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Hobbs’s office flagged election conspiracy tweets months before she launched her campaign, undercutting GOP claims tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Republicans are in an uproar over a request from the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office to censor two tweets in the immediate aftermath of the January 2021 attack by supporters of Donald Trump - but Katie Hobbs wasn’t running for office when her office made the requests.

Trump Organization guilty on all counts in criminal tax scheme tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Jurors spent just 10 hours deliberating before delivering swift guilty verdicts after a monthlong criminal tax fraud trial for the Trump Organization and a three-year probe of former President Donald Trump and his business practices.

Holiday roundup: A very merry month of events tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Updated: The holidays are upon us and Tucson offers up a veritable cornucopia of festive events to help you enjoy the season:

Holiday roundup: A very merry month of events tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Updated: The holidays are upon us and Tucson offers up a veritable cornucopia of festive events to help you enjoy the season:

Holiday roundup: A very merry month of events tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Updated: The holidays are upon us and Tucson offers up a veritable cornucopia of festive events to help you enjoy the season:

Supreme Court signals sympathy with web designer opposed to same-sex marriage in free speech case tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic to a Colorado-based web designer who claims the state's Anti-Discrimination Act violates her First Amendment free speech rights - even though she does not yet offer the services in question and no charges have been brought against her.

Suspender a los estudiantes por ausencias, tardanzas agrava pérdida de aprendizaje tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Aunque al menos 11 estados prohíben por completo suspender a los estudiantes por faltar a clase, las escuelas en gran parte del país, incluido Arizona, tienen la libertad de castigar a los estudiantes por faltar al tiempo de aprendizaje obligándolos a faltar aún más.

Suspending students for absences, tardies compounds learning loss tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Suspending students for missing class is a controversial tactic and though at least 11 states fully ban the practice, schools in much of the country - including Arizona - are free to punish students for missing learning time by forcing them to miss even more.

Cherokee Nation wants to send a delegate to U.S. House – it’s an idea older than Congress itself tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
In 1835, the Cherokee Nation was promised a delegate in Congress as part of the same treaty – Treaty of New Echota – that led to the death of thousands on the Trail of Tears. Nearly 200 years later, the Cherokee are still fighting to make that promise a reality.

Arizona’s election certification moves the fight over results into the courts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona officials certified the state’s election results after a month of challenges to the certification process - but now it kicks off the five-day period in which lawsuits challenging the results can be filed in court and a long timeline for three statewide recounts.

Assisted living facilities pressed to address growing needs of older, sicker residents tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Assisted living communities too often fail to meet the needs of older adults and should focus more on residents’ medical and mental health concerns - changes inspired by the altered profile of the population that assisted living now serves.

Arizona families flocked to 'universal' voucher program tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona parents have flocked to apply for the state’s new universal Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, which let any family apply for state funds to pay for their child’s schooling, regardless of need.

Gerrymandering squabble that puts democracy on the line up for SCOTUS showdown tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Supreme Court justices will hear from North Carolina lawmakers who argue that state legislatures have unchecked supremacy over federal elections, and state courts are powerless to intervene when lawmakers pass election bills that contravene the state constitution.

Feds accused of cutting off migrant access to attorneys tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Detained migrants are legally entitled to speak with attorneys - and yet the U.S. immigration system regularly impedes on “basic modes of communication” between migrants and their lawyers - claims that are the basis of a new lawsuit over the ability of migrants to access lawyers.

All Pima County libraries to offer free at-home COVID tests amid spike tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County has started offering free at-home COVID-19 test kits at all 26 of their public libraries as respiratory infections continue to spike here.

Acclaimed Arizona author & poet Richard Shelton dies at 89 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Richard Shelton, a famed author and poet who helped further Tucson's burgeoning literary scene and spent decades teaching Arizona prisoners how to express themselves through writing, died last week at the age of 89.

Acclaimed Arizona author & poet Richard Shelton dies at 89 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Richard Shelton, a famed author and poet who helped further Tucson's burgeoning literary scene and spent decades teaching Arizona prisoners how to express themselves through writing, died last week at the age of 89.

Tucson, Pima County to vote on backing $1.1B battery plant tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
A combination of city and county incentives would help land an American Battery Factory plant in Tucson — with a forecast of 1,000 jobs at a $1.1 billion plant. But the deal might remind some of the World View situation.

Biden appoints Tohono O'dham & Pascua Yaqui chairmen to first tribal Homeland Security council tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tohono O'odham Chairman Ned Norris Jr. and Pascua Yaqui Chairman Peter Yucupicio were appointed by President Biden to the first Department of Homeland Security advisory council meant to protect tribal lands and citizens.

'Real ID' delayed again, won't be mandatory for Arizona travelers until 2025 tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The date when travelers will start to need Travel or Real IDs to get through airport security was extended for the third time on Monday, giving people until 2025 to apply for the documents, which will be required for all domestic air travel.

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