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YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Fri Aug 8 2025

Lorenzino Estrada | Digital Producer

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.

Apple Inc. plans to invest in Amkor Technology Inc.’s proposed semiconductor packaging plant in Peoria, marking the facility’s first customer ahead of its groundbreaking later this year.

Here’s how Arizona will benefit from Apple’s $100B investment in domestic manufacturing.

Popular Taiwanese boba chain debuts in metro Phoenix

The signature fruit tea at Yi Fang Taiwan Fruit Tea in Tempe.

Reia Li/The Republic

A popular Taiwanese chain famous for its signature fruit tea made its Arizona debut in metro Phoenix, with another on the way. 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 day in 1846: U.S. Rep. David Wilmot of Pennsylvania proposed an amendment to an appropriations bill to bar slavery in any land purchased from Mexico as war reparations. It passed the House but not the Senate. The issue became a plank in the Republican Party.
•	In 1929: The German airship Graf Zeppelin took off from Lakehurst, New Jersey, for the world’s first round-the-world passenger flight. It left in the middle of the night to the cheers of 15,000 onlookers. The zeppelin completed its mission and landed back where it started three weeks later.
•	In 1945: The Soviet Union declared war on Japan. The next day, it sent more than 1 million Soviet soldiers into Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
•	In 1974: Facing almost guaranteed impeachment for his role in Watergate, President Richard M. Nixon submitted to public pressure and resigned. He remains the only U.S. president to do so.
•	In 1975: The term “global warming” appeared in print for the first time, according to NASA. Columbia University professor Wallace Smith Broecker titled his paper in the journal Science “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?”
•	In 1991: Tom Duane, a gay man running for New York City Council, told voters that he had HIV. “It would be very compelling to have someone who is HIV-positive on the City Council – just as having women, Hispanics and Asians represented is helpful to those communities,” he told The New York Times. He was the first openly HIV-positive candidate in the U.S. to win an election.
•	In 2009: Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court as her mother held the family Bible. The Nuyorican – a New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent – is the country’s first Latino on the high court.

— Danielle Dreilinger, USA TODAY Network

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