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Pima County jail commission to redo meeting online after protest scuttled previous event tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
After last week's meeting was derailed by a raucous protest, the committee tasked with evaluating whether Pima County should build a new jail said they will reconvene Monday. However, the next meeting will not be in person, but will instead be held online.

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Dragons & burning Bibles: 9 things to know about the Az abortion rights amendment headed toward a ballot near you tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Let's just center this, fellas: the abstraction of the "abortion issue" and big questions about life and the power of the state can cloud just how real and concrete the topic is for women who are forced to confront it.

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Kansas authorities back off from raid of Marion Record newspaper tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Marion County Attorney has directed items seized from the controversial raid of rural Kansas weekly newspaper the Marion County Record be returned, and a state agency will now handle the investigation of the outlet without the information gleaned from the seizures.

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Appeals court says Phoenix Diocese can’t duck sex abuse lawsuit tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A civil lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix alleging the church helped in covering up abuse is being allowed to go forward after an Arizona appellate court reversed a dismissal by a trial court judge.

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Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples task forces given years to solve problem centuries in making tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
At least 10 states, including Arizona, and various federal agencies have launched efforts to address the problem of missing and murdered Indigenous people, but those efforts have had to grapple with historical neglect, modern bureaucracy and myriad disparities in public services.

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FactCheck: Q&A on Trump’s Georgia indictment tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
For the fourth time in a little more than four months, former President Donald Trump was indicted, this time, by a special state grand jury in Georgia that alleges Trump and 18 co-defendants conspired “to unlawfully change the outcome” of the 2020 presidential election.

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Abortion pill to stay on the market until U.S. Supreme Court ruling tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal appeals court ruled the abortion pill remains legal and on the market in states that haven’t banned it, until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to take the case, and can be used under modifications approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

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Defining which young person is 'homeless' affects aid state by state tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Arizona Department of Education estimated that there were nearly 14,000 homeless public school students in 2020-21, but there is no single, uniform definition of homelessness across states or even within the federal government, greatly complicating efforts to help young people.

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Pima County's free legal clinic Tues. helps seal old criminal records tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County will hold a free legal clinic on August 22 to help those who have been convicted of, charged with, or arrested for certain crimes petition to seal their criminal records.

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Hellertoon: Kansas police stop presses with raid on local newspaper tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
In a blatant move to halt local investigative reporting, police raided the offices of the Marion Record newspaper last Friday.

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Forest Service moves to 'thin' 775 acres on Mt. Lemmon to reduce wildfire threat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In an effort to mitigate future forest fires on Mt. Lemmon, crews with the U.S. Forest Service will cut down and pile small trees on 775 acres beginning in September, officials announced Wednesday.

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Universal ESA vouchers: Arizona’s $1 billion failed experiment tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
It’s becoming abundantly clear that Arizona’s universal voucher program is a failed $1 billion experiment that comes at the expense of over 1 million Arizona kids, and GOP legislators have done nothing to create controls for the program, or even budget to cover its ballooning costs.

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AG Mayes asks Arizona Supreme Court to reject Hamadeh’s appeal tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Supreme Court should reject Abraham Hamadeh’s insincere attempt to fast-track his appeal that aims to overturn his 2022 election loss, say lawyers for Attorney General Kris Mayes, arguing delays in the case were due to lack of action by Hamadeh’s attorneys.

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Feds won’t honor gun charge agreement with Hunter Biden, U.S. attorney says tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Though counsel for Hunter Biden told the District of Delaware Court that the government should still honor part of their client’s plea deal, the federal prosecutor investigating the case said a diversion program negotiated as part of Biden’s gun charge never actually went into effect.

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Feds ease Colorado River water cuts for thirsty Western states tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Following a winter of above-average precipitation, the Bureau of Reclamation released its Colorado River Basin plan that reduces the cuts states reliant on the river will have to shoulder, as Lakes Mead and Powell sit at a combined 36% of capacity.

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Tom Horne, Kris Mayes clash over dual-language teaching in Az classrooms tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The fight between GOP Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne and Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes over whether Arizona schools can use dual-language models to teach students who are learning English continued, with Horne again threatening to take legal action.

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Rulebook for Arizona’s 2024 elections faces criticism from multiple sides tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As Secretary of State Adrian Fontes makes rules for how next year’s elections must be run in Arizona, Republican legislative leaders say he’s overstepping his authority - and voting rights advocates say he isn’t exerting enough authority.

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Freeze on DACA approvals leaves thousands of Arizona migrants in limbo tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
There are more than 1.1 million undocumented individuals in the U.S. eligible for DACA protection – 44,000 in the state of Arizona - but fewer than half that number actually have DACA protection, according to the latest data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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Hellertoon: Trump indictments enter new territory tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
With Donald Trump being indicted in yet another place, it's hard to tell who will turn up next with a subpoena or fresh indictment.

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Claytoonz: Peaches & crimes tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Not only is Trump indicted in Georgia, but he has company in 18 other co-defendants, including such MAGA luminaries as Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, and…..RUDY GIULIANI. Hot digitty dog!

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