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Why Easter is called Easter & other little-known facts about the holiday tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Easter is quite similar to other major holidays like Christmas and Halloween, which have evolved over the last 200 years or so. In all of these holidays, Christian and non-Christian (pagan) elements have continued to blend together.

Hobbs vows to veto all bills until disability funding crisis resolved tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Democratic governor has promised to veto every piece of legislation that Republicans send to her until the legislature passes a “reasonable, negotiated” funding bill to prevent the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities from going broke next month.

Az militia founder wrongly identified as ICE agent in viral window-smashing video tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Social media posts falsely claimed a man with connections to Arizona and far-right militias — Michael "Lewis Arthur" Meyer — was the ICE agent who smashed a car's window with an axe to apprehend a Guatemalan immigrant. But that man has not been hired by ICE and is currently in Oklahoma spreading conspiracy theories there.

'Constitutional crisis': Phx lawmaker to visit man wrongfully deported to El Salvador tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Phoenix, announced Wednesday that she is planning to travel to an El Salvador megaprison to attempt to visit a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to that country.

4th Circuit OKs inquiry into Trump’s efforts to return wrongfully deported Maryland man tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In a sharp rebuke on Thursday, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s request to further delay an inquiry into the wrongful deportation of a Maryland father.

Kozachik: Next Ward 6 councilmember must do homework, be principled tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The neighbors and businesses in Ward 6 deserve to know where someone committed to the full upcoming term stands on the issues that matter to residents of Midtown. — former Tucson City Councilmember Steve Kozachik

In a ‘complete disregard for science,’ RFK Jr. declares autism ‘preventable’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the department will shift its research into autism toward potential environmental causes, though he declined to say the response if certain industries or pollutants were found responsible.

Tucson City Council candidates reveal latest fundraising totals tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
With less than three months before the Aug. 5 primary, the financial strengths of this year's Tucson City Council candidates are coming into focus with this week's filing of fundraising reports.

Constitutional crisis': Phx lawmaker to visit man wrongfully deported to El Salvador tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Phoenix, announced Wednesday that she is planning to travel to an El Salvador megaprison to attempt to visit a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to that country.

Richards & Jones each knock 3-run homers as Pima baseball bounces back over GateWay tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (40-11, 24-11 in ACCAC) secured their third straight 40-win season on Wednesday as it bounced back with a win against GateWay Community College (12-31, 7-27) at the West Campus Aztec Field.

Arizona GOP bill would allow sheriff’s deputies to arrest people who ignore legislative subpoenas tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republicans in the Arizona Legislature want to use county sheriff’s departments to force people to comply with their subpoenas, and for anyone who speaks in front of a legislative committee to do so at risk of perjury.

Judge: Probable cause to hold Trump admin in contempt over deportation flights tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge in Washington found probable cause Wednesday the Trump administration is in contempt of court for defying his order to stop flights of Venezuelan immigrants headed to a prison in El Salvador.

Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages & how that changed tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As Christians observe Good Friday they will remember, with devotion and prayer, the death of Jesus on the Cross - but in the Middle Ages, Good Friday was a dangerous time for Jews.

Senator blocked from meeting wrongly deported man in notorious CECOT prison ‘won’t stop trying’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Sen Chris Van Hollen said Wednesday he was denied a meeting with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador-born Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in his home country notorious for human rights abuses.

Trucks with uranium cross Navajo Nation, reviving long-standing fears tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Although the Navajo Nation has reached an agreement with Energy Fuels Inc. on uranium transportation through tribal land, many tribal members remain concerned it won’t protect them from the harms of uranium contamination.

Arizona AG Kris Mayes joins lawsuit against John Deere amid fight for farmers’ right to repair tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, the Federal Trade Commission and other state attorneys general say John Deere’s repair methods are hurting local farmers and ranchers by making it impossible for owners to go anywhere but its dealers for repairs.

Border businesses cry foul over dragnet-like money transfer rules tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A lawsuit claims a new rule mandating money service businesses report all transactions over $200 will not only burden them with mountains of unnecessary paperwork but also force them to surveil their customers without the government providing any probable cause.

Congress has demanded Answers to ICE detaining Americans. The admin has responded with silence tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
At least a dozen members of Congress, all Democrats, have written to the Trump administration with pointed questions about constituents and other citizens whom immigration agents have questioned, detained and even held at gunpoint. None has received an answer.

As demand for AI rises, so do power-thirsty data centers tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As the U.S. works to be a global AI superpower, it’s become a home to hundreds of data centers - buildings that store and maintain the physical equipment needed to compute information - but the centers and physical infrastructure needed to run them use large amounts of resources.

Tucson attorney sues Trump administration over 'unlawful' student visa cancellations tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Tucson attorney filed lawsuits on behalf of two university students, accusing the Trump administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of "abruptly and unlawfully" terminating visas allowing them to remain and study in the U.S.

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