum laws and diminish the president’s ability to grant special protections for immigrants escaping war and natural disasters.

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