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Hobbs: Arizona's drought is a wake-up call to commit to transparency & honesty in gov't tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
"Barring a miracle from nature, it will likely get worse before it gets better. This should be a wake-up call for all of us, because it will take all of us to solve it." — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs

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Water, trash rates set to increase by more than 20% in Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Water, trash, space and a big old "I told you so" headline this week's agendas of the Tucson City Council and Pima County Board of Supervisors. Plus more in local government meetings this week.

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Democrats praise U.S. Capitol police and pledge to seek accountability on Jan. 6 anniversary tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two years after a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undo Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election, Democrats in Congress vowed to remember the Capitol police officers who died, hold Trump accountable and prevent similar attacks.

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Trump sued by estate of Brian Sicknick, Capitol Police officer who died after Jan. 6 tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The estate of the late Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick sued former President Trump in connection to U.S. Capitol attack, saying Trump incited the mob that stormed government offices in an attempt to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

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11th Circuit sides with student in flap over doctoral support at Grand Canyon University tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that an Arizona-based, for-profit Christian university breached contractual obligations by failing to provide a doctoral student with the necessary requirements to complete their degree program.

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Public health agencies try to restore trust as they fight misinformation tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Across the country, health officials have been trying to combat misinformation and restore trust within their communities these past few years, a period when many people haven’t put full faith in their state and local health departments.

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As 2024 election looms, state legislatures consider voting changes tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
With eyes on the 2024 presidential election, state lawmakers around the country are preparing to reshape voting rules as Republican lawmakers are looking to tighten rules around absentee voting and Democrats will try to expand access to the ballot box through early voting.

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Biden visits El Paso to address migration, border security tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Joe Biden arrived in El Paso Sunday for a three-hour visit at a time when the city has been the focal point of a national debate over how the United States deals with immigration.

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Arizona’s new political reality: A split government tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
GOP control of the most important levers of power at the Arizona Capitol ends Monday when Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs begins an administration that is certain to clash repeatedly with a Republican-majority legislature.

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Biden arrives in El Paso to address migration, border security tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Joe Biden arrived in El Paso Sunday for a three-hour visit at a time when the city has been the focal point of a national debate over how the United States deals with immigration.

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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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