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Sun Jun 29 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.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes will keep pushing to block President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenshipafter the U.S. Supreme Court limited the use of nationwide injunctions by lower court judges.

“This is not over yet, not by a long shot,” Mayes said in a telephone interview with The Arizona Republic.

‘Epic’ new restaurant coming to Arizona

Interior designer Nick Alain, President and COO Anthony Carano of Caesars Entertainment, Lisa Vanderpump, Pandora Vanderpump Sabo and Ken Todd celebrate the grand opening of Wolf by Vanderpump at Harveys Lake Tahoe Hotel & Casino on April 18, 2024.

Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Caesars

Lisa Vanderpump, the reality TV famous restaurateur who is well-known for appearances on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and “Vanderpump Rules,” is getting ready to open Wolf by Vanderpumpat the Caesars Republic Scottsdale hotel next to Scottsdale Fashion Square. Here’s what to know.

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Today in history

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

•	On this date in 1927: Aboard the Bird of Paradise, U.S. Army Air Corps Lts. Albert Hegenberger and Lester Maitland completed the first successful transpacific flight, landing at the Corps’ Wheeler Field in Hawaii after flying nonstop across the Pacific Ocean for about 2,400 miles over nearly 26 hours.
•	In 1984: Bruce Springsteen started his Born in the USA world tour with a concert in St. Paul, Minnesota. The 156-show tour, which launched a few weeks after the release of his seventh studio album, propelled Springsteen to stardom. The video for “Dancing in the Dark” showing him with Courteney Cox was shot during the Minnesota concert.
•	In 1995: Space Shuttle Atlantis docked for the first time with Russia’s Mir space station.
•	In 2006: In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-3, that the George Bush administration overstepped its authority, violating the Geneva Convention and the Uniform Code of Military Justice in military trials of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison on the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The decision reinforced universal constitutional rights, as well as checks and balances in government.
•	In 2007: Apple Inc. began selling its first-generation iPhone. Company co-founder Steve Jobs had unveiled its initial mobile phone at the Macworld Conference earlier in the year.
•	In 2017: President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban took effect against citizens of the majority-Muslim nations of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The U.S. Supreme Court had struck down Trump’s previous order, which led Trump to scale it back.

– Charlie White, USA TODAY Network

Navajo Nation crews fight wildfire near Window Rock

What we know about Oak Ridge Fire burning in Navajo Nation forest in northeastern Arizona. Evacuations underway. Wood haulers reportedly sparked fire.

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