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Trump’s tariff threats fit a growing global phenomenon: Hardball migration diplomacy tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
“Migration diplomacy” – the use of diplomatic tools and threats to control the number and flow of migrants – isn’t new, and while it can be cooperative, there’s always the possibility a disagreement will spiral into diplomatic spats or outright conflict.

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Trump idles National Labor Relations Board with two firings tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump ousted National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented move that paralyzes the board, and also fired NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, teeing up a constitutional challenge that could further weaken worker protections.

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Grazing project could burden endangered wolves, conservationists tell 9th Circuit tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Conservationists asked the 9th Circuit to order the U.S. Forest Service to reconsider the potential impacts of a large-scale grazing project on the continued recovery and survival of the Mexican gray wolf.

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Kris Mayes warns Az federal workers to pass on Trump’s ‘unenforceable’ mass buyout offer tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A dozen attorneys general, including Arizona’s Kris Mayes, are warning federal employees across the country to be wary of the White House’s so-called buyout offer.

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ACLU & immigration legal aid groups sue Trump administration over asylum ban tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The American Civil Liberties Union, along with immigration legal aid groups, filed the first major lawsuit against the Trump administration’s proclamation of an “invasion” at the southern border to justify expelling migrants and preventing them from claiming asylum.

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2nd federal judge issues temporary order blocking Trump's spending freeze tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the Trump administration from implementing a spending freeze on grant and loan programs that was outlined in a memo released last week, but has since been rescinded.

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Barajas launches Tucson City Council campaign with powerhouse endorsements tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Democrat Selina Barajas rolled out a formal launch of her Council campaign on Monday, naming supporters that include U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, Mayor Regina Romero, Ward 1 Councilmember Lane Santa Cruz, Supervisors Adelita Grijalva, Jennifer Allen and Matt Heinz, and South Tucson Mayor Roxanna Valenzuela.

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Hotel Congress to host benefit show for LA fire relief, tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Howe Gelb and Friends, Beth Goodfellow, Orchadia, Jason Lytle, Gabby Pietrangelo and more local talent will play on the Hotel Congress Plaza stage for the benefit of Los Angeles musicians who were affected by the wildfires that began last month. "Tucson Loves LA" will take place Friday night.

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Town halls set for Tucson’s March Prop. 414 election to raise sales tax tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The city of Tucson has scheduled three town halls for citizens to learn more about Prop. 414, which would raise the city’s sales tax by a half-cent per dollar for 10 years to boost funding for the police and fire departments and offer programs to reduce homelessness, help with childcare and otherwise assist low-income Tucsonans.

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Trump delays tariffs on Mexico for one month tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Presidents Donald Trump and Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico will delay tariffs on each other’s countries for one month in exchange for added military personnel on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Marana teacher on leave after explaining how intersex people don’t fit into Trump’s executive order tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Marana High School teacher is on leave after followers of right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe called for his firing for defying an executive order from President Donald Trump and sharing information about androgen insensitivity syndrome with his students.

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The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar: poet who gave dignity to the Black experience tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In a short yet prolific life, Paul Laurence Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century.

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Why Trump’s tariffs can’t solve America’s fentanyl crisis tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The U.S. has an addiction problem that spans decades – long predating the rise of fentanyl - and while both fentanyl and represent significant threats, the real question is whether tariffs will work – or worsen what’s already a crisis.

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Student protest overwhelms anti-immigrant event at ASU tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
On the same day that a white supremacy aligned university club encouraged students to report their classmates to ICE, hundreds of Arizona State University Sun Devils responded by marching in support of their undocumented classmates.

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ICE enforcement official tapped to lead unaccompanied migrant children office, triggering alarms tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A longtime immigration enforcement official has been tapped to run the agency responsible for managing unaccompanied migrant children, a move that has alarmed those who are concerned that information about children and their families will be shared for arrests and deportations.

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Arizona officials struggle to straighten out voter rolls after proof-of-citizenship mixup tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Because of a 20-year-old government foul-up, about 200,000 Arizona voters will need to come up with proof of their citizenship soon in order to protect their full voting rights, and they might not even know about it yet.

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Christy wants full Conover memo on immigration arrests made public; Tucson House to change hands tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Supervisor Christy wants the Pima County supervisors to make public legal advice from the county attorney about not instantly complying with Trump's immigration arrests, Plus: Marana moving money around, Tucson to set elections and more from local government meetings this week.

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Former Councilmember Wheeler & THS science teacher join Tucson's Ward 6 scrum tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Bruce Wheeler, a former Tucson City Council member and, more recently a state lawmaker, and Jim Sinex, who has taught science at Tucson High, both filed statements of interest in the race last week, joining the four candidates who were already seeking to represent the Midtown ward.

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Former Councilmember Wheeler & THS science teacher join Tucson's Ward 6 scrum tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Bruce Wheeler, a former Tucson City Council member and, more recently a state lawmaker, and Jim Sinex, who has taught science at Tucson High, both filed statements of interest in the race last week, joining the four candidates who were already seeking to represent the Midtown ward.

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Bringing the hospital into the home tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A movement to provide hospital-level care for sick patients in their own beds, in the comfort of familiar surroundings, is growing in the United States — a trend already embraced in some other countries.

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