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U.S. House GOP backs McCarthy as speaker after tense & chaotic late-night session tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. House elected Kevin McCarthy speaker early Saturday after most of the chamber’s Republicans finally gathered behind him, ending a four-day stalemate that led to the most rounds of voting for a speaker since before the Civil War.

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Adelita Grijalva poised to take Pima County Board of Supervisors gavel tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Pima County Board of Supervisors is set to choose its officers next week, and Sup. Adelita Grijalva looks set to be the first to count to three, taking up the gavel from Chair Sharon Bronson.

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Tucson memorial service for ex-Rep. Jim Kolbe set for Jan. 28 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A memorial service for former U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe, who died last month at age 80, will be held in Tucson on Jan. 28. A memorial is also being scheduled in Washington, D.C.

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Hudbay ramps up excavation for Copper World Complex as local resistance expands tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As bulldozers and heavy equipment accelerate the pace of destruction on properties owned by Hudbay Minerals in the Santa Rita Mountains, environmental groups, local tribes and agricultural interests in the region continue the fight to halt mining operations there.

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Hudbay ramps up excavation for Copper World Complex as local resistance continues and expands tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As bulldozers and heavy equipment accelerate the pace of destruction on properties owned by Hudbay Minerals in the Santa Rita Mountains, environmental groups, local tribes and agricultural interests in the region continue the fight to halt mining operations there.

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Bowers will be honored with award for courage as D.C. nears Jan. 6 anniversary tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Rusty Bowers, the former speaker of the Arizona House who resisted pressures to overturn 2020 election results, will be honored as one of a dozen people who “demonstrated courage and selflessness during a moment of peril for our nation.”

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used 'off label' to treat brain injuries, but questions remain tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
HBOT of Arizona uses the therapy to treat thousands of brain injury patients – roughly 2,000 this year – and although the Food and Drug Administration has not approved hyperbaric oxygen for that purpose, patients are not deterred from trying off-label treatments.

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Biden cracks down on illegal border crossings, blaming Republicans for stalemate tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Joe Biden offered new solutions to curb illegal immigration, announcing restrictions to expel more asylum seekers while slamming Republicans in Congress for not doing more.

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Texas AG Paxton sues over enforcement of 'public charge' law for immigrants tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Thursday against President Joe Biden, accusing his administration of nullifying a federal law that prevents immigrants from obtaining a green card if they are likely to depend on government social services.

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People of color are dying at much higher rates than what COVID data suggests tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The true toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on many communities of color — from Portland, Oregon, to Navajo Nation tribal lands in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, to sparsely populated rural Texas towns — is worse than previously known.

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U.S. House stuck for a 3rd day as Republicans struggle to unite around a speaker tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. House adjourned Thursday again without a speaker, racking up five more ballots throughout the day before members left the floor shortly after 8 p.m. Eastern, with some decamping to closed-door negotiations and others leaving the Capitol.

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FactChecking the House Speaker election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
There were some factual missteps in several nominating speeches by lawmakers as Rep. Kevin McCarthy repeatedly fell short of the votes needed to become speaker of the House.

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Hobbs highlights Arizona’s Indigenous people, history during inauguration tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Seeing Arizona Tribes spotlighted during Governor Katie Hobbs’s inauguration ceremony was refreshing for local tribal advocates, say Indigenous activists, and it affirms Hobbs’s commitment to upholding relationships with tribal nations.

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Let Mayes' AG victory put an end to GOP's destructive election frauds tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
So the recount in the 2022 Arizona attorney general's race is over and Democrat Kris Mayes won even though Pinal County's recounting of the votes cut her margin of victory in half.

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Katie Hobbs pledges unity, Dems call for bipartisan collaboration as they assume power tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
On a chilly, cloud-covered Thursday morning at the Arizona Capitol, hundreds of wellwishers and spectators gathered to watch the ceremonial swearing in of the state's newly elected top officials, including Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs.

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Rep.-elect Juan Ciscomani nominates McCarthy for House speaker on 10th failed ballot tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson's Juan Ciscomani nominated Republican Kevin McCarthy to be speaker of the House on Friday in the 10th round of failed voting in the chamber. Ciscomani incorrectly claimed to be Arizona's first naturalized member of Congress.

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President Joe Biden says he’ll visit the border next week during Mexico trip tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Joe Biden intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since he took office during his trip to Mexico City next week, but has yet to say which part of the border he plans to visit or reveal the date.

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Hobbs nixes abortion special session plan after court blocks Civil War abortion ban tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs won’t fulfill her campaign promise to call a special session on her first day in office to repeal Arizona’s Civil War-era abortion near total ban, saying that a recent court ruling made that effort moot.

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3 years on, COVID-19 no longer grabs headlines, still poses threat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Almost three years after the first COVID-19 cases were detected in Arizona, here’s what we know: It hits the elderly hardest, it spikes in summer and winter, it killed men in Arizona at sharply higher rates than women and new strains continue to evolve.

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Jan. 6 probe, prosecutions 'far from over,' AG warns tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The FBI is still working to identify hundreds of people who committed violent crimes when a far-right mob attempted to overthrow the U.S. government two years ago this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday.

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