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Republicans are eyeing cuts to Medicaid. What’s Medicaid, again? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Although President Donald Trump promised to “love and cherish” Medicaid, Republicans in Congress announced federal budget proposals that could dramatically curtail the program. As that debate begins, here is what you need to know about Medicaid.

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FactCheck: Trump distorts facts in attack on the courts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Trump claims judges who have temporarily blocked his admin from broadly cutting or freezing spending “want to try and stop us from looking for corruption” and “hold us back from finding all of this fraud.” But the court orders don’t stop investigations into corruption or fraud.

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Trump administration halts legal aid for migrant children tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration issued a stop work order to all lawyers and legal aid organizations funded through the Unaccompanied Children Program, which helps migrant children receive legal services and representation in court.

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Arizona ICE Act draws protests as lawmakers debate role of local police in immigration enforcement tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Immigration, Cooperation and Enforcement Act, SB1164 has furthered divisions between advocates for stricter border security and community groups rallying for immigrant protections.

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9th Circuit rejects Trump administration’s attempt to enforce birthright citizenship order tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined the Justice Department's request to lift a lower court's ruling that blocked President Donald Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship as part of his administration’s larger efforts surrounding immigration.

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IRS agent found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal agent accused of shooting and killing a colleague at a federal gun range in north Phoenix is not guilty of involuntary manslaughter of a federal officer.

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Small-town mayors set to speak at forum hosted by disgraced former Az GOP lawmaker tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The mayors of more than 10 small Arizona cities and towns are scheduled to speak at a forum hosted by a disgraced former state lawmaker who has faced child sex charges and espoused racist views, and whose local news website publishes articles by a known white supremacist.

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Trump wants to make IVF more affordable. It’s unclear how that would happen. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump issued an executive order he said would lower the cost of in vitro fertilization and protect access to it. But the order doesn’t clarify how it would lower costs, let alone eliminate them, particularly as his administration is trying to slash budgets.

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Writer/historian Noonan mines Irish-American history of the West during Arizona Author Series tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Alan J. M. Noonan and his book "Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849 to 1920" will be featured during the second talk of the 2025 Arizona Author Series on Thursday.

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African rhythms, ideas of sin & the Hammond organ: A brief history of gospel music’s evolution tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – helped forge a common musical consciousness, and the melding of African rhythmic ideas with Western musical ideas laid the foundation for a genre of African-American music, in particular spirituals and, later, gospel songs.

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Trump’s Justice Department signals a retreat from voting rights cases tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The government’s approach to voting rights is changing fast under the new administration, and a complex, closely watched redistricting case out of Louisiana shows just how fast.

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Trump’s firing spree rises to SCOTUS as watchdog gov't attorney challenges termination tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As the first challenge to President Donald Trump’s firing spree rises to the Supreme Court, a government watchdog employee who was fired this month will ask the justices to affirm his win in the lower courts and find that the administration was wrong to seek his ouster.

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Judge rejects blue state AGs’ request to block Musk, DOGE access to federal agencies tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by 14 state attorneys general to bar billionaire Elon Musk and agents of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive federal data or firing agency staff who resist such access.

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Havasupai Tribe blasts Energy Fuels, Navajo Nation for cutting it out of uranium haul talks tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Uranium haul trucks are once again leaving the Pinyon Plain Mine, and the Havasupai Tribe describes the actions of the state and the Navajo Nation permitting this hauling by Energy Fuels, Inc. as a disregard for “the health risks and dangerous implications of uranium mining.”

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Arizona GOP lawmakers advance firing squad execution proposal tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Republican proposal that would amend the Arizona Constitution to execute prisoners by firing squad instead of lethal injection passed its first hurdle , and if the measure ultimately passes both chambers of the legislature, it would go before voters in 2026.

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Ciscomani praises DOGE work while protestors warn that U.S. is sliding into fascism tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani said he supported the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce federal spending through Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative.

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Az AG backs bill to let cops shoot down cartel drones, despite a federal ban on doing so tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Amid an increase in drug cartel drones flying over the states’ southern border, Arizona GOP lawmakers and the Democratic attorney general say that local police should be able to shoot them out of the sky without fear they’ll be sued.

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Hobbs vetoes Az Republican plan to end Election Day ballot drop-offs tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican proposal to speed up election results by adopting policies used in Florida that would have eliminated the way hundreds of thousands of Arizonans cast their ballot each year, her first veto of the 2025 legislative session.

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U.S. Attorney for Arizona Gary Restaino terminated by Trump White House tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Attorney for Arizona Gary Restaino, a former attorney with the Justice Department's public integrity division, was terminated by the Trump administration on Monday.

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U.S. Education Department threatens yanking funds for schools that use race in decisions tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. Department of Education is threatening to rescind federal funds for schools that use race-conscious practices in admissions, programming, training, hiring, scholarships and other aspects of student life, according to a "Dear Colleague" letter sent to schools.

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