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Supreme Court declines Apache bid to protect Az sacred land from Oak Flat copper mine tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In a rare loss for religious rights at the Supreme Court, the justices refused to halt a massive copper mining project on Oak Flat, a sacred site for the Apache in Arizona.

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9th Circuit revives Az tribal challenge to SunZia energy transmission line tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Southern Arizona tribes will have another chance to challenge the construction of a transmission line through their ancestral homeland after the Ninth Circuit found the trial judge dismissed it based on the wrong standards.

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NPR sues over Trump order cutting off funding, citing 1st Amendment tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A collection of National Public Radio stations sued the Trump administration, seeking to block an executive order that would cut off their federal funding.

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UA consolidates cultural resource centers following demands from Trump administration tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Following pressure from the Trump administration to disband DEIA programs, the University of Arizona said Tuesday it would consolidate campus resource centers under a new unit led by the UA provost.

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Stagehands at Arizona Theatre Company vote to unionize tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Updated: Stagehands at Arizona Theatre Company’s Tucson branch voted this month to unionize with the local chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or IATSE.

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U.S. gun trafficking to Mexico: Independent gun shops supply the most dangerous weapons tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Independent firearm businesses are the largest suppliers of crime guns bought in the U.S. and trafficked to Mexico.

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Universities ramp up lobbying in response to Trump crackdown on higher education tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Universities across the U.S. are on pace to spend a record amount of money on lobbying in 2025 as President Trump works to reshape higher education through massive cuts in federal financial support, and many are aligning with firms and lobbyists tied to Trump’s inner circle.

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College Board cancels award program for high-performing Black & Latino students tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The College Board this month changed the criteria for its National Recognition Program awards in a move that could shift tens of thousands of scholarship dollars from Black and Latino students to white students, and could affect University of Arizona programs.

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Call centers replaced many doctors’ receptionists. Now, AI Is coming for call centers. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The turn toward call centers in health care created more distance between a caller and a health provider but preserved the human touch - now, startups are marketing AI products with lifelike voices to schedule or cancel medical visits, refill prescriptions, and help triage patients.

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Uncertainty about FEMA federal disaster aid looms as storms roll in tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Multiple states bordering the Mississippi River are still waiting for federal disaster aid decisions as President Donald Trump’s administration is looking to significantly scale back FEMA and pass disaster recovery costs onto states.

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Stagehands at Arizona Theatre Company vote to unionize tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Stagehands at Arizona Theatre Company’s Tucson branch voted this month to unionize with the local chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or IATSE.

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Cody Fire 83% contained despite hot & dry conditions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Cody Fire burning in the mountains north of Tucson is now 83 percent contained, fire officials announced Monday. The gains were "a testament to the continued hard work and coordination of firefighting resources across the incident," officials said.

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ASU prof: Arizona university presidents should join colleagues, unite to defend mission of higher education tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
"Higher education in our country is under direct attack by those in Washington who seek to interfere in the way universities govern themselves." — ASU English Prof. Richard Newhauser

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To help pay for tax cuts, GOP budget would take SNAP benefits from at least 3.2 million people tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The massive tax and spending bill passed by U.S. House Republicans would likely result in 3.2 million people losing food assistance benefits, and saddle states with around $14 billion a year in costs.

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Dahl’s Tucson Council campaign qualifies for city matching funds tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Ward 3 Councilman Kevin Dahl’s reelection campaign qualified for matching funds last week and he’s now eligible to receive up to roughly $140,000 from the city of Tucson.

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Trump guts nuclear safety regulations tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump signed a pair of orders aimed at streamlining the licensing and construction of nuclear power plants — while panning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its “myopic” radiation safety standards.

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CD7 special election candidates to meet in forum this week tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Debates set for Congressional District 7 special election and Tucson City Council races; Sentinel team on the airwaves; voter registration deadlines for summer elections draw near, and more.

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Cody Fire nearly half contained as firefighters work blaze north of Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the temperatures cooled and the winds relaxed in the early hours of Sunday morning, residents in Oracle woke up to learn that in just 24 hours, firefighting crews had brought the Cody Fire from 5% containment to 47%.

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Civil rights concerns in Arizona’s pediatric healthcare desert tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Arizona faces a persistent challenge in pediatric healthcare — one that disproportionately affects minority children. The Arizona Advisory Committee to the Commission on Civil Rights recently examined disparities in healthcare access across the state, finding high numbers of uninsured children, a severe shortage of healthcare providers in rural areas, and inadequate data collection.

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The forgotten history of Memorial Day tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country as an annual commemoration in which the nation honors its military dead.

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