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Trump wants to kill CHIPS Act, saying tariff threat prompted TSMC’s new $100B bet tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Touting the $100 billion expansion TSMC announced, President Donald Trump boasted that he’d lured the chipmaker not with subsidies but with a threat of tariffs on imported semiconductors - though the next evening, Trump told Congress he wants the CHIPS Act overturned.

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Trump, again, walks back tariffs in trade war with Canada & Mexico tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to delay for a month broad tariffs he levied on Canada and Mexico earlier in the week, amid stock prices tumbling on Wall Street and heightened fears of an economic fallout.

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Trump: ‘Good people’ shouldn’t lose federal jobs, but Musk is doing an ‘amazing job’ with mass firings tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
With thousands of federal workers already laid off, President Donald Trump said that he wants his Cabinet members to “keep good people” and does not want to “see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut” - but thinks Musk and the DOGE service have done “an amazing job.”

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Senate Republicans push changes that could limit Az voting centers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Republican legislators are taking another crack at voting law changes, after the Democratic governor vetoed their recent attempt to make the state’s elections more like Florida’s.

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Senate Republicans push voting changes that could limit Az voting centers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Republican legislators are taking another crack at voting law changes, after the Democratic governor vetoed their recent attempt to make the state’s elections more like Florida’s.

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Judge puts federal funding freeze on ice, finding Trump placed himself ‘above Congress’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A second federal judge indefinitely stopped the Trump administration from enforcing a broad federal spending freeze outlined in a January memo from the White House’s budget office.

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How Tucson voters can cast their ballots in Tuesday's Prop. 414 election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
If you haven’t yet sent back your Proposition 414 ballot, Tucson election officials say it's too late to mail it but you can drop it off in person on or before Election Day on Tuesday, March 11.

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Pima County Jail officer gets 3 years of probation for punching inmate tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A corrections officer at the Pima County jail who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of an inmate last August was sentenced to three years on probation Wednesday.

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How Tucson voters can cast their ballots in Tuesday's Prop. 414 election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
If you haven’t yet sent back your Proposition 414 ballot, Tucson election officials say it's too late to mail it but you can drop it off in person on or before Election Day on Tuesday, March 11.

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How Scott Blades helped build a lifeline for people living with HIV in Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
In 1994, Scott Blades founded Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network to provide support to Tucsonans living with HIV. Three decades later, medical advancements have made the prognosis for HIV much brighter, though the stigma remains, Blades said.

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High court tips scales against veterans seeking disability benefits tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Supreme Court - testing the limits of a longstanding rule that puts extra weight behind veterans’ claims - ruled against two veterans who were denied post-traumatic stress disorder disability benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Eva Burch is resigning from Az Senate because it’s too partisan & doesn’t pay well enough tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Mesa Democratic Sen. Eva Burch announced late Wednesday afternoon that she would be resigning next week, citing partisan gridlock and the low pay state lawmakers receive.

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‘It is not efficiency, it is destruction’: Dem AGs challenge Trump & Musk’s federal cuts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The attorneys general of Arizona, Minnesota, New Mexico and Oregon vowed at a town hall in Phoenix Wednesday evening that they would continue to fight back against sweeping federal cuts being made by President Donald Trump and his ally, Elon Musk.

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Arizona election center thief gets jail time tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona man caught stealing a security fob from a Maricopa County election center will serve six months in prison followed by three years of supervised probation.

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Scientists detect higher microplastic levels in brains linked to dementia tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The tiny plastic particles found in air, water, and food known as microplastics are now turning up in the human brain. Scientists have detected them in brain tissue, with people who have dementia carrying three to five times more than those who don’t.

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Advocates express concerns over recent Az bills that would limit reproductive care tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The organization Reproductive Freedom for All Arizona and Democratic legislators gathered at the state Capitol to voice opposition to recent bills that would restrict reproductive rights.

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Court rules Arizona governmental bodies must authorize lawsuits in public votes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s open meeting laws require that city councils, school boards and other governmental bodies authorize litigation in public votes, after the Arizona Court of Appeals invalidated the City of Flagstaff’s lawsuit against Desert Mountain Energy.

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Contentious hearing ends with committee approval of Az transgender restrictions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Members of the nonbinary and transgender community urged Arizona lawmakers to vote no on a proposal that they say would lead to further violence against their community and erasure of their identities -t hough the bill passed out of committee along party lines.

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Tucson HIV/AIDS groups host benefit concert, honor TIHAN founder tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
All the proceeds from Sunday's Red Concert, honoring TIHAN founder Scott Blades, will be split between the Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network and the Center for Health and Hope. The show will feature local band ONESALL.

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Trump speech to Congress leaves Arizona Democrats unimpressed, Republicans giddy tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Democrats walked out early on President Donald Trump and others made no secret of their disapproval, though the state’s Republican lawmakers heaped praise on his Tuesday night speech and chided colleagues across the aisle over their behavior.

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