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President Trump’s ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports’ carves transgender female athlete divide tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
President Trump’s executive order that bans transgender women and girls from competing in female sports is based on views that gender is based on biological sex assigned at birth, and he plans to enforce the order by threatening a loss of funds to states and schools that do not comply.

DHS shuts ‘open door’ for women & queer immigrants to report abuse tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration has gutted three key oversight offices responsible, in part, for safeguarding the rights of immigrant victims of gender-based violence, including immigrant victims of domestic violence and trans immigrants facing abuse in detention.

Public lands, private profits: Inside the Trump plan to offload federal land tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration is poised to begin offloading public land, achieving a long-held conservative goal of reducing the government’s footprint in the West, though little has been shared so far about the process for identifying parcels or how they might be sold or transferred.

‘Lives are on the line’: Families fight to preserve Arizona’s Parents as Paid Caregivers program tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona GOP’s proposal to fix the funding gap would implement a 40-hour weekly cap on Parents as Paid Caregivers services, though parent after parent said that doing so would be devastating, and would leave many families with no way to care for their child.

‘No tolerance for gamesmanship’: Judge demands answers on return of deported man tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Neither the Trump administration nor the El Salvadoran government has justified Abrego Garcia’s detention in CECOT, but both cast doubt over the Maryland father’s return to the U.S. - and two judges are now considering holding admin officials in contempt for ignoring court orders.

Federal education cuts & Trump DEI demands leave states, teachers in limbo tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
States across the country - both liberal- and conservative-led - are worried about demands from the U.S. Department of Education on DEI policies and the possible loss of pandemic-era money, though some have embraced the directive as part of a push to reshape public education.

Planned Parenthood AZ resumes transgender care after pause over Trump funding threat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
After a brief pause last week, Planned Parenthood Arizona has resumed providing gender-affirming care to its patients. The nonprofit said it stopped treatments "out of an abundance of caution" after the Trump administration threatened Medicaid funding for any providers who offer transgender care to minors.

U.S. human rights law likely violated in $6M payment for El Salvador prison, experts say tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The United States is paying El Salvador $6 million to house hundreds of immigrants deported from the U.S. in an immense and brutal prison there, but a U.S. law bars financial support of “units of foreign security forces” facing credible allegations of gross human rights violations.

Arizona’s cannabis industry records 2nd consecutive year of declining sales tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A cratering medical marijuana industry and a softening recreational market dragged total marijuana sales in Arizona down nearly 10% in 2024, breaking a three-year streak of at least $1.4 billion in legal cannabis purchases and marking the second straight year of decline.

Is Arizona’s lack of measles cases a fluke, given its low vaccination rate? tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Measles – declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2002 thanks to widespread vaccination – has hit 22 states this year, and though Arizona hasn’t reported a single case during the current outbreak, despite its relatively low vaccination rate, the state is no safe haven from the disease.

Senate weighs whether to end daylight saving time, which Arizona hasn’t observed since 1968 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
As Arizonans look on with relief and satisfaction - enjoying their exemption - a national consensus has emerged over the last 25 years that it’s time to stop changing the clock twice a year, but Congress has disagreed on which solution to pick: standard time or daylight saving time.

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