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After all night voting session, Senate passes budget tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Senate Republicans approved their signature tax break and spending cuts package Tuesday with a tie-breaking vote cast by Vice President JD Vance, following days of tense, closed-door negotiations that went until the few last minutes of a marathon amendment voting session.

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How a jailhouse lawyer fought Arizona’s decades-long sentencing error tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
How a self-taught jailhouse lawyer fought Arizona’s decades-long sentencing error and helped free nearly 250 prisoners who had erroneously received a sentence that promised a chance of parole, including at least 90 of which came out of plea agreements with prosecutors.

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Hellertoons: Bunker buster or big, beautiful bill?" tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Is adding trillions in debt a bunker buster or a "big, beautiful bill?"

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Battles over public lands loom even after sell-off proposal fails tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Hunters, hikers and outdoors lovers of all stripes mounted a campaign this month against a Republican proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal public land - but experts say federal lands face a slew of other threats from President Donald Trump’s administration.

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HHS eliminates CDC staff who made sure birth control Is safe for women at risk tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Sweeping HHS layoffs in late March and early April gutted the CDC’s reproductive health division, upending several programs designed to protect women and infants - including those with underlying medical conditions - a move that will endanger the health of women and their babies.

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How the Supreme Court’s ruling on ‘universal injunctions’ may affect birthright citizenship tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to partially halt nationwide injunctions blocking President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for certain people born in the U.S. Here's what that may mean for the president’s order going forward.

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Arizona approves ‘Ag-to-Urban’ water conservation plan tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
In a bipartisan compromise between state lawmakers and the executive branch, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs approved a program estimated to conserve nearly 10 million acre-feet of water and facilitate thousands of new housing developments across central Arizona.

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Hundreds evacuated as wildfire near Navajo Nation capital grows to over 6,500 acres tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Hundreds of residents in several communities on the Navajo Nation are under evacuation orders as the Oak Ridge Fire burns with zero containment near Window Rock.

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Tucson Councilmembers: UA's merging of cultural centers betrays mission & people tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
"The University of Arizona’s recent decision to consolidate its seven cultural and identity-based centers into a single “multicultural hub” is not just a bureaucratic restructuring—it is an erasure." — Councilmembers Lane Santa Cruz & Rocque Perez

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U.S. Senate launches debate on GOP mega-bill, but passage still not assured tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. Senate began floor debate on Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” Sunday afternoon, though there are several steps to go before the legislation can become law, and any one of those could lead to additional GOP opposition — potentially dooming the measure.

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Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career.

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Tucson's Ward 6 candidates to meet in Tuesday forum tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Ward 6 hopefuls make their case at League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson event; Request your CD7 early ballot by July 7; Voter registration deadline for City of Tucson primary election looms; Sentinel team on the airwaves & more

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Oak Ridge Fire burning on Navajo Nation grows to 6,300 acres tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A wildfire that erupted over the weekend on the Navajo Nation near the New Mexico border has grown to more than 6,200 acres, the biggest on the Navajo Nation since June 2020.

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Feds ordered to stop deporting asylum seekers involved in family separation settlement tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The federal government can’t deport thousands of asylum seekers involved in a suit that ended President Trump's family separation policy as the parties continue to litigate how, or if, the government will comply with a settlement finalized back in 2023.

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Medicaid is a lifeline for Arizonans: Az reps must vote no on cuts tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As longtime advocates for people with disabilities, the ACLU of Arizona and Disability Rights Arizona are appalled by this reckless attack on a lifeline that millions of Arizonans depend on.

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Pima Animal Care Center to open East Side adoption site tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima Animal Care Center, the county’s pet shelter, plans to open a satellite adoption site on Tucson’s East Side to reduce overcrowding at its main shelter on North Silverbell Road.

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Tucson homeless population up slightly, but more people in shelters tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County's homeless population increased slightly from last year, leaving just over 2,000 people living outside, in shelters, or transitional housing, according to a January point-in-time count. But the number without any shelter has dropped by nearly 25 percent.

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Despite Supreme Court ruling, Arizona children aren’t affected by Trump’s citizenship order — yet tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
But babies born to immigrants in Arizona will continue to enjoy the protections of the U.S. Constitution - at least for now - and immigrant rights advocates are working to both extend that legal shield for children in the entire country and make it permanent.

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With universal injunctions out of style, class actions are already trending tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Immigrant advocates wasted no time after the Supreme Court tied the hands of federal judges responding to President Donald Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship on Friday, opening a new battlefront against the executive order.

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In final day flurry, Az lawmakers pass bills addressing wrongful incarceration & prison oversight tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Before ending Arizona’s legislative session for the year, the state Senate voted to pass several lingering pieces of legislation that would do things like provide compensation for people who’ve been wrongly incarcerated and create more oversight for the state’s prisons.

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