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Gabrielle Giffords reflects on gun legislation changes in the 30 years since the Brady Bill tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Former congresswoman and mass shooting survivor Gabrielle Giffords spoke about the gun lobby's growth — and the inroads gun safety groups have made in recent years.

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Climate change, drought, wildfires reduce value of private forestland in the West by billions tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Investing in private timberland in the West has become increasingly risky, with values declining by billions of dollars in the last two decades and climate change is responsible for at least half the decline in values when correlated with recent scientific studies.

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Lukeville border crossing to close Monday as more migrants appear in nearby wilderness tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: The border crossing at Lukeville, Ariz., will close Monday as U.S. Customs and Border Protection redirects officers to help take migrants into custody in the nearby wilderness.

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Mexican Mafia convict charged for stabbing Derek Chauvin 22 times in Tucson federal prison tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A 52-year-old inmate was charged with multiple felonies for allegedly stabbing fellow prisoner Derek Chauvin - the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd — during a violent incident in Tucson last week.

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Lukeville border crossing to close Monday as more migrants appear in nearby wilderness tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The border crossing at Lukeville, Ariz., will close Monday as U.S. Customs and Border Protection redirects officers to help take migrants into custody in the nearby wilderness.

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Reporter arrested by Pima County sheriff's deputies was right where she was supposed to be tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
A reporter arrested Thursday morning by Pima County sheriff's deputies was doing her job. Check that, she was arrested for doing her job. Period.

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Judge denies Texas’ request to stop feds from cutting border razor wire tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to stop Border Patrol agents from cutting concertina wire the state has laid out on the banks of the Rio Grande to stop migrants from crossing the border illegally.

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New York Republican George Santos expelled by U.S. House in bipartisan vote tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
New York Republican George Santos on Friday became the sixth lawmaker in history and the first member of the GOP to be expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Solutions to pay gap for Native American women could be found in their tribes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The gender pay gap reflects systems that have oppressed Native American women for centuries and helped form a gap in income and wages that is among the widest of any group of women, but the little data available reveals points of weakness and opportunities in existing systems.

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Pandemonium in Senate Judiciary Committee as Dems take up SCOTUS ethics subpoenas tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting quickly devolved into a partisan shootout as Republicans on the upper chamber’s legal affairs panel kicked off a revolt against Democrats hoping to authorize subpoenas related to their Supreme Court ethics probe.

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Anti-abortion Az Supreme Court Justice recuses self from abortion case tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Supreme Court Justice Bill Montgomery, who once accused Planned Parenthood of committing genocide, has agreed to recuse himself from a case involving the organization that will determine the future legality of abortion in the state.

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George Santos expelled from Congress amid ethics maelstrom tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Just a year after it began, the George Santos saga is over, as the House voted Friday to expel the lawmaker from the lower chamber amid swirling claims that he committed fraud and violated campaign finance law.

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U.S. House votes to bar use of public lands for housing migrants tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. House passed a bill to bar the use of public lands for temporary housing for migrants applying for asylum, legislation dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats hold a slim majority, and many Democrats criticized the bill as a messaging tactic for the 2024 elections.

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Israel’s mosaic of Jewish ethnic groups is key to understanding country tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
More than 7 million people who identify as Jewish live in Israel - a country is home to more than 2 million people who are not Jewish, as well - but even within Israel’s Jewish population, there is dizzying diversity.

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Democrats split on placing conditions on military aid to Israel tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democrats in Congress are divided on whether to set guardrails on additional military aid to Israel as that country responds to the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks with airstrikes and a ground war in Gaza.

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Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has died at age 93 tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court who retired in 2006 after sitting on the high court bench for over two decades, died at the age of 93 on Friday morning.

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Calls mount in Congress for Social Security to address clawbacks tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A media investigation gained further traction on Capitol Hill this week as additional members of Congress formally demanded answers from the Social Security Administration about billions of dollars it mistakenly paid to beneficiaries — and then ordered they repay.

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Hundreds of migrants wait in Az desert after crossing U.S.-Mexico border tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Huddled in the shadow of the border wall, hundreds of migrants waited for processing in a remote stretch of desert along the southern edge of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

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18th Tucson Tamal & Heritage Fest returns to Casino del Sol tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
The Tucson Tamal and Heritage Festival is coming back to Casino del Sol for the 18th year.

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Whiskey on Sunday & tears on our cheeks: Pour one out for Pogue Shane MacGowan tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
In which we lament the patron saint of Celtic post-punk, Shane MacGowan. Plus, a double review of John Polle's latest projects: the Gem Show and the Websites. And more Tucson scene news than you knew you needed to know.

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