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USDA in sweeping reorganization to ship some D.C. workers to 5 regional centers tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to slash its presence in the Washington, D.C., area by sending employees to five regional hubs, and the U.S. Forest Service will phase out its nine regional offices primarily into a single location in Fort Collins.

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Without public notice, U.S. Olympic officials exclude transgender women from competing tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee updated its eligibility policy to bar transgender women from competing in women’s sports in order to comply with a February executive order issued by President Donald Trump.

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Florida judge blocks DOJ access to Epstein files tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg denied the Department of Justice's request for documents of the grand jury proceedings from two criminal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, citing precedent set by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Who is leading the congressional money race heading toward 2026? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
House and Senate candidates recently filed their fundraising reports covering the first six months of 2025. Here's which candidates have raised the most money and which ones are sitting on the biggest piles of cash.

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GAO: Trump illegally withheld Head Start payments, government watchdog says tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Health and Human Services Department illegally withheld payments from Head Start for the first months of President Donald Trump’s term, a violation of the Impoundment Control Act, a law governing the president’s duty to spend congressionally appropriated funds.

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The new strategy to restrict abortion nationwide — without saying ‘ban’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
By adopting piecemeal efforts - cuts to Planned Parenthood and restrictions on abortion medications - anti-abortion groups have developed an approach that could still make abortion far more difficult to obtain without the same political costs as an unpopular ban.

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Fewer than half of ICE arrests under Trump are convicted criminals tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Trump administration’s immigration arrests have been catching a smaller share of criminals overall, and a smaller share of people convicted of violent and drug crimes, than the Biden administration did in the same time frame.

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Trump’s AI Action Plan removes ‘red tape’ for AI developers & data centers, punishes states that act alone tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration wants to greatly expand the development and use of advanced artificial intelligence, including rolling back environmental rules to spur building of power-thirsty data centers and punishing states that attempt to regulate AI on their own.

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9th Circuit upholds nationwide block of Trump birthright citizenship order tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A Ninth Circuit panel upheld a federal judge's nationwide preliminary injunction of President Donald Trump's Day 1 executive order that denied citizenship to children who are born in the U.S. but whose parents are unlawfully or only temporarily in the country.

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Dems set sights on 3 Az districts, tying Ciscomani, Schweikert & Crane to Trump megabill in push to retake House tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Hoping to break the GOP grip on Congress, Democrats are aiming to topple three Republican incumbents in Arizona: Reps. David Schweikert, Eli Crane and Juan Ciscomani.

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285 acres of Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge taken over by Navy in border security move tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Interior Department ceded 285 acres of public land in southwestern Arizona to the U.S. Navy on Wednesday for a "National Defense Area" — part of a Trump administration strategy allowing active-duty troops to arrest suspected migrants and hold them until Border Patrol agents arrive.

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From Heavy metal to horses: 6 things to do in Tucson this weekend tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Get your saddles ready and your steps in with these upcoming events.

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Final tally in CD7: Grijalva & Butierez win primaries with 61% of the vote tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
All six counties in Arizona's Congressional District 7 have finished counting votes in the special election to fill the vacancy created by the death of longtime U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died in March after battling lung cancer.

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Half a billion years ago, the Grand Canyon teemed with life tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
New archeological findings from the Grand Canyon have shed light on what life was like there during the Cambrian period, roughly 500 million years ago, long before the Colorado River cleaved the famous ravine.

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U.S. House Democrats assail Trump DHS as ‘cruel’ and ‘unaccountable’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A group of U.S. House Democrats on Tuesday blasted President Donald Trump’s administration for what they called “cruelty” and “lawlessness” in carrying out mass deportations of migrants without legal status.

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He confessed to killing 3 other Tucson inmates months ago. The DOC just referred charges for the slayings. tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Ricky Wassenaar killed three other prisoners at a state prison in Tucson in April, and he claimed to have killed a fourth last November.

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America’s child care system relies on immigrants. Without them, it could collapse tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Immigrants play a crucial role in home-based child care, as well as America’s broader child care system of more than 2 million predominantly female workers, and the Trump administration’s far-reaching war on immigration threatens America’s already-fragile child care system.

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FactCheck: Border czar makes misleading claim about immigrants with criminal records tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, has been repeating the misleading claim that there are “over 600,000 illegal aliens with criminal records walking the streets of this nation.”

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Wednesday deadline to request ballot for Tucson primary election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Wednesday deadline to request early ballot in city primary election; Project Blue meetings; Democrat Adelita Grijalva discusses her campaign; Tucson City Council primary election coming up on Aug. 5; Sentinel team on the airwaves & more

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Materiales escolares se donaran de gratis en el Tucson Convention Center este Jueves tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
El Back to School: Kidz Expo regresa por el 14 año donde se donaran mochilas y materiales escolares gratis este Jueves.

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