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Federal judge rejects Tucson's motion to force Wadsack to pay legal fees tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal judge has tossed out a request by the city of Tucson to require Justine Wadsack to pay legal fees for a hearing she missed in the $8 million lawsuit she filed after she received a criminal speeding ticket in 2024. She dropped the suit after not appearing at a string of scheduled court dates.

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Inside the push to cash in on the Trump administration’s deportation campaign tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Officials in border czar Tom Homan’s position are required to steer clear of activity that could impact their former business associates for a year after entering government, but his relationships raise questions about the integrity of the billion-dollar contracting process.

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Arizona medical providers, patients say they are facing rising insurance claim denials tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Despite recent initiatives that erased medical debt for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans, a rising number of insurance denials is undermining those efforts.

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Judge OKs nationwide class action for immigrants clinging to protected status tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge approved class certification for more than 60,000 immigrants from Nepal, Nicaragua and Honduras with temporary protected status who claim that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s recent orders ending the program were unlawful and motivated by racial animus.

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Judge blocks Arizona’s surgery mandate for transgender birth certificate changes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal judge in Tucson has ordered Arizona to begin issuing amended birth certificates to transgender people, regardless of whether they’ve undergone surgery to change their appearance.

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Ciudadanos latinos en EE.UU. toman precauciones frente a discriminación racial por parte de ICE tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Un número creciente de ciudadanos estadounidenses dicen que no salen de casa sin una tarjeta de pasaporte y viven con el temor de ser detenidos por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas, a la luz de las redadas y deportaciones ordenadas por el presidente Trump.

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House Democrats accuse Trump of violating Hatch Act with government shutdown messages tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
House Democrats pushed for an investigation into whether the Trump administration broke the law with messages posted on federal agency websites explicitly blaming them for the government shutdown.

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Monday deadline to register to vote in Tucson, school district elections tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Deadline to register to vote in Tucson and school district elections on Monday; early voting in all-mail ballot election starts Oct. 8; Sentinel team on the airwaves; & more

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Spanish section of TUSD Prop. 414 ballot includes typo tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A misspelled word was printed in the Spanish section of ballots for the Proposition 414 Tucson Unified School District budget override election, but the error will not affect how votes will be counted, officials said.

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Spanish section of TUSD Prop. 141 ballot includes typo tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A misspelled word was printed in the Spanish section of ballots for the Proposition 414 Tucson Unified School District budget override election, but the error will not affect how votes will be counted, officials said.

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Judge orders Justice Dep't to give Conover access to alleged carjacker tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez ordered U.S. Marshals to transport Julio Cesar Aguirre for an arraignment and initial appearance in local court, ruling for Pima County Attorney Laura Conover and rejecting the feds' claims it would harm their case.

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Amphi planning to close up to 5 schools ahead of 2026-27 academic year tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Tucson-area district cites a shrinking number of students resulting in the loss of millions of dollars as a reason for closing up to five elementary schools.

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Dozens of groups call on GOP leaders to punish John Gillette for execution threat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Thirty statewide advocacy groups are urging Republican Arizona House of Representatives leaders to take action against Rep. John Gillette, who called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman because she urged people to peacefully protest in the streets.

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Yom Kippur: A time for feasting as well as fasting tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Jewish practice of abstaining from food on Yom Kippur is out of step with the rest of Jewish tradition - in both its religious and cultural guises, Judaism has always revolved around food.

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Raúl Grijalva's famed doodles showing at Tucson gallery tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Some 200 of the sketches by the late U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva will be exhibited in “The Drawings and Doodles of ¡Grijalva!,” opening Saturday at The Projects/Space in Downtown Tucson.

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Az, other states sue DOJ over rule requiring citizenship proof for sexual assault services tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona and a coalition of states sued the Trump administration over a rule change requiring survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence to immediately prove their citizenship status in order to receive certain federal aid.

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Factcheck: Lawmakers’ health care, government shutdown claims tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Democrats and Republicans have sparred over Democratic demands to address health care issues, with the standoff leading to the first government shutdown since 2019. Here are the facts on two talking points each side is using to blame the other for the shutdown.

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White House warns of ‘imminent’ mass layoffs in government shutdown tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Vice President JD Vance said the administration is looking for ways to get a handful of additional U.S. Senate Democrats to vote for Republicans’ stopgap spending bill to reopen government, but in the meantime, White House officials plan to lay off federal workers en masse.

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Arizona parents conflicted as Trump brings back Presidential Fitness Test tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
On July 31, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test, renewing a debate about the negative effects that forced athletic competition can have on students’ mental health.

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Colombians bring the flavors of home to life through their businesses in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A wave of Colombian businesses are, from home kitchens and food trucks, filling a cultural gap and offering a growing community a taste of home that used to be hard to find in Arizona.

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