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| Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know about what’s happening across the state before you start your day. |
| President-elect Donald Trump is coming to Arizona on Sunday to make his first rally-style speech after winning back the White House. |
| ➤ Loop 101 is under construction for the next few years in Phoenix and Glendale. Here’s what drivers need to know about the project, including closures. |
| ➤ Arizona State University is suing the city of Tempe, where its large campus of more than 50,000 students is situated, alleging the city did not properly maintain a water pipe under its campus. |
| ➤ Arizona State football will play the Texas Longhorns in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal game at the Peach Bowl on Jan. 1 in Atlanta. |
| ➤ The Arizona Diamondbacks found their answer at first base, acquiring slugger Josh Naylor from the Cleveland Guardians, after free agent Christian Walker signed with the Houston Astros. |
| ➤ “SANTA! OH MY GOD!” Taking a break from preparing for Christmas, Santa Claus arrived in Glendale to take photos with people hoping to be on the nice list. |
| ➤ Today, you can expect it to be partly sunny with a high near 75 degrees. Expect it to be partly cloudy at night with a low near 50 degrees. Get the full forecast here. |
Ultimate Valley bucket list
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| Hikers are silhouetted alongside a pair of saguaros on Camelback Mountain in Phoenix before sunrise.
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| We’re looking for your expertise on the absolute must-do things in all of the communities in the Valley of the Sun. Here’s how you can share. |
| Here are just some of the events on this date in the past. |
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On this day in 1945: With immigration quota limits already in place based on country of origin, President Harry Truman ordered that World War II refugees, or displaced persons, receive preference for entry. Jewish people comprised about two-thirds of the nearly 23,000 refugees who came to the U.S. under the Truman Directive. |
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1989: Genocidal Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was ousted from power in a revolution that led to the Christmas Day trial and execution by firing squad of him and his wife, Elena. Their deaths ended more than four decades of Communist Party rule. |
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1989: Six weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of people flocked to the ceremonial reopening of Brandenburg Gate, the former border checkpoint that divided East and West Germany for nearly three decades as a symbol of the Cold War. |
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2010: Allowing gay and lesbian people to serve openly in the military, President Barack Obama signed a bill that repealed what was called the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy enacted 17 years earlier by President Bill Clinton, who directed the U.S. Department of Defense to not ask military applicants about their sexual orientation. Clinton’s policy was a change from the previous prohibition that led to thousands of LGBTQ+ people being discharged from the armed services. |
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2017: President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which eliminated the penalty for not having health insurance imposed by the Affordable Care Act and overhauled the tax code for Americans filing returns through the Internal Revenue Service. This included cutting the corporate tax rate and increasing standard deductions for individuals and couples, many of whom previously would have itemized instead of taking the standard deduction. It also changed tax credits, depreciations, expensing and other tax items that affect businesses. |
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2017: Responding to North Korea’s latest nuclear and missile activity, the U.N. Security Council added new sanctions, including trade restrictions, such as on the importing of fuel, as well as limiting where its citizens could work elsewhere in the world. |
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| A warm and dry start to winter in the Phoenix area was 14 degrees above normal, according to the National Weather Service. |
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The Chandler Police Department warned shoppers of a crime trend called “jugging” that targets people as they leave stores or banks. |
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Phoenix police said the teenage girl was killed after a crash in north Phoenix involving a car, an SUV and a bus. |
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A $3.3 million Medicaid scam could send two Mesa behavioral health clinic owners to jail for 10 years. |
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Arizona State in College Football Playoff: What to know about ASU football’s appearance in Peach Bowl, including date, time, opponent, TV, tickets. |
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