AZ Briefing: Recession or not? The telltale signs are…

May 4, 2025
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AZ Briefing

YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Sun May 4 2025

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 Donald Trump’s tariff policy has created economic uncertainty, but it’s still not clear if a recession is imminent. Key warning signs are mixed.

Top marks for ‘overstuffed breakfast burritos’

Food from Barista del Barrio.

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A Mexican restaurant was named the Best Brunch Spot in Arizona.And it’s not in Phoenix.

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Today in history

Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.

•	On this day in 1959: Ella Fitzgerald became the first Black woman to win a Grammy Award at the inaugural awards show, and then she won another. Fitzgerald claimed the prizes for best jazz and female vocal performances with “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book” and “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book,” respectively.
•	In 1961: The first Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C., aboard a Greyhound bus headed south. The 13 riders included a young John Lewis, who later served 33 years as a U.S. representative for Georgia. Met with increasing violence, the Freedom Riders eventually abandoned their plan to ride to New Orleans, and were evacuated from Jackson, Mississippi.
•	In 1970: Twenty-eight National Guard members fired more than 60 rounds at anti-war protesters on the campus of Kent State University, killing four people and wounding nine. The demonstrators at Kent State were protesting the expansion of the Vietnam War. Guard members had tried to disperse the crowd with tear gas and had advanced toward the protesters with bayonets affixed to their rifles. Some protesters hurled rocks or taunts in response, and soon after, the guard members opened fire.
•	In 1990: The electric chair malfunctioned three times during the execution of Jesse Tafero in Florida, after which several states turned to lethal injection as a more humane method.
•	In 1994: The unofficial holiday for Star Wars fans had its pun introduced on the floor of Britain’s Parliament when Harry Cohen said one of his researchers had advocated for a National Star Wars Day and added, “May the fourth be with you,” and Cohen suggested the “very bad joke” should have led to the person’s firing, “but he is a good researcher.”
•	In 2007: The first tornado to be rated an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with winds estimated stronger than 200 mph, destroyed nearly all of the town of Greensburg, Kansas. The storm killed 11 people and injured 63 others.

— William Cain, USA TODAY Network

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AZ Briefing: Recession or not? The telltale signs are mixed

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Man shot outside Tempe bar; shooter fled, police say

Trump judges side with Lake’s agency to keep VOA off job

Ex-border agent could receive up to 20 years in prison

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McCain Institute sticks to worldview in chaotic Trump era

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AZ Briefing: Recession or not? The telltale signs are mixed

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AZ Briefing

Other big stories

Top marks for ‘overstuffed breakfast burritos’

Today in history

TOP STORIES

Man shot outside Tempe bar; shooter fled, police say

Trump judges side with Lake’s agency to keep VOA off job

Ex-border agent could receive up to 20 years in prison

Stronghold Fire is 69% contained ahead of windy weekend

McCain Institute sticks to worldview in chaotic Trump era

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