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Doctors slam RFK Jr. for slashing COVID vaccine guidance tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A coalition of public health associations sued Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other government health officials, arguing that their call to exclude children and pregnant women from COVID-19 vaccine recommendations was “baseless and uninformed.”

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Planned Parenthood sues Trump administration officials over ‘defunding’ provision in budget bill tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Days after President Trump signed a massive budget bill, attorneys for Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its state members in Massachusetts and Utah filed a lawsuit challenging a provision they say will affect more than 1 million patients who use their clinics.

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‘Part of our culture’: Navajo Nation’s Oak Ridge Fire response includes livestock tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the Oak Ridge Fire continued to spread southwest of the Navajo Nation capital last week, families living in the fire’s path not only scrambled to save what they could from their homes, but many also had to rescue their animals and livestock.

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Used & discarded: How Arizona fails to protect women firefighters with presumptive cancer coverage tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Federal Employees’ Compensation Act expanded to include ovarian, cervical, uterine, and breast cancers, all female-specific malignancies - but federal legislation does not apply at the state level, and women who work as firefighters for municipalities are not covered under the act.

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Why Texas Hill Country is one of the deadliest places in the U.S. for flash flooding tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Texas Hill Country is known for its landscapes, where shallow rivers wind among hills and through rugged valleys. That geography also makes it one of the deadliest places in the U.S. for flash flooding.

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Living Streets Alliance announces new director tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson native and former Living Streets Alliance staff member Vanessa Cascio replaces founder and current executive director Emily Yetman.

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Hernandez leads fundraising race in Southern Arizona CD7 election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Democrat Daniel Hernandez was leading the fundraising race as five Democrats sprint to the July 15 finish line in the special congressional election that will decide who fills the vacancy left by the death of U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva.

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Quash your warrants at Tucson City Court this Friday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
If you’ve got a warrant — or you think you have a warrant — for failure to appear, unpaid tickets or other offenses in the city, head to Tucson City Court this Friday to get it quashed.

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Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Laws criminalizing the nonconsensual distribution of authentic intimate images are in effect in every state and Washington, D.C., but many state laws don’t apply to explicit AI-generated deepfakes, and fewer directly grapple with the fact that perpetrators are often minors.

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States scramble to shield hospitals from GOP Medicaid cuts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
States are scrambling to shield their hospitals from the looming loss of hundreds of millions in federal funding due to the giant tax and spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law over the weekend that includes the biggest health care spending cuts in U.S. history.

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As Arizona swelters, workplace heat protections remain sparse tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Temperatures have already surpassed 110 degrees in Arizona this summer and for yet another season, most workers have few legal safeguards to protect them from the sweltering heat.

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FactCheck: A dedicated FEMA fund will pay for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The immigrant detention facility in Florida, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” is being “funded largely” by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Shelter and Services Program, not from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund.

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Supreme Court upholds free preventive care, but its future now rests in RFK Jr.’s hands tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling that preserves free preventive care under the Affordable Care Act, but it leaves preventive care vulnerable to how HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. and future HHS secretaries will choose to exercise their power.

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Monday deadline to register to vote in Tucson City Council primary election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Register to vote in the City of Tucson's primary election by July 7; Request your CD7 early ballot by July 7; Sentinel team on the airwaves & more

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Byrne: Arizona teachers' union edorses Grijalva for CD 7 tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Tucson Education Association President Jim Byrne is supporting Adelita Grijalva in her CD 7 race because she has always stood up for Arizona students and public schools during her 20 years of work in the trenches of public education.

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From New York to Tucson – Working Families committed to electing real progressives with bold vision tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
This moment demands more than political insiders or social media influencers. It demands leaders like Adelita Grijalva, with deep roots in our communities and a bold, progressive vision for the future.

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Tucson Boys Chorus chooses new artistic director tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Jordan Rakita, previously the director of a Phoenix-area barbershop chorus, has been named the new head of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus.

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Tucson author Logan Phillips returns as Pima Library’s writer in residence tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Logan Phillips, the author of "Sonoran Strange" who also performs as DJ Dirtyverbs, has been tapped as the Pima County Public Library's writer in residence for a second time.

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Amphi, VUSD to set budgets with modest gains in teacher salaries tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
A pair of Tucson-area school districts will set their budgets for the 2025-26 fiscal year and they come with teeny, tiny tax cuts. Plus more from local government meetings around Tucson this week.

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FC Tucson women end season on down note, dropping match to Az Arsenal tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
FC Tucson’s women’s side closed out their season with a disappointing 3 - 1 loss to Phoenix-based Arizona Arsenal.

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