| YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP |
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Lorenzino Estrada | Digital Producer
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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. |
| Maricopa County health inspectors recently visited more than 1,400 restaurants across the Valley, with 400 receiving an A rating. Others, not so much. For the week of April 14, two restaurants in metro Phoenix were cited for eight health violations. |
| ➤ SRP wants to convert a coal-fired power plant in Arizona to natural gas, at a time when Trump wants to burn more coal. Which way will it go? |
| ➤ The Bond office building, located at 32nd Street and Camelback Road, features an interior atrium that was reused as a restaurant and bar space. See inside. |
| ➤ Today, you can expect it to be sunny with a high near 91 degrees. Expect it to be partly cloudy at night with a low near 66 degrees. Get the full forecast here. |
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| Tucson is the saddest and angriest city in Arizona, tweeting #sad and #angry more frequently than any other city in the state, according to an analysis released in April 2019.
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| Here are just some of the events on this date in the past. |
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On this day in 1939: The National Broadcasting Co. made the first public television broadcast with a telecast of President Franklin Roosevelt at the New York World’s Fair. The event also marked the first time a president appeared on TV. |
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In 1945: German dictator Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves in a bunker in Berlin to avoid capture as Soviet forces stormed the city. Their bodies were then carried to the Reich Chancellery Garden and burned. |
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In 1975: Saigon fell to North Vietnamese troops, marking the end of the Vietnam War. In the days leading to the fall, U.S. forces evacuated thousands of Americans and South Vietnamese nationals, with helicopters going in and out of the U.S. embassy at ten-minute intervals. |
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In 1989: Spaghetti Western Italian director Sergio Leone died of a heart attack at age 60 in Rome, Italy. Regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in history, he is perhaps known for the “Dollar Trilogy” of Westerns that starred actor Clint Eastwood. |
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In 1993: CERN launched the World Wide Web into the public domain. Conceived by Tim Berners-Lee, the WWW was initially created as a way for scientists in universities and laboratories to share information globally. |
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In 2009: Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and entered into an alliance with Fiat. The automaker failed to make a deal with its creditors, from whom the company borrowed almost $7 billion. The last-minute deal with Fiat and another government bailout of $8 billion helped the company through its bankruptcy reorganization. |
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| A judge was arrested by the FBI and faces two felonies after federal prosecutors accused her of helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest. |
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Arizona’s Meghan McCain blamed a CIA official for her son’s choices that led to his death in Ukraine. Clearly, McCain has never raised a teenager. |
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Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second term as president have produced big stories, from immigration to tariffs. But this one is the biggest. |
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The crackdown at Tempe Tavern bar near McClintock Drive and Apache Boulevard was motivated by a number of complaints to Tempe police. |
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California is now the fourth-largest global economy, with the state’s governor using that to attack Trump’s tariff policy. Where does Arizona stand? |
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