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Wednesday deadline to mail back ballots for CD7 primary tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Wednesday is the suggested deadline for Arizona voters to return ballots by mail in the Congressional District 7 special primary election.

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Trump’s tax law by the numbers: $1 trillion less for Medicaid, $75 billion more for ICE tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Trump's sweeping tax-and-spending law, which renews tax breaks that largely benefited corporations and the wealthy, also contains sharp increases in spending on immigration enforcement and steep cuts to government programs that serve lower-income Americans.

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As Az lawmakers oppose Trump’s tariffs on Mexican tomatoes, Florida farmers cheer move tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s announcement that it will withdraw from an agreement with Mexico controlling tomato imports is being applauded by Florida lawmakers, but the proposal is fiercely opposed by lawmakers in Arizona and Texas.

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Claytoonz: Where's the list? tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
From the Epstein client list is “sitting on my desk” for review, to the Epstein "client list" doesn’t exist - what a long, strange trip its been.

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Trump floats high tariffs on Japan, Korea & more countries by Aug. 1 tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened tariffs from 25% to 40% on all goods from seven countries, including major U.S. trade partners Japan and South Korea.

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Sen. Mike Lee says selling off public lands will solve the West’s housing crisis. Past sales show otherwise. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Sen. Mike Lee and other Republicans have proposed a large-scale selloff of public lands, but although the measure was framed as a solution to the West’s acute lack of affordable housing, it would have allowed developers to select the land they most desired.

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SNAP’s cost shift saves federal dollars but fewer Americans will get help paying for food tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Because states will soon have to take on more of the costs of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which totaled over $100 billion in 2024, they may eventually further restrict who gets help due to their own budgetary constraints.

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No age limit on leadership: Rejecting agism, embracing integrity tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Claiming that losing experienced leaders is what allowed a harmful bill to pass not only discredits their legacy, but also shifts blame away from those who actually voted for it.

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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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