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Trump issues executive orders reviving coal power plants to fuel data center boom tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Trump signed four executive orders aimed at boosting the declining U.S. coal industry, as U.S. electricity demand - driven by data center growth and transportation electrification - is expected to increase 2% annually and 50% by 2050.

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Trump relaxes regulatory enforcement against crypto companies tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Department of Justice disbanded the Joe Biden-era National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, ended the Justice Department's enforcement of regulatory violations and closed ongoing investigations, part of an administration focus on individual bad actors rather than platforms.

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ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Trump administration officials were speakers at the 2025 Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center, and most extolled Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, including the acting ICE director, who said his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants.

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Marx & Noriega each have 4 RBIs, Flores throws 1-hit shutout as Pima softball dominates Glendale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (39-5, 27-5 in ACCAC) picked up two ACCAC conference doubleheader wins on the road on Tuesday at Glendale Community College (18-18, 15-17).

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Tucson City Council votes to rethink free Sun Tran bus fares tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Tucson City Council voted to consider reimplementing fares on public transit Tuesday in the face of a potential $68 million budget shortfall. Public transportation has been free since March 2020, and will remain so until at least this summer.

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Chinese woman commits suicide at Az Border Patrol station; BP failed to conduct welfare checks tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: A 52-year-old woman committed suicide at the Border Patrol station in Yuma on Saturday after she was taken into custody by agents in California, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal said, blasting the agency for not conducting proper welfare checks.

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Budget airline setting up Arizona base for 'ICE Air' deportation flights tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Budget carrier Avelo Airlines has signed a contract to operate Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights out of an airport in Mesa, Ariz.

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New underboss same as old underboss: Garimella taps Vermont provost for UA post tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella named the second-in-command at his former school to be his "enforcer" in his new position Tuesday, announcing Patricia Prelock will move from Vermont to become the UA's provost.

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Ceding to Trump, Supreme Court rejects move to bring back federal workers tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Trump triumphed at the Supreme Court, receiving an emergency pause to the reinstatement of thousands of probationary federal employees terminated in a firing spree.

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GOP circles wagons around Trump tariffs as markets nosedive tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. stock market continued its bloodletting Monday, following days of fears about the financial impact of expansive tariffs announced last week by the Trump administration - but Republican members of Congress have largely refused to break with the White House messaging on tariffs.

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Challenges to Trump’s order on elections rest on a simple premise: the Constitution tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Within days of President Trump’s executive order to overhaul election administration, lawsuits were filed in federal court to challenge it - and unlike the usual dense filings packed with obscure statutory citations, these complaints are startlingly simple. Think “Constitution 101” simple.

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As DOGE cuts hit Az veterans, Gallego pushes back with freeze on Trump’s VA nominees tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Deep cuts at federal agencies are hitting Americans who served in uniform especially hard, and in response, Az freshman Sen. Ruben Gallego put a freeze on VA nominations in protest.

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‘Over the hump’: Arizona men’s wheelchair basketball team captures national title tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
After losing in the title game in 2023 and 2024, the University of Arizona men’s wheelchair basketball team broke through with a 75-65 victory over the University of Texas-Arlington recently to win the 2025 NWBA Intercollegiate Division Men’s Championship.

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Az Republican plan to prevent disability services shutdown comes with tough cuts for families tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
House Republicans finally announced their plan to ensure that Arizona’s Division of Developmental Disabilities can pay its bills next month, which would prevent a looming disaster for families of the nearly 60,000 Arizonans with disabilities, but also comes with some tough cuts.

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A dozen candidates file to run for Tucson City Council tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A dozen candidates have filed to run for Tucson City Council in Wards 3, 5 and 6 ahead of Monday's deadline to submit paperwork. Ten Democrats and just two Republicans handed in nominating petitions, but some may face challenges.

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6 candidates apply for Pima Board of Supervisors vacancy tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A total of six applicants are aiming to fill the open District 5 seat on the Pima County Board of Supervisors. The office is up for grabs because Democrat Adelita Grijalva stepped down last week to run for Congress.

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Supreme Court pauses return of mistakenly deported Maryland man, for now tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily froze a midnight deadline for returning a Maryland to the U.S after he was mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvador prison.

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Photos: A week of Southern Arizona protests against Trump & Elon Musk tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
From one weekend to the next, thousands of Tucsonans have gathered to protest the Trump administration, including events at a Tesla dealership, 'A' Mountain and Reid Park.

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Supreme Court empowers Trump to continue deportations to El Salvador prison tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Supreme Court freed President Donald Trump from a restraining order grounding deportation flights, allowing the administration to continue deporting migrants under the Alien Enemies Act.

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'Miss O'Dell': Tucsonan's lifetime among rock royalty like Beatles & Stones tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
"Miss O'Dell" details Tucson native Chris O'Dell's stories of her time with the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt and more.

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