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Court slams Trump administration’s attempt to shutter Education Department tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge on Thursday lambasted the Trump administration’s efforts to shutter the Department of Education, finding that it likely acted “contrary to law” in ordering a massive reduction-in-force that would have halved the department’s workforce.

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1,000-acre Cody Fire prompts evacuations in Oracle, north of Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: A pair of fires are burning in the mountains just south of Oracle, Ariz., including the Cody Fire, which appeared Wednesday afternoon and has consumed at least 1.000 acres about 30 miles northeast of Tucson.

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Hernandez lauches air war in Southern Az's CD7 & other election news tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of local political news: Hernandez launches first TV ads in Congressional District 7; Romero endorses Schubert in Ward 1; and other political tidbits

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500-acre blaze prompts evacuations in Oracle, north of Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A pair of fires are burning in the mountains just south of Oracle, Ariz., including the 10-acre Cedar Fire and the Cody Fire, which appeared Wednesday afternoon and has consumed at least 500 acres about 30 miles northeast of Tucson.

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Forgetting history: Tucson City Council keeps biting hand that fed it tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Tucson City Council's decision to start backing out of the Pima Early Education Program Scholarships shows a lack of historical understanding.

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Volk: Paid vacation for legislators while Arizona waits tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Updated: With less than two months before our budget deadline, Republican leaders in the Arizona Legislature hit pause. It’s a paid vacation taken right before the most important deadline of the year – we need to pass a budget by June 30th, or the state government shuts down. — Rep. Kevin Volk

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Pima jumper Curtiss takes 3rd place, gets 4th NJCAA All-American nod tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s track & field team closed out the second day of competition at the NJCAA Division I Outdoor National Championships on Friday in Hutchinson, Kansas.

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RFK Jr.’s words come back to bite him in case against sweeping HHS layoffs tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge pressed the Trump administration on its directive to gut the manpower of the Department of Health and Human Services — a directive that many state officials say would “sabotage” the health of their residents.

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Democrats probe IRS nominee Billy Long over fake tribal tax credits tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Senators tasked with tax writing split along party lines praising and grilling former Republican U.S. Rep. Billy Long of Missouri, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service, the agency tasked with enforcing the largest source of U.S. revenue.

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DOGE staffers followed Musk’s lead in 2024 campaign contributions tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
During the 2024 election cycle, Elon Musk went from occasional political donor with Democratic leanings to the biggest financial supporter of Donald Trump. Many rank-and-file staffers who work at the Musk-driven Department of Government Efficiency followed his turn.

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Maricopa County poised to hire national consulting firm for review of election procedures tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Maricopa County supervisors are poised to award a national consulting firm a $400,000 contract for another review of the county’s often-scrutinized election procedures.

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The quiet coalition behind Arizona’s anti-LGBTQ+ school board proposals tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Nearly identical policies targeting trans and gender-diverse students have been introduced, debated, and in some cases approved across Arizona, often pulling language from a model policy book issued by conservative group the Arizona Coalition of School Board Members.

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Az GOP legislators call for more solutions to Missing & Murdered Indigenous People crisis tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Following the recent signing of a bill creating a Turquoise Alert System for missing Native people, two Az Republican legislators are urging state and federal lawmakers to unite and work on solutions to address the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples.

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Drought-fueled fire still burns through Arizona forest tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Climate experts recommend maintaining current drought declarations in Arizona as the largest fire of the year so far still raged near the Arizona-New Mexico border.

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Healthcare advocates warn Medicaid cuts will strip coverage from 190K Arizonans tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As Republicans debate new work requirements and other Medicaid changes, healthcare advocates are warning that eligible Arizonans will lose their health insurance when they fail to jump new bureaucratic hurdles.

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Giant tax & spending bill in U.S. House still snagged by GOP disputes tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. House Republicans who have yet to rally behind the party’s “big, beautiful bill” huddled in the speaker’s office as different factions tried to hash out agreement on taxes, Medicaid and a few other outstanding issues.

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'Mayhem' as ICE officials arrest multiple people at immigration court in Phoenix tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Federal agents arrested multiple people at the immigration court in Phoenix on Tuesday, creating a situation one attorney described as "mayhem" as people believing their cases had just been dismissed were taken into custody outside.

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Rockafellow: Subsidize Tucson public transit for those who need it tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Given the current state of Tucson's budget forecasts, fare-free transit without a dedicated funding source is no longer sustainable. We need the additional revenue. — Democratic Council candidate Leighton Rockafellow Jr.

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Pima softball falls in 2nd round at NJCAA Division II World Series tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (50-8) opened play at the NJCAA Division II World Series on Monday, falling 2-1 to the Iowa Central Tritons.

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Volk: Paid vacation for legislators while Arizona waits tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
With less than two months before our budget deadline, Republican leaders in the Arizona Legislature hit pause. It’s a paid vacation taken right before the most important deadline of the year – we need to pass a budget by June 30th, or the state government shuts down. — Rep. Kevin Volk

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