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*Arizona Editor Tipoffs Newsletter for 2025-04-15 ( 8 items )  
AETC Commander Launches Immersive Learning Challenge to Airmen; Proposals Due May 15 (10)
RANDOLPH AFB, Texas, April 14 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news: * * * AETC Commander Launches Immersive Learning Challenge to Airmen; Proposals Due May 15 * Published April 14, 2025 * By Dan Hawkins * Air Education and Training Command Public Affairs JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas - Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson, commander of Air Education and Training Command (AETC), has issued a challenge to Airmen: revolutionize how we train and  more PR

Ariz. Gov. Katie Hobbs Legislative Action Update (10)
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 15 -- Gov. Katie Hobbs, D-Arizona, issued the following news release on April 14, 2025: * * * Governor Katie Hobbs Legislative Action Update Phoenix, AZ - Today, Governor Katie Hobbs took the following legislative action: Signed HB2164, public schools; ultraprocessed foods HB2484, school policies; internet; wireless devices HB2603, hunting; fishing; license; deferred prosecution * * * Original text here: https://azgovernor.gov/office-arizona-governor/news/2025/04 more PR

Birth Control Under Threat: Rights and Access Undermined Since Roe V. Wade Overturn (10)
WASHINGTON, April 15 -- The National Women's Law Center, in its report titled "Birth Control Under Threat: How Birth Control Rights and Access Are Being Undermined Since Roe v. Wade Was Overturned," issued in April 2025, warned of escalating attacks on contraception following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. This report outlines how, in the years since this ruling, contraception has become a target through various strategies mirroring the anti-abortion playbook. The Dobbs v more ST

FERC Accepts Preliminary Permit Application for Western Navajo Pumped Storage Project in Arizona (10)
WASHINGTON, April 15 (TNSFR) -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has accepted the preliminary permit application submitted by Western Navajo Pumped Storage 1, LLC, for the proposed Western Navajo Pumped Storage Project 1, located near the City of Page in Coconino County, Arizona. The project, which would be situated entirely on federal land held in trust for the Navajo Nation, aims to study the feasibility of constructing a closed-loop pumped storage system. The preliminary perm more PR

FinCEN Report Reveals $1.4 Billion in Suspected Fentanyl Finance Flowed Through U.S. System in 2024, Highlights Mexico-China Nexus (10)
WASHINGTON, April 15 -- The U.S. financial system processed approximately $1.4 billion in suspicious transactions potentially linked to the illicit fentanyl trade in 2024, according to a new analysis by the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The report, titled "Fentanyl-Related Illicit Finance: 2024 Threat Pattern & Trend Information," underscores how Mexican cartels leverage U.S. banks and money services businesses (MSBs) at nearly every stage of the fentanyl s more ST

NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Prepares Second Asteroid Encounter (10)
WASHINGTON, April 15 -- NASA issued the following news release on April 14, 2025: * * * NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Prepares Second Asteroid Encounter NASA's Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an asteroid; this time, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. This upcoming event represents a comprehensive "dress rehearsal" for Lucy's main mission over the next decade: the exploration of multiple Trojan asteroids tha more PR

U.S. Attorneys for Southwestern Border Districts Charge More Than 1,020 Illegal Aliens With Immigration-Related Crimes During the Second Week in April as Part of Operation Take Back America. (10)
WASHINGTON, April 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Attorneys for Southwestern Border Districts Charge More than 1,020 Illegal Aliens with Immigration-Related Crimes During the Second week in April as part of Operation Take Back America. Since the inauguration of President Trump, the Department of Justice is playing a critical role in Operation Take back America, a nationwide initiative to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve tota more PR

White House: Trump Effect - NVIDIA Leads American-Made Chips Boom (10)
WASHINGTON, April 15 -- The White House issued the following news on April 13, 2025: * * * TRUMP EFFECT: NVIDIA Leads American-Made Chips Boom For the first time ever, chipmaking giant NVIDIA will manufacture its AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S., the company announced today -- part of its pledge to produce $500 billion of AI infrastructure in the U.S. over the next four years. The company will build and test its advanced chips in Arizona and its AI supercomputers in Texas over a millio more PR