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Az state board moves toward pulling certification of ex-cop for shooting Tucson man in wheelchair tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona board responsible for certifying police voted to pursue action against former Tucson Police Officer Ryan Remington after he shot and killed a man in a motorized wheelchair during a confrontation over shoplifting in November 2021.

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Arizona gets $28 million for drought resilience projects tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona is receiving $27.7 million for four projects to increase drought resilience and improve water delivery systems, part of $585 million in funding sent to 11 states as part of last year’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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In rush to fight climate change, cities coordinate to battle heat with trees tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Many community leaders now consider trees to be critical infrastructure, along with a growing recognition that low-income neighborhoods and communities of color often have far less tree cover — and suffer increased vulnerability to extreme heat as a result.

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepts favors from billionaire tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
For more than two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted lavish vacations, virtually every year - including on a private jet and a superyacht - without disclosing them, a failure that appears to violate a disclosure law passed after Watergate.

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Migrant deaths in Mexico put spotlight on U.S. policy that shifted immigration enforcement south tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The migrant deaths in a detention facility just across the U.S. border will likely be found to have had several contributing factors, as the immigration enforcement policies of the U.S. and Mexican governments has seen the number of people kept in such facilities skyrocket.

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As future of abortion pill is weighed, Democrats in Congress see little they can do tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Senate Democrats appear lukewarm about pursuing reproductive rights legislation in a divided Congress, even as a federal judge in Texas considers overturning access to abortion pills nationwide.

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Hobbs bans TikTok on Arizona's state devices tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs issued an executive order Wednesday banning the use of the social media app TikTok on all state owned devices, as universities - including Arizona’s three major universities - and even some countries make similar moves.

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Arizona Gov. Hobbs bans TikTok on state devices tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gov. Katie Hobbs issued an executive order Wednesday banning the use of the social media app TikTok on all state owned devices, as universities - including Arizona’s three major universities - and even some countries make similar moves.

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Biden administration rolls out $585 million for Western water projects tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration will send $585 million - provided in the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law - toward 83 projects in Arizona and 10 other Western states to respond to persistent drought conditions that have caused increased wildfires and threate water supplies.

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Lawmakers to ask AZ voters to block ranked-choice voting in 2024 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Far-right lawmakers are hoping Arizonans will vote to prohibit ranked-choice voting in 2024, aiming to cripple the efforts of voter organizations to put the system up for consideration on the same ballot.

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Arizona begins to shed thousands from Medicaid, push them to other care tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
AHCCCS is encouraging recipients to make sure contact information is current and to keep an eye out for correspondence as Arizona begins purging people from pandemic-inflated Medicaid rolls this month, a process that could push more than 600,000 people off the plan.

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Here’s what taxpayers need to know about reporting online payments for gig work tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
New rules are going to make sure the Internal Revenue Service gets more information about payments made to apps often used for informal work - and gig workers making at least $600 a year with a side hustle through an online platform should be on the lookout for a 1099-K.

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Arizona legislative election committees catered to conspiracy theorists tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican-controlled committees in the Arizona legislature that were charged with vetting election-reform bills used their time to cater to fringe right-wing conspiracy theorists and to approve a plethora of measures that would make big changes to how elections are run.

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Gas guzzler: Gas prices jump in Arizona to $4+ and rising tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Gas prices in Arizona have been steadily growing since last March, with a 62.5-cent increase on average for a gallon of regular over the last month, according to AAA. And, as motorists head into summer, prices are likely to keep creeping up.

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Controversial Arizona bill would allow factories to treat their own water tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A bill to let Nestlé treat wastewater at its proposed Glendale plant and pump that water into the aquifer is raising fears it will create a fragmented system that will allow companies to accelerate groundwater pumping and possibly degrade the quality of Arizona’s water.

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Bill criminalizing drag shows for children one vote away from Hobbs’ desk tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The first in a series of anti-drag bills is a step away from Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ desk, and will likely face its end by her veto stamp as drag story hours, family friendly events that promote early childhood literacy, have recently become a focal point of the GOP culture war.

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Arizona House forges ahead with war on diversity despite constitutionality doubts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona House rules attorney flagged two bills aimed at quashing diversity efforts and regulating gender expression in public institutions as potential constitutional violations, but the House committee on rules recommended passage in a Republican-led vote on party lines.

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Mortgage rates stabilizing but that may not be enough to help house hunters tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Home prices are cooling off and mortgage rates fell last week, but the fallout from recent bank closures could continue to make it hard for some Americans to buy homes.

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Pima softball hits 9 dingers, scores 28 runs in sweep at Scottsdale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (20-15, 17-9 in ACCAC) broke out the bats and got back in the win column Tuesday in a doubleheader sweep at Scottsdale Community College.

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Trump hit with 34 felony counts of falsifying New York state business records tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Former President Donald Trump, the first former president to face criminal prosecution, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 New York state felony offenses related to what prosecutors say were hush money payments to an adult film star.

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