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Understanding key terms swirling around Alligator Alcatraz and immigration enforcement tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Discussing immigration issues is challenging, since key terms are often conflated and confused. Clarifying these terms and their legal implications can help ensure people are talking about the same things – regardless of whether they agree about who should be in the country.

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Transfer of sacred Apache land inevitable, feds tell judge tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
After attempting to rush transfer of an Arizona Apache holy site into the hands of a private mining company to avoid judicial review, the federal government now says the land transfer is immune from such review and cannot be enjoined or delayed.

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Congress looks to ease restrictions on veterans’ use of non-VA clinics/hospitals tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Congress is aiming to streamline the process of obtaining what is known as community care for veterans who live hours from VA facilities, or need health services that aren’t readily available from the VA.

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Why congressional redistricting is blowing up across the U.S. this summer tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Fueled by President Trump’s aims to bolster the U.S. House’s razor-thin GOP majority in the 2026 midterm elections, a rare mid-decade redistricting fight in Texas grew increasingly bitter in recent days and engulfed other states.

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Ice shortage: Youth hockey in Tucson is booming & outgrowing single rink, although help is on the way tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
In the heart of the Sonoran Desert, a close-knit hockey community is proving that passion for the sport can thrive anywhere, even where frozen ponds are nowhere in sight.

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Az Gov. Hobbs signs order for statewide prescription drug discount program tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona is joining with five other states to offer residents discounts on prescription drugs, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced with the signing of an executive order, though the ArrayRX discount card program won’t be available to Arizonans until early 2026.

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Fontes cuts top staffers, citing tight funding for Az Sec State Office tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is eliminating several top positions in his office, citing budget constraints. Out are George Diaz, director of government relations; JP Martin, deputy communications director; and Angie Cloutier, security operations manager, while general counsel Amy Chan and deputy C. Murphy Hebert have resigned.

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Goodbye to Blue: Tucson data center's fate should have been settled long ago tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Two things can be true at the same time. We can rejoice in the end of a business deal not right for Tucson, while recognizing the local government process was awful, and that's a threat to future economic development.

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Cool food, music & activities in Tucson this week tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
An abundance of live music, family-friendly events and something for animal lovers.

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Constitution deleted: Web glitch erases part at odds with White House policy tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Sections of the Constitution that top Trump administration officials previously suggested be suspended disappeared from the Library of Congress’ online copy of the document on Wednesday in what the Library of Congress stated was due to a coding error.

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Tucson City Council pulls plug on Amazon's Project Blue tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Tucson city leaders unanimously voted to halt discussions with the developers of a massive planned data center on the Southeast Side, and continue to implement a policy regulating such sites. "We're done with Project Blue," said Councilmember Karin Uhlich.

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Arizona’s top election official pitches benefits of AI, not just risks tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Artificial intelligence carries the potential to improve voter outreach, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes told state officials across the country this week, even as he also warned of its risks.

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Hellertoon: Fire the weatherman & find one who says it's sunny tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer by President Donald Trump after changes to the unemployment report infuriated the chief executive has drawn criticism and questions about the administration's credibility.

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Man's death after rooftop showdown raises questions about less-lethal weapons used by Phoenix police tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The death of a suspect after Phoenix police struck him with projectiles from less-lethal launchers raises questions about the safety of the munitions police classify as “less likely to cause death or Serious Physical Injury than a weapon,” such as a firearm.

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Trump illegally froze 1,800 NIH medical research grants, Congress’ watchdog says tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump’s freeze on $8 billion of congressionally appropriated funding to the National Institutes of Health was illegal, the Government Accountability Office reported, and roughly 1,800 grants for health research were held up by the administration.

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IndyCar rebukes White House after ‘Speedway Slammer’ post tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
One of the country’s premier motor racing series has asked the Trump administration to keep its imagery out of promotional material for a planned immigration detention facility in Indiana.

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Az GOP leader wants feds to investigate Democratic lawmaker's Instagram posts about ICE tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The top Republican in the Arizona Senate is calling for a federal investigation into a Democratic senator’s social media posts about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Judge blocks Trump plan to cut FEMA disaster prep program tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from shutting down a $4.5 billion grant program aimed at preventing natural disasters by strengthening local infrastructure.

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Death of man after rooftop showdown raises questions about less-lethal weapons Phoenix police used to subdue him tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The death of a suspect after Phoenix police struck him with projectiles from less-lethal launchers raises questions about the safety of the munitions police classify as “less likely to cause death or Serious Physical Injury than a weapon,” such as a firearm.

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ICE has a new courthouse tactic: Get immigrants’ cases tossed, then arrest them outside tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration has begun using an unexpected legal tactic in its deportation efforts. Rather than pursue a deportation case, it is convincing judges to dismiss immigrants’ cases, then taking them into custody.

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