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Report: Trump admin mulls opening Arizona's Ironwood Forest Nat'l Monument to drilling & mining tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Trump administration is contemplating shrinking six national monuments and opening them up for mining and oil drilling, including the 129,000-acre Ironwood Forest National Monument near Tucson.

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Ganter, Richards & Plasschaert homer as Pima baseball stymies Mesa tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (45-11, 29-11 in ACCAC) closed out the regular season on Saturday at Mesa Community College (30-26, 17-23). Their 29-11 record in conference play is the most wins since 1987, when they won 30 games.

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Verificación de hechos: Cómo combatir la desinformación tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
A medida que ha crecido la popularidad de las redes sociales, también lo ha hecho el alcance de la desinformación viral y su velocidad de propagación. Y este entorno plagado de falsedades es, cada vez más, el lugar donde la gente se informa.

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FactCheck: How to combat misinformation tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As the popularity of social media platforms has grown, so too has the scope of viral misinformation and the speed with which it travels. And this falsehood-fraught environment is increasingly where people get their news.

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‘I wanted to kill them all’: Inmate admits targeting sex offenders in Tucson prison killings tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Ricky Wassenaar killed three men at an Arizona State Prison near Tucson on April 4. Two were serving life sentences for sexual conduct with a minor. The third had raped and killed a 15-year-old girl.

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After deporting 3 U.S. citizen children, Trump’s border czar says it’s the parents’ fault tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
White House border czar Tom Homan on Monday blamed the parents of U.S. citizen children the Trump administration sent to Honduras over the weekend.

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Judge dismisses challenge to Tucson Council candidate's nominating petitions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Democrat Chris Elsner will remain in the race for Tucson City Council after a lawsuit challenging his candidacy was dismissed on a legal technicality.

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When does Trump’s defiance of courts over deportations become a constitutional crisis? tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Historians are hard-pressed to recall an instance when a president defied federal courts as blatantly as President Donald Trump has done in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Sahuarita ready to vote on a 233-acre rezoning; Oro Valley will review $45.3M capital budget tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Sahuarita Town Council will vote Monday on a tiny land exchange and a town-initiated rezoning. Oro Valley will discuss long-term capital budgets during a Wednesday study session. And that's about it for local government meetings around Tucson this week.

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Army control of U.S.-Mexico border buffer zone may funnel migrants to 62-mile stretch of Az tribal land tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The military to has taken control of a 60-foot wide strip of federal land along the border from the Pacific Ocean to New Mexico — except for a 62 mile stretch of Pima County controlled by the Tohono O’Odham Nation.

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Social Security’s trust fund could run out of money sooner than expected due to changes in taxes & benefits tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Social Security is one of the federal government’s biggest programs - and within a decade, the retirement and disability program could run short on funds to pay the full benefits Americans are counting on.

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Disability funding crisis averted as Hobbs signs bipartisan $122M rescue package tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s developmentally disabled community breathed a collective sigh of relief Thursday, as a bipartisan solution to an impending budget cliff was finally signed into law.

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Trump’s executive order on elections is partly blocked by federal court tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge Thursday issued a preliminary injunction halting some provisions of the sweeping executive order on elections President Donald Trump issued in March.

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Judges rule Trump can’t defund schools that have diversity policies tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge in Maryland ordered the Trump administration Thursday to pause enforcement of a new U.S. Education Department ban on diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

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Tax policy, Medicaid funding cuts could scuttle Republicans’ ‘big, beautiful bill’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Republicans in Congress have a difficult few months ahead of them as they look to broker agreement within their exceptionally narrow majority on policy issues that have already begun to divide centrists from far-right members of the party.

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Trump admin asks U.S. Supreme Court to let it ban transgender troops tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday to block a lower court’s decision allowing transgender individuals to continue enlisting and serving in the armed forces.

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Sudden dismissal of public records staff at health agencies threatens gov't accountability tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services are continuing as the agency makes good on its intention to shrink its workforce by 20,000 people, but among workers dismissed were several teams responsible for fulfilling requests for access.

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As commencement approaches, AG Mayes warns Arizonans of employment scams tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Scammers are targeting Arizonans looking for work in the form of fraudulent job listings and spam messages, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes warned in a statement Thursday.

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Everything you need to know about bird flu tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, & key events paved the way for the outbreak we’re seeing today.

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Arizona’s Mohave County approves security marks on ballot paper for 2026 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Mohave County plans to add security features to its ballot paper for the 2026 midterm election, a measure officials hope will improve voter confidence.

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