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Judge: Probable cause to hold Trump admin in contempt over deportation flights tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge in Washington found probable cause Wednesday the Trump administration is in contempt of court for defying his order to stop flights of Venezuelan immigrants headed to a prison in El Salvador.

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Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages & how that changed tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As Christians observe Good Friday they will remember, with devotion and prayer, the death of Jesus on the Cross - but in the Middle Ages, Good Friday was a dangerous time for Jews.

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Senator blocked from meeting wrongly deported man in notorious CECOT prison ‘won’t stop trying’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Sen Chris Van Hollen said Wednesday he was denied a meeting with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador-born Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in his home country notorious for human rights abuses.

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Trucks with uranium cross Navajo Nation, reviving long-standing fears tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Although the Navajo Nation has reached an agreement with Energy Fuels Inc. on uranium transportation through tribal land, many tribal members remain concerned it won’t protect them from the harms of uranium contamination.

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Arizona AG Kris Mayes joins lawsuit against John Deere amid fight for farmers’ right to repair tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, the Federal Trade Commission and other state attorneys general say John Deere’s repair methods are hurting local farmers and ranchers by making it impossible for owners to go anywhere but its dealers for repairs.

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Border businesses cry foul over dragnet-like money transfer rules tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A lawsuit claims a new rule mandating money service businesses report all transactions over $200 will not only burden them with mountains of unnecessary paperwork but also force them to surveil their customers without the government providing any probable cause.

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Congress has demanded Answers to ICE detaining Americans. The admin has responded with silence tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
At least a dozen members of Congress, all Democrats, have written to the Trump administration with pointed questions about constituents and other citizens whom immigration agents have questioned, detained and even held at gunpoint. None has received an answer.

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As demand for AI rises, so do power-thirsty data centers tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As the U.S. works to be a global AI superpower, it’s become a home to hundreds of data centers - buildings that store and maintain the physical equipment needed to compute information - but the centers and physical infrastructure needed to run them use large amounts of resources.

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Tucson attorney sues Trump administration over 'unlawful' student visa cancellations tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Tucson attorney filed lawsuits on behalf of two university students, accusing the Trump administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of "abruptly and unlawfully" terminating visas allowing them to remain and study in the U.S.

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Alvarez has 4 RBIs but Aztec baseball can't rally vs. Chandler-Gilbert tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (39-11, 23-11 in ACCAC) hosted Chandler-Gilbert Community College (26-24, 21-13) in an ACCAC conference game, falling 7-6 despite a comeback attempt in the 9th inning.

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Rivera hits 2 of Pima's 4 home runs as softball sweeps South Mountain tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (43-5, 31-5 in ACCAC) broke away in both games against South Mountain Community College (31-16, 23-11) on Tuesday at the West Campus Aztec Field.

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Rockafellow plans launch party for Tucson Council campaign; Dahl at DGT tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming political events: Rockafellow plans launch party in Ward 6 Council race, Dahl speaks to Democrats of Greater Tucson; Sentinel team on the airwaves

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Pima County JP Alexander Ball resigning in May tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County Justice of the Peace Alexander Ball is resigning and the Pima County supervisors will pick his replacement on the bench.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘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.

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‘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.

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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.

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Trump registration requirement carries danger for immigrants who comply, groups warn tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Immigrant rights groups are cautioning migrants without legal status about the dangers of obeying the Department of Homeland Security’s directive to register with authorities.

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