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Puzzled senators question Trump’s FBI chief on nonexistent spending plan tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The case of the missing Federal Bureau of Investigation budget request was on full display Thursday, when senators repeatedly asked the law enforcement agency’s director what resources he needed Congress to provide in the upcoming fiscal year.

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HAUS: New city program could help Tucsonans living in shelters secure housing leases tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson City Councilmember Paul Cunningham proposed a new program that would help people living in shelters — who may not qualify for a traditional lease due to previous evictions or bad credit — transition to permanent housing.

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Hobbs vetoes Az GOP bill ‘weaponizing’ legislative contempt authority tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Arizona Legislature won’t be able to sic county sheriff’s offices on people who ignore their subpoenas and people who testify at the state Capitol won’t face felony charges if they lie, after Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that GOP lawmakers sent her last month.

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Pima baseball drops Game 1 of regional finals at South Mountain tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College baseball team (47-12) opened play in the Region I, Division II Finals on Thursday at South Mountain Community College (44-16), falling 9-1 in seven innings.

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Pima softball shuts out South Mountain to open regional tourney tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
The Pima Community College softball team (48-7) opened play at the Region I, Division II Tournament on Thursday at Phoenix College, beating South Mountain 6-0.

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Sentinel journalists on the airwaves tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Sentinel team on the airwaves

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House Republicans pass bill to rename Gulf of Mexico the ‘Gulf of America’ like Trump wants tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. House approved a measure that would codify part of President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”

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FEMA leader ousted, one day after publicly opposing agency’s elimination tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration has ousted the leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and replaced him with another official, just one day after he testified before Congress about the size and scope of the federal agency.

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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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