AZ Briefing: Cheap flights from Phoenix offered for June

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Sun Jun 2 2024

Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know before you start your day.

Average round-trip airfares are expected to decline slightly in June 2024, though there are fewer routes for $100 or less from Phoenix than there were in May.

New data from Hopper, the travel website that tracks airfares, showed 16 domestic routes out of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport with round-trip airfares of $100 or less for some June itineraries.

More about cheaper flights.

5 Valley burgers named among best in US

Peanut butter and jalapeno jelly burger with house peanut butter spread, jalapeno jelly, white cheddar and bacon at Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co. in Gilbert.

Dominic Armato/The Republic

From smash burgers to an Italian twist, when Forbes magazine set out to find the best burgers in the U.S., these Phoenix-area restaurants stood out.

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Today in history

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

•	On this day in 1865, after four years of domestic bloodshed, the Civil War was widely regarded to have officially ended when the commander of the final viable Confederate army in the U.S., Lt. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, signed terms of surrender for the Trans-Mississippi division aboard the USS Fort Jackson in Galveston Bay, Texas. Brig. Gen. Stand Watie, commander of the First Indian Brigade, kept his fighting force together for nearly a month after Smith surrendered. Facing insurmountable odds, Watie was the last Confederate general to surrender. Smith, a former West Point graduate and U.S. Army officer, fled to Mexico and eventually Cuba. He returned to Virginia five months later after learning President Andrew Johnson would pardon him and grant him amnesty.
•	In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed an act into law that granted citizenship to all Indigenous people born within U.S. borders.
•	In 1935, baseball legend Babe Ruth announced his retirement from the sport after hitting what would become a long-standing record 714 home runs during his 22-year Hall of Fame career. Ruth, whose teams won seven World Series titles, also pitched for teams in Boston and New York over portions of 10 seasons. Hank Aaron later eclipsed Ruth in homers.
•	In 1953, London’s Westminster Abbey was the site of British Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. It was the first British coronation to be televised. Born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, she was queen of the U.K. and its realms for 70 years ― longer than any of its other monarchs. She died in 2022.
•	In 1954, about a month into the televised U.S. Army-Sen. Joseph McCarthy hearings, the Wisconsin Republican made the accusation that communists were in the Central Intelligence Agency and the nation’s atomic weapons manufacturing plants. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, his brother, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower all shrugged off McCarthy’s claims as unfounded. The Senate censured McCarthy six months later.
•	In 1997, terrorist Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy and sentenced to death for his role in the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people, including 19 children. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001.

Gila River police officer dead; tribe bans dance parties

Joshua Briese, who had been with the Gila River police for less than a year, died responding to a disturbance at a party. The tribe has banned dances.

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