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Forum set for applicants vying for vacant Pima Board of Supervisors seat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming political events: Sentinel reporters on the air, deadlines approaching for City Council, special congressional election; Rockafellow plans launch party in Ward 6 Council race

Forum set for applicants viying for vacant Pima Board of Supervisors seat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming political events: Sentinel reporters on the air, deadlines approaching for City Council, special congressional election; Rockafellow plans launch party in Ward 6 Council race

No debate, no vote, no explanation: The tactics killing Arizona LGBTQ+ rights bills tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona is home to more than a quarter-million LGBTQ+ people, yet for multiple legislative sessions, bills aimed at securing equal protections under state law have been blocked before ever reaching public debate.

Vexed by judicial restraints on Trump, U.S. Senate GOP floats bill to undercut courts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Amid dozens of injunctions placed against the Trump administration, Republicans on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary discussed a bill to curb the nationwide effects of those orders from federal judges.

Health care affordability crisis hits record highs, especially among minorities & low-income tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
More than one-third of Americans find themselves unable to afford health care when they need it, a burden that falls particularly heavily on communities of color.

Judge orders feds to restore legal funding for migrant children tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration night to temporarily restore legal funding to thousands of undocumented children who are in the United States without a parent or other legal guardian.

Judge reinstates thousands of federal workers fired in Trump-Musk cuts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge in Maryland ordered federal agencies across 19 states and the District of Columbia to reinstate thousands of probationary workers who were fired as part of White House adviser Elon Musk’s government-slashing agenda.

Tucson to build protected bike lane on 6th Avenue tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The city of Tucson is set to construct a protected bike lane on 6th Avenue from Speedway to 7th Street, and is seeking public input on the proposed design.

A partial accounting: What we know about President Trump’s finances tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
We have an idea of President Donald Trump’s net worth, because he has to file a disclosure form with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, and in the coming weeks, we will get a full accounting of which corporations, special interests and individuals funded Trump’s second inauguration.

Judge blocks FTC from personal info of thousands of Grand Canyon University students tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal judge sided with a Christian university in Phoenix in the discovery dispute stemming from the FTC's 2023 lawsuit, calling a discovery request from the Federal Trade Commission to provide personally identifying information of more than 10,000 students overly burdensome.

Pima Supes set process to replace Grijalva in District 5 seat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to set up the process of appointing a new District 5 representative to replace Democrat Adelita Grijalva, who resigned this week to pursue her late father’s congressional seat.

Fimbres endorses Jesse Lugo in Ward 5 race; Barajas turns in petitions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson Councilman Richard Fimbres says local businessman Jesse Lugo is his pick to replace him in Ward 5, while Democrat Selina Barajas turned in her nominating petitions and is seeking city campaign matching funds.

Net cost to U.S. taxpayers of immigrants without legal status cuts both ways tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The millions of people living in the U.S. without documents put stress on emergency rooms and public schools, and some commit crimes - but this population also buys homes, runs businesses and provides essential labor for construction and agriculture.

Trump announces worldwide tariffs as fears of global recession & trade war grow tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Dubbing Wednesday “Liberation Day,” U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a raft of import taxes that could trigger a global recession and a catastrophic trade war among the world's biggest economies.

Immigrant rights group seeks to nullify Az ‘Secure Border Act’ over missing funding tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An immigrant rights group is asking the courts to overturn the Secure Border Act, the ballot measure Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved last year that made it a state crime for migrants to illegally cross the Arizona-Mexico border, because it violates a provision in the state constitution.

As Tucson temps go up, rattlesnakes come out: What you need to know to be safe tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
With springtime well sprung in Arizona, the weather is warming and more people are heading outside to enjoy nature before the summer heat hits. Alongside people basking in the sun are some of our native fauna, including reptiles, who thrive when it's warmer. More specifically, rattlesnakes.

House calls off votes amid GOP spat over proxy voting for lawmaker parents tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A growing feud between House Republicans over a proposed rules change that would allow new parents in Congress to temporarily vote from afar ground the chamber to a screeching halt, as lawmakers failed to pass a procedural measure setting this week’s voting schedule.

Pima Supes set process to replace Grijalva in District 5 seat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to set up the process of appointing a new District 5 representative to replace Democrat Adelita Grijalva, who resigned this week to pursue her late father’s congressional seat.

‘These are not normal times,’ Sen. Cory Booker says in record-breaking Senate speech tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for longest floor speech in the history of the Senate on Tuesday, surpassing the 24-hour and 18-minute record set in 1957 when South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond attempted to prevent passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Massive cuts to Health & Human Services’ workforce signal a dramatic shift in U.S. health policy tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Proposed changes Department of Health and Human Services Secretary proposed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. dramatically alter U.S. health policy and research, and they may endanger important benefits and protections for many Americans.

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