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Domestic violence nonprofits rocked by Trump funding freeze tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration’s push to align federal spending to the president’s agenda has sent shockwaves through the network of organizations that provide services to victims of gender-based and domestic violence.

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Lawmakers press Social Security on lag in paying expanded benefits to public employees tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. senators from both political parties wrote to the acting Social Security commissioner on Thursday, expressing concern it might take the agency more than a year to implement an expansion to benefits that Congress approved last year.

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NCAA bans trans women from women’s sports in reversal of 15-year policy tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The largest college sports governing body in the country has completely banned transgender women student-athletes from competing in women’s sports, following President Donald Trump’s executive order threatening federal funding for schools that allow trans girls on girls’ teams.

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Donald Trump’s mass deportations could mean higher costs & labor shortages in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Deportations ordered by President Donald Trump could hit Arizona’s agriculture and construction sectors hard, pushing up prices for homebuyers and grocery shoppers.

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Kelly, Gallego join Senate protest against Trump budget director pick, a Project 2025 architect tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s senators joined other Democrats in a rare overnight marathon on the Senate floor, protesting President Donald Trump’s pick for budget director – a key architect of the controversial Project 2025.

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Nunez has 6 RBIs and 4 runs, Flores has 14 strikeouts as Pima softball sweeps Glendale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (8-0, 4-0 in ACCAC) played their first home games of the 2025 season on Tuesday at the West Campus Aztec Softball Field.

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Arizona AG sues drug company GlaxoSmithKline for endangering asthma patients, skirting Medicaid payments tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline over claims the company engaged in “deceptive and unfair” practices that endangered consumers’ lives and enabled the company's attempts to game the medical system.

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Pima women's basketball outscored 23-9 in 3rd as rally falls short at Scottsdale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team (17-5, 9-3 in ACCAC) suffered a setback on the road in Wednesday’s matchup at Scottsdale Community College (13-7, 9-3).

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Seattle judge is 2nd to indefinitely block Trump’s birthright citizenship order tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge in Seattle indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship for children born to parents without legal immigration status, the second such ruling in as many days.

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Judge halts Trump federal employee buyout offer tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge on Thursday halted President Donald Trump’s “Fork in the Road” federal buyout program - being pushed by both the administration and Elon Musk as a way to drastically reduce the number of federal employees - from taking effect until at least Monday afternoon.

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TEP joins effort to expand nuclear power in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson Electric Power and two other Arizona utilities said Wednesday they will "explore" adding new nuclear power plants in the state using a smaller, modern nuclear reactor design.

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Pima basketball head coach Peabody reaches 700 career victories as Aztecs trounce Scottsdale tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s basketball team (24-0, 12-0 in ACCAC) were back in action on Wednesday, beating Scottsdale Community College 95-71.

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Tucson's streets are among the deadliest in the U.S. — here's why tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson is one of the most deadly cities in the nation for motorists and pedestrians, and though crashes and deaths fell slightly last year, pedestrian deaths are up by more than 40 percent since 2017, which experts attribute to the direction of city planning and a growing homeless population.

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Pretzel logic: Tucson biz groups twist reason to oppose Prop. 414 tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Some in the Tucson business community are looking for any excuse to rise up against the Prop. 414 sales tax to pay for housing and cops. But their arguments instantly contradict themselves, and meanwhile landlords are stealing their money.

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Trump executive order could affect challenge to Arizona’s transgender sports ban tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
President Trump signed an executive order banning transgender women and girls across the country from joining sports teams that reflect who they are - an order that could potentially affect a challenge against a similar ban in Arizona.

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Mary McLeod Bethune, the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ sought to unify African diaspora tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ embodied ideals of Pan-Africanism throughout the course of her life and sought to unify the African diaspora.

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Deadline: Tucson voters wishing to cast ballot in Prop. 414 election must register by Monday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: Tucson voters wishing to cast a ballot in the March 11 election for Prop. 414 must register to vote by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 10.

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U.S. House members battle over eliminating Education Dep't at hearing tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The largely partisan clash over whether to abolish the Department of Education came to the forefront at a hearing by a U.S. House education panel, as rumors continue to circulate over President Trump’s plans to dismantle the federal agency that’s just four-and-a-half decades old.

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Water is the other U.S.-Mexico border crisis & the supply crunch is getting worse tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Border security will be the likely focus of U.S.-Mexico relations under the new administration, but there also is a growing water crisis along the U.S.–Mexico border that affects tens of millions of people on both sides, and it can only be managed if the two governments work together.

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Az ranchers ask 9th Circuit to reopen wells shuttered for pumping Gila River water tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A group of Arizona ranchers went before the Ninth Circuit seeking to reverse a lower court decision that sealed their wells because they pumped a small percentage of Gila River water — a resource to which the Gila River Indian Community says it has full rights.

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