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Effort to block non-citizens from voting could impact married women, too tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Millions of American women have a different last name than what’s on their birth certificates, and House Republicans have prioritized a bill that voting rights groups say could make it harder for them to vote.

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Arizona high school robotics teams pair ingenuity & teamwork in VEX State Championship tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Fifty Arizona high school robotics teams competed at Desert Ridge High School over the weekend for a trip to the VEX World Championship in Dallas from May 6-8.

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U.S. housing agency considers launching crypto experiment tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is considering taking a first step to using cryptocurrency, and some believe the initiative may be a trial run for the use of crypto across the federal government.

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Author Gary Paul Nabhan's new book celebrates revolutionaries of the borderlands tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
An interview with author Gary Paul Nabhan

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Trump pulls Supreme Court into birthright citizenship brawl tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to rein in judicial prohibitions on enforcement of an executive order ending birthright citizenship for certain children of immigrants.

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Schumer support for GOP spending bill appears to possibly stave off gov't shutdown tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced during a floor speech that he will vote to advance the stopgap spending bill that must become law before Friday at midnight to avoid a partial government shutdown.

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Trump justifies trade war with Canada by citing smuggling – but nearly all comes from Mexico tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Trump has justified tariffs on Canadian imports in part as a way to force Canada to crack down on smuggling and tighten security at the vast border - but data from both sides of the U.S.-Canada border shows a dramatically smaller problem than the southern border.

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Grijalva left a mark & lessons for a new generation to live by tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Southern Arizona kid who got into politics as a radical activist lived a life of meaning that new generations of people on a mission can learn from — if they are ready to understand a Boomer knew a thing or two (or seven).

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Grijalva remembered as champion for tribal communities across Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tribal nations throughout Arizona honored U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died Thursday, as a warrior for Indigenous communities and commended his continuous efforts to support Indigenous people’s fights to protect the environment, water and natural resources.

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Raúl Grijalva, congresista de Tucson por mucho tiempo, fallece a los 77 años tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
El congresista Raúl Grijalva falleció la mañana del jueves a 77 años de edad, según su oficina y su hija. Grijalva, en el Congreso desde el 2003, fue tratado por cáncer del pulmón el año pasado, y dijo que no volvería a postularse para el cargo después de las elecciones de noviembre.

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Author & filmmaker Bill Carter's new documentary recalls how U2 came to aid of Sarajevo tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
An interview with filmmaker and author Bill Carter

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Author & filmmaker Bill Carter's new documentary recalls how U2 came to aid of Sarajevo tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
An interview with filmmaker and author Bill Carter

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Feds withhold $10M for Pima County migrant shelters, imply local officials harboring people illegally tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: The Department of Homeland Security told Pima County they are withholding about $10 million in funds owed for migrant shelters, essentially accusing the county of using federal dollars to encourage people to come to the U.S. to seek asylum.

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Raul Grijalva, longtime Tucson congressman, dies at 77 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva died Thursday morning at the age of 77, his office and daughter said. Grijalva, in Congress since 2003, was treated for lung cancer last year, and said he would not seek to run for office again after November's election.

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Judge orders reinstatement of fired probationary federal workers tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge has extended a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from firing thousands of federal employees, and ordered the administration to immediately reinstate probationary workers that were fired.

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Arizona joins 20 states suing Trump administration over Education Department layoffs tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A group of 21 Democratic attorneys general - including Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes - sued the Trump administration Thursday over the U.S. Education Department’s efforts this week to cut more than 1,300 employees.

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Raul Grijalva, longtime Tucson congressman, dies at 77 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva died Thursday morning at the age of 77, his office and daughter said. Grijalva, in Congress since 2003, was treated for lung cancer last year, and said he would not seek to run for office again after November's election.

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The unlikely coalition that doomed Prop. 414 now should point Tucson toward a 'yes' tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Tucson voters just told the city "hell no" to a half-cent more in sales taxes to address police and housing needs. OK, now the leaders of the opposition on the Left and Right should work toward addressing our community's biggest concerns.

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Hoover: Connecting Starlink to cell phones may mean more migrants' lives saved tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Elon Musk is unexpectedly doing a good deed. Connecting cell phones to Starlink means the lives of migrants in Southern Arizona's deserts may be saved.

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Immigration buoyed population in large counties, agricultural Midwest tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Immigration was the biggest factor in population growth for many booming Sun Belt counties as well as for the agricultural Midwest - and played a significant impact between mid-2020 and mid-2024 in fast-growing states such as Arizona, Florida and Texas.

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