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'Blue Ribbon Commission' Pima jail meeting scuttled by brass band, protesters tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A committee tasked with evaluating whether Pima County should build a new jail halted their meeting Thursday morning after a few dozen people, led by a small brass band and a drummer, took over the room and began chanting and cheering.

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Thousands helped, thousands more may still be in need after Arizona Medicaid scams tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A state hotline has helped thousands of tribal victims in the two months since state officials uncovered a string of fraudulent Medicaid-funded addiction care facilities in Arizona, but the exact scale of the problem is still unknown.

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USDA’s climate grants for farms & forests run into Republican buzzsaw tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration is spending more than $3 billion to cultivate more American farmers and forest landowners as partners to mitigate climate change — even while some Republicans on Capitol Hill try to stop the program entirely.

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The Trump indictments: a 7-year timeline of key developments tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Former President Donald Trump is a defendant in three criminal proceedings - with a possible fourth indictment in Georgia - and in months to come, the legal proceedings will demand Trump’s time and attention as he wages his campaign for the 2024 GOP nomination for president.

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Using 'recycled plastic' in construction materials may not be a great idea after all tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Using “recycled” plastic in construction materials might seem like a pretty good idea, but independent experts tell a much more complicated story, suggesting that most applications involving plastic waste in infrastructure are not ready for prime time.

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Lost Medicaid health coverage? Here’s what you need to know tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Medicaid is undergoing tremendous upheaval as an estimated 8.2 million people, including over 150,000 Arizonans, will need to find new coverage since pandemic protections for Medicaid enrollees came to an end - and though there is help, consumers should be wary.

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The other billionaires who have treated the Supreme Court justice to luxury travel tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas’ leisure activities have been underwritten by benefactors who share the ideology that drives his jurisprudence, and he appears to have violated the law by failing to disclose flights, yacht cruises and expensive tickets.

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Wildcat soccer flies away, yeah, to Malibu tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Arizona’s women’s soccer team opens their season against Pepperdine University in Malibu on Thursday. The Waves have been a tough opponent for the Wildcats, but that is fine with the players.

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Pima Sheriff's Dep't failed to notify family of dead inmate for 2.5 months tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The family of a 22-year-old Minnesota man who died in the Pima County Jail in May spent months posting on social media searching for information about him, asked law enforcement about him and checked with Tucson-area hospitals and the jail, and yet they did not learn of his overdose death until Tuesday.

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Arizona judge detains two charged in fundamentalist sexual abuse case tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal judge in Arizona denied pretrial release to two people indicted alongside Samuel Rappylee Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet accused of sexually abusing nearly a dozen underage girls from 2019 to 2022.

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Tucson officials ditch 'waste to energy' proposal — again tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson officials again backed away from a proposal to turn plastic trash into fuel on Tuesday: the latest step along a controversial, on-again, off-again path for "waste to energy" at the city landfill.

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Trump fights for looser rules on sharing evidence in Jan. 6 case tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The federal judge overseeing the case against Donald Trump over alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election ordered Justice Department prosecutors and the former president's legal team ordered to sit down Friday and determine a set of rules covering evidence review.

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VP Kamala Harris unveils new wage rule for federal projects tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Construction workers who work on federal projects are poised to receive better wages and worker protections under a Department of Labor rule that transforms how prevailing wages, or the hourly rate of wages paid to workers in a given area, are calculated.

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Study links testicular cancer among military personnel to PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A new study found strong evidence that airmen who were firefighters had elevated levels of PFAS in their bloodstreams, and for the first time shows a direct association between PFOS, a PFAS chemical, found in the blood of thousands of military personnel, and testicular cancer.

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Maricopa County sees record heat & record evictions in July tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The month of July saw a record-breaking 31 days of continuous 110-degree heat in Phoenix — and as the heat rose, Maricopa County also saw the most eviction cases filed since 2008.

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Ivermectin proponents ask 5th Circuit to revive lawsuit vs. FDA tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Counsel for three doctors - including one referred to regulatory boards in Washington state and Arizona for disciplinary proceedings - who prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID-19 told the Fifth Circuit the FDA overstepped its authority with an information campaign against the drug.

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Lessons of mass destruction on 78th anniversary of Hiroshima attack could guide future nuke talks tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima during WWII marks its 78th anniversary, the lessons of unnecessary mass destruction learned could help guide future nuclear arms talks.

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Local bands rock Rialto at Metal Fest 25 on Friday tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Six local bands are set to rock the stage at Metal Fest 25 at the Rialto Theatre on Friday: Dedwin, The Crown Syndicate, Tonight's Sunshine, Ash to Dust, The Wind Below and Hell Doubt.

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How the Texas AG’s office became a pipeline for conservative federal judges tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Texas attorney general’s office is often in headlines representing a conservative voice in legal fights over health care, abortion and immigration - and over the course of more than two decades, the office has become a pipeline for conservative federal judges.

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Advocates launch initiative to secure abortion rights in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A coalition of groups is seeking to ask voters to enshrine the right to an abortion in the Arizona Constitution. If approved by voters in the November 2024 election, the Arizona Abortion Access Act would allow women to terminate their pregnancy until the point at which a fetus could survive outside the womb.

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