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TUSD's Sadie Shaw seeks to unseat Tucson Councilman Kevin Dahl tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson City Councilman Kevin Dahl faces challenger Sadie Shaw in the Aug. 5 Democratic primary

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Hobbs: State gov't partners with nonprofit to pay off millions in medical debt for Arizonans tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Hundreds of thousands of Arizonans will be receiving an unexpected surprise in the mail after state government funds were leveraged to pay off more than $400 million in medical debt.

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NASA finally announces 2025 space research grants, but lack of awards puts Tucson's PSI in trouble tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Nearly six months after Valentine's Day, NASA finally put out ROSES, but the total number of grant awards was cut by nearly three-quarters compared to last year. That puts Tucson's Planetary Science Institute in a tight spot.

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Trump sues over Wall Street Journal story about Epstein birthday card tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump sued conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Dow Jones Company over a Wall Street Journal article detailing a bawdy letter Trump supposedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday.

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Lawsuit over terminated visas for Arizona int'l students ends quietly with dismissal tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal judge dismissed three lawsuits filed by more than a dozen international students in Arizona who sued the federal government for suddenly terminating their visas, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and deportation.

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Abandoned immigrant kids seek to restore deportation safeguards scrapped by Trump tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration quietly and illegally ended Biden-era protections for immigrant kids who were abused, neglected or abandoned by their parents, putting 150,000 youth at risk of deportation as they apply for permanent legal status, according to a Thursday lawsuit.

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RFK Jr. faces 21-state lawsuit over rule gutting Affordable Care Act coverage tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A multistate coalition, including Arizona, sued the Trump administration challenging a proposal by the DHHS they warn would make it more difficult to receive health care though Affordable Care Act marketplaces and throw 1.8 million people off their health insurance.

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White House officials tour Alcatraz amid potential reopening plans tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Top White House officials toured the infamous Alcatraz prison off the coast of San Francisco as part of a “fact-finding mission” to determine the feasibility of President Donald Trump’s suggestion that it be reopened as a federal penitentiary.

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Northern Arizona wildfires hurt tourism economy of Grand Canyon area tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
With wildfires raging across Northern Arizona and destroying more than 100 structures in Grand Canyon National Park on the North Rim, businesses relying on tourist revenue have taken a hit.

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Gallego, Democrats work to deepen MAGA rift over Epstein files, as Biggs, Gosar & others go mute tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona congressman Andy Biggs and Rep. Paul Gosar are among the many Republicans who stoked the Epstein conspiracy theory who have gone silent since July 7, while Sen. Ruben Gallego and other Democrats are enthusiastically exploiting the GOP fracture.

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Trump, 79, has ‘benign’ vein condition; bruised hand blamed on handshaking & aspirin tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that is “benign and common” for people above age 70, according to the president’s physician.

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U.S.House votes to yank funding for NPR, PBS, foreign aid; sends bill to Trump’s desk tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. House cleared legislation just after midnight Friday that will cancel $9 billion in previously approved spending for public broadcasting and foreign aid, marking only the second time in more than three decades Congress has approved a presidential rescissions request.

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'Bondante House' by Tucson artist Charles Clement to be renovated by Historic Preservation Foundation tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
A Midtown house designed by notable Tucson artist Charles Clement, whose mid-century designs can be found throughout the city, has been bought by the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation.

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Hacker changed candidate photos on Arizona election results website tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A hacker gained access to the web portal Arizona candidates use to upload information about themselves and changed candidate profile photos that were live on the election results website, just three weeks before the special congressional primary election

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Democrats rage as Senate GOP steamrolls vote on 3rd Circuit nominee Bove tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
It was utter pandemonium in the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday as the panel’s Republican majority attempted to advance Emil Bove’s nomination to a powerful appellate court vacancy over the objections of Democrats.

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Arizona budget invests in tribal health care through traditional healing, dialysis center tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The new state budget supports Tribal Nations in Arizona in two main ways: first, by giving Indigenous peoples increased access to traditional healing practices from specific health providers, and second, through secured funding for a new dialysis center on the Navajo Nation.

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Democratic members of Congress discuss opposition to PBS/NPR cuts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly joined Kentucky Rep. Morgan McGarvey in calling the Republican plan to cancel $9 billion in spending on public broadcasting and foreign aid “devastating” to rural communities in their states.

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Historic tax cuts in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill have wide gap between winners & big winners tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The One Big Beautiful Bill includes the largest tax cuts in U.S. history. Whether it’s actually “beautiful” is in the eye of the beholder. At every income level taxes should subside, but the biggest cuts go to the wealthiest taxpayers – the ones who pay the lion’s share of taxes.

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Arizona officials want ICE officers to quit hiding their identities, making arrests in courthouses tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona‘s elected leaders are calling for an end to ICE agents using masks and arresting people at their court hearings, saying the practices jeopardize public trust in law enforcement and flout the U.S. Constitution.

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Trump’s DOJ wants Az/other states to turn over voter lists, election info tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Justice Department is seeking the voter registration lists of Arizona and other states — representing data on millions of Americans — and other election information ahead of the 2026 midterms, raising fears about how the Trump administration plans to use the information.

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