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Trump directs federal government to restrict access to gender-affirming care for youth tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Hospitals, clinics and medical schools that provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth are at risk of losing federal funding if they continue providing that care, according to a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

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The State Dep't is blocking new passports for trans Americans tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The State Department is no longer issuing U.S. passports with “X” gender markers and has suspended processing all applications from Americans seeking to update their passports with a new gender marker - a decision that affects all transgender and nonbinary Americans.

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Tucson police & schools lay out course as Trump jettisons 'sensitive' locations policy tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Schools in Tucson, along with the Catholic Diocese and city officials moved to reassure parents and the community after the Trump administration again cleared the way for immigration officials to enter schools, churches and other sensitive locations.

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Az Democrats blast Trump's freeze on federal spending; Ciscomani quiet tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s two Democratic senators slammed the Trump administration’s freeze on funding for all federal grant, loan and financial assistance programs. Meanwhile, local officials said they were still determining how the halt would affect city and county government as well as school districts.

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Judge temporarily blocks Trump freeze on broad swath of federal payments tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal district judge ruled the Trump administration must wait until at least next week before it can move forward with pausing federal spending on trillions in grants and loans, though she emphasized the short-term administrative stay might not continue after a Feb. 3 hearing.

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Arizona will join a lawsuit to block Trump’s federal spending freeze tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona is joining with other states to sue President Donald Trump over his sweeping federal grant freeze that is set to go into effect Tuesday evening, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

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He won a landmark Supreme Court birthright citizenship case. El Paso tried to deport Wong Kim Ark anyway tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Wong Kim Ark has the unique distinction as perhaps the only person with a Supreme Court ruling declaring him, by name, a citizen of the United States — but that didn’t prevent an immigration official from arresting him and beginning deportation proceedings.

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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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