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Kari Lake asks Arizona Supreme Court to take up case to overturn 2022 election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Kari Lake, the failed Republican candidate for governor, has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to review the decisions in her election contest case after the case was shot down by both the Maricopa County Superior Court and Arizona Court of Appeals.

How judge who could ban abortion pill won Senate confirmation tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. District Court judge who could end more than two decades of legal access to medication abortion underwent extensive questioning about LGBTQ equality at his December 2017 confirmation hearing — and very little about his views on abortion.

Student loan forgiveness plan on life support at Supreme Court tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The conservative majority of the Supreme Court appeared skeptical on Tuesday that President Joe Biden has the authority to forgive billions in student loan debt, but questions remain over whether the states that brought the challenge have the requisite standing to do so.

Snow day? 1-3 inches could fall around Tucson, high winds forecast overnight tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Snow could fall across Southern Arizona overnight Wednesday, with flakes accumulating as low as 2,500 feet and the Tucson metro area seeing anything from a trace to 1-3 inches. High winds, with gusts of 55 mph or more, are forecast.

Az Republican senators pass anti-trans school bathroom bill tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Just three states bar transgender students from using bathrooms that best fit their gender identity, and Republican lawmakers want to make Arizona the fourth - though a similar bill barring preferred pronoun use in schools was dismissed by Hobbs’ chief of staff as dead on arrival.

Pinal, Yuma officials tell House migration surge is overwhelming them tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona officials told a House committee that local law enforcement and health care workers are ill-equipped to handle the recent surge of immigration at the southern border, the latest in a string of GOP hearings attacking the Biden administration for its handling of the border.

Arizona House Republicans pass bill that could codify fetal personhood tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona has moved one step closer to what critics say is a sneaky attempt to add fetal personhood into state law in a way that would avoid a federal court ruling that blocked a straightforward personhood law passed two years ago.

States strive to help SNAP recipients cope with lower benefits tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In every state, participants in SNAP, commonly known as food stamps, face the loss of pandemic-related benefits in March - if they haven’t already lost them - and states, community groups and food banks are scrambling to help families cope.

Arizona Senate Democrats will pick new leaders after two step aside tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Senate Minority Leader Raquel Terán of Phoenix and Senate Minority Caucus Whip Rosanna Gabaldón of Sahuarita both announced Feb. 28 that they were stepping down from their leadership positions this week.

TitleMax fined $15 million for predatory lending tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal consumer watchdog group has fined TitleMax $15 million for predatory lending practices and intentionally evading laws meant to protect military families from predatory lenders and, separately, charged illegal insurance fees to more than 17,000 customers.

Republicans condemn 'disgraceful' bribery allegations, but blame each other for their airing tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Wild and unsubstantiated allegations made in a hearing that dozens of elected officials, including Arizona lawmakers, are secretly on the payroll of a Mexican drug cartel have roiled the state legislature, with Republican lawmakers denouncing the allegations as “disgraceful”.

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