Don't touch that clock! Rest of U.S. springing ahead to Daylight Saving Time https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/030824_daylight_saving_time/dont-touch-that-clock-rest-us-springing-ahead-daylight-saving-time/
It's back: time to get confused about calling someone back East. Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday morning for most of the United States, but Arizona residents won't have to switch their clocks — we don't observe DST.
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Hobbs, Dems blast GOP for refusing to give Arizonans a right to contraception https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/030824_hobbs_contraception/hobbs-dems-blast-gop-refusing-give-arizonans-right-contraception/
Gov. Katie Hobbs lashed out at the GOP, questioning its support for contraceptive access after bills making birth control a right in Arizona stagnated in the Republican-controlled legislature, while Republicans said women wouldn’t need contraceptives if they weren’t so promiscuous.
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Latin America on track for its worst dengue fever outbreak in history https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040124_dengue_outbreak/latin-america-track-its-worst-dengue-fever-outbreak-history/
The Americas are facing an alarming dengue outbreak, with a surge occurring across Latin America and the Caribbean as Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency, and cases have been reported in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California.
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An Az GOP candidate appears to be registered to vote, and casting ballots, illegally https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032924_gop_illegal_voting/an-az-gop-candidate-appears-registered-vote-and-casting-ballots-illegally/
Republican hopeful Neil DeSanti is mounting his fourth campaign for elected office since 2020, and he’s voted in 16 state and local elections since registering to vote in 2012 - but he appears to be ineligible to vote under Arizona law.
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Democrats’ quest to hang on to U.S. Senate majority centers on Arizona, Montana & Ohio https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040324_democrats_senate/democrats-quest-hang-us-senate-majority-centers-arizona-montana-ohio/
Come November, voters will make the choice for control of a narrowly split U.S. Senate - and the road to the majority in the upper chamber of Congress mostly runs through Arizona, Montana and Ohio.
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First Indigenous woman in space never planned on becoming an astronaut https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040924_indigenous_astronaut/first-indigenous-woman-space-never-planned-becoming-astronaut/
Marine Col. Nicole Mann, a member of the Wailacki tribe of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, shared her unorthodox journey to becoming the first female Indigenous astronaut and only the second Indigenous person to go to space during Women’s History Month.
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Vice President Harris tells Tucson crowd that Trump is to blame for Az abortion ban https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041224_harris_abortion/vice-president-harris-tells-tucson-crowd-that-trump-blame-az-abortion-ban/
Vice President Kamala Harris laid the blame for the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision to uphold an 1864 abortion ban squarely on former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump during a Tucson visit Friday
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Leaked documents detail House GOP strategy to send competing abortion measures to 2024 ballot https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041624_gop_abortion_measure/leaked-documents-detail-house-gop-strategy-send-competing-abortion-measures-2024-ballot/
Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives are mulling several possible abortion proposals to send to the ballot this November to compete with an abortion rights initiative - proposals that would place increased restrictions on the procedure.
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Az Rep. Austin Smith drops reelection campaign amid accusations of petition fraud https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041824_austin_sig_fraud/az-rep-austin-smith-drops-reelection-campaign-amid-accusations-petition-fraud/
Republican state representative and Turning Point Action member Austin Smith has dropped his Arizona reelection bid after being accused of personally forging more than 100 petition signatures to get on the 2024 ballot.
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Biden rolls back school sex misconduct reporting limits imposed by Trump & Betsy DeVos https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/041924_title_ix_rollback/biden-rolls-back-school-sex-misconduct-reporting-limits-imposed-by-trump-betsy-devos/
The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced a final rule that will update Title IX regulations governing how schools respond to sexual misconduct, undoing changes made under the Trump administration and former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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Arizona’s long COVID cases top nation’s; Hispanics most likely to suffer https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041624_az_covid/arizonas-long-covid-cases-top-nations-hispanics-most-likely-suffer/
Nearly 20% of Arizonans have experienced long COVID, with symptoms that continue long after an acute COVID-19 infection, and Hispanic residents are the most likely to endure the issues.
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4 ways vaccine skeptics mislead you on measles & more https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052524_vaccine_skeptics/4-ways-vaccine-skeptics-mislead-you-measles-more/
A growing number of parents are deciding not to get their children vaccinated against measles, as well as diseases like polio and pertussis, due to a flood of misinformation - rhetoric that erodes confidence in the science backing routine childhood vaccines.
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DNC moves ahead on all-virtual roll call for Biden presidential nomination https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/062424_biden_nomination/dnc-moves-ahead-all-virtual-roll-call-biden-presidential-nomination/
The Democratic National Committee has taken a significant step toward formally designating Joe Biden as the party’s presidential nominee before the Democratic convention in August — a move that’s necessary to place him on the Ohio ballot for November’s election.
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Unable to vote, undocumented migrants register Arizona voters https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/080424_migrant_mobilization/unable-vote-undocumented-migrants-register-arizona-voters/
Arizona’s migrant communities have much on the line in the 2024 elections, and with no right to vote, some people in the country without legal status are finding ways to make their voices heard through grassroots activism – encouraging others to support sympathetic candidates.
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‘Unborn human being’ will stay in description of abortion rights initiative sent to Az voters https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/081424_abortion_ballot/unborn-human-being-will-stay-description-abortion-rights-initiative-sent-az-voters/
The words “unborn human being” will be printed in the description of an Arizona abortion rights initiative in a pamphlet sent to all registered voters, the state Supreme Court ordered in a split decision, reversing an earlier ruling from the trial court.
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Are Republicans 'dragging' down small business revenue? https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/083024_drag_revenue/are-republicans-dragging-down-small-business-revenue/
The economy of drag isn’t well known, but there is no questioning the money involved, and yet still, drag shows continue to be frequent targets of far-right lawmakers in Arizona — a state with a strong history of championing small business.
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Arizona ‘fake electors’ use anti-SLAPP defense, claim 1st Amendment privilege https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082724_fake_electors_slapp/arizona-fake-electors-use-anti-slapp-defense-claim-1st-amendment-privilege/
Rudy Giuliani and Az GOP leaders argued that an indictment accusing them of conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election should be dismissed under Arizona’s newly amended anti-SLAPP statute, barring prosecutions intended to inhibit free exercise of First Amendment rights.
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Harris campaign focuses on Arizona in its push to drive Gen Z voters to the polls https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082824_ua_harris_frost/harris-campaign-focuses-arizona-its-push-drive-gen-z-voters-polls/
The Harris effort to mobilize Generation Z voters on campuses across battleground states is focusing its “Back-to-School” campaign kick-off in Arizona, with U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost — the first Gen Z member of Congress — set to join students Wednesday at the University of Arizona.
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Arizona ID laws may disenfranchise thousands of trans voters https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/091224_az_trans_voters/arizona-id-laws-may-disenfranchise-thousands-trans-voters/
LGBTQ+ voting rights advocates are raising concerns over Arizona’s strict voter ID laws that were reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court last month. The reason? The law inadvertently makes it harder for transgender people to vote.
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