Pima County School Sup't accepting applications for Flowing Wells board vacancy https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061325_flowing_wells_vacancy/pima-county-school-supt-accepting-applications-flowing-wells-board-vacancy/
Pima County Superintendent of Schools Dustin Williams will be accepting applications to fill a vacancy on the Flowing Wells Unified School District Governing Board.
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Blue states win block on Trump’s order to overhaul U.S. elections https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061325_trump_election_block/blue-states-win-block-trumps-order-overhaul-us-elections/
A March executive order from President Donald Trump could create “chaos and confusion” surrounding the U.S. election process, a federal judge ruled in blocking parts of the order decried by Democratic states as “blatantly unconstitutional.”
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GOP team dominates annual Congressional Baseball Game for fifth straight year in 13-2 win https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/061325_congressional_baseball/gop-team-dominates-annual-congressional-baseball-game-fifth-straight-year-13-2-win/
Republicans won their fifth straight Congressional Baseball Game with a decisive 13-2 win on Wednesday night, further cementing their dominance in the capital – in Congress and on the diamond.
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Maricopa County recorder sues supervisors over election powers https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061325_heap_lawsuit/maricopa-county-recorder-sues-supervisors-over-election-powers/
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap is suing the county’s supervisors, claiming they are illegally trying to seize control of the county’s elections.
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Az House GOP budget sparks blame game 18 days before deadline https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061325_az_house_budget/az-house-gop-budget-sparks-blame-game-18-days-before-deadline/
With just 18 days to go until the deadline to pass a budget before the state government shuts down, Arizona lawmakers are finally taking action — but the spending plan put together solely by House Republicans was criticized by opponents as farce that will never actually become law.
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Arizonans will host ‘No Kings’ protests as Trump escalates military force in LA https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061325_no_kings_protest/arizonans-will-host-no-kings-protests-as-trump-escalates-military-force-la/
Arizona will be will be home to at least 40 “No Kings” protests, with events planned from Yuma to Page to Douglas and everywhere in between, including 15 in the Phoenix metro area and five in Tucson and the surrounding communities.
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Who’s winning the multibillion dollar battle over veterans benefits? https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061325_veterans_benefits/whos-winning-multibillion-dollar-battle-over-veterans-benefits/
Veterans’ advocates have worked for years to stop unaccredited consultants from charging vets thousands of dollars for help filing disability claims, but setbacks in court and on Capitol Hill indicate their quest to ban the deep-pocketed companies could be in peril.
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Mark Kelly blasts GOP education cuts, $5B voucher program as ‘horrible idea’ at DC rally https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061325_kelly_cuts/mark-kelly-blasts-gop-education-cuts-5b-voucher-program-as-horrible-idea-dc-rally/
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly joined education advocates, parents, teachers and students and spoke out against GOP lawmakers’ “big, beautiful bill,” an attempt to slash billions of dollars in federal spending to offset the cost of President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda and tax cuts.
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Appeals court allows Trump to keep National Guard in Los Angeles temporarily https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061325_la_guard_trump/appeals-court-allows-trump-keep-national-guard-los-angeles-temporarily/
A federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump’s deployment of California National Guard soldiers to continue while it considers Trump’s challenge to a lower court’s decision that found he illegally mobilized those troops without consulting Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Hernandez: Shooting outside South Side home hit car of staffer for Tucson congressional candidate https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061225_hernandez_shooting/hernandez-shooting-outside-south-side-home-hit-car-staffer-tucson-congressional-candidate/
Daniel Hernandez, a Tucson congressional candidate, said a shooting outside his family's home on Wednesday evening resulted in the car of a campaign staffer being struck.
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After 21 years, Tucson City Attorney Mike Rankin to retire in September https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061225_rankin_retirement/after-21-years-tucson-city-attorney-mike-rankin-retire-september/
Tucson City Attorney Mike Rankin is retiring in September. “It's time," said Rankin, who has served as the city’s top lawyer for more than 21 years, making him the longest-serving city attorney in Tucson’s history.
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How El Salvador's government impeded a U.S. investigation of MS-13 https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061225_ms13_salvador/how-el-salvadors-government-impeded-us-investigation-ms-13/
Senior officials in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s government repeatedly impeded the work of a U.S. task force as it pursued evidence of possible wrongdoing by the Salvadoran president and his inner circle, evidence at odds with Bukele’s reputation as a crime fighter.
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Cómo el gobierno de El Salvador impidió una investigación estadounidense sobre la MS-13 https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061225_ms13_salvador_esp/como-el-gobierno-de-el-salvador-impidio-una-investigacion-estadounidense-sobre-la-ms-13/
Altos funcionarios del gobierno del presidente salvadoreño Nayib Bukele obstaculizaron repetidamente el trabajo de un grupo de trabajo estadounidense mientras buscaba pruebas de posibles irregularidades por parte del presidente salvadoreño y su círculo íntimo.
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California cuffed, shoved out of Noem press event https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061225_padilla_assault/democratic-us-sen-alex-padilla-california-cuffed-shoved-out-noem-press-event/
Federal law enforcement officials forcibly removed and handcuffed U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla at a Thursday press conference in Los Angeles by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem amid multi-day protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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CBP is flying surveillance aircraft over Phoenix ICE operations https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061225_ice_aircraft/cbp-flying-surveillance-aircraft-over-phoenix-ice-operations/
Customs and Border Protection has been flying surveillance aircraft over the Phoenix area in support of Homeland Security Investigations, but little is known about what type of aircraft is monitoring operations on the ground or what role it is playing
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The RTA's future remains in doubt after Moghimi firing https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/061225_rta_post_moghimi_op/the-rtas-future-remains-doubt-after-moghimi-firing/
Don't think the the firing of RTA director Farhad Moghimi puts an end to the drama surrounding plans to put a new 20-year, half-cent transportation sales tax plan to voters across Pima County.
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Tanks & fighter jets roll into Washington for Trump’s 79th birthday parade https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061225_military_parade/tanks-fighter-jets-roll-into-washington-trumps-79th-birthday-parade/
More than 100 heavy-duty military vehicles and weapons systems will parade down Constitution Avenue in the nation’s capital Saturday, just days after President Donald Trump ordered troops to Los Angeles to quell mostly nonviolent protests against deportations.
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Az House Republicans draft competing budget as Senate nears deal with Hobbs https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061225_legislature_budget/az-house-republicans-draft-competing-budget-as-senate-nears-deal-with-hobbs/
Arizona lawmakers are at odds again, but this time it’s the Republicans in the House of Representatives and Senate who can’t agree on how to forge the state budget.
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Ex-Pima Supe Lee cited in melee at February UA-BYU basketball game https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061125_lee_ua_melee/ex-pima-supe-lee-cited-melee-february-ua-byu-basketball-game/
Updated: Sylvia M. Lee, a former Pima County supervisor and ex-member of the PCC board was cited on two counts of assault in connection with a University of Arizona basketball game in February that erupted into chaos in the closing seconds.
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Senate Republicans propose penalizing states less for SNAP errors than House https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/061225_snap_senate1/senate-republicans-propose-penalizing-states-less-snap-errors-than-house/
U.S. Senate Republicans will propose more moderate changes to the major federal food assistance program than their House counterparts, detailing a provision in a giant tax and spending cut bill that would penalize states less harshly than the House GOP version.
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