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Fearing political violence, more states ban firearms at polling places tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Facing increased threats to election workers and superheated political rhetoric from former President Donald Trump and his supporters, more states are considering firearm bans at polling places and ballot drop boxes ahead of November’s presidential election.

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Storylines, sleepers to watch: 68 teams look to write their chapter during March Madness tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
March Madness means roughly two and half weeks of quintessential basketball games, breakthrough performances, Cinderella stories and millions of busted brackets lie ahead - hre are some storylines and teams that can make headlines across the country.

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Legislative inaction & dissatisfaction lead to more issues going directly to voters in ballot initiatives tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Citizen-led ballot measures are increasingly being used in Arizona and elsewhere in a more broadly representative manner, with measures that often address a variety of progressive policies - at a time when lawmakers have adopted measures making it harder to get them on the ballot.

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Medication abortion rates grew 10% over last few years tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
63% of abortions in the U.S. last year were medication abortions, with medication abortions increasing by 10% from 2020 to 2023 - and despite the patchwork of abortion laws in the nation, Americans terminated pregnancies at the highest number and rate seen in a decade.

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As Az Republicans approved strict immigration bills, opponents rallied against ‘racist’ proposals tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As Republican lawmakers unanimously greenlit bills to jail and deport migrants in the state Senate, Arizona immigrants and Latino voter advocates rallied outside, vowing to unseat them for pushing “racist” policies.

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U.S. Senate GOP seeking to attach immigration measure to massive spending bill tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Senate Republicans want to tie an immigration bill named for a slain Georgia nursing student to a massive spending package lawmakers must pass by Friday night to avoid a partial shutdown.

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Gonzales, Baker & Alexander combine for 73 as Pima men keep basketball season alive tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s basketball team (29-5) is still alive in the NJCAA Division II National Tournament after picking up the win on Thursday against No. 16 seed Hocking College (24-8) in the seventh-place consolation bracket.

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Syphilis: Deadly but easily treated disease on rise tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Syphilis has been on the rise for the past 10 years across the country, and Native American people have the highest rates, and a DHHS task force will focus efforts on Arizona and other states to promote health equity in the most impacted communities.

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Seventeen-year-old Arizona racial profiling case returns to the 9th Circuit tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal appeals panel considered Wednesday whether a federal judge can give decision-making authority to a court-appointed monitor in a nearly two-decade class action over racial profiling by Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.

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Bills to protect Arizona kids from online porn advance with GOP support tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two bills aimed at limiting underage access to obscene online materials were the center of discussion as Arizona lawmakers weighed their options for how to best protect Arizona children from online pornography.

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States rethink ambitious projects as tax revenues shrink & pandemic aid ends tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A projected $1.7 billion budget deficit looms in Arizona after a flat income tax enacted by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in 2021 took effect last year, and many other states arealso being forced to rethink expensive projects as tax revenues decline and federal pandemic aid ends.

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Feds award Intel $8.5 billion; money to expand Chandler, other chip plants tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The federal government awarded nearly $20 billion of grants and loans to Intel Corp. to construct and expand semiconductor facilities in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico and Oregon, including more than 3,000 manufacturing jobs and 7,000 construction jobs in Chandler.

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Pro-immigrant business leaders: Az GOP bills targeting migrants are ‘anti-business’ tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona business leaders slammed a GOP bill allowing the state to arrest and deport migrants as “anti-business” and “bad for Arizona,” and called on lawmakers to defeat it.

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Expanded child tax credit stranded in U.S. Senate by GOP comparisons to welfare tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
One of the cheapest provisions aimed at helping low-income families has become a main sticking point for Republican senators as they negotiate a bipartisan tax package that attracted broad support in the U.S. House.

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Az AG joins lawsuit, accuses Apple of operating smartphone monopoly tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Justice Department and 16 states, including Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, are suing Apple, accusing the company of trying to create a monopoly on smartphone markets to the detriment of consumers and innovation.

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EPA finalizes regulation to boost electric vehicle sales tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration has finalized regulations hoping to accelerate sales of electric vehicles and cut carbon emissions while giving automakers more time and leeway to comply than initially proposed.

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Mounting research shows COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including significant drops in IQ scores tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as a significant health condition that many experience after COVID-19, and four years later, there is now abundant evidence that being infected with SARS-CoV-2 can affect brain health in many ways.

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Arizona ‘excited’ for 1st Four matchup against Auburn in nat'l tournament tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
For the fourth consecutive year, the Arizona women’s basketball team was invited to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, and it might have been the first upset of the spring, with the Wildcats drawing a First Four bid as an 11-seed in Portland Region 3.

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Man with Pima County molestation conviction dies in state prison custody tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A man sentenced in 2022 in a Pima County child molestation case died Wednesday in the custody of Arizona state prison officials. Modesto Jimenez, 46, was pronounced dead at a hospital in Phoenix — the ninth Arizona prisoner to die in March.

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Ballet Tucson's spring concert to close season 'with a bang' tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Ballet Tucson will close the dance company's season "with a bang," performing classical and neo-classical pieces in a spring concert this weekend.

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