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Feds direct states to check immigration status of their Medicaid enrollees tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
This week, the Trump administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced an effort to check the immigration status of people who get their health insurance through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

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Long, strange trip: Tucson City Council finally boards the RTA Next Express tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
A few months ago, I could not count a single "aye" vote on the Tucson City Council for the RTA Next. On Tuesday, the council voted unanimously to support it. Credit former city boss Mike Ortega for the turnaround.

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The national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth went dead. States are scrambling to help. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
States are scrambling to backfill LGBTQ+ crisis support through training, fees, and other initiatives in response to what advocates say is the Trump administration’s hostile stance toward this group.

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Dittmer: AI needs water. Arizona’s Constitution says: Not so fast. tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The vote in Tucson may have blocked this version of Project Blue, but Beale, the developer, is already exploring other sites. And similar projects are lining up across the region and beyond. This is not the end of the story. It is just the opening chapter.

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Nuclear radiation victims can again apply for compensation under revived RECA tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act program, known as RECA, has been revived after provisions to reauthorize claim filings under the program were included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that became law last month.

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Judge partially tosses immigrant legal rights claims from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ suit tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis scored a legal win in the fight over the state’s new migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” when a federal judge threw out parts of a lawsuit targeting violations of immigrants’ legal rights.

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FactCheck: Verificación de las afirmaciones de Trump sobre el voto por correo y las máquinas de votación tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
El presidente Trump lanzó su ataque de segundo mandato contra las papeletas de voto por correo y las máquinas de votación electrónica con una serie de afirmaciones infundadas, al tiempo que anunciaba un esfuerzo para eliminar ambas.

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FactCheck: Trump’s claims about mail-in ballots, voting machines & state roles in elections tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump launched his second-term assault on mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines on Aug. 18, firing off a series of unfounded claims while announcing an effort to do away with both.

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Verificación de las afirmaciones de Trump sobre el voto por correo y las máquinas de votación tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
El presidente Trump lanzó su ataque de segundo mandato contra las papeletas de voto por correo y las máquinas de votación electrónica con una serie de afirmaciones infundadas, al tiempo que anunciaba un esfuerzo para eliminar ambas.

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Ciscomani asks CBP to update Border Patrol stations, checkpoints in So. Ariz. as part of new spending tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani urged U.S. Customs and Border Protection to send millions to Southern Arizona for border infrastructure and surveillance systems—part of the larger $64 billion earmarked for border security as part of this summer's spending bill.

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Conover sues feds, claiming continued obstruction of Pima County's homicide case vs. carjacker tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: Pima County Attorney Laura Conover filed a lawsuit the Trump administration on Friday, demanding access to Julio Cesar Aguirre — a Mexican man whose prosecution has been at the center of an expanding rift between Conover and federal prosecutors.

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Rollback of rules for mental health coverage could lead more Americans to go without care tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Suspended rules meant to strengthen the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and curtailed funding for the Employee Benefits Security Administration could have serious consequences, including more untreated mental illness and growing anger at insurers.

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State refers Az GOP AG hopeful Rodney Glassman for prosecution over illegal donations tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Prosecutors are investigating Rodney Glassman, a top Republican candidate for Arizona attorney general, after state elections officials said they believe he violated campaign finance contribution limits numerous times over the last year.

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Arizona voters caught up in state error should keep full voting rights, attorney general says tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona voters who were caught up in a state error tracking citizenship should keep their full voting rights, according to Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes.

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DOJ set to release Epstein docs to House committee tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Justice Department will comply with a House subpoena for documents related to the government’s investigation of the disgraced late financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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Late header gives Arizona soccer win against Anteaters tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The two teams scored a combined nine goals on Thursday, but they only managed one on Sunday. But that was all Arizona needed for the win.

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States accuse feds of tying crime victim funding to deportation compliance tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A coalition of 21 state attorneys general sued the Trump administration, claiming the Department of Justice is trying to “strong-arm” them into complying with mass deportations by dangling federal funding for the Victims of Crime Act over their heads.

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CD7 special election TV debate coming up next week tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Tucson Councilman holds town on hall on crime; CD7 special congressional election candidates meet in Aug. 26 debate; CD7 voting registration deadline ahead; Sentinel team on the airwaves & more

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AmeriCorps under siege by the Trump administration. What happens in the communities it serves? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
AmeriCorps programs that survived last spring’s DOGE cuts are slowly beginning a new year of service amid major uncertainty over whether they will be able to continue their work in classrooms, food banks, senior centers and other community hubs.

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Arizona will see another year of Colorado River water cuts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Officials announced they would continue water allocation cuts on the Colorado River for the fifth consecutive year following a persistent drought that’s shrunken the river’s largest reservoir, and Arizona’s cut amounts to a loss of 512,000 acre-feet of water for another year.

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