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The GOP’s secret to protecting gerrymandered electoral maps? Claim privilege. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, Republican legislatures in Arizona and around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions.

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Arizona is 2nd worst in nation for teacher pay gap tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Teachers in the Grand Canyon State face the second-worst pay gap in the country, earning a third less than other college-educated employees - a jump from 2021, when Arizona ranked 4th worst and the cause has a lot to do with the economy.

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Gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ but the biggest thief of Native wealth was the U.S. gov't tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Martin Scorsese's “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land in the 1920s, and delves into racial and family dynamics that rocked Oklahoma to the core when oil was discovered — but this crime is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Tucson Terrorfest brings 4 days of horror with convention & film festival tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
The Tucson Terrorfest Horror Convention hits 191 Toole for the fourth year and the Horror Film Festival takes over the Screening Room for its 13th year, bringing experiences and vendors to local genre fans.

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Conover to run for re-election as Pima County attorney tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Laura Conover, in her first term as the top prosecutor and chief lawyer for Pima County, is seeking to hold onto her office. She announced her re-election bid Wednesday, months after she made her intentions clear during an April interview.

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Appeals court: Counties can’t conduct full hand-count audits of Arizona elections tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona counties do not have the legal authority to order hand counts of all their ballots in an election, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

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Memorial set for Tucson broadcast legend John C. Scott tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Family and friends of legendary local talk show host John C. Scott will come together at a memorial service Saturday, Oct. 21.

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ICE agent wounded in drive-by shooting on Tucson's Southeast Side tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was wounded in a drive-by shooting Tuesday evening in Tucson's Southeast Side, officials said.

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Hobbs revamps Rio Nuevo board, removes some longtime directors tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The board that oversees Tucson's Rio Nuevo business district was shaken up this week, with Gov. Katie Hobbs exercising her power to replace members. The Democrat removed four directors, replacing them with new members. She reappointed Fletcher McCusker, the longtime chairman.

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Photo: Sweetwater Preserve burn tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Smoke rises from the Sweetwater Wetlands, where Tucson Water and the Tucson Fire Department held a controlled burn on Wednesday morning.

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Juan and done: Ciscomani must go after defying his oath by voting for Jim Jordan tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
It's time to stop differentiating between insurrectionists and the moderates who love and enable them. Never forget that U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani voted, twice, to elevate an enemy of the Constitution as speaker of the House.

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U.S. House stalled again after rejecting Jim Jordan as speaker for second time tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan in his second bid for U.S. House speaker on Wednesday failed to win enough support from his fellow Republicans, leaving the party deadlocked with no clear path to govern the chamber.

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Kelly named to Senate Intelligence Committee tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Sen. Mark Kelly was appointed to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, replacing the late Sen. Diane Feinstein.

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Texas strings concertina wire along New Mexico border to deter migrants tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Texas National Guard in recent weeks has deployed miles of concertina wire along the New Mexico-Texas border through an urban area west of I-10 as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative launched in early 2021.

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Who gets to decide what the truth is when social media is rife with misinformation? tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The difficult question of who gets to decide what is lawful speech protected by the First Amendment and what is not is one of the questions that members of an Arizona legislative panel investigating Big Tech are pondering.

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Pima beats South Mtn to close regular season, solidifies No. 1 seed for soccer regionals tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s soccer team (12-2, 9-2 in ACCAC) closed out the regular season on Tuesday at the West Campus Aztec Field against South Mountain Community College (1-10-1, 1-8-1).

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Judge sets new hearing as feds seek to sideline defense attorney in Mar-a-Lago case tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon scheduled a new hearing in the classified documents case involving former President Trump as the Department of Justice sought to sideline a defense attorney it claimed has divided loyalties.

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Arizona lawmakers fall in line for Jim Jordan, but House fails to elect new speaker tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona lawmakers voted on party lines for a new House speaker Tuesday, but it was not enough to overcome a new group of rebellious Republicans in the House who blocked the election of Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan.

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Former Navajo Nation president launches bid to flip Az’s largest congressional district tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez will face an uphill battle to win the 2024 race for Arizona’s largest congressional district as he enters the race to unseat freshman Republican congressman Eli Crane in District 2.

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Anticonceptivos estarán disponibles para mujeres de Arizona sin receta médica tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Los reguladores de Arizona finalizaron reglas que permiten el acceso a anticonceptivos hormonales de venta libre para mujeres mayores de 18 años, aunque es posible que los arizonenses deban programar una cita con su farmacéutico y las farmacias no están obligadas a participar.

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