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FactChecking Trump’s inaugural address tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In a half-hour inaugural address, newly sworn-in President Donald Trump twisted some facts while painting the last few years under his predecessor, Joe Biden, as a time of “decline” and promising that “the golden age of America begins right now.”

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'Make no mistake, this is a tipping point': Tucson MLK parade falls on Trump's Inauguration Day tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Hundreds of members of the Tucson community came out Monday morning at Gene C. Reid Park to honor the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in a commemorative march.

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Trump vents about Biden’s pardons, Capitol riot ‘hostages’ in unscripted post-inauguration remarks tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
After a scripted half-hour inaugural address, President Donald Trump went off on a lengthy, unscripted riff to an overflow crowd at the Capitol – venting about a “rigged” 2020 election and blasting former President Joe Biden for 11th-hour pardons of lawmakers who investigated the Jan. 6 attack.

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Trump pardons 1,500 defendants charged in Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump on Monday night issued sweeping pardons for nearly all Jan. 6 defendants, erasing accountability for those who violently tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results on that date in 2021.

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Trump declares 'border emergency,' pushes to end birthright citizenship tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
After his inauguration as the 47th president, Donald Trump late Monday signed dozens of executive orders that will begin his immigration crackdown at the southern border.

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County seeking public comments on 'Pima Prospers' 10-year land use plan tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County is seeking public comments on a 10-year plan that would include policy changes on housing, water, energy and climate.

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Donald Trump sworn in as president of the United States tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address previewed an agenda that will take aim at racial equity efforts, transgender rights and undocumented immigrants.

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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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