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FactCheck: What to know about the special counsels investigating Trump & Biden tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Special counsels have been appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland for investigations into how classified documents ended up in the homes of President Joe Biden and former President Trump - but who are the counsels and what can they actually do?

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Jury could get case of Arizona Oath Keeper charged in Jan. 6 insurrection tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A second group of Oath Keepers - including Arizonan Edward Vallejo - to be tried for seditious conspiracy and other charges for actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection could soon see their case handed over to a jury.

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Pair of proposed bills would criminalize homelessness in Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A pair of bills proposed by Fountain Hills Republican John Kavanagh that would criminalize common activities for people experiencing homelessness had their first hearings in the Arizona Senate Wednesday, although their path to becoming law remains unclear.

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Kavanagh wants Arizona AG to defend all state laws, after Brnovich wouldn’t defend his tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
After the Arizona attorney general last year refused to defend a new law making it a crime to take video of police officers in some situations, the law’s author is back with a proposal that would require the state’s top attorney to defend every law.

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Dreamer scholarship would benefit thousands of Arizona's undocumented students tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
More than 3,000 undocumented Arizona students could see their dreams of a college degree come true under a new $40 million dollar investment proposed by Gov. Katie Hobbs, aimed at supporting Dreamers who’ve attended a high school in the state for at least two years.

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Allegations that the charity George Santos claims to have run was fake highlight how scams divert money from worthy causes tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As reports of Rep. George Santos extensive lies grow amidst reports he claimed to have founded and run a fake nonprofit animal rescue group, they highlight the serious problem of fake charities - scams that divert donations that would otherwise support legitimate causes.

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Az Republicans are already talking about a state gov't shutdown in July tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Legislature has been in session for barely a week, and already Republican lawmakers are saying bipartisanship appears firmly out of reach and the state is headed for a government shutdown this summer.

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U.S. urges Mexico to open up lithium production to private sector tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. is urging Mexico to open up lithium exploitation to the private sector in order to make the critical mineral cheaper - though lithium rights are nationalized in Mexico and the technology to extract lithium from the Sonoran Desert does not yet exist commercially.

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Az Democrats propose rent control bills amid ongoing housing crisis tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Democratic lawmakers in the Arizona House of Representatives are looking to pass a suite of housing bills that aim to help renters weather the ongoing housing crisis, but their proposals have detractors in the state’s powerful landlord lobby.

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Representation on police force builds trust with LGBTQ people tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Out to Protect works to support LGBTQ police officers and trains departments on better ways to treat people who are LGBTQ in an effort to reach communities that struggle with a relationship with law enforcement.

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PACC shut down through Friday to limit disease spread in animal shelter tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima Animal Care Center will be closed to the public through Friday as officials work to stem the contagious respiratory disease strep zoo. The shelter has experienced overcrowding nearly continuously for the past several years.

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U.S. House GOP would make it easier for feds to give public lands away to states tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. House Republicans included in the new rules for the chamber they passed this month a provision meant to make it easier for Congress to give away public lands - but advocates and critics disagree about the wisdom of such giveaways.

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Lawmakers grill heads of Az state boards after audits find investigations move too slowly tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona state legislators last week grilled the heads of the state boards tasked with overseeing complaints from citizens after reports by the state auditor general revealed some major deficiencies.

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Child vaccination rates, already down because of COVID, fall again tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The percentage of U.S. children entering kindergarten with their required immunizations fell to 93% in the 2021-22 school year, 2 percentage points below recommended herd immunity levels of 95% and lower than vaccination rates in 2020-21.

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Water managers across drought-stricken West agree on one thing: ‘This is going to be painful’ tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Water authorities in the Western U.S. don’t have a crystal ball, but two decades of drought and poor planning have caused the river’s biggest reservoirs to drop to their lowest collective volume since they were filled and give a clear view of the hard choices ahead.

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Lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of rape overcomes motion to dismiss tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit against former President Trump that stems from an allegedly nonconsensual sexual encounter in the 1990s and upheld a New York law that gives survivors a one-year window to file claims otherwise barred by the statute of limitations.

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How heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As the world faces yet another reckoning over energy supplies, several recent innovations aim to make 200-year-old heat pump science even more efficient than it already is, potentially opening the door for much greater adoption of the technology worldwide.

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MLK's final sermon: 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Monday, the nation remembers Martin Luther King Jr. Perhaps the greatest of his speeches, from a man renowned for his uplifting words, was one given extemporaneously on the last night of his life, April 3, 1968: "I've Been to the Mountaintop."

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Manslaughter case vs. ex-Tucson cop dismissed after new grand jury declines to indict tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Criminal charges against former Tucson police officer Ryan Remington — who who shot and killed a man in a motorized wheelchair during a confrontation over shoplifting in Nov. 2021 — were dismissed Tuesday after a new grand jury did not indict him.

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Oro Valley must decide how to spend $5.4 million in COVID money tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Oro Valley's Town Council has some decisions to make involving how to spend its remaining $5.4 million in coronavirus relief money. Marana's OKing a new contract for the town manager — salary unknown. Plus more in local government meetings this week.

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