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As a strong El Niño winds down, a look at what’s ahead for 2024 tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The strong El Niño responsible for the weather that has been roiling North America for the past few months is now starting to weaken and will likely be gone by late spring 2024, and although it wasn’t the strongest in recent decades, many aspects have been unusual.

GOP bid to ‘protect’ cis women would scrap all legal protections for trans Arizonans tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In a bid to keep transgender women off of girl’s sports teams and out of public restrooms, Arizona Republicans are pushing to insert a narrow and inflexible definition of biological sex into state law that would effectively eliminate all legal recognition of transgender people.

5 followers of Az polygamist church leader Samuel Bateman plead not guilty to new charges tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Five followers of the polygamist church leader Samuel Rappylee Bateman, who stands accused of sexually abusing 10 underage girls over three years, pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to various crimes associated with Bateman's activities.

Arizona Heart Association lobbies for bill mandating cardiac arrest emergency plans in schools tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
More than 23,000 children each year will experience cardiac arrest, and of these incidents, 40% are related to sports - leading advocates to lobby the Arizona Legislature in support of legislation which aims to mandate cardiac emergency response plans in Arizona schools.

Az resolution that would ask voters to require life sentences for sex traffickers clears first hurdle tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A number of proposals in the Arizona legislature aimed at sex trafficking, including one that would make the punishment for conviction a life sentence, moved forward with support from groups inspired by a QAnon-linked film.

Arizona bill to ban satanic displays advances after heated debate on religion tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona Senate committee gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a bill that would ban satanic displays on public grounds, following an often-testy debate over whether Satanism is a religion to be respected or a “desecration of public property.”

PCC women use 30-3 first quarter to cruise to 5th straight win tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College women’s basketball team (17-6, 12-4 in ACCAC) picked up an ACCAC conference road victory on Wednesday at South Mountain Community College (0-20, 0-15).

Pima men use 2nd-half runs to beat South Mountain for 6th straight win tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s basketball team (20-3, 12-3 in ACCAC) secured its 20+ win season for the fifth time in seven years (excluding the 2020-21 COVID season) on Wednesday after beating South Mountain Community College (8-15, 3-12) in Phoenix.

Az children’s medical confidentiality would be eliminated under GOP proposal tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona children wouldn't be able to count on the confidentiality of their doctors under a Republican proposal that the American Civil Liberties Union warns will turn minors away from health care providers.

Az children’s medical confidentiality would be eliminated under GOP proposal tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona children wouldn't be able to count on the confidentiality of their doctors under a Republican proposal that the American Civil Liberties Union warns will turn minors away from health care providers.

Pima Dems stumble in search for challenger to Az Sen. Justine Wadsack tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Democrats see Tucson’s LD17 as a potential swing district as they seek to flip the Arizona Senate. But the party has yet to find a candidate to run against state Sen. Justine Wadsack, a controversial lawmaker they see as vulnerable in the November election.

Az Republicans, Hobbs on a collision course over how to fix election recount law tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Az GOP lawmakers are gearing up for a showdown with Gov. Hobbs over creating a fix for an impending election timeline issue created by Republican changes to the state’s recount law which could lead to overseas and military voters becoming disenfranchised.

Game on: Arizona high school esports embraces changes, challenges entering 5th season tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A sport once thought to be nothing more than a hobby is growing rapidly throughout Arizona, and the state’s high school esports teams are preparing to begin their fifth season of competition.

U.S. needs homes, but lacks workers to build them tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The United States needs an estimated 7 million more homes to house everyone who needs shelter, but to build all those homes, experts say, America would need many more construction workers.

The U.S. needs homes, but lacks the workers to build them tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The United States needs an estimated 7 million more homes to house everyone who needs shelter, but to build all those homes, experts say, America would need many more construction workers.

The U.S. needs homes. But first, it needs the workers to build them. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The United States needs an estimated 7 million more homes to house everyone who needs shelter, but to build all those homes, experts say, America would need many more construction workers.

Az GOP bill would strike ‘gender’ from state law, limit sex to male, female tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
GOP senators want to rewrite Arizona law to define sex as only male and female and not “a person’s subjective sense of self,” a move they said will protect women and girls from “unwanted intrusions” by transgender women.

GOP rout sinks Mayorkas impeachment vote in House tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
House Republicans' effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was dead in the water as the lower chamber voted against a resolution aimed at removing the Biden administration official from his post.

Bleak future for immigration action after U.S. Senate GOP abandons border security deal tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Senate Republicans walked away from the bipartisan border security and immigration deal clinched after months of painstaking negotiations, siding with their House colleagues and presidential front-runner Donald Trump.

Century Room celebrates 2 years of Tucson jazz club tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
The Century Room, the stage dedicated to live jazz at Hotel Congress, is turning two years old and a party Friday night will celebrate that anniversary.

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