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Mail-order abortion medication is safe and effective, study shows tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s impending ruling on an abortion pill case, a study published found that medication abortion after in-person screening is safe and effective.

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Number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Births continued a historic slide in all but two states last year, making it clear that a brief post-pandemic uptick in the nation’s birth numbers was all about planned pregnancies that had been delayed temporarily by COVID-19.

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New list rates most bipartisan members of Congress—and least tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The latest ranking of the most bipartisan lawmakers comes amid one of the least productive Congresses in the nation’s history and just months before nearly all House lawmakers and about one-third of the Senate face voters at the polls in November.

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Public support for abortion rights swells in two years after Dobbs tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal right to abortion and returned the matter to the states, an even larger majority of Americans support legal access to abortion than did before.

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Tariffs to be sharply hiked by Biden administration on Chinese-made products tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration is doubling and in some cases tripling tariffs on Chinese-made products, like steel and electric vehicles, in a move aimed at easing economic pain in battleground states, though senior administration officials say it isn’t political.

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Plumbing issue at Lake Powell dam could mean big trouble for Western water tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Conservation groups are calling for changes to the management of Lake Powell, the nation’s second largest reservoir, after the discovery of damaged plumbing within Glen Canyon Dam.

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9th Circuit rules convicted felons also have 2nd Amendment rights tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The 9th Circuit appellate court ruled that a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court means a blanket prohibition on convicted felons possessing firearms violates their 2nd Amendment rights, at least when it comes to nonviolent offenders who served out their sentence.

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Biden, Hobbs: Flags to half-staff Wednesday in honor of National Peace Officers Memorial Day tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Flags across Arizona should be flown at half-staff Wednesday in honor of National Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered, in coordination with a national proclamation by President Joe Biden.

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Pima Supe Matt Heinz files campaign report 100 days late tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County Supervisor Matt Heinz — whose District 2 includes Midtown Tucson, the South Side and Sahuarita — filed his fourth-quarter campaign finance report May 10, nearly four months late.

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Enforcement of Arizona's 1864 abortion ban delayed until late September tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to delay the enforcement of a 160-year-old abortion ban that mandates prison time for doctors, granting women and health care providers across the state a reprieve until September.

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Sentinel's Nintzel to moderate Clean Elections debates for Arizona political candidates tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Candidates for the U.S. House and Senate, Arizona Legislature and more will appear in a series of 2024 Clean Elections primary debates convened by the Arizona Media Association, with several moderated by Tucson Sentinel's Jim Nintzel.

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Sahuarita math fail: Water company seeking rate hike but flubs numbers tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Nothing is 135 percent less than anything: Global Water's math failure prompts questions, plus money moving around the school districts with new conduct rules at TUSD, and more from local government meetings around Tucson.

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Az Ag Dept: Pasteurization is limiting risk of H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cows tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
People should avoid raw milk products, and only drink pasteurized milk in order to limit the risk of contracting H5N1 avian influenza, which is impacting dairy cows in multiple states, officials said.

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Border shelters stave off ‘homelessness on steroids,’ but funding worries remain tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Asylum seekers get food, clothes, and at temporary shelters such as Casa Alitas, where hundreds – sometimes thousands – of asylum seekers, many of them young children, are dropped off with little more than the clothes on their backs.

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7 realities for Black students in America, 70 years after Brown deseg decision tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
For many Black students, 70 years since the nation’s highest court held unanimously that separate is inherently unequal, educational resources and access remain woefully uneven.

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‘Uncomfortable’ but necessary conversations: How Az abortion laws affect Indigenous women tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Indivisible Tohono, a grassroots group that organizes and educates on issues impacting the Tohono O’odham Nation, hosted a community forum to discuss how Arizona’s abortion ban would impact Indigenous women.

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Az Supreme Court says Cook will be on ballot, GOP attorney asks for reversal of sanctions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Republican David Cook’s name will be on the primary ballot for the Arizona Senate’s Legislative District 7, despite attempts by his opponent, Republican incumbent Wendy Rogers, to get him kicked out of the race.

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NAU research team addresses disparities in access to autism services tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Researchers at Northern Arizona University have launched a project to study persistent disparities in autism services for children from underserved communities after a report showed children with autism spectrum disorder was higher among Black, Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander children.

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In role-playing elections officials for a day, journalists grapple with AI trickery tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, along with election advocacy organizations, put together what is called a Tabletop Exercise for members of the media to participate in so they could better understand the challenges that elections officials face.

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Wilson: Getting RTA Next priorities right more important than forcing consensus tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
"If we are going to continue to use the RTA model to fund regional transportation for the next 20 years, it’s more important to get the priorities right than it is to appear to agree for the sake of agreeing." Ex-Citizens Advisory Committee member Rachel Wilson

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