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Advocates urge Sinema, Tillis to move Dream Act forward tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A bipartisan proposal at the federal level is a last minute push to create a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers before the start of the new Congressional session, as some immigrants who entered the country as children face an uncertain future as litigation over its legality continues.

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How financial barriers stifle formerly incarcerated people tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Each year, the more than 600,000 people released from state and federal prisons nationwide face a range of financial barriers that together can have devastating consequences for individuals coming back into the community, and their families.

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‘C’ you later: Cannabis sales soar, but don’t threaten Arizona’s 5 C’s yet tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Sales of marijuana in Arizona soared to $1.6 billion in 2021, just one year after recreational pot was legalized in the state, making Arizona second only to California for retail sales that year.

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How Christmas became an American holiday tradition, with a Santa Claus, gifts & a tree tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
While Europeans participated in religious ceremonies to celebrate the birth of Jesus for centuries, Christmas trees and gift-giving on Dec. 24 in Germany did not spread to other European Christian cultures until the end of the 18th century and came to North America in the 1830s.

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Masks urged as pre-holiday ‘tripledemic’ of flu, COVID & RSV races through U.S. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As the holidays near and health care facilities grapple with a "tripledemic" of viral respiratory infections, people are being urged to consider donning masks and calling out sick. Nearly 10% of weekly deaths as of Dec. 1 were attributed to pneumonia, flu or COVID-19. And that was with Thanksgiving barely in the rear view.

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For Black families in Phoenix, child welfare investigations a constant threat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
From 2015 to 2019, the last full year of federal child welfare statistics available before the pandemic, DCS investigated the family lives of 1 of every 3 Black children in Maricopa County, creating a system so omnipresent among Black families that it has created a communitywide dread.

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Too big of a job: Why Maricopa County’s ballot printers failed on Election Day tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As Maricopa County investigates what exactly caused machines to reject thousands of voters’ ballots on Election Day, an analysis of technical evidence found that local officials may have pushed the county’s ballot printers past their limits.

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has left Democratic Party, registers as an independent tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona’s senior U.S. senator, has left the Democratic Party and re-registered as an independent - a move that has immediate political implications for Democrats, who this week won a 51-seat majority in the Senate.

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Pima County greenlights land lease for $1.2 billion battery cell factory tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 on Tuesday to approve a lease with American Battery Factory, which plans to spend $1.2 billion to start making battery cells in Tucson and says the company plans to bring in 1,000 jobs with average salaries of $65,000.

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Christy: In or out? County attorney, city of Tucson must help anti-crime efforts in dealing with homeless tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
"While homelessness itself is not a crime, those living on the streets are causing much of the vandalism, theft, drug dealing and use, public indecency, physical attacks, and other illicit and illegal behaviors." — Supervisor Steve Christy

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So many Black & Hispanic kids suspended for missing school, it could violate civil rights law tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona students are suspended for not showing up to class - because they arrive late, leave campus midday or fail to make it at all - and the data shows, Black, Latino and Native American students are frequently overrepresented among those blocked from class for missing class.

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Overrepresentation of Black, Hispanic students among those suspended for missing school could violate civil rights law tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona students are suspended for not showing up to class - because they arrive late, leave campus midday or fail to make it at all - and the data shows, Black, Latino and Native American students are frequently overrepresented among those blocked from class for missing class.

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Marriage equality bill heads to Biden’s desk following bipartisan U.S. House vote tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill Thursday that would ensure same-sex and interracial couples continue holding many of the rights they have now, should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the cases that established those constitutional protections.

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New report highlights myriad issues with federal COVID relief spending in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The distribution of billions of dollars of federal COVID-19 relief funds in Arizona, like many other states, was marred by fraud, mismanagement and lack of oversight, according to a new report issued last week by the Arizona Auditor General.

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Former Border Patrol agent who wanted to 'clean up the streets' convicted of capital murder tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A Texas jury on Wednesday convicted former U.S. Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz of capital murder for the 2018 vigilante-inspired killing spree of four women, all sex workers, along the Texas/Mexico border.

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Future of U.S. election law at stake as Supreme Court hears North Carolina case tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
North Carolina Republicans appeared to have at least three of the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices on their side Wednesday in a case that could determine the future of elections nationwide, and leave decisions about federal elections in the hands of state legislatures.

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Border surge brings shift in migrant countries, challenges to U.S. policy tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The surge of migrants at the southern border has included skyrocketing numbers from countries that were barely represented in previous years, presenting a challenge that experts say the U.S. is not equipped to address.

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Congress on track to scrap Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in defense bill tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Members of the U.S. military would no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine under a proposal Congress could pass as soon as this week.

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WNBA star Brittney Griner released from Russian custody in prisoner swap tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian custody in a prisoner exchange after being sentenced to nine years in Russian prison for smuggling illegal drugs into the country.

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New Tucson factory may help solve climate crisis by creating jet fuel from CO2 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A few cargo containers and a modest tower bristling with equipment on the campus of the University of Arizona's Tech Park might be the key to solving a major problem in modern life: the overwhelming production of carbon dioxide for transportation, plastics, and thousands of consumer products.

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