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Trump orders ban foreign aid, rescind federal funds guidance for abortion tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump has reinstated a policy that bans foreign aid workers from offering information about abortion, and doubled down on an existing domestic policy that bans federal funding for abortion.

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Many more cities ban sleeping outside despite a lack of shelter space tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s City of Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling last June allowing localities to ban outdoor camping even if there is no homeless shelter space available, roughly 150 cities in 32 states have passed or strengthened such ordinances.

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‘This is where we came from’: Tribe battles uranium transport through ancestral lands tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Havasupai Tribe, which lives at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, has repeatedly and emphatically said the Pinyon Plain uranium mine on U.S. Forest Service land in the Kaibab National Forest poses risks to its drinking water, natural wonders and sacred cultural sites.

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Trump issues order prohibiting openly transgender service members in military tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump signed orders late Monday banning openly transgender service members from the U.S. military and suppressing any diversity initiatives, including prohibiting “un-American” concepts from military educational institutions.

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New guidance as reproductive health care faces post-Roe legal & surveillance challenges tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
In the post-Roe era, people capable of pregnancy face growing threats, and health care providers, family, friends, information on personal devices and virtually any activity that can be observed or recorded pose privacy risks that can lead to prosecution.

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Posse Comitatus: How a 19th century law limits how the U.S. military can be used within the country’s borders tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Much of what military troops at the border will be allowed to do — and what they aren’t — is proscribed in federal regulations relating to a law passed at the end of Reconstruction: The Posse Comitatus Act.

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Trump administration memo announces abrupt freeze on broad swath of federal payments tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration will temporarily stop payments on multiple federal programs Tuesday evening, cutting off Americans who rely on what could be trillions in funding and likely setting off a legal challenge over Congress’ constitutional spending authority.

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Navajo people push for RECA reauthorization, U.S. senators reintroduce bill tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A group of Diné marched to the Navajo Nation Council Chambers in Window Rock to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance for Downwinders and to urge their tribal leaders to push the U.S. Congress to reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

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Arizona House committee moves to prevent police budget cuts tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An Arizona House committee voted to approve a bill that would prohibit cities from reducing their police budgets even though no Arizona cities have done so, or threatened to do so, in recent history.

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Registration for Pima JTED career & technical education courses now underway tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
High school students who want to attend career and technical education courses in the Pima JTED program can begin registering for courses Monday.

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Sahuarita to vote on trash mandate; Columnist says 'sorry' for CatFoot cheerleader joke tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Sahuarita Town Council wants a single trash provider the vast majority of residents must use, cheerleaders should not be preemptively deemed catty, TUSD holds deseg course and more from government meetings around Tucson.

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Judge rebuffs effort to postpone Mexico's lawsuit vs. Arizona gun dealers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A federal judge rejected a motion to stay a lawsuit against five Arizona gun stores, allowing the suit filed by the Mexican government to move forward while a similar action waits on a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

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Dozens of people died in Az sober living homes as state officials fumbled Medicaid fraud response tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people with addictions.

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Immigrant rights advocates seek extension of settlement for housing of minors tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Immigrant rights advocates asked a federal judge to extend a 2022 settlement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection over the housing of minors detained in Texas along the Mexican border, claiming the agency has never substantially complied with the settlement.

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No court, no hearing: Trump revives fast-track deportations, expands reach nationwide tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration has revived a border security policy that legal experts say paves the way for mass deportations — without even a court hearing — and threatens to put Latino Arizonans, regardless of their citizenship status, at risk of racial profiling and removal from the country.

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DOJ didn’t give Arizona AG its Trump investigation file tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The U.S. Department of Justice didn’t give Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes its investigation on President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election before Trump took the office a second time Jan. 20.

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Uranium trucks will roll down ‘Killer 89,’ igniting alarm in Arizona tribal communities tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A mining company near the Grand Canyon has permission to haul as many as 10 truckloads a day of uranium ore along a road passes through several communities in Arizona and is known to some as “Killer 89.”

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Uranium trucks will roll down ‘Killer 89,’ igniting alarm in tribal communities tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A mining company near the Grand Canyon has permission to haul as many as 10 truckloads a day of uranium ore along a road passes through several communities in Arizona and is known to some as “Killer 89.”

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The growing inequality in life expectancy among Americans tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Americans’ health has long been unequal, but a new study shows that the disparity between the life expectancies of different populations has nearly doubled since 2000.

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La creciente desigualdad en la expectativa de vida entre los estadounidenses tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
La salud de los estadounidenses ha sido desigual durante mucho tiempo, pero un nuevo estudio muestra que la disparidad entre las expectativas de vida de diferentes poblaciones casi se ha duplicado desde 2000.

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