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How stripping diversity, equity & inclusion from health care may make Americans sicker tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
President Trump’s administration has dramatically reshaped health and medical research by rolling back federal funding from institutions that have diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, changes will make all Americans less healthy.

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A guide to understanding the debate over keeping voter rolls ‘clean’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The federal government’s demands that states turn over their voter rolls and related information highlights longstanding conflicts over how to ensure that only eligible voters are registered without endangering voting rights.

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Home cookin': Arizona extends unbeaten run at Mulcahy after poor road outing tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
After a disappointing road trip, the Arizona Wildcats soccer team earned a 2–1 win at home against the Denver Pioneers on Thursday night. The Cats scored 20 minutes into the match when Narissa Fults found herself with a lot of space to pick a shot on Denver’s goal.

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Trump campaigned on closing the Education Dep't, but GOP lawmakers are balking at elimination tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump’s aim to shutter the Education Department faces steep hurdles in Congress, where Republicans’ legislative efforts to abolish the agency remain stalled and appropriators have rejected many of his proposed cuts to education spending.

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Wildfire veterans furious at DHS claim that raided crews were not firefighters tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Wildland fire veterans are seething at a claim made by federal officials that two crews raided by immigration agents at the scene of a wildfire in Washington state were “NOT firefighters.”

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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will remain open, for now tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal appeals court blocked a lower court’s ruling shutting down the South Florida migrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz," prolonging the legal fight between environmental groups and state officials.

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Trump rushes Supreme Court to liberate tariff power tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court night to take extraordinary actions to uphold his authority to unilaterally wage a global tariff war.

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Trump’s new law will limit payments to hospitals that treat low-income patients tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump’s new tax and spending law will likely force more than half the states to reduce payments to doctors and hospitals that treat Medicaid patients, a change critics warn will be particularly harmful to rural hospitals struggling to stay afloat.

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Arizonans protest state’s largest utility abandoning clean energy commitments tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Protesters gathered outside the headquarters of APS to criticize the utility’s decision to walk back its clean energy commitments, build new gas pipelines and raise its customers’ electricity rates.

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Senators grill RFK Jr. over vaccine policies as measles deaths return after decades tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vehemently defended his actions on vaccines and other public health issues under questioning by both Republican and Democratic senators during a contentious hearing.

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With a higher violent crime rate than Chicago, could Phoenix draw Trump’s attention? tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
President Donald Trump has not floated the possibility of sending troops into Arizona. But the violent crime rate in Phoenix is higher than the rate in Chicago, the next city on the president’s list.

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Trump speculates New Orleans is next as he weighs National Guard expansion tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump was unclear Wednesday about his plans to deploy National Guard troops to cities around the country, seeming to backtrack slightly on sending troops to Chicago while teasing New Orleans as a possible next location instead.

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Mayes continues legal fight against Tucson mobile home park over 'broken' electrical system tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sought a court order against the owners of a mobile home park on Tucson's South Side on Thursday, part of a months-long effort to get the company to repair the electrical system, which has left residents without air conditioning during a sweltering summer.

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Mayes continues legal fight against Tucson mobile home park over 'broken' electirical system tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sought a court order against the owners of a mobile home park on Tucson's South Side on Thursday, part of a months-long effort to get the company to repair the electrical system, which has left residents without air conditioning during a sweltering summer.

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Epstein survivors urge Congress to release case files as GOP leaders resist doing so tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As survivors of abuse inflicted by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein pleaded on Capitol Hill for the release of investigative files, Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie accused House GOP leaders of using “the oldest trick in the swamp” to avoid the issue.

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Arizona’s Cochise County, known for election turmoil, may challenge state laws again ahead of 2026 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Despite what happened the last time Cochise County leaders tried to test the limits of state law, the supervisors are all but vowing to test the boundaries of state election laws that are meant to ensure accurate, secure, and timely election results.

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As Florida plans to end all vaccine mandates, Western states form vaccine alliance tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Democratic governors of California, Oregon and Washington said Wednesday they are forming an alliance to coordinate vaccine recommendations for their states, as Florida announced plans to become the first state to phase out all vaccine mandates.

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Arizona GOP demands expulsion of Democrat who posted about ICE activity at a Phoenix school tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Republicans want to expel a Democratic state senator because she shared a post on social media about federal immigration officials arresting people outside of a South Phoenix elementary school.

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Trump’s clean energy reversal puts Arizona solar projects worth $1.6B at risk tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Proposed solar energy projects on federal lands in Arizona could be in danger due to a new Trump administration policy that could lead to the state losing billions of dollars in investments and thousands of jobs.

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ends temporary protections for 250,000 Venezuelans tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Wednesday ended temporary protections for more than 250,000 Venezuelans, opening them up to deportation.

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