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Betty Villegas sworn into Az House to replace Andrés Cano tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Democrat Betty Villegas was sworn in Monday afternoon to the Arizona House of Representatives to fill a vacancy caused when Andrés Cano, the former leader of the Democratic caucus, resigned earlier this month.

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Art Fest 2023 will be 'art explosion' at Tucsons' Hotel McCoy tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Hotel McCoy will transform into a hub for creativity for Arizona Art Fest, an event first held in 2019. Fifteen hotel rooms will serve as venues on Saturday, Aug. 5.

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Supreme Court Justice Alito temporarily reinstates ghost gun rules tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary pause on a Texas ruling that threw out the government’s regulations on ghost guns, putting on hold the lower court's ruling until Aug. 4, while the Supreme Court evaluates the government’s emergency application.

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Biden signs order revising prosecuting authority for military sexual assault tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order giving independent military attorneys the power to prosecute serious crimes, including sexual assault, and removing that authority from victims’ commanders.

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Nearly $1B available for broadband expansion on Tribal lands tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
To fill the gap in broadband service among Tribal nations, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration launched the second round of grant funding to expand Internet access and adoption on Tribal lands.

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Arizona added 13,000 clean-energy jobs in past year, 7th-most in U.S. tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona added almost 13,000 clean-energy jobs in the past year, good enough for seventh-most among states and evidence that the state is becoming a “powerhouse” for clean energy and electric vehicle production, a new report says.

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Hobbs has questions about data breach that exposed Arizona's school voucher info tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A data breach exposed the personal information of thousands of Arizona students enrolled in the state’s school voucher program, according to Gov. Katie Hobbs, but the state’s top education official says it’s not a problem.

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Brian Lopez reflects on life in the shadow of Black Mountain on ‘Tidal,’ his new album tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Reawakened and reconnected to the intrinsic joy of music making — sallied forth following an intense psilocybin dream — Tucson native Brian Lopez emerges from the eddy with “Tidal,” his first collection of original desert noir in five years.

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Photos: Allium you need is cloves: Tucsonans at Mission Gardens Garlic Festival tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
About 1,300 people showed up to the Garlic Festival at Mission Gardens on Tucson's West Side on Saturday morning to pay homage to the beloved bulb in all its many forms.

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How climate change drives hotter, more frequent heat waves tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Heat waves around the world are happening more frequently and reaching higher temperatures because of climate change, and an emerging El Niño may already be contributing to some of this summer’s heat extremes.

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Western states’ budgets, industries rely on federal lands. So does wildlife. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Across the West, a vast swath of federal land has been staked out by oil and gas drillers, miners, cattle grazers, loggers, renewable energy developers and outdoor recreationists - soon, those lands will also be leased for a new purpose: conservation.

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Photos: Nintzel's 'unretirement party'; return to reporting at Tucson Sentinel tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
More than 120 people crowded into the Shanty bar on Thursday evening, to toast the return of Jim Nintzel to journalism and raise money for the nonprofit Tucson Sentinel.

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Az's independent voters leading Republicans, Democrats in registration tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The number of independent voters in Arizona continues to outpace those signed up with the Democratic and Republican parties.

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Survey: Young Arizona voters more engaged, informed than earlier generations tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s young voters, ages 18 to 29, may have been the state’s most engaged youth electorate group ever, driven in 2022 by concerns about cost of living concerns and reproductive rights.

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Outside spending climbs in Tucson Democratic primaries; City Clerk probes unregistered PAC tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Outside groups are continuing to pour money in this summer's Tucson primary elections, with committees putting more then $168k into Council races. The City Clerk's Office has opened a probe of a PAC associated with Donald Trump's Arizona lawyer.

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Outside spending climbs in Tucson Democratic primaries; City Clerk investigating unregistered PAC tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Outside groups are continuing to pour money in this summer's Tucson primary elections, with committees putting more then $168k into Council races. The City Clerk's Office has opened a probe of a PAC associated with Donald Trump's Arizona lawyer.

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Arizona GOP leaders ask judge to bar transgender girls from joining school sports teams tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Republican lawmakers are challenging a federal judge’s ruling that gave two transgender students permission to play on girls’ sports teams, claiming that their participation is fundamentally unfair to other girls hoping for a spot on the same team.

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With pay lagging, Arizona school districts try other enticements to recruit teachers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
From tiny houses to alternative teacher certification programs to hiring teachers from overseas, school districts around Arizona are scrambling for ways to attract teachers to a state that offers some of the lowest salaries in the nation.

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Biden warns states must act to protect workers as extreme heat sweeps U.S. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
With many parts of the country gripped by extreme heat, President Joe Biden said his administration would target states that don’t offer workers heat protections and would direct millions of dollars to water projects and improved weather forecasting.

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U.S. to help Mexico with training, equipment to help slow migrants tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In another attempt to curb migration into the country, the United States will supply training tools and equipment to Mexico, officials from both countries announced during a press conference in Juárez.

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