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Immigrant rights group seeks to nullify Az ‘Secure Border Act’ over missing funding tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
An immigrant rights group is asking the courts to overturn the Secure Border Act, the ballot measure Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved last year that made it a state crime for migrants to illegally cross the Arizona-Mexico border, because it violates a provision in the state constitution.

As Tucson temps go up, rattlesnakes come out: What you need to know to be safe tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
With springtime well sprung in Arizona, the weather is warming and more people are heading outside to enjoy nature before the summer heat hits. Alongside people basking in the sun are some of our native fauna, including reptiles, who thrive when it's warmer. More specifically, rattlesnakes.

House calls off votes amid GOP spat over proxy voting for lawmaker parents tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A growing feud between House Republicans over a proposed rules change that would allow new parents in Congress to temporarily vote from afar ground the chamber to a screeching halt, as lawmakers failed to pass a procedural measure setting this week’s voting schedule.

‘These are not normal times,’ Sen. Cory Booker says in record-breaking Senate speech tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for longest floor speech in the history of the Senate on Tuesday, surpassing the 24-hour and 18-minute record set in 1957 when South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond attempted to prevent passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Trump administration targets Planned Parenthood grants for contraception & STI testing tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
More than 1 million people seeking care such as contraception or testing for sexually transmitted diseases and cancer could be affected by the Trump administration withholding more than $27 million in Title X funding to Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide.

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