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Tucson City Council recount delayed by election challenge https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082025_shaw_lawsuit/tucson-city-council-recount-delayed-by-election-challenge/
A planned recount in a narrow Tucson City Council primary was put on hold Tuesday after one of the candidates filed suit to set aside the results of the Aug. 5 election.
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Tucson City Council election recount delayed by election challenge https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082025_shaw_lawsuit/tucson-city-council-election-recount-delayed-by-election-challenge/
A planned recount in a narrow Tucson City Council primary was put on hold Tuesday after one of the candidates filed suit to set aside the results of the Aug. 5 election.
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Feds direct states to check immigration status of their Medicaid enrollees https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082025_immigration_medicaid/feds-direct-states-check-immigration-status-their-medicaid-enrollees/
This week, the Trump administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced an effort to check the immigration status of people who get their health insurance through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
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Long, strange trip: Tucson City Council finally boards the RTA Next Express https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082025_tucson_rta_op/long-strange-trip-tucson-city-council-finally-boards-rta-next-express/
A few months ago, I could not count a single "aye" vote on the Tucson City Council for the RTA Next. On Tuesday, the council voted unanimously to support it. Credit former city boss Mike Ortega for the turnaround.
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The national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth went dead. States are scrambling to help. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082025_lgbtq_hotline/the-national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-went-dead-states-are-scrambling-help/
States are scrambling to backfill LGBTQ+ crisis support through training, fees, and other initiatives in response to what advocates say is the Trump administration’s hostile stance toward this group.
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Dittmer: AI needs water. Arizona’s Constitution says: Not so fast. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/082025_dittmer_development_op/dittmer-ai-needs-water-arizonas-constitution-says-not-so-fast/
The vote in Tucson may have blocked this version of Project Blue, but Beale, the developer, is already exploring other sites. And similar projects are lining up across the region and beyond. This is not the end of the story. It is just the opening chapter.
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Nuclear radiation victims can again apply for compensation under revived RECA https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082025_reca_compensation/nuclear-radiation-victims-can-again-apply-compensation-under-revived-reca/
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act program, known as RECA, has been revived after provisions to reauthorize claim filings under the program were included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that became law last month.
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Judge partially tosses immigrant legal rights claims from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ suit https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/081925_immigrant_rights/judge-partially-tosses-immigrant-legal-rights-claims-from-alligator-alcatraz-suit/
The Trump administration and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis scored a legal win in the fight over the state’s new migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” when a federal judge threw out parts of a lawsuit targeting violations of immigrants’ legal rights.
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FactCheck: Verificación de las afirmaciones de Trump sobre el voto por correo y las máquinas de votación https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082025_factcheck_elections_esp/factcheck-verificacion-de-las-afirmaciones-de-trump-sobre-el-voto-por-correo-y-las-maquinas-de-votacion/
El presidente Trump lanzó su ataque de segundo mandato contra las papeletas de voto por correo y las máquinas de votación electrónica con una serie de afirmaciones infundadas, al tiempo que anunciaba un esfuerzo para eliminar ambas.
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FactCheck: Trump’s claims about mail-in ballots, voting machines & state roles in elections https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082025_factcheck_elections/factcheck-trumps-claims-mail-in-ballots-voting-machines-state-roles-elections/
President Donald Trump launched his second-term assault on mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines on Aug. 18, firing off a series of unfounded claims while announcing an effort to do away with both.
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Verificación de las afirmaciones de Trump sobre el voto por correo y las máquinas de votación https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/082025_factcheck_elections_esp/verificacion-de-las-afirmaciones-de-trump-sobre-el-voto-por-correo-y-las-maquinas-de-votacion/
El presidente Trump lanzó su ataque de segundo mandato contra las papeletas de voto por correo y las máquinas de votación electrónica con una serie de afirmaciones infundadas, al tiempo que anunciaba un esfuerzo para eliminar ambas.
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