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Sahuarita to vote on lease for water co.; TUSD reviews tech training tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Global Water Resources, Sahuarita's new private water vendor, is set to become the newest SAMTEC tenant. TUSD will get a rundown on joint ventures with Pima County's JTED technical training program. Plus more in local government meetings this week.

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Gender-affirming care bans hurt LGBTQ people, increase fears about personal safety tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Two years of record-breaking discriminatory legislation targeting queer, nonbinary and transgender Americans, pushed by Republican politicians as necessary protections for trans youth, are making LGBTQ people feel less safe.

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Arizona's Cactus League rebounds after COVID-19, labor dispute shutdowns tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
MLB's spring training season in Arizona created 6,000 jobs for a combined $270 million in wages in 2023, marking a return to pre-COVID-19 numbers and outpacing the economic impact the Cactus League had on the state in 2018.

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Gospel singer's suggestion to MLK changed a good speech to a majestic sermon tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Inspired by gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr. cast aside his prepared remarks and ad-libbed from his heart - and an estimated 250,000 who joined the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington heard King deliver one of his seminal sermons.

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Pregnant workers have new protections. Here’s what to expect from your boss. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Almost two months after workplace accommodations for pregnant workers became law, the rules surrounding what employers can and cannot do have yet to be finalized — but that doesn’t mean the protections are not in place.

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Wave of child care center closures is coming as funding dries up tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Nearly 16,000 early childhood programs have shuttered since the pandemic, and when federal stabilization funds run out at the end of September and child care providers can no longer rely on this much-needed funding, experts say the consequences could be immense.

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Trump to face trial in March 2024 in election subversion case tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Donald Trump will face trial on March 4, 2024, in the former president’s landmark election subversion case, striking a middle ground between special counsel Jack Smith's request for a Jan. 2, 2024 start date and a proposal from the defense for April 2026.

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How the distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s words enables more, not less, racial division tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Uses of King’s words, especially by right-wing conservatives, are too often attempts to weaponize his memory against the multicultural democracy of which King could only dream.

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Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Video: "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."

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Ukrainians to train on F-16 jet fighters in Tucson tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Ukrainian military pilots are expected to begin training to fly F-16 fighter jets in Tucson later this year, as the United States continues to back that country in the face of Russian's invasion.

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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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