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House Democrats accuse Trump of violating Hatch Act with government shutdown messages tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
House Democrats pushed for an investigation into whether the Trump administration broke the law with messages posted on federal agency websites explicitly blaming them for the government shutdown.

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Monday deadline to register to vote in Tucson, school district elections tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Deadline to register to vote in Tucson and school district elections on Monday; early voting in all-mail ballot election starts Oct. 8; Sentinel team on the airwaves; & more

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Spanish section of TUSD Prop. 414 ballot includes typo tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A misspelled word was printed in the Spanish section of ballots for the Proposition 414 Tucson Unified School District budget override election, but the error will not affect how votes will be counted, officials said.

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Spanish section of TUSD Prop. 141 ballot includes typo tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A misspelled word was printed in the Spanish section of ballots for the Proposition 414 Tucson Unified School District budget override election, but the error will not affect how votes will be counted, officials said.

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Judge orders Justice Dep't to give Conover access to alleged carjacker tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez ordered U.S. Marshals to transport Julio Cesar Aguirre for an arraignment and initial appearance in local court, ruling for Pima County Attorney Laura Conover and rejecting the feds' claims it would harm their case.

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Amphi planning to close up to 5 schools ahead of 2026-27 academic year tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Tucson-area district cites a shrinking number of students resulting in the loss of millions of dollars as a reason for closing up to five elementary schools.

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Dozens of groups call on GOP leaders to punish John Gillette for execution threat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Thirty statewide advocacy groups are urging Republican Arizona House of Representatives leaders to take action against Rep. John Gillette, who called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman because she urged people to peacefully protest in the streets.

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Yom Kippur: A time for feasting as well as fasting tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Jewish practice of abstaining from food on Yom Kippur is out of step with the rest of Jewish tradition - in both its religious and cultural guises, Judaism has always revolved around food.

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Raúl Grijalva's famed doodles showing at Tucson gallery tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Some 200 of the sketches by the late U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva will be exhibited in “The Drawings and Doodles of ¡Grijalva!,” opening Saturday at The Projects/Space in Downtown Tucson.

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Az, other states sue DOJ over rule requiring citizenship proof for sexual assault services tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona and a coalition of states sued the Trump administration over a rule change requiring survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence to immediately prove their citizenship status in order to receive certain federal aid.

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Factcheck: Lawmakers’ health care, government shutdown claims tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democrats and Republicans have sparred over Democratic demands to address health care issues, with the standoff leading to the first government shutdown since 2019. Here are the facts on two talking points each side is using to blame the other for the shutdown.

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White House warns of ‘imminent’ mass layoffs in government shutdown tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Vice President JD Vance said the administration is looking for ways to get a handful of additional U.S. Senate Democrats to vote for Republicans’ stopgap spending bill to reopen government, but in the meantime, White House officials plan to lay off federal workers en masse.

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Arizona parents conflicted as Trump brings back Presidential Fitness Test tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
On July 31, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test, renewing a debate about the negative effects that forced athletic competition can have on students’ mental health.

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Colombians bring the flavors of home to life through their businesses in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A wave of Colombian businesses are, from home kitchens and food trucks, filling a cultural gap and offering a growing community a taste of home that used to be hard to find in Arizona.

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Az national parks/monuments turn away tourists after government shutdown tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
National parks in Arizona are closed after the federal government shutdown began Wednesday, and though the Arizona government stepped in to keep parks open in the past, Gov. Katie Hobbs won’t do the same for the current shutdown.

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Az election rulebook submitted for approval despite threatened GOP lawsuit tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has submitted the new rulebook for the 2026 election to Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes for their review and approval, defying GOP lawmakers who say they will sue over rules they say violate state law.

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Jane Goodall, gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human, dead at 91 tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall.

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DHS watchdog: Eloy Detention Center staff deleted video of force incidents tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal watchdog said staff at the Eloy Detention Center in Southern Arizona failed to preserve video showing four incidents when staff used force against people in the facility last year.

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FTC accuses Zillow & Redfin of anticompetitive rental deal tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Federal Trade Commission and states including Arizona sued a pair of online rental listing platforms, claiming Zillow paid its competitor Redfin $100 million to cease advertising multifamily rental properties in an apparent effort to stop competition.

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Millions could lose housing aid under Trump plan tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Some 4 million people could lose federal housing assistance under new plans from the Trump administration that experts warn will weaken the social safety net amid historically high rents, home prices and homelessness.

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