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Gabbard nomination for intel chief headed to Senate floor tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Former Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard got a step further in her bid to serve as the next director of national intelligence after a U.S. Senate panel propelled her nomination to the Senate floor.

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FBI agents sue DOJ to block internal Jan. 6 probe, warn of mass terminations & threats tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A group of nine anonymous FBI agents asked a federal judge to block the Justice Department’s internal probe of employees who worked on massive investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents.

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Hobbs appoints Wade as Pima County Superior Court judge tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
University of Arizona graduate Nathan Wade will serve as a Pima County Superior Court judge, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced Tuesday.

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Hundreds protest Trump immigration policies at Arizona Capitol tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Critics of the White House’s hostile immigration policies took over the Arizona Capitol as part of a national day of protest, the latest in a series of public demonstrations that have erupted across the Valley to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.

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RFK Jr. nomination as health secretary approved by key U.S. Senate panel tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved one step closer to becoming Health and Human Services secretary after a Senate committee favorably reported his nomination to the floor, despite decades of spreading false information about vaccine safety.

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Conover: ICE should 'come with a warrant' if they raid Pima County facilities tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County officials should protect employees from "unauthorized interference" and "fraudulent actors" as the Trump administration makes a show of force with immigration arrests, County Attorney Laura Conover advised in a newly released legal memo.

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Unions sue Treasury over granting Musk, ‘DOGE’ agents access to sensitive financial data tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Several unions representing federal employees sued the Treasury Department for granting Elon Musk and non-government agents of his Department of Government Efficiency access to a sensitive system containing personal and financial information of millions of Americans.

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Members of Congress refused entry to USAID agency shuttered by Trump administration tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democratic members of Congress were denied entry to the U.S. Agency for International Development, after billionaire Elon Musk, empowered by President Donald Trump, worked to close the nation’s humanitarian arm.

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Trump’s tariff threats fit a growing global phenomenon: Hardball migration diplomacy tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
“Migration diplomacy” – the use of diplomatic tools and threats to control the number and flow of migrants – isn’t new, and while it can be cooperative, there’s always the possibility a disagreement will spiral into diplomatic spats or outright conflict.

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Trump idles National Labor Relations Board with two firings tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump ousted National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented move that paralyzes the board, and also fired NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, teeing up a constitutional challenge that could further weaken worker protections.

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Grazing project could burden endangered wolves, conservationists tell 9th Circuit tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Conservationists asked the 9th Circuit to order the U.S. Forest Service to reconsider the potential impacts of a large-scale grazing project on the continued recovery and survival of the Mexican gray wolf.

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Kris Mayes warns Az federal workers to pass on Trump’s ‘unenforceable’ mass buyout offer tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A dozen attorneys general, including Arizona’s Kris Mayes, are warning federal employees across the country to be wary of the White House’s so-called buyout offer.

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ACLU & immigration legal aid groups sue Trump administration over asylum ban tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The American Civil Liberties Union, along with immigration legal aid groups, filed the first major lawsuit against the Trump administration’s proclamation of an “invasion” at the southern border to justify expelling migrants and preventing them from claiming asylum.

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2nd federal judge issues temporary order blocking Trump's spending freeze tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the Trump administration from implementing a spending freeze on grant and loan programs that was outlined in a memo released last week, but has since been rescinded.

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Barajas launches Tucson City Council campaign with powerhouse endorsements tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Democrat Selina Barajas rolled out a formal launch of her Council campaign on Monday, naming supporters that include U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, Mayor Regina Romero, Ward 1 Councilmember Lane Santa Cruz, Supervisors Adelita Grijalva, Jennifer Allen and Matt Heinz, and South Tucson Mayor Roxanna Valenzuela.

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Hotel Congress to host benefit show for LA fire relief, tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Howe Gelb and Friends, Beth Goodfellow, Orchadia, Jason Lytle, Gabby Pietrangelo and more local talent will play on the Hotel Congress Plaza stage for the benefit of Los Angeles musicians who were affected by the wildfires that began last month. "Tucson Loves LA" will take place Friday night.

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Town halls set for Tucson’s March Prop. 414 election to raise sales tax tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The city of Tucson has scheduled three town halls for citizens to learn more about Prop. 414, which would raise the city’s sales tax by a half-cent per dollar for 10 years to boost funding for the police and fire departments and offer programs to reduce homelessness, help with childcare and otherwise assist low-income Tucsonans.

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Trump delays tariffs on Mexico for one month tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Presidents Donald Trump and Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico will delay tariffs on each other’s countries for one month in exchange for added military personnel on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Marana teacher on leave after explaining how intersex people don’t fit into Trump’s executive order tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Marana High School teacher is on leave after followers of right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe called for his firing for defying an executive order from President Donald Trump and sharing information about androgen insensitivity syndrome with his students.

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The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar: poet who gave dignity to the Black experience tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In a short yet prolific life, Paul Laurence Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century.

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