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29,000 affected in TUSD data breach tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Cybersecurity investigators contracted by Tucson Unified School District concluded approximately 29,000 people may have had personal information compromised during a network breach in January, 2023, and the district has set up a response line to help those affected.

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Excessive heat warning for Tucson, Pima County Sunday - Tuesday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Parts of Southern Arizona could see "dangerously hot" temperatures as high as 115 degrees between Sunday - Tuesday, particularly the Tucson metro area and the western deserts, with temperatures in Phoenix and Yuma possibly reaching 116 degrees during the heat wave.

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Excessive heat watch for Tucson, Pima County Sunday - Tuesday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Parts of Southern Arizona could see "dangerously hot" temperatures as high as 110 degrees between Sunday - Tuesday, particularly the Tucson metro area and the western deserts, with temperatures in Phoenix and Yuma possibly reaching 117 degrees during the heat wave.

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Tucson-area leaders fear for future of abortion rights tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A group of local elected officials expressed concern about abortion rights in Arizona after the state Supreme Court agreed to consider whether to reinstate a territorial-era law that would almost entirely ban abortion and punish doctors with jail time.

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Trial over key Biden immigration policy underway in Texas tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A group of red states began to make their case Thursday, asking to federal judge to do away with a Biden administration program that allows 30,000 people per month from four troubled countries to be paroled into the United States.

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Arizona synagogues, Jewish organizations, targeted in ‘swatting’ hoaxes tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona is one of 12 states that have been the target of hoax calls to police or suicide hotlines where a man on the line says he aims to kill himself and others with a bomb, prompting a police response in an online form of harassment known as “swatting.”

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‘All we want is revenge’: How social media fuels gun violence among teens tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Teens post photos or videos of themselves with guns and stacks of cash, sometimes calling out rivals, on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok. When messages go viral, fueled by “likes” and comments, the danger is hard to contain.

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Updated COVID-19 vaccines expected to be available in September, federal officials say tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Biden administration is gearing up for a fall vaccination campaign that not only includes updated COVID-19 boosters - expected in September - but also the annual flu shot and the newly approved RSV vaccine.

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Living with wildfire: How to protect more homes as fire risk rises in a warming climate tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Over a century of fire suppression efforts has conditioned people to expect firefighters to snuff out wildfires, but extensive fire suppression has set the stage for the increasingly destructive wildfires we see today, and efforts to adopt a more selective policy have run into opposition.

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The long struggle over taxing the rich tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A decades-long conservative struggle to reduce taxes paid by higher-income Americans has efforts to pass a federal wealth tax at a standstill, but a growing movement at the state level to get high-income people to contribute more to public coffers is beginning to notch successes.

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Death counts remain high in some states even as COVID fatalities wane tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Several months after President Joe Biden ended the national emergency for COVID-19, preliminary health data indicates the degree to which the pandemic increased death rates nationwide - not just because of the virus itself, but also through the pandemic’s effects on society.

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Arizona soccer settles for a tie with visiting GC Antelopes tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Nicole Dallin scored a 7th-minute goal for the Wildcats, but the team had to settle for a draw as Grand Canyon came back in the second half.

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Pima volleyball falls to No. 6 Grand Rapids CC to open Aztec Classic Invitational tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College volleyball team (1-4) opened play in the Aztec Classic on Thursday at the West Campus Aztec Gymnasium.

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Trump surrenders at Atlanta jail in election interference RICO case tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Former President Donald Trump turned himself in for booking at the Fulton County Jail Thursday for his charges in the Georgia 2020 election interference case, his fourth indictment since April, when he became the first former president in U.S. history to be charged with a crime.

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Hobbs: Flags to half-staff to honor IRS special agent tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered flags at all state buildings be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset Thursday, August 24, to honor of IRS Special Agent Patrick Bauer, who died after being shot during a training incident at a firing range last Thursday.

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Az dispensaries recalling marijuana product over aspergillus contamination tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona dispensaries are voluntarily recalling a marijuana product due to possible contamination with aspergillus, a fungus that can cause allergic reactions or infection, usually in people already sick with something else.

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Business leaders: Solution to dire worker shortage is immigration reform tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
More than 120 business leaders across the country, including nine from Arizona, signed onto a letter from American Business Immigration Coalition Action asking the Biden administration to expand work permits for immigrants In hopes of easing the workforce shortage.

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Water-short cities want to use every last drop – even if it used to be sewage tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Cities in the Western U.S. with finite water supplies are finding creative new ways to stretch out the water they already have - and for some, that means cleaning up sewage and putting it back in the pipes that flow to homes and businesses.

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Arizona Supreme Court will consider reviving Civil War-era abortion ban tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to consider the petition of Dr. Eric Hazelrigg, medical director of a chain of anti-abortion clinics, who argues that a near-total abortion ban from 1864 should be the law of the land.

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Trump absent but still dominates as GOP presidential rivals clash at first debate tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Eight Republican presidential candidates gathered onstage Wednesday night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for a heated first primary debate heavily influenced by former President Donald Trump, though the party’s front runner refused to attend the two-hour event.

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