Wave of child care center closures is coming as funding dries up https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082823_child_care_funding/wave-child-care-center-closures-coming-as-funding-dries-up/
Nearly 16,000 early childhood programs have shuttered since the pandemic, and when federal stabilization funds run out at the end of September and child care providers can no longer rely on this much-needed funding, experts say the consequences could be immense.
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Trump to face trial in March 2024 in election subversion case https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082823_trump_trial_date/trump-face-trial-march-2024-election-subversion-case/
Donald Trump will face trial on March 4, 2024, in the former president’s landmark election subversion case, striking a middle ground between special counsel Jack Smith's request for a Jan. 2, 2024 start date and a proposal from the defense for April 2026.
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How the distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s words enables more, not less, racial division https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011623_mlk_words_distortion_op/how-distortion-martin-luther-king-jrs-words-enables-more-not-less-racial-division/
Uses of King’s words, especially by right-wing conservatives, are too often attempts to weaponize his memory against the multicultural democracy of which King could only dream.
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Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/011722_mlk_dream/watch-martin-luther-king-jrs-i-have-dream-speech/
Video: "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."
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Ukrainians to train on F-16 jet fighters in Tucson https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082623_ukrainian_pilot_training/ukrainians-train-f-16-jet-fighters-tucson/
Ukrainian military pilots are expected to begin training to fly F-16 fighter jets in Tucson later this year, as the United States continues to back that country in the face of Russian's invasion.
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29,000 affected in TUSD data breach https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082523_tusd_data_breach/29000-affected-tusd-data-breach/
Cybersecurity investigators contracted by Tucson Unified School District concluded approximately 29,000 people may have had personal information compromised during a network breach in January, 2023, and the district has set up a response line to help those affected.
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Excessive heat warning for Tucson, Pima County Sunday - Tuesday https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082523_excessive_heat_warning/excessive-heat-warning-tucson-pima-county-sunday-tuesday/
Parts of Southern Arizona could see "dangerously hot" temperatures as high as 115 degrees between Sunday - Tuesday, particularly the Tucson metro area and the western deserts, with temperatures in Phoenix and Yuma possibly reaching 116 degrees during the heat wave.
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Excessive heat watch for Tucson, Pima County Sunday - Tuesday https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082523_excessive_heat_watch/excessive-heat-watch-tucson-pima-county-sunday-tuesday/
Parts of Southern Arizona could see "dangerously hot" temperatures as high as 110 degrees between Sunday - Tuesday, particularly the Tucson metro area and the western deserts, with temperatures in Phoenix and Yuma possibly reaching 117 degrees during the heat wave.
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Tucson-area leaders fear for future of abortion rights https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082523_abortion_roundtable/tucson-area-leaders-fear-future-abortion-rights/
A group of local elected officials expressed concern about abortion rights in Arizona after the state Supreme Court agreed to consider whether to reinstate a territorial-era law that would almost entirely ban abortion and punish doctors with jail time.
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Trial over key Biden immigration policy underway in Texas https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082523_immigration_parole/trial-over-key-biden-immigration-policy-underway-texas/
A group of red states began to make their case Thursday, asking to federal judge to do away with a Biden administration program that allows 30,000 people per month from four troubled countries to be paroled into the United States.
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Arizona synagogues, Jewish organizations, targeted in ‘swatting’ hoaxes https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082523_jewish_swatting/arizona-synagogues-jewish-organizations-targeted-swatting-hoaxes/
Arizona is one of 12 states that have been the target of hoax calls to police or suicide hotlines where a man on the line says he aims to kill himself and others with a bomb, prompting a police response in an online form of harassment known as “swatting.”
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‘All we want is revenge’: How social media fuels gun violence among teens https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082523_social_media_violence/all-we-want-revenge-how-social-media-fuels-gun-violence-among-teens/
Teens post photos or videos of themselves with guns and stacks of cash, sometimes calling out rivals, on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok. When messages go viral, fueled by “likes” and comments, the danger is hard to contain.
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Updated COVID-19 vaccines expected to be available in September, federal officials say https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082523_covid_vaccines/updated-covid-19-vaccines-expected-available-september-federal-officials-say/
The Biden administration is gearing up for a fall vaccination campaign that not only includes updated COVID-19 boosters - expected in September - but also the annual flu shot and the newly approved RSV vaccine.
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Living with wildfire: How to protect more homes as fire risk rises in a warming climate https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082523_wildfire_risks_op/living-with-wildfire-how-protect-more-homes-as-fire-risk-rises-warming-climate/
Over a century of fire suppression efforts has conditioned people to expect firefighters to snuff out wildfires, but extensive fire suppression has set the stage for the increasingly destructive wildfires we see today, and efforts to adopt a more selective policy have run into opposition.
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The long struggle over taxing the rich https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082623_wealth_tax/the-long-struggle-over-taxing-rich/
A decades-long conservative struggle to reduce taxes paid by higher-income Americans has efforts to pass a federal wealth tax at a standstill, but a growing movement at the state level to get high-income people to contribute more to public coffers is beginning to notch successes.
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Death counts remain high in some states even as COVID fatalities wane https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082623_covid_deaths/death-counts-remain-high-some-states-even-as-covid-fatalities-wane/
Several months after President Joe Biden ended the national emergency for COVID-19, preliminary health data indicates the degree to which the pandemic increased death rates nationwide - not just because of the virus itself, but also through the pandemic’s effects on society.
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Arizona soccer settles for a tie with visiting GC Antelopes https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/082523_arizona-soccer/arizona-soccer-settles-tie-with-visiting-gc-antelopes/
Nicole Dallin scored a 7th-minute goal for the Wildcats, but the team had to settle for a draw as Grand Canyon came back in the second half.
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Pima volleyball falls to No. 6 Grand Rapids CC to open Aztec Classic Invitational https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/082423_pcc_volleyball/pima-volleyball-falls-no-6-grand-rapids-cc-open-aztec-classic-invitational/
The Pima Community College volleyball team (1-4) opened play in the Aztec Classic on Thursday at the West Campus Aztec Gymnasium.
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Trump surrenders at Atlanta jail in election interference RICO case https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082423_trump_booking/trump-surrenders-atlanta-jail-election-interference-rico-case/
Former President Donald Trump turned himself in for booking at the Fulton County Jail Thursday for his charges in the Georgia 2020 election interference case, his fourth indictment since April, when he became the first former president in U.S. history to be charged with a crime.
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Hobbs: Flags to half-staff to honor IRS special agent https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082323_irs_agent_half_staff/hobbs-flags-half-staff-honor-irs-special-agent/
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered flags at all state buildings be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset Thursday, August 24, to honor of IRS Special Agent Patrick Bauer, who died after being shot during a training incident at a firing range last Thursday.
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