| YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP |
|
|
|
|
|
Lorenzino Estrada | Digital Producer
|
|
|
| Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know before you start your day. |
| Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was picked over Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to be Kamala Harris’ running mate. Walz is a military veteran, former public school teacher and six-term congressman before becoming governor. |
| ➤ A former lawyer for former President Donald Trump has agreed to help prosecutors in the criminal case against individuals who claimed on bogus documents that Trump won Arizona in 2020, Attorney General Kris Mayes said. |
| ➤ Today, you can expect it to be partly cloudy with a high near 110 degrees. Expect a thunderstorm at night with a low near 87 degrees. Get the full forecast here. |
This AZ canyon is ‘the most magical place in the US’
|
| Tourists take in Upper Antelope Canyon outside of Page, Arizona on Tuesday, September 21, 2016.
David Wallace/The Republic |
| Here are just some of the events on this date in the past. |
| • |
On this day in 1926: New Yorker Gertrude Ederle, 19, swam the English Channel. Not only was she the first woman to do so, but her time of 14 hours, 31 minutes broke the men’s record by almost two hours. |
| • |
In 1932: The Venice Film Festival, the oldest continuously running film festival in the world, opened with Rouben Mamoulian’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” The first year was noncompetitive and also screened “Frankenstein” and “It Happened One Night.” |
| • |
In 1945: The Enola Gay bomber dropped the uranium bomb codenamed “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan, killing more than 70,000 people. It was the first atomic bomb used in combat; the U.S. military had tested one in mid-July over New Mexico. |
| • |
In 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, barring racial discrimination in voting. It enforced the rights guaranteed by the Reconstruction-era 14th and 15th Constitutional amendments. |
| • |
In 1986: William Schroeder died as the world’s longest-surviving recipient of an artificial heart up to that time. Schroeder, 54, lived 620 days with the Jarvik-7 pump. In that time, he went fishing with his sons and celebrated his 33rd wedding anniversary. |
| • |
In 2023: Director Greta Gerwig became the first solo woman filmmaker to have a billion-dollar release as the movie “Barbie” passed $1 billion at the global box office. |
|
|
|
|
| The government had kept custody of the elements of Angeli’s signature getup in case it needed to prosecute him again. |
|
|
|
|
ADOT has finished construction on the new US 191 bridge over the I-10 following a deadly crash involving a semi-truck. |
|
|
|
|
Several new wildfires burned in the Tonto National Forest after lighting struck the area over the weekend. |
|
|
|
|
Guy Fieri visited Scottsdale barbecue restaurant The Thumb for an episode of “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives: Triple D Nation.” Here’s what he ordered. |
|
|
|
|
Arizona for Abortion Access on Monday said it filed a motion asking Justice William “Bill” Montgomery to recuse himself from the case. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Free with your subscription. Sign up to receive GlobalPost, formerly DailyChatter, the leading daily newsletter devoted to world news. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| This 7-day newsletter course will help you be an informed voter before Nov. 5. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
