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Wee hours U.S. Senate drama: GOP colleagues on the floor battle Tuberville blockade tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
After a marathon day and late-night vote to avert a Thanksgiving government shutdown, four U.S. Senate Republicans held the floor until the wee hours Thursday, urging their Alabama colleague to lift his months-long objections to hundreds of U.S. military nominations.

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Arizona voting rights trial takes 9th Circuit detour over legislative privilege tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona state legislative leaders asked a Ninth Circuit panel to block an order from a lower court demanding they turnover “privileged” communications regarding two voting laws that are the subject of an ongoing federal trial.

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Backpage founder Michael Lacey dodges prostitution rap, but convicted on money laundering count tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal jury spared Michael Lacey, founder and former owner of the controversial classified advertising website Backpage.com, convictions for facilitating prostitution but did find him guilty of one count of international concealment money laundering.

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Democrats urge feds to update banking ‘red flags’ on legal marijuana businesses tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Congressional Democrats urged the Treasury Department to change the banking ‘red flags’ policy on legal marijuana businesses, arguing the federal government unfairly penalizes state-legal marijuana businesses whose owners have been convicted of marijuana-related crimes.

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Colleges face gambling addiction among students as sports betting spreads tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
An estimated 2% to 3% of U.S. adults have a gambling problem, with the portion of college students with a problem is potentially twice that number - but colleges can take steps to curtail problem gambling among students.

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Arizona Theatre Company's 'Scrooge!' is all but humbug tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Arizona Theatre Company premiered their new holiday musical on Friday, Nov. 10 in the Temple of Music and Art in Tucson - "Scrooge!"

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Trump moves for mistrial in Manhattan fraud case, claiming bias from the court tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Donald Trump’s legal team asked a Manhattan court for a mistrial in the $250 million civil fraud case against the former president, his family and his namesake business, arguing the court was biased against Trump throughout the trial’s proceedings.

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In late-night rally, Senate approves short-term federal budget, dodging shutdown tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Congress appears to have averted a government shutdown for the second time this fall, as the Senate voted to approve a short-term spending patch that will keep federal programs funded into the new year.

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Tom Horne is violating students' rights & promoting Islamophobia, critics say tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A local Muslim civil rights group is pushing back on criticism of Amnesty International in Arizona schools leveled last week by Tom Horne, the state’s schools chief, saying his comments violate the free speech rights of students and contribute to rising Islamophobia.

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Late disclosure in Backpage case could spell trouble for prosecution tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As a nearly deadlocked jury continues to grapple with 100 felony counts stacked against former owners and operators of Backpage.com, prosecutors seem to have inadvertently thrown yet another wrench in the case.

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State Bar of Arizona investigates Kari Lake’s election-challenge attorneys tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Bryan Blehm and Kurt Olsen, the two attorneys who represented Kari Lake in her failed attempt to overturn the results of Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial election are being investigated by the State Bar of Arizona.

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Shaken & stirred: NCAA transfer portal transforms Pac-12 basketball tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The stakes are raised higher each offseason with college basketball coaches across the country scrambling to keep their top talent on rosters while dipping into the transfer portal to replenish the void left by NBA draft prospects, graduates and departed players.

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VA secretary says agency will cooperate with investigation into veterans crisis line tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
VA Secretary Denis McDonough sought to defend the veterans crisis line Wednesday in a letter to the Kansas senator who has raised concerns with how some veterans are treated after calling it, while promising to "investigate thoroughly” allegations of insufficient care.

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Pima guard Rylei Waugh's 22.6 scoring average earns her ACCAC Division II Player of the Week honors tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Pima Community College women’s basketball player Rylei Waugh (Westchester HS, CA) received praise from the ACCAC conference for her stellar play during the week of Nov. 5-11.

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PCC center Gabe Oldham named ACCAC Division II Player of the Week tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Pima Community College men’s basketball player Gabe Oldham (Spanish Fork HS, UT) has helped the Aztecs to a 4-0 start to the regular season as he received individual recognition from the ACCAC conference for his play.

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Tucson Sector sees 140% spike in migrants at border, despite overall national decrease tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
While the number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border declined in October, encounters in the Tucson Sector were on the increase, driven largely by Mexican families seeking refuge in Arizona.

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Officials identify Border Patrol agent killed Tuesday in ATV crash near Douglas tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Border Patrol Agent Freddy Ortiz, 44, was riding an ATV while responding to a call when he apparently crashed into a fixed light pole in Douglas, Ariz., on Tuesday night.

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Diamondbacks' Corbin Carroll wins first Rookie of the Year Award in franchise history tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Corbin Carroll won the National League Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Award by unanimous vote, becoming the first Diamondbacks player to win the award.

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'Nationwide gun emergency' discussed by U.S. House Democrats at roundtable meeting tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. House Democrats held a Monday roundtable forum on changing U.S. gun laws following a recent mass shooting in Maine, where 18 people were killed, in a year where there have been 602 mass shootings.

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