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Hemp industry hopes Arizona cannabis regulations go up in smoke tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Hemp Industry Trade Association of Arizona plans to appeal a denied petition that sought to enjoin the state attorney general from enforcing marijuana laws against sellers of chemically distinct hemp products.

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Tohono O’odham PD takes mandatory training on missing & murdered Indigenous peoples tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In May, April Ignacio - co-founder of Indivisible Tohono - began providing mandatory training on MMIW for the Tohono O’odham Police Department, with the goal of training every officer in the department by the end of August.

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SCOTUS lets South Carolina ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, threatening access for thousands tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
South Carolina can block Planned Parenthood clinics from receiving Medicaid funds, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision — a major step toward the longtime conservative goal of “defunding” the nation’s largest family planning provider.

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U.S. Senate GOP mega-bill suffers major blow with ruling on Medicaid cuts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Senate Republicans suffered a significant setback when the parliamentarian ruled several changes to Medicaid in the “big, beautiful bill” don’t comply with the complex rules for moving a reconciliation package.

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Supreme Court narrows window for immigrants to challenge deportation orders tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Supreme Court ruled against an immigrant seeking to challenge his potential deportation over fears of persecution in his home country on Thursday, finding he filed his challenge well beyond the deadline for a final removal order.

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Proposed Arizona settlement recommends more warnings for voters coming off early-voting list tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona election officials would be instructed to provide more notice to voters who are at risk of being removed from the state’s early-voting list, under a conditional legal settlement with voting rights groups.

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9th Circuit reconsiders standing in Arizona voter registration case tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona voter registration law upheld last year returned to the federal appeals court for an en banc rehearing, in which 11 judges reconsidered whether a voter outreach organization has standing to challenge a law requiring cancellation of some voter registrations.

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Older adults now outnumber children in 11 states tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The ratio of people older than 65 to children younger than 18 grew in every state - including a ratio of 2-1 in Arizona’s Mohave and Yavapai counties - a trend that bodes poorly for the future number of young adults who can help care for older relatives.

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Judge orders Trump admin to restore electric vehicle funds to 14 states tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge said the Trump administration must reinstate billions in funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program to 14 states, including Arizona, which allocated $5 billion to states to build EV charging networks across the country.

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After outcry from tribes, federal agency scales back tribal school choice plan tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Bureau of Indian Education released preliminary details of a plan in response to President Trump’s order mandating the expansion of school choice to Indian Country by this fall that appears to bring much more modest changes than many anticipated.

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Hobbs vetoes both House GOP budgets as Arizona government shutdown looms tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A feud over Arizona’s budget is slogging toward a possible government shutdown, after Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed two budget packages drafted by Republicans in the state House of Representatives.

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Border Patrol agents raid Tucson photographer's home Tuesday night tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Border Patrol agents raided a Tucson woman's Midtown home Tuesday night while searching for a man who fled from a traffic stop near Patagonia. After a pursuit of about 70 miles, three men were in custody but the man sought in the home search was not located.

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Photos: Día de San Juan Fiesta sees tradition — and a few drops of rain — return to Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
The 27th annual Día de San Juan Fiesta was celebrated on Tuesday, marking the traditional beginning of the summer rainy season, as Tucson saw a bit of early monsoon rain before the annual festival began.

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North Side Starbucks could be 3rd location in Tucson to unionize tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Starbucks store on West Ina Road near North Oracle Road could become the third unionized Starbucks in Tucson if workers vote in favor of union representation in an election July 14.

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Trump’s f-bomb toward Iran & Israel breaks norm of keeping presidential profanity off-camera tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
History is full of muttered presidential curses, closed-door profanity and hot-mic slip-ups. The expletive President Donald Trump unleashed Tuesday on the South Lawn stands apart - but is hardly unique - and his profanity reflects evolving societal norms.

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5 takeaways From health insurers’ new pledge to improve prior authorization tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The largest U.S. insurers agreed to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system, and though Trump administration officials applauded the insurance industry for its willingness to change, they acknowledged limitations of the agreement.

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Arizona faces historic shutdown as House passes doomed continuation budget tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives passed a continuation budget that Gov. Katie Hobbs has promised to veto, setting the stage for a government shutdown next week as Republicans continue to battle each other over the state’s checkbook.

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Arizona, blue states sue to stop White House funding cuts before they happen tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A coalition of 21 states, including Arizona, is suing the Trump administration over a clause that allows it to terminate a grant if it “no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities.”

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GOP leaders in U.S. Senate struggle to lessen pain of Medicaid cuts for rural hospitals tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Senate Republicans were scrambling to restructure several proposals in the “big, beautiful bill” that don’t meet their chamber’s strict rules for passing a reconciliation package, while GOP lawmakers on the other side of the Capitol warned those changes may doom its passage.

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Opponents call GOP public lands sell-off a violation of tribal sovereignty & treaties tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
After intense criticism from conservation groups, political leaders, and the public, a legislative proposal to sell public lands in several Western states, including Arizona, to supposedly address a housing crisis in the U.S., is now being revised and restructured.

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