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Why young Americans dread turning 26: Health insurance chaos tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Amid the challenges of adulthood, one rite of passage is unique to the United States: the need to find your own health insurance by the time you turn 26, and the erosion of the Affordable Care Act has now created an “insurance cliff” for Americans who are turning 26.

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Police agencies lower education standards as staffing shortages persist tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
More police agencies, from big-city departments to federal agencies, are lowering education standards for new recruits — a sign of how much the profession is changing as it struggles to recruit and retain officers.

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Courts halt removal of 53 Guatemalan children from Arizona tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Over the Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration attempted to quickly remove all Guatemalan children in U.S. custody, or nearly 700 kids across the nation — including nearly 53 from Arizona — but civil rights groups scrambled in the middle of the night and won temporary reprieves from a trio of federal judges.

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'The feeling of being home': The Little One closing after 4 decades of Poca Cosa restaurants tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
The Little One was one of two expansions of Café Poca Cosa, started in 1985 by father-daughter-team Luis and Suzanna Davila, and the last restaurant that made up part of the small family chain.

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Arizona schools chief wants $50 million more for a safety program with poor oversight tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Less than a month after state auditors said the Arizona Department of Education was failing to properly oversee a safety program that pays to put police in schools, the state schools chief wants lawmakers to dramatically expand the program by more than $50 million.

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Public meeting set on proposed Tucson homeless campsite tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A roundup of upcoming Tucson-area political events: Public meeting on the proposed homeless camping site; Sun Tran public meetings to outline changes to bus service; Sentinel team on the airwaves & more

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Amid student fear & uncertainty, Arizona colleges split on clear policies for ICE on campus tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s 20 higher education institutions with the largest in-person enrollments are split on providing clear policies for what to do if ICE shows up on campus.

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Latest jobs report shows the worst August job gains since 2010 tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The U.S. added only 22,000 jobs in August, and previously reported gains in June were revised down to a loss of 13,000 jobs in a Bureau of Labor Statistics report issued Friday morning.

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Tucson's classical music season falling into place tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Tucson-area orchestras and musical groups are presenting solo concerts and full-ensemble performances for the upcoming season.

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Boosting timber harvesting in nat'l forests while cutting oversight won’t solve wildfire problem tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
As U.S. forests burn, Congress and federal agencies are asking an important question: What role should federal land management play in reducing fire risk?

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7 insights about chronic absenteeism, a new normal for American schools tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Five years after the start of the pandemic, one of the most surprising ways that school has profoundly, and perhaps permanently, changed is that students aren’t showing up.

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7 insights about chronic absenteeism, a new normal for American schools tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Five years after the start of the pandemic, one of the most surprising ways that school has profoundly, and perhaps permanently, changed is that students aren’t showing up.

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Replacing Rankin: Council ponders new city attorney; TV schools have huge absentee problem tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Updated: City Attorney Mike Rankin is retiring after 21 years, and the Council will discuss how to replace him. Up in the Tanque Verde school district, one in three students missed 10 percent of class time in 2024; Rio Nuevo looks at books; plus more local government action around Tucson this week:

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Trump can't escape $83.3 million defamation penalty in Carroll sex assault case tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump on Monday failed to beat the more than $80 million penalty jurors awarded writer E. Jean Carroll in her civil defamation case stemming from Trump’s denial that he sexually assaulted her.

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Supreme Court resumes ‘roving’ immigration raids in California, yielding to Trump tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can resume sweeping California raids, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday.

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Governors split over mobilizing National Guard as Trump seeks more troops tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Trump’s decision to put the National Guard on the streets of Los Angeles and Washington in recent months and his threat to send them into other major cities have sparked a nationwide fight over the proper role of the Army’s and Air Force’s primary combat reserve force.

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Adding bus stops & catching butterflies: How schools are tackling absenteeism tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Some underlying root causes for skipping school are more complex than others, requiring psychotherapy or housing assistance, which schools can’t provide alone. Here are a few examples of how very different communities are tackling the problem.

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How the conservative Federalist Society will affect the Supreme Court for decades to come tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Despite President Trump’s recent criticism of the organization and its leadership, Supreme Court justices affiliated with the Federalist Society will advance the conservative legal agenda decades into the future. But this won’t always involve supporting Trump’s agenda.

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Replacing Rankin: Council ponders new city attorney; TV schools have huge absentee problem tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
City Attorney Mike Rankin is retiring after 21 years, and the Council will discuss how to replace him. Up in the Tanque Verde school district, one in three students missed 10 percent of class time in 2024; plus more local government action around Tucson.

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'It's wonderful, being a poet in Tucson': Carter's 'Free Hugs' debuts new poems, re-imagines old work tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Long-standing Tucson poet Jefferson Carter's 13th book came out earlier this year. "Free Hugs: Selected and New Poems" consists of dozens of poems from his previous anthologies, some rewritten, and 23 new ones.

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