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ICE drops nearly $1 million on truck upgrades for recruiting ads tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent nearly $1 million on flashy truck upgrades as the Trump administration pushes to recruit 10,000 new agents.

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FactCheck: Recapping Trump’s deceptive tariff claims tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Higher tariffs that President Trump had vowed to impose on goods imported from dozens of countries went into effect on Aug. 7 - but before and after he took office in January, Trump has made a series of false and misleading statements to justify his new tariff policies.

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COVID-19 vaccines for kids are mired in uncertainty amid conflicting federal guidance tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The process that normally provides clear, consistent recommendations and ensures availability for vaccines before respiratory virus season has been upended, and this year’s COVID-19 vaccine guidance for children is a prime example.

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Loft Cinema 'grand opening' celebrates Tucson theater's expansion tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Construction is far from over at The Loft Cinema, but director Peggy Johnson believes she can finally see the finish line. The local movie theater recently completed three major components after about a year of renovations.

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Conover sues feds, claiming continued obstruction of Pima County's homicide case vs. carjacker tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Pima County Attorney Laura Conover said she filed a lawsuit the Trump administration on Friday, demanding access to Julio Cesar Aguirre — a Mexican man whose prosecution has been at the center of an expanding rift between Conover and federal prosecutors.

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Gallego visits Iranian man in immigration detention in Florence tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego visited a Iranian man at the immigration detention facility in Florence — following Sen. Mark Kelly and other members of Congress in meeting with constituents held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Lights out: Arizona earns 5–0 victory in twice-delayed match vs. UNLV tucsonsentinel.com/sports/repo
In a match that featured a lightning delay, lights going out and late-match gamesmanship from their opponents, the Arizona Wildcats persevered and outplayed the UNLV Running Rebels and earned a 5 –0 victory at Mulcahy Stadium on Thursday night.

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Tucson's Planetary Science Institute scientist awarded prestigious Kuiper Prize tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Planetary Science Institute’s Senior Scientist Faith Vilas was awarded the 2025 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize for her outstanding contributors to planetary science.

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Marijuana sales in Arizona plummet as recreational market growth stalls tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Marijuana sales in Arizona slid faster in the second quarter of 2025 than they did in the first quarter, marking the largest year-over-year decrease since voters approved recreational cannabis use in 2020.

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Grand Canyon’s Dragon Bravo megafire shows the growing wildfire threat to water systems tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The Dragon Bravo Fire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona isn’t just a wildfire story, it’s also a water story, and it signals a larger, emerging challenge across the West. As fire seasons expand in size and complexity, the overlap between fire and water will only grow.

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Darian: Local mine will waste 3 times more water than Project Blue tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Yes, data centers use a lot of water. But did you know a foreign mining company projects to waste three times as much of Arizona’s most precious resource in the mountains beyond Tucson?

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D.C. Circuit clears Trump to gut consumer watchdog agency tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A D.C. Circuit panel ruled to overturn a court order freezing the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, finding that a federal judge did not have the jurisdiction to review claims brought by an employee union.

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Trump wants states to feed voter info into powerful citizenship data program tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration is developing a powerful data tool it claims will let states identify noncitizens registered to vote. But critics and data experts warn it could allow the federal government to vacuum up vast quantities of information on Americans for unclear purposes.

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Trump-appointed judge blocks Education Department DEI crackdown tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
A federal judge struck down two administration documents that sought to effectively ban all race-based considerations in schools and universities, ending a monthslong legal standoff between the Department of Education and one of the largest teachers unions in the nation.

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Free AI testing platform rolled out to federal employees tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
As a part of President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan, which rolled out at the end of last month, the U.S. General Services Administration launched a platform that will allow government employees to experiment with artificial intelligence tools.

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D.C. sues Trump administration over federalization of city’s police force tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The D.C. attorney general sued President Donald Trump over his federal takeover of the city’s Metropolitan Police Department, the first pushback against the administration’s unprecedented exertion of federal power this week.

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ICE could prevent some of the coming corruption, criminal & misconduct scandals that will plague agency tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Since ICE’s expansion is regrettably inevitable, it’s important to prevent a surge of corruption and incompetence in the agency while it grows.

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Trump’s Medicaid cuts will hurt every Arizonan, not just those who lose coverage tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
The Medicaid cuts that President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress approved last month will mean higher premiums, longer wait times and reduced services for everyone in Arizona, local health care leaders said Thursday.

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Tucson congressional candidate Mendoza knocks proposed VA abortion ban tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Marine veteran who is seeking to unseat Southern Arizona Rep. Juan Ciscomani in next year’s midterm elections blasted a Trump administration proposal to ban abortions in cases of rape and incest at VA hospitals.

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Tucson congressional candidate Mendoza knocks proposed VA abortion ban tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A Marine veteran who is seeking to unseat Southern Arizona Rep. Juan Ciscomani in next year’s midterm elections blasted a Trump administration proposal to ban abortions in cases of rape and incest at VA hospitals.

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