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Arizona legislators host town hall on guardianship abuses & hear brutal realities of probate court tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona state legislators and disability advocates hosted town hall Thursday on guardianship abuses and to hear the brutal realities of the state probate system.

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Az Gov. Hobbs vetoes transgender bathroom bill, reaches 111 vetoes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs continued to bring down her veto stamp on Republican-backed bills on Thursday, adding five more for a record total of 111 and putting a stop to a contentious transgender bathroom bill.

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Indian boarding school Truth & Healing Commission bill heads to U.S. Senate floor tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A bill that would create a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States was passed out of committee Wednesday and is now headed to the full Senate for consideration.

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Enviros warn switching on CBP's stadium lights along Az-Mexico border will threaten species tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Center for Biological Diversity mapped 1,800 stadium lights installed on the border over two years, and warned that flipping them on at night could drastically alter the behavior of endangered and threatened species in the region.

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Environmentalists warn switching on CBP's powerful stadium lights along Az-Mexico border will threaten species tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Center for Biological Diversity mapped 1,800 stadium lights installed on the border over two years, and warned that flipping them on at night could drastically alter the behavior of endangered and threatened species in the region.

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Social media, trauma, hate speech add to youth mental health crisis, Senate panel told tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. senators agreed during a hearing Thursday the country’s children are going through a youth mental health crisis, though some of the committee’s members disagreed about what role Congress has to play.

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Supreme Court pooh-poohs Arizona firm’s parody defense in trademark case tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Scottsdale company that makes doggy chew toys spoofing Jack Daniel’s and other brands is not protected from trademark infringement suits by its claim that it was merely parodying, not appropriating, those brands, the Supreme Court ruled.

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On a record day in D.C. for smoke pollution, U.S. Senate panel debates wildfire strategy tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As smoke from Canadian wildfires has lingered this week from New England to North Carolina, members of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said that Congress should lift federal firefighter pay and encourage logging to reduce the risk of future blazes.

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Arizona AG Mayes: Ruling dropping preventive drugs from insurance would be devastating tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes vowed Thursday to “fight like heck” against a federal court ruling that could overturn a mandate that requires insurance companies to provide select preventive care services at no additional charge to the customer.

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Biden announces initiatives to support LGBTQ+ community tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Ahead of a Pride Month party on the South Lawn, considered the largest Pride celebration in White House history, President Joe Biden announced several initiatives to counter mounting efforts across the country to roll back the rights and recognition of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Donald Trump indicted by a Florida grand jury tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Former President Donald Trump became the first ever president to be federally charged with a crime after a long-awaited indictment of his alleged mishandling of classified documents at his residence and private club Mar-a-Lago in Florida after he lost the presidency.

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Pima Supes agree to cut public comment at meetings to one hour tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In a 3-2 vote, the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to limit call to the audience to an hour, cutting short an increasingly fraught and lengthy part of each meeting marked by personal attacks against the supervisors.

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Supes agree to cut public comment at meetings to one hour tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In a 3-2 vote, the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to limit call to the audience to an hour, cutting short an increasingly fraught and lengthy part of each meeting marked by personal attacks against the supervisors.

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'Young people are being harmed': The effect of anti-trans legislation tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Hundreds of anti-transgender bills proposed in state legislatures are sold as measures to protect minors, but advocacy groups and doctors warn that the effect is exactly the opposite.

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Lawmakers zero in on AI, insulin costs, pandemic prep in D.C. policy discussion tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Nearly a dozen members of Congress outlined their work on policy during an annual legislative session and touched on topics in which bipartisanship could be key such as artificial intelligence, agriculture and pandemic preparation.

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Wildfire smoke can harm human health, even when the fire is hundreds of miles away tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As smoke from more than 100 wildfires burning across Canada has been rolling into North American cities far from the flames, a toxicologist explains the impact on human health, even when the smoke blows in from distant wildfires.

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Under ethics scrutiny, Justice Thomas delays financial disclosure tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Accused of violating ethics guidelines by hiding luxury vacations and real estate transactions paid for by billionaire conservative benefactor Harlan Crow, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delayed the release of his highly anticipated financial disclosure report for 2022.

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Arizona's San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe could finally get its own homeland tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A bill sponsored by Arizona Rep. Eli Crane would approve a treaty that has been pending for the past 23 years and finally grant 5,400 acres of Navajo Reservation land and accompanying water rights in their ancestral homeland to the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe.

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Blacks more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, less likely to be treated tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Black Americans are two times more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s disease and live with missed diagnoses and treatment gaps, "disparities rooted in the history of discrimination against Black individuals and other people of color in the United States."

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LIV Golf, PGA Tour merger bring money, power and ethics to forefront tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
In a move that shocked the golf world Tuesday, Saudi Arabia-funded LIV Golf and the PGA Tour announced a merger, ending the feud between the organizations and marking a sharp pivot for the PGA after executives and players had denounced LIV Golf.

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