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Migrant drug seizures by Border Patrol incredibly rare, data shows tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Only a minuscule fraction of migrants stopped by U.S. Border Patrol are found to be carrying drugs, according to a Project On Government Oversight analysis of Customs and Border Protection data.

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U.S. House panel passes GOP plan that cuts Medicaid by $625B, adds work requirement tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. House panel in charge of overhauling Medicaid by cutting hundreds of billions in federal spending voted to send the legislation to the Budget panel, which is expected to bundle it together with the other 10 measures to create Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill.”

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Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship – stating that children born in the U.S. to parents who are not in the country legally, or who are not permanent residents, cannot receive citizenship.

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Agency tasked with protecting immigrant children is becoming an enforcement arm tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s welfare mission appears to be undergoing a stark transformation as President Donald Trump seeks to ramp up deportation numbers.

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Millions of immigrant families would be shut out under new child tax credit proposal tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Republicans would raise the child tax credit to $2,500 per eligible child in the tax-writing committee’s latest proposal. But the bill would also exclude millions of families from accessing the credit, including the country’s poorest households and immigrant or mixed-status families.

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FactCheck: Unwrapping Qatar’s $400 million winged gift to Trump tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump said it would be “stupid” not to accept a Boeing 747-8 jet from the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar to replace the aging Air Force One aircrafts currently used by the president, but the proposed gift has raised a maelstrom of legal questions.

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Sweeping private school voucher program tucked inside GOP tax bill tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A national school voucher program got a step closer to becoming law, with a proposal in the U.S. House would allocate $5 billion a year in tax credits for people donating to organizations that provide private and religious school scholarships.

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That summer feeling: Tucson city pools open June 1, Pima's open next week. tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As triple-digit temperatures creep up next week, so does another blessed fixture of summer: swimming pool season. Tucson is set to open municipal pools on June 1, with 19 across the city, while Pima County pools will open on May 24.

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A sweeping national private school voucher program was tucked inside the GOP tax bill tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A national school voucher program got a step closer to becoming law, with a proposal in the U.S. House would allocate $5 billion a year in tax credits for people donating to organizations that provide private and religious school scholarships.

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‘Very, very big tax cut’: Republicans advance package with Trump campaign promises tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
House Republicans advanced the tax portion of the “one big, beautiful” reconciliation package, a step forward in permanently extending, and in some cases expanding, the 2017 tax law and temporarily handing President Trump a win on campaign promises like no tax on tips.

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Trump, Hobbs: Flags to half-staff Thursday in honor of National Peace Officers Memorial Day tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Flags across Arizona should be flown at half-staff Thursday in honor of National Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered, in coordination with a national proclamation by President Donald Trump.

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Trump asks Supreme Court to reverse its own order blocking Venezuelan deportations tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift its own injunction placed last month in the Northern District of Texas to allow for the deportation of a group of Venezuelan nationals under an 18th-century wartime law.

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Debates set for Southern Az special congressional election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Debates set for Congressional District 7 special election; Sentinel team on the airwaves; voter registration deadlines for summer elections draw near, and more.

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Trump moves to gut low-income energy assistance as summer heat descends & electricity prices rise tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Millions of people across the U.S. struggle to pay their power bills as temperatures and energy costs rise, yet the Trump admin’s 2026 budget proposal zeros out funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

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Three-fourths of National Science Foundation funding cuts hit education tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The outlook for federal spending on education research continues to be grim, a fact that became clear last week with more cutbacks to education grants and mass firings at the National Science Foundation, the agency that supports science, engineering and math.

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Az Gov. Hobbs signs bill meant to censor LGBTQ+ content tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In a blow to Arizona LGBTQ+ and First Amendment advocates, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a bill that could make posting information or images of LGBTQ+ people — and literature related to them — illegal without age verification.

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Trump asks Supreme Court to reverse its own order blocking Venezuelan deportations tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift its own injunction placed last month in the Northern District of Texas to allow for the deportation of a group of Venezuelan nationals under an 18th-century wartime law.

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Hobbes vetoes GOP bill to close Az schools on Election Day, convert gyms to polling places tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Republican proposal that would have closed Arizona schools on Election Day and forced them to allow their gymnasiums to be used as polling places was vetoed, one of a series of bills that GOP lawmakers sent to Gov. Katie Hobbs that was rejected.

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Which air carriers are positioned to benefit from increased deportations? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As the Trump administration is ramping up detentions and deportations in an effort to reach its goal of removing 1 million immigrants by the end of this year, new air carriers have signed contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to carry out deportation flights.

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Revision time again: TUSD, Sunnyside & CatFoot to vote on budget changes tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Updated: It's the season for final budget revisions for the local school districts, TUSD is set to vote on an AI policy that seems kind of defensive, Rio Nuevo mulls more projects, plus Sahuarita gets an update on its privately run water system, and more from government meetings around Tucson.

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