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Homeland Security ramps up fight against fentanyl at U.S.-Mexico border tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Department of Homeland Security announced plans for an expanded effort to curb fentanyl trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border, following a two-month campaign that officials say stopped 10,000 pounds of fentanyl and led to 284 arrests.

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Proposed Arizona legislation would protect access to birth control tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
State Rep. Athena Salman was joined by Gov. Katie Hobbs and other advocates to discuss the proposed Arizona Right to Contraception Act, a bill Salman plans to introduce a bill during the next legislative session in January that would guarantee access to birth control.

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Supreme Court rejects effort to change deportation policy tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Supreme Court found Texas and Louisiana didn’t have any standing tor a lawsuit after the states sued when the Biden administration told immigration agents to focus on deporting undocumented immigrants who are convicted of felonies or pose a risk to public safety.

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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer sues Kari Lake for defamation tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is suing Kari Lake and her campaign for defamation, after enduring a continuous onslaught of vitriol and false claims from her and her followers as she continues to claim that the 2022 governor’s race was stolen from her.

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LGBTQ inclusive adult sports leagues changing the game for Arizona’s queer athletes tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Dozens of Arizona LGBTQIA+ inclusive leagues help queer-identifying folks participate in adult-organized sports - including hockey, football, rugby, running and walking, softball, volleyball and tennis - as a way to change the dynamic of adult sports leagues.

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Rock and roll lives: Az bands play 'Revival' show at Congress tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Three Arizona bands will take the Hotel Congress Plaza stage for a night of rock and roll for the Summer Rock Revival show on Saturday night.

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Navajo Nation’s COVID-19 curfews saddled hundreds with citations, netted no money for police tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Navajo Nation tribal government passed legislation to direct revenue from COVID-19 curfew fines to the Navajo Police Department, but an investigation into the aftermath of the public safety measures found multiple breakdowns in implementation.

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Democrats predict abortion access, reproductive rights will be key issues in 2024 tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democrats on Wednesday released new campaign ads - including ones to run in Arizona - and detailed how they plan to talk about abortion access and reproductive rights leading up to the 2024 elections.

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Bonuses for execs of failed banks could be recouped under U.S. Senate bill tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. senators on a panel with jurisdiction over banking regulations approved a bipartisan bill that would allow government officials to “claw back” compensation from banking executives who fail to thwart massive failures like the historic run on Silicon Valley Bank earlier this year.

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Navajo Nation's Colorado River water rights spurned by Supreme Court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Supreme Court absolved the federal government of its responsibility to provide the Navajo Nation with water rights to the Colorado River, ending a fight for resources that stretches back over a century.

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Alito kicks up ethics questions with new undisclosed gifts from billionaire donors tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Supreme Court ethics concerns swelled as new reporting revealed an unreported luxury vacation Justice Samuel Alito accepted from a billionaire GOP donor with business before the court - though Alito argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed the "charges" against him were not valid.

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FactCheck: Republican claims about Hunter Biden offenses tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Republican lawmakers objected to a plea deal between the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden, the president’s son - here is the plea and what is known about several other offenses Republicans say Hunter Biden committed, some of which are unsubstantiated.

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Trans teen: 'Lobbying for my right to exist' tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democrats on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee discussed the need for the passage of legislation to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination, given the rise in hate crimes against the LGBTQ community and a tide of legislation in the states aiming to curb their rights.

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'Lobbying for my right to exist' tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democrats on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee discussed the need for the passage of legislation to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination, given the rise in hate crimes against the LGBTQ community and a tide of legislation in the states aiming to curb their rights.

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'QAnon Shaman' looks to overturn sentence, says he never renounced QAnon tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Jacob Angeli Chansley, who rose to prominence as the self-described “QAnon Shaman” and became, for many, the face of the Jan. 6 insurrection, is trying to get his sentence overturned and says he never renounced QAnon or felt duped by Donald Trump.

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Conservation photog's new book is a love letter to the Colorado RIver tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
The latest book by Colorado author and conservation photographer Dave Showalter, "Living River: The Promise of the Mighty Colorado," portrays the Southwestern river in a loving light.

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AZ Gov. Hobbs signs 20 more bills, vetoes another 17 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
With this year’s legislative session basically at an end, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs on Tuesday signed 20 bills and vetoed 17 others - including multiple Republican-backed election bills.

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Az state Sen. Kaiser leaves Legislature to run conservative nonprofit tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Political analysts said they were shocked by freshman Arizona Republican state Sen. Steve Kaiser’s decision to step down, as he leaves to run the Arizona Prosperity Project, a nonprofit he hopes will will influence conservative candidates from school board elections to state offices.

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Many states decline to require water breaks for outdoor workers in extreme heat tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Even as summer temperatures soar and states wrangle with protecting outdoor workers from extreme heat, lawmakers and regulators have in recent years declined to require companies to offer their outdoor laborers rest breaks with shade and water.

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AZCIR awarded fees & access, settles lawsuit with Cochise County Sheriff’s Office tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit against the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office after securing records the agency repeatedly failed to disclose, as well as an $8,000 settlement to defray costs associated with the public records fight.

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