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Pentagon blames ‘mistake’ for deletion of Navajo Code Talkers pages in DEI scrub tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Pentagon called the removal of Navajo Code Talker content a “mistake,” vowing to restore material taken offline during a scrub of DEI content - even as a surviving Code Talker objected to any implication that celebrating heroes who helped to win World War II equates with DEI.

‘Make them fear voters more than Trump’: Kelly, Gallego rally against GOP Medicaid cuts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Sens. Rueben Gallego and Mark Kelly sounded the alarm about Republican plans to slash Medicaid health care funding, telling attendees at a town hall in Scottsdale that working class Arizonans will be devastated if voters don’t get engaged and apply pressure now.

Arizona Senate committee approves $50 million for ‘border crime’ enforcement tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona Senate committee approved a bill that would nearly triple the amount of state funds spent on enforcing “border-related crimes," and voted to approve a bill which would grant police immunity from civil liability for damage to drones shot down within 15 miles of the border.

Trump wants to ‘go back to paper ballots.’ Most of America already uses them. tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
President Trump recently repeated his calls for exclusively using paper ballots, but in reality, the overwhelming majority of the country already uses paper ballots, and some believe he means getting rid of all electronic equipment used to mark or count ballots.

Utilities are shutting off power to a growing number of households tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Electric utilities in Arizona and across the United States are shutting off power to a growing number of households, and most shutoffs happened during last year’s record-hot summer, a reminder that climate change fuels more intense, frequent and prolonged heat waves.

Hobbs, GOP leaders trade accusations over DCS funding shortfall for group homes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Legislative Republicans have accused Arizona’s Democratic governor of “financial malfeasance.” In response, Gov. Hobbs alleged that GOP leaders lied to reporters about a standard budgeting transfer to take attention away from their plans to cut services to people with disabilities.

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