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Nearly 1 in 4 adults dumped from Medicaid now uninsured tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Nearly a quarter of adults disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year say they are now uninsured, and tens of millions of Americans have struggled to retain coverage in the government insurance program for low-income people after pandemic-era protections began expiring.

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Black people have highest opioid fatality rate among all other races/ethnicities in Az tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Black people in Arizona die from opioid overdoses more than any other race or ethnicity, and fear of legal consequences can discourage people of color from seeking help for their addictions.

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U.S. Senate Dems step up Supreme Court ethics probe with subpoena to Leonard Leo tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Following through on months of threats, Senate Democrats served legal advocate and conservative megadonor Leonard Leo with a congressional subpoena compelling him to turn over information about his relationships with Supreme Court justices.

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Az House speaker: Republicans might put their own abortion measure on ballot tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republicans in the Arizona legislature are considering sending their own abortion measure to the ballot this November to compete with a citizen-led one that’s already in the works, after legislative Republicans voted to recess rather than vote on a bill repealing the 1864 ban.

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Katie Hobbs vetoed a trio of Republican election bills tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed her first Republican election bills this year, only a few of the numerous election-related bills proposed in the state legislature, with many of them failing to make it to a vote in both chambers.

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New Az law creates confusion on how counties must track dropped-off mail ballots tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Poll workers in Maricopa and Pinal counties will do an on-site count of how many mail ballots are dropped off at their voting locations on election day, but there’s debate among election officials and lawmakers over whether a new law requires them to do it at the polling place.

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Former Councilmember Uhlich applies for Tucson City Council vacancy tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: Karin Uhlich, who formerly represented Ward 3 on the Tucson City Council, told the Tucson Sentinel she has applied to finish the term of Steve Kozachik, who stepped down from the job on March 31.

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Just stop: Kari Lake's newest abortion stance is worse than a flip-flop tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Kari Lake, you just lit my fuse with your new video released to do damage control after flip-flopping on abortion. And every bit of it is either sheer ignorance, or the work of a lying liar who lies a lot.

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Outgoing Pima County Treasurer tells Supes that one applicant for her job is unqualified tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the two applicants for Pima County treasurer prepare to meet in an online forum Thursday, outgoing county banker Beth Ford is saying one of them is unqualified for the office.

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Az's pre-statehood laws banning abortion also made gay sex punishable by up to life in prison tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
We looked at Arizona's territorial laws and found one that would criminalize LGBTQ+ people, with a potential life sentence for having consensual sex.

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Az appeals court rejects Abe Hamadeh’s third challenge to his 2022 AG loss tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Nearly a year-and-a-half after the election, an Arizona appeals court agreed with a trial court judge that Abe Hamadeh’s third challenge to the results of the 2022 election should not move forward.

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Former Councilmember Uhlich applies for Tucson City Council vacancy tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Karin Uhlich, who formerly represented Ward 3 on the Tucson City Council, told the Tucson Sentinel she has applied to finish the term of Steve Kozachik, who stepped down from the job on March 31.

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U.S. Capitol Police chief describes preparations for possible post-election turmoil tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger sought to ease concerns from the lawmakers, saying the department is preparing for major upcoming events — including another potential Jan. 6 — by trying to grow the size of its force and overhauling its intelligence gathering activities.

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City-country mortality gap widens amid persistent holes in rural health care access tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Health disparities between rural and urban Americans have long been documented, but a recent report found the chasm has grown in recent decades, with rural Americans from 25 to 54 dying from natural causes at wildly higher rates than the same age group living in urban areas.

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Arizona clinics vow to continue providing abortions, but unsure for how much longer tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
One day after the Arizona Supreme Court resurrected a law that makes it a felony to perform an abortion, clinics around the state said they will continue offering care even as they scramble to figure out how long they can do so.

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Tribal leaders seeking solutions to cartel crime, say they mostly got talk tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Congressional lawmakers wanted to talk about the problems of foreign criminal cartels operating on Indigenous lands, but though tribal leaders came to the House subcommittee hearing seeking solutions, they left the hearing afraid it was just another “check-a-box-off” exercise.

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Republican National Committee courts election conspiracy theorists to help watch polls tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As the Republican National Committee ramps up plans to monitor the polls for illegal voting this fall, the national party is increasingly working with a loose network of anti-fraud extremists who have been found to routinely spread election lies.

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Feds strengthen background check requirements for gun purchases tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Justice Department has finalized regulations that strengthens the definition of people who are “engaged in the business” of selling firearms and are thus required to conduct a background check to crack down on unlicensed firearms dealers.

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In Nogales, a push to target 'plaza bosses' to stem fentanyl smuggling into U.S. tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said they are targeting drug cartel "plaza bosses" in Nogales, Ariz., and Sonora who move fentanyl north into Arizona.

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GOP thwarts attempts to repeal Az’s 1864 abortion ban tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican lawmakers in the Arizona legislature blocked multiple efforts to repeal the near-total abortion ban from 1864, saying they need more time to consider the repercussions of doing so.

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