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AZ Briefing

YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Tue Nov 4 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.

It’s Election Day in Arizona.

Local races fill out the ballot across most counties. Those races include bonds for municipalities and school districts, City and Town council elections, and countywide propositions.

27 new restaurants are now open in metro Phoenix

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Food served at Society Swan, a French-American brasserie at Scottsdale Fashion Square on Oct. 10, 2025.

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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 1924: Nellie Tayloe Ross, in a special election in Wyoming, and Miriam “Ma” Ferguson, in the general election in Texas, were the first women elected governor in the United States. Ross ran to replace her husband, William Ross, who had died in office Oct. 2, 1924. Years earlier, Ferguson had been Texas’ first lady, until her husband was impeached and convicted in 1917. Ross is known as the first woman to serve as governor, as she was sworn in on Jan. 5, 1925, while Ferguson took her oath on Jan. 20, 1925.
•	In 1939: Packard became the first automaker to offer optional air conditioning in a vehicle, unveiling the breakthrough at the Chicago Auto Show.
•	In 1979: Militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and seized dozens of American hostages, 52 of whom were held captive for 444 days, finally released on Jan. 20, 1981.
•	In 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist. During Rabin’s tenure, he signed a peace treaty with Jordan, as well as the Oslo Accords, which created the Palestinian National Authority and gave Palestinians partial control over the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Along with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for “efforts to create peace in the Middle East.”
•	In 2008: Having been elected the first Black president of the United States, President-elect Barack Obama said in a victory speech to a jubilant crowd in Chicago, “Change has come to America.” He reflected on what America had to overcome in the previous century, the issues still facing the nation, and how “what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.”
•	In 2008: Voters in California, Arizona and Florida chose to ban same-sex marriages. The bans have since been ruled unconstitutional and overturned.
•	In 2016: An international treaty forged to mitigate the effects of climate change and help nations adapt to face it; the Paris Agreement went into effect. The United States withdrew from the agreement briefly but rejoined it in January 2021.