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May 26, 2025
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Mon May 26 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.

A driven young woman who went from high school to a war zone, Arizonan Sam Huff died in April 2005 after a bomb exploded near her vehicle in Baghdad.

Bob Huff of Tucson still struggles to find meaning in the death of his 18-year-old daughter in the Iraq War 20 years ago.

Read her story.

Tohono O’odham linguist fights to keep language alive

Ofelia Zepeda, professor, linguist and poet, and advocate for the revitalization of indigenous languages, in her office in April 2025.

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This Tohono O’odham linguist is fighting to keep indigenous languages alive in Arizona. Take a look at her fascinating story.

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Today in history

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

•	On this day in 1937: In what became known as the Battle of the Overpass, representatives of the United Auto Workers union were severely beaten as they handed out literature at an overpass approaching the main gate to Ford’s River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, which they were trying to organize. The attack turned public opinion for the union, and Ford eventually signed a contract with the UAW.
•	In 1938: The House Committee on Un-American Activities was formed to investigate U.S. citizens accused of disloyalty or subversive activities, including ties to communism.
•	In 1940: During England’s Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied troops began from Dunkirk on the northern coast of France. Though cut off on land by German forces and under pressure from the German Luftwaffe, the dayslong British effort evacuated more than 338,000 troops, aided by commercial and civilian watercraft.
•	In 1972: In the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I agreement, the United States and Soviet Union agreed to limit their nuclear arsenals as well as the weapon systems designed to protect against the ballistic missiles that could carry nuclear warheads (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty).
•	In 2004: Accomplice to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in the attack that killed 168 people in 1994, including 19 children, Terry Nichols was found guilty on 161 state murder charges. At his federal trial in 1997, jurors could not reach agreement on the death penalty and so Nichols was sentenced to life without parole.
•	In 2021: At a railyard in San Jose, California, employee Samuel Cassidy shot and killed nine workers before dying by suicide. The shooting spurred passage of the city’s gun harm reduction ordinance, the first of its kind in the nation, which requires gun owners to have liability insurance and pay an annual gun harm reduction fee to support suicide prevention and violence reduction services, mental health programs, addiction intervention and firearm training.

— William Cain, USA TODAY Network

Arizona veteran cemeteries open to guardsmen, reservists

To date, 28 National Guard and military reserve members have been interred at Arizona’s three veterans’ memorial cemeteries.

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