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Replacing Rankin: Tucson Council ponders new city attorney; Tanque Verde schools have huge absentee problem tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
City Attorney Mike Rankin is retiring after 21 years, and the Council will discuss how to replace him. Up in the Tanque Verde school district, one in three students missed 10 percent of class time in 2024; plus more local government action around Tucson.

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It’s almost flu season. Should you still get a shot & will insurance cover it? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Amid political chatter about vaccines and the government entities that oversee them, it’s understandable to wonder where all this leaves the 2025-26 flu vaccine. Here are some answers to common questions:

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Grayson: The best move for America – and Arizona: Beg Britain to take us back tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026 will be marketed as a grand national celebration. Here’s a better way to mark it: admit that 1776 didn’t work. Maybe the colonists should never have been revolting in the first place.

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Pima volleyball overwhelms South Mtn with a straight-set win to open conference play tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College volleyball team played their first ACCAC conference match on Friday at South Mountain Community College, beating the Cougars in straight sets 25-16, 25-20, 25-22.

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Cervantes scores as Pima women tie with Phoenix College tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s soccer team (0-1-2, 0-0-1 in ACCAC) opened ACCAC conference play on Saturday in a matchup between two NJCAA Division II nationally ranked teams.

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Pima men open conference play with loss to No. 1 Phoenix College tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s soccer team opened ACCAC conference play on Saturday, traveling to Phoenix College for a 3–0 loss.

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As Republicans spar over IVF, some turn to obscure MAHA-backed alternative tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Republican support for in vitro fertilization, after surging in the wake of a 2024 Alabama Supreme Court decision that threatened the procedure, may be splintering as President Donald Trump retreats from his IVF promises and more far-right voices gain ground.

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Az's healthcare premiums set to soar on 2026 online marketplace tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona insurance officials are warning that those who buy healthcare coverage on the federal Affordable Care Act online marketplace should prepare for sticker shock when they purchase a plan next year.

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AI is making it easier for bad actors to create biosecurity threats tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Artificial intelligence is helping accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, but the technology also makes it easier than ever to create biosecurity threats and weapons.

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How stripping diversity, equity & inclusion from health care may make Americans sicker tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
President Trump’s administration has dramatically reshaped health and medical research by rolling back federal funding from institutions that have diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, changes will make all Americans less healthy.

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A guide to understanding the debate over keeping voter rolls ‘clean’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The federal government’s demands that states turn over their voter rolls and related information highlights longstanding conflicts over how to ensure that only eligible voters are registered without endangering voting rights.

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Home cookin': Arizona extends unbeaten run at Mulcahy after poor road outing tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
After a disappointing road trip, the Arizona Wildcats soccer team earned a 2–1 win at home against the Denver Pioneers on Thursday night. The Cats scored 20 minutes into the match when Narissa Fults found herself with a lot of space to pick a shot on Denver’s goal.

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Trump campaigned on closing the Education Dep't, but GOP lawmakers are balking at elimination tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump’s aim to shutter the Education Department faces steep hurdles in Congress, where Republicans’ legislative efforts to abolish the agency remain stalled and appropriators have rejected many of his proposed cuts to education spending.

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Wildfire veterans furious at DHS claim that raided crews were not firefighters tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Wildland fire veterans are seething at a claim made by federal officials that two crews raided by immigration agents at the scene of a wildfire in Washington state were “NOT firefighters.”

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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will remain open, for now tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal appeals court blocked a lower court’s ruling shutting down the South Florida migrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz," prolonging the legal fight between environmental groups and state officials.

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Trump rushes Supreme Court to liberate tariff power tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court night to take extraordinary actions to uphold his authority to unilaterally wage a global tariff war.

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Trump’s new law will limit payments to hospitals that treat low-income patients tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump’s new tax and spending law will likely force more than half the states to reduce payments to doctors and hospitals that treat Medicaid patients, a change critics warn will be particularly harmful to rural hospitals struggling to stay afloat.

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Arizonans protest state’s largest utility abandoning clean energy commitments tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Protesters gathered outside the headquarters of APS to criticize the utility’s decision to walk back its clean energy commitments, build new gas pipelines and raise its customers’ electricity rates.

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Senators grill RFK Jr. over vaccine policies as measles deaths return after decades tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vehemently defended his actions on vaccines and other public health issues under questioning by both Republican and Democratic senators during a contentious hearing.

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With a higher violent crime rate than Chicago, could Phoenix draw Trump’s attention? tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
President Donald Trump has not floated the possibility of sending troops into Arizona. But the violent crime rate in Phoenix is higher than the rate in Chicago, the next city on the president’s list.

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