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Citing wildfire risk, State Farm will stop selling home insurance in California tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
State Farm announced that it would no longer offer home insurance to new customers in California, a decision at least partially motivated by the effects of climate change, and one that could impact other places at high risk of climate change-fueled natural disasters.

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Denials of health insurance claims are rising — and getting weirder tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Millions of Americans in the past few years have filed a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but now is denied, and the Department of Health and Human Services - tasked with with monitoring denials - hasn’t fulfilled that assignment.

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Spellbound: Arizona middle schoolers compete in national spelling bee tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Three Arizona students, including Marana Middle School's Karen Baaba Opoku-Appoh, are among the 229 young spellers from around the U.S. and a handful of foreign countries competing at the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

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New work requirements for some SNAP recipients included in debt limit deal tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The debt ceiling deal struck by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy showed concessions from both sides, and preserves in part new work requirements for some food stamp recipients but now with exceptions for certain populations, including veterans.

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Political cudgel hangs above McCarthy after debt compromise tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Critical of the deal on the debt ceiling that's been struck with the White House, Republican lawmakers say they can wield the same leverage they used to install Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House to strip him of his party leadership.

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Debt limit deal hits turbulence in Congress as leaders prep for vote tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Congress began moving the bipartisan debt limit package forward Tuesday, though frustrations with provisions in the bill could make for narrow passage in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.

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In 'Iconoclasm,' Daniel Martin Diaz ponders AI shape of things to come tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Peering into the scrying mirror — depicting a world equally grotesque and apocalyptic — Tucson artist Daniel Martin Diaz's new book “Iconoclasm: AI and The Devaluation of Humanity's Achievements” makes inquiries into the impact of artificial intelligence on the arts and the shape of things to come.

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Amphi to discuss grading, '90s retro sell-off during only local gov't meeting this week. tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Local elected leaders will hold just one meeting this week, when the Amphitheater Unified School District Governing Board will discuss an update to how the district uses testing to place students in grades.

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The rise of Dark Sleepy: Biden rolls, McCarthy caves, Ciscomani might have to save us all tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised his party he'd play hardball during negotiations with Joe Biden over the debt ceiling. So what's with all the Nerf?

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Judge allows continued environmental lawsuit over Interstate 11 routes near Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A judge rejected arguments from federal officials attempting to unravel a lawsuit by environmental groups over the proposed Interstate 11 plan, including two possible routes that could carve through "pristine desert" west of Tucson.

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Az lawmaker who spearheaded conspiracist-linked COVID hearing also spread QAnon online tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Republican state senator who denied that a COVID conspiracy hearing she spearheaded last week that was marketed with a QAnon acronym had anything to do with the dangerous conspiracy theory had, in fact, posted lots of QAnon content on social media — including the very acronym used by the committee.

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Room to boom: Pinal County housing grew at fastest rate in state tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The number of housing units in Pinal County grew to 185,650 as of last summer, the fastest rate in the state with an estimated 3.5% increase from July 2021 to July 2022, echoing the population increases experienced in Maricopa County.

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Arizona ranchers hail, environmentalists fear Supreme Court clean water ruling tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Ranchers and Republican lawmakers are welcoming a Supreme Court ruling that narrows the range of waters subject to federal regulation, calling it a win for private property rights - but environmental groups say the ruling will be “disastrous for Arizona."

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Man dies after suicide attempt at Pima County Jail tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A 38-year-old man died at a hospital Thursday, five days after he began a suicide attempt at the Pima County Jail.

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Bosnian Serb prison guard hid wartime past, found guilty of immigration charges by Tucson jury tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A former Bosnian Serb soldier, linked a brutal 'rape camp' during the breakup of Yugoslavia, was found guilty of immigration fraud in an effort to hide his wartime past, including lying on an application for permanent residency and when he attempted to gain U.S. citizenship.

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Bosnian Serb prison guard hid wartime past, found guilty of immigration charges by Tucson jury tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A former Bosnian Serb soldier, linked a brutal 'rape camp' during the breakup of Yugoslavia, was found guilty of immigration fraud in an effort to hide his wartime past, including lying on an application for permanent residency and when he attempted to gain U.S. citizenship.

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What House Republicans got in return for pushing the U.S. to the brink of default tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
House Republicans pushed the U.S. to the edge of a fiscal crisis because they wanted deep cuts in spending - but the budget was designed to appeal to enough Republicans and Democrats to get it through Congress and does hardly anything to address America’s debt problem.

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Federal judge finds Forest Service violated Clean Water Act while fighting wildfires tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge in Montana partially sided with environmentalists, agreeing that the Forest Service violated the Clean Water Act by discharging aerially deployed fire retardant into waterways without a permit, but allowed the continued use of aerial retardants while obtaining a permit.

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Hellertoon: Memorial Day tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
While you're firing up the grill and reaching for a cold one on Monday afternoon. take a moment or two to remember why so many people are able to take a long weekend. Memorial Day is more than a fun day off — it's a time to remember the lives lost by those in service to the United States, in the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and Merchant Marines.

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Bosnian Serb prison guard hid wartime past, found guilty of immigration charges by Tucson jury tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A former Bosnian Serb soldier, linked a brutal 'rape camp' during the breakup of Yugoslavia, was found guilty of immigration fraud in an effort to hide his wartime past, including lying on an application for permanent residency and when he attempted to gain U.S. citizenship.

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