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American cardinal becomes Pope Leo XIV tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American from Chicago, became the new pope on Thursday. He chose his papal name to be Leo XIV.

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Attorneys seek emergency order to block Trump deportations to Libya & Saudi Arabia tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Immigration attorneys are asking a Massachusetts federal judge for an emergency temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration from removing their clients to Libya and Saudi Arabia, in a major new development in President Trump’s drive for mass deportations.

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In taking up ‘dark money’ disclosure law, Az Supreme Court could reshape free speech standards tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Supreme Court will decide whether a measure that voters overwhelmingly approved to require disclosure of most anonymous campaign spending is constitutional — and, in the process, it could potentially reshape free speech jurisprudence in the state.

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Az, states sue Trump admin for withholding billions in electric vehicle funding tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A coalition of Arizona,15 other states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over claims it unlawfully withheld billions in congressionally-approved funding previously slated for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

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Apaches make last-ditch effort to stop copper mine from destroying sacred land tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A coalition of western Apaches returned to federal court in Arizona Wednesday to try again at stopping the construction of a copper mine that would destroy a 2,400-acre holy site in the Tonto National Forest.

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DEA abandoning body cameras, once touted for their 'enhanced transparency' tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Drug Enforcement Administration has quietly ended its body camera program barely four years after it began, a change made to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order rescinding the 2022 requirement that all federal law enforcement agents use body cameras.

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DEA abandoning body cameras, once touted for their “enhanced transparency” tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Drug Enforcement Administration has quietly ended its body camera program barely four years after it began, a change made to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order rescinding the 2022 requirement that all federal law enforcement agents use body cameras.

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Loft Cinema, Folklife Alliance, TSO & other Tucson arts groups have NEA grants yanked by Trump admin tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Tucson’s Loft Cinema is among dozens of organizations nationwide to lose federal grant money from the National Endowment for the Arts in the past week after the Trump administration set its sights on gutting the agency.

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Tucson leader Clarence Boykins dead at 82 tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Clarence Boykins, an Air Force veteran and longtime advocate for Tucson’s Black community, died Sunday, May 4. He was 82.

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Arizona Legislature unanimously approves Turquoise Alert System for missing Indigenous people tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The creation of the Turquoise Alert System cleared its final legislative hurdle on Wednesday when it passed the state House of Representatives unanimously

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GOP proposals to cut Medicaid could leave millions without health insurance, budget office finds tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that potential major cuts to Medicaid under consideration by Republicans could mean states would have to spend more on the program, reduce payments to health care providers, limit optional benefits and reduce enrollment.

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Az GOP lawmakers remove expertise requirements for their own board appointments tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The same legislative Republicans who have accused Arizona’s governor of appointing unqualified people to head state agencies are trying to nix qualification requirements for their own appointments to a litany of state boards and commissions.

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States push to combat human trafficking amid federal funding cuts tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
States are moving to strengthen protections against human trafficking, but some advocates warn that federal funding cuts could undermine efforts to support survivors.

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How the U.S. can mine its own critical minerals − without digging new holes tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Rising global demand, high import dependency and growing geopolitical tensions have made critical mineral supply an increasing national security concern − and one of the most urgent supply chain challenges of our time - but the U.S. can mine its own critical minerals.

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Illegal deportations are piling up, but no one’s coming home tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As courts play catch-up to President Trump’s rapid deportation push, judges are uncovering errors with grave consequences, and human rights organizations say there are around 288 Venezuelan and Salvadorian migrants whom the administration deported without due process.

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Arizona teachers reject ‘bad faith’ plan tying funding renewal to private school vouchers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Public education advocates say they’ll work to kill a Republican effort to add private school vouchers to the Arizona Constitution by tying them to renewing funding to increase teacher pay — even if that means forfeiting millions in public school funding.

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Rhode Island court blocks Trump order cutting funding to libraries & museums tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Rhode Island District Court temporarily blocked the implementation of an executive order that sought to dismantle three federal agencies “well past the studs,” eliminating programs they are bound by the law to carry out.

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