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Bill to make ‘Gilbert Goons’ style attacks felonies moves forward in Arizona Senate tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In response to the brutal beating death of Preston Lord at the hands of a teen gang called the “Gilbert Goons,” Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell wants to make group assaults on a single person felonies instead of misdemeanors in the state of Arizona.

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Trump adds teacher training grants suit to emergency application pile at Supreme Court tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump ramped up complaints about the unchecked power of federal judges on Wednesday, filing his third emergency request at the Supreme Court — this time targeting millions in teacher training grants caught in the White House's anti-DEI roundup.

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Kelly, Gallego call for Hegseth to resign over Signal leak of attack plans tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s senators called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign on Wednesday, accusing him of egregious carelessness for sharing plans of an impending attack in a chat group that included a journalist.

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DC Circuit declines to lift judge’s order freezing Venezuelan deportation flights tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A D.C. Circuit panel denied the Justice Department’s request to lift a federal judge’s temporary restraining order preventing the deportation of any migrants under the Alien Enemies Act.

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Stanton & Ansari demand restoration of Arizona Native heroes to Pentagon website tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Content about two prominent Arizona Native American veterans that was removed from the U.S. Department of Defense’s website during a purge of information that didn’t focus on the accomplishments of white men remains missing.

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Trump imposes 25% tariff on foreign-made autos, light trucks tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to impose a 25% tariff on imported cars and light trucks that will go into effect April 2, and add to – not replace – any other applicable existing tariffs.

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Az Sec of State Adrian Fontes won’t join race to fill Grijalva vacancy in Congress tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes announced Wednesday that he would not run in the CD 7 special election to fill the seat of U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, who died after a battle with lung cancer on March 13.

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En su funeral, Tucsonense Raúl Grijalva recordado como campeón de la gente y medio ambiente tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Raúl Grijalva, hijo de un vaquero inmigrante que ascendió desde la Junta Directiva del TUSD a los pasillos del Congreso a lo largo de una carrera que abarcó más de medio siglo en la política de Arizona, fue recordado en su funeral el miércoles como un hombre del pueblo.

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At his funeral, Tucson's Raul Grijalva remembered as a champion of people & environment tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Raul Grijalva, the son of an immigrant cowboy who rose from a seat on the school board to the halls of Congress over the course of a career that spanned more than half a century in Arizona politics, was remembered at his Wednesday funeral as a man of the people who never lost sight of his humble origins.

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Arizona challenges Trump’s ‘contempt’ for civil service as judge extends worker protections tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal judge in Maryland said he will briefly extend his temporary order requiring the Trump administration to reinstate federal jobs for 24,000 fired probationary employees while he considers whether to make it last until the case is decided.

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Military-grade surveillance tech will be on display at Border Security Expo in Phoenix next month tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Phoenix will be hosting a convention featuring President Donald Trump’s “border czar,” as well as hundreds of military and tech companies bidding for government border contracts, including a company involved in the torture in Abu Ghraib.

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Arizona GOP wages legislative war on transgender existence tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republicans in the Arizona Legislature have sponsored and supported several pieces of legislation this year that focus on regulating the experiences of transgender people, who make up around 1% of the state’s population, and aim to erase trans identities, though vetoes are certain.

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Trump orders an overhaul of how elections are run, inviting a likely legal challenge tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order that would dramatically change the administration of U.S. elections, including requiring people to prove their citizenship when registering to vote, but many expect the order to face quick legal challenges.

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2 bills would provide nearly $20M for communications, equipment to help battle Az wildfires tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona lawmakers are considering two bills that would enhance fire departments’ ability to communicate with other agencies during a wildfire and pay for engines and water tenders that can travel over rugged terrain.

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Supreme Court upholds ghost gun rule tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Supreme Court upheld a Biden-era gun regulation, ruled that a 2022 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rule was consistent with the Gun Control Act of 1968, finding that ghost gun kits are clearly weapons as defined under the statute.

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Federal judge blocks Trump from shuttering Radio Free Europe tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to cut funding for Radio Free Europe, a nonprofit news agency funded by the U.S. government that operates in 23 countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.

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Arizona Senate committee advances measures to relax groundwater restrictions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As Arizona continues to over pump groundwater across the state, lawmakers advanced four measures that would ease pumping regulations in active groundwater management areas.

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Hobbs displays tribal flags in Az Capitol offices after removal from VA hospital tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Following the abrupt removal of the flags representing Arizona’s 22 tribal nations from the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in central Phoenix, Gov. Katie Hobbs is displaying the flags in the Executive Tower at the State Capitol.

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Trump administration challenges order to reinstate refugee services contracts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration appealed a federal judge’s order that the State Department restore contracts to nonprofits that aid in refugee resettlement.

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Kelly, biz leaders warn Medicaid cuts could devastate Az healthcare; Ciscomani rejects 'outlandish lies' tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly and Arizona business leaders are sounding the alarm that Medicaid cuts could “result in massive job losses statewide and reduce economic productivity," while GOP Rep. Juan Ciscomani says "outlandish lies" are being spread about cuts.

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