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  The Pima County Public Library Advisory Board met with Pima County Administrator Jan Lesher Friday afternoon to discuss the future of the library system amid a slate of potential changes that included the tentative closure of three branches by the end of the year.

  Democratic incumbent Sheriff Chris Nanos increased his razor-thin lead to 256 votes over challenger Heather Lappin with Friday's update to the vote count. Pima County is coming close to tallying all of the ballots cast in last week's election, and the sheriff's race is headed to an automatic recount.

  John McLean, a Democratic candidate for the state Senate who lost last week's election, was killed in a traffic collision near Broadway and Houghton Road on Friday morning, police said.

  Since Donald Trump’s decisive win last week, thousands of people and organizations have said the next step is to organize within the LGBTQ+ community against possible retaliation from far-right Christian nationalists who hold power - but there aren’t clear ways on what that even means.

  Kari Lake, one of Arizona’s most fervent election deniers, seems to have accepted her loss in last week’s race for U.S. Senate to U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego. At the same time, she’s still dealing with the fallout of her refusal to accept her loss in the 2022 election for Arizona governor.

  A federal judge will likely decline to dismiss a lawsuit challenging an action by the city of San Luis to halt a Baptist church’s food ministry program on the Arizona-Mexico border.

  An Arizona judge in a controversial election interference case recused himself in light of comments that one defendant says implicitly compare him and others to Adolf Hitler supporters.

  Democratic incumbent Chris Nanos was leading Republican Heather Lappin by just 187 votes in the race for Pima County sheriff after Thursday’s results were released — a change of 12 votes from the previous day.

  Pima County needs an additional 1,200 shelter beds for its homeless population, a local housing official said.

  Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly was among the combat veterans and Democrats expressing deep skepticism at Donald Trump’s choice of a defense secretary with no national security experience.

  Women have led the governments of nearly a third of the countries on Earth as presidents, prime ministers and chancellors. VP Kamala Harris’ defeat kept the 235-year-old glass ceiling in the U.S. unbroken.

  Updated: U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani claimed victory Wednesday after his Democratic challenger Kirsten Engel conceded the race in Arizona's Congressional District 6.