AG Mayes sues Tucson mobile home park over 'overloaded & dangerous' electrical system https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082125_mayes_sues_redwood/ag-mayes-sues-tucson-mobile-home-park-over-overloaded-dangerous-electrical-system/
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued the owners of a mobile home park on Tucson's South Side on Thursday for their failure to repair its electrical system, which is "highly dangerous, over-capacity, and prone to frequent failures" and has left residents without air conditioning this summer.
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Miller: Arizona education funding fumbles https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082125_miller_education_op/miller-arizona-education-funding-fumbles/
The irony is not lost that within a week's time the news is overflowing with information about public schools suffering from funding cuts, and at the same time, some families are enjoying spending sprees with ESA vouchers.
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New York appeals court tosses Trump’s $500 million civil fraud penalty https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082125_trump_fraud/new-york-appeals-court-tosses-trumps-500-million-civil-fraud-penalty/
A New York appellate court tossed a New York civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump that found him liable for roughly half a billion dollars after lying on annual financial statements.
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Court stops sacred Oak Flat land transfer to Resolution Copper in emergency order https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082125_oak_flat_transfer/court-stops-sacred-oak-flat-land-transfer-resolution-copper-emergency-order/
Hours before the federal government was expected to transfer land in Arizona to a mining company, a federal appeals court issued an emergency injunction blocking the transfer of Oak Flat, a sacred site for the San Carlos Apache Tribe and other tribal nations in the region.
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Grants to boost local emergency alert systems in question as public media agency closes https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082125_alert_grants/grants-boost-local-emergency-alert-systems-question-as-public-media-agency-closes/
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will no longer administer a grant program that has so far provided millions of dollars to television and radio stations to upgrade equipment used to send out emergency alerts, after Republican lawmakers voted to defund the corporation.
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9th Circuit lets Trump end legal protections for immigrants from 3 countries https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082125_tps_protection/9th-circuit-lets-trump-end-legal-protections-immigrants-from-3-countries/
A federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration can resume terminations of Temporary Protected Status for more than 60,000 immigrants from Nepal, Nicaragua and Honduras.
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Az Free Enterprise Club argues that fewer comparison signatures from voters mean better elections https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082125_free_enterprise/az-free-enterprise-club-argues-that-fewer-comparison-signatures-from-voters-mean-better-elections/
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club tried to convince a panel of appellate judges that the way the state has been verifying voter signatures for the past four years violates state law.
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Federal judge keeps Epstein grand jury transcript under wraps https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082125_epstein_files/federal-judge-keeps-epstein-grand-jury-transcript-under-wraps/
A federal judge denied the Trump administration’s bid to release grand jury materials related to the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, branding its attempt to do so a “diversion.”
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Gabbard set to cut 40% of staff in national intelligence overhaul https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082125_gabbard_intel/gabbard-set-cut-40-staff-national-intelligence-overhaul/
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced she would terminate over 40% of the office’s personnel by the end of 2025, asserting that the so-called “ODNI 2.0” would save over $700 million per year.
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Tucson City Council recount delayed by election challenge https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082025_shaw_lawsuit/tucson-city-council-recount-delayed-by-election-challenge/
A planned recount in a narrow Tucson City Council primary was put on hold Tuesday after one of the candidates filed suit to set aside the results of the Aug. 5 election.
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Tucson City Council election recount delayed by election challenge https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082025_shaw_lawsuit/tucson-city-council-election-recount-delayed-by-election-challenge/
A planned recount in a narrow Tucson City Council primary was put on hold Tuesday after one of the candidates filed suit to set aside the results of the Aug. 5 election.
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Feds direct states to check immigration status of their Medicaid enrollees https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082025_immigration_medicaid/feds-direct-states-check-immigration-status-their-medicaid-enrollees/
This week, the Trump administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced an effort to check the immigration status of people who get their health insurance through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
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Long, strange trip: Tucson City Council finally boards the RTA Next Express https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082025_tucson_rta_op/long-strange-trip-tucson-city-council-finally-boards-rta-next-express/
A few months ago, I could not count a single "aye" vote on the Tucson City Council for the RTA Next. On Tuesday, the council voted unanimously to support it. Credit former city boss Mike Ortega for the turnaround.
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The national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth went dead. States are scrambling to help. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082025_lgbtq_hotline/the-national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-went-dead-states-are-scrambling-help/
States are scrambling to backfill LGBTQ+ crisis support through training, fees, and other initiatives in response to what advocates say is the Trump administration’s hostile stance toward this group.
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Dittmer: AI needs water. Arizona’s Constitution says: Not so fast. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082025_dittmer_development_op/dittmer-ai-needs-water-arizonas-constitution-says-not-so-fast/
The vote in Tucson may have blocked this version of Project Blue, but Beale, the developer, is already exploring other sites. And similar projects are lining up across the region and beyond. This is not the end of the story. It is just the opening chapter.
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Nuclear radiation victims can again apply for compensation under revived RECA https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082025_reca_compensation/nuclear-radiation-victims-can-again-apply-compensation-under-revived-reca/
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act program, known as RECA, has been revived after provisions to reauthorize claim filings under the program were included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that became law last month.
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Judge partially tosses immigrant legal rights claims from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ suit https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/081925_immigrant_rights/judge-partially-tosses-immigrant-legal-rights-claims-from-alligator-alcatraz-suit/
The Trump administration and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis scored a legal win in the fight over the state’s new migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” when a federal judge threw out parts of a lawsuit targeting violations of immigrants’ legal rights.
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FactCheck: Verificación de las afirmaciones de Trump sobre el voto por correo y las máquinas de votación https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082025_factcheck_elections_esp/factcheck-verificacion-de-las-afirmaciones-de-trump-sobre-el-voto-por-correo-y-las-maquinas-de-votacion/
El presidente Trump lanzó su ataque de segundo mandato contra las papeletas de voto por correo y las máquinas de votación electrónica con una serie de afirmaciones infundadas, al tiempo que anunciaba un esfuerzo para eliminar ambas.
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FactCheck: Trump’s claims about mail-in ballots, voting machines & state roles in elections https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082025_factcheck_elections/factcheck-trumps-claims-mail-in-ballots-voting-machines-state-roles-elections/
President Donald Trump launched his second-term assault on mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines on Aug. 18, firing off a series of unfounded claims while announcing an effort to do away with both.
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Verificación de las afirmaciones de Trump sobre el voto por correo y las máquinas de votación https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082025_factcheck_elections_esp/verificacion-de-las-afirmaciones-de-trump-sobre-el-voto-por-correo-y-las-maquinas-de-votacion/
El presidente Trump lanzó su ataque de segundo mandato contra las papeletas de voto por correo y las máquinas de votación electrónica con una serie de afirmaciones infundadas, al tiempo que anunciaba un esfuerzo para eliminar ambas.
#Tucson #Arizona
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