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Transcript: Trump's 2nd inaugural address tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
A transcript of President Donald Trump's second inaugural speech, delivered inside the U.S. Capitol on Monday.

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Native activist Leonard Peltier granted clemency as Biden leaves office, to serve rest of sentence at home tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In one of his final acts while in office, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence for activist Leonard Peltier, who has already served 49 years in prison in the shooting deaths of two federal agents during a standoff at Pine Ridge in 1975.

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Native activist Leonard Peltier granted clemency as Biden leaves office, can serve remainder of life sentence outside prison tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In one of his final acts while in office, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence for activist Leonard Peltier, who has already served 49 years in prison in the shooting deaths of two federal agents during a standoff at Pine Ridge in 1975.

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Asylum-seekers huddle through freezing night on U.S.-Mexico border as Trump inauguration looms tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the Biden era ends, and a new Trump administration was set to begin — with plans to launch a massive deportation effort — 18 migrants waited through the bitter cold night of the Arizona desert for a chance to seek asylum.

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3rd candidate jumps into race to replace Fimbres in Tucson's Ward 5 Council seat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A third candidate is taking the first steps to run for the Ward 5 seat in this year’s Tucson City Council election. Selina Barajas, a Democrat, filed a statement of interest in the race on Jan. 15.

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Biden issues preemptive pardons to Fauci, Milley & Jan. 6 cmte members, staff tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Hours before his four-year term ended, President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons early Monday to several officials and lawmakers who have been the target of incoming President-elect Donald Trump’s threats of retaliation.

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Hobbs lays out priorities to work with Arizona’s tribal nations tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As the new legislative year begins, Gov. Katie Hobbs is announcing her priorities for the state, which includes Arizona’s 22 Tribal Nations, whose tribal lands make up 28% of the state’s land base and where Indigenous people make up 6% of the state population.

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5th Circuit declares DACA illegal but leaves program in place for current recipients tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy unlawful on Friday, just days before the second inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who tried to rescind the program in his first term.

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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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MLK's final sermon: 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Monday, the nation remembers Martin Luther King Jr. Perhaps the greatest of his speeches, from a man renowned for his uplifting words, was one given extemporaneously on the last night of his life, April 3, 1968: "I've Been to the Mountaintop."

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Tucson's idea to buy chunk of TEP for $820M a likely non-starter, Pima Supes get election recap tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The City Council is thinking about trying to buy a piece of Tucson Electric Power for a $820 million. Pima County Recorder's Office squirms in post-mortem when discussing election flub, and more from government meetings around Tucson.

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Tucson MLK march to take place Monday; What's open & what's closed tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day will kick off with a march and celebration at Reid Park, but residents should remember most government services will close for the holiday.

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Tucson voters to decide on new half-cent sales tax in Prop. 414 vote tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The city of Tucson is asking voters to increase the local sales tax by a half-cent per dollar to boost funding for the police and fire departments and offer programs to reduce homelessness, assist with childcare costs and otherwise aid low-income Tucsonans.

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Weatherspoon breaks 41-year Pima record in long jump tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College men’s track & field team opened the 2025 season on Saturday as they hosted the Jim Mielke Multi’s and the Al Shirley Memorial Invitational.

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History echoes: Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision meets Trump’s America tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
On Monday, Donald Trump will be sworn in for a second time as president after running a racist and misogynist campaign supported by half of American voters - while the day marks a very different legacy, as well, that of Martin Luther King Jr.

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U.S.-Mexico border takes spotlight as Trump presidency nears tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
No other region in the nation was more politicized during the 2024 elections than the U.S.-Mexico border, and in the days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a nation grasps at defining its southern border.

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The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. & sustained a movement for social change tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Many African American women were out-front organizers for civil rights - but it is no less important to remember those who assumed less visible, but indispensable, roles behind the scenes, sustaining the movement over time.The Conversation

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Secret jars in a prison fridge hold Az’s lethal injection drugs, and they may be expired tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A retired judge looking into executions is skeptical about Arizona prison officials’ claims the state pentobarbital stockpile - stored in unmarked glass containers and used to execute Arizona Death Row prisoners - won’t ever expire.

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The American Climate Corps is over. What even was it? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The American Climate Corps, an initiative started by President Joe Biden to get young people working in jobs that reduce carbon dioxide emissions and protect communities from weather disasters. was never what it seemed. Now it's shutting down before Trump takes office.

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