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‘One big, beautiful’ law provision on Planned Parenthood funding partly blocked by judge tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday, blocking a provision in Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law that would have barred Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood for one year.

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Is the U.S. weapons stockpile depleted by the war In Ukraine? tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
In the weeks since the White House and the Pentagon briefly scuffled over sending weapons to Ukraine, a question at the core of the debate remains: Is the size of our weapons stockpile large enough to counter mounting threats against the U.S.?

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Arizona Democrats start to rebuild after ousting party chair tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Arizona Democratic Party can definitely use some sprucing up and now they are prepared for a fresh start to get ready for 2028. The 2026 elections look increasingly un-screw-up-able.

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Baby bonds economist says so-called Trump accounts ‘co-opted a good idea’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
With fertility rates declining in the United States, Republicans backed a policy tucked inside the megabill President Donald Trump signed earlier this month that they say will help save for children’s futures.

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Hackers who breached Arizona election website also aimed at other targets tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona officials say they have “moderate confidence” that the Iranian government or its affiliates are responsible for a cyberattack that breached the state’s candidate web portal last month, and say the same actors attempted to breach servers for other agencies in Arizona and elsewhere.

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Trump tax law runs up deficit by $3.4T, throws 10 million off health insurance, CBO says tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law will add $3.394 trillion to deficits during the next decade and lead 10 million people to lose access to health insurance, according to an analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

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3 Tucson Democrats in primary race for South Side City Council seat tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Ward 5 City Council race pits a longtime local businessman against two younger Democrats who are making their first runs for office. The August 5 primary will decide who takes the seat.

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Hackers who breached Arizona election website als aimed at other targets tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona officials say they have “moderate confidence” that the Iranian government or its affiliates are responsible for a cyberattack that breached the state’s candidate web portal last month, and say the same actors attempted to breach servers for other agencies in Arizona and elsewhere.

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Tracking Medicaid patients’ work status may prove difficult for states tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
States must begin verifying millions of Medicaid enrollees’ monthly work status by the end of next year — a task some critics say states will have a hard time carrying out.

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'New life:' Tucson Museum of Art exhibit portrays Borderlands experiences tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
"Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands" is inspired by the experiences of 17 artists who have roots on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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ADOT to hold public meetings on new Pinal County highway tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona officials are asking the public to weigh-in on a plan to build a new north-south highway in Pinal County, connecting Interstate 10 with the Superstition Freeway near Apache Junction.

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Flowing Wells to discuss fed grant freezes; TUSD has new teacher performance gauge tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Updated: The Flowing Wells Unified School District is taking a good look at how to handle federal education cuts, while rules and regs force more administrative work to comply; plus more from local government meetings around Tucson this week

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AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in artificial intelligence that has contributed to a growth in data centers and a surge in power usage, recent research suggests.

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Judge orders Trump administration to ‘stop violating the law!’ and publish spending details tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to once again publish details about the pace at which it plans to spend money approved by Congress.

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Arizona joins lawsuit challenging Trump’s citizenship requirements for Head Start, Meals on Wheels tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined a coalition of 20 other state AGs in suing the Trump administration over changes aimed at preventing people who aren’t U.S. citizens from accessing public-based services.

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Appeals court dismisses Az superintendent’s lawsuit challenging dual-language education tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The state appellate court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, challenging the right of public schools to use dual-language immersion to teach English Learner students.

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Trump administration pulls back on work combating human trafficking, long a top GOP priority tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A key office charged by Congress with coordinating the federal government’s work against human trafficking was gutted last Friday, the latest in a string of cuts across different agencies to the government’s work on an issue that Republicans have long hailed as a top priority.

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Surprise medical bills were supposed to Be a thing of the past. Surprise — they’re not. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
While the No Surprises Act has been a phenomenal success in taking on some unfair practices in the wild West of medical billing, it was hardly a panacea.

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Public school enrollment continues to fall tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Across the country, public school enrollment has failed to rebound to pre-pandemic levels — and data suggests the decline is far from over.

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IRS is building a vast system to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.

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