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Wed May 28 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.

Maricopa County health inspectors recently visited about 1,350 restaurants across the Valley, with about 400 receiving an A rating. Others, not so much. For the week of May 12, two restaurants in metro Phoenix were cited for eight health violations.

See which restaurants are considered Grade A and what the violations were for the restaurant cited.

Phoenix restaurant Huarachis has an epic secret menu

Huarachis Taqueria serves tortas mamalonas con papas for lunch in Phoenix on May 16, 2025. This carnitas one includes jamon, queso menonita, aguacate, tomato, baja blast, cebolla and shredded lettuce.

Cheryl Evans/The Republic

Huarachis is award-winning chef Rene Andrade’s more casual counterpart to Bacanora. And the new lunch menu has two secret dishes The Republic’s dining and nightlife reporter is obsessed with.

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Today in history

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

•	On this day in 1961: British lawyer Peter Benenson’s article “The Forgotten Prisoners” was published in the London Observer, calling for the release of prisoners around the world who were incarcerated for their beliefs and expressing them in nonviolent ways. He dubbed his campaign Appeal for Amnesty, 1961, a movement that later developed into the organization Amnesty International.
•	In 1964: The Palestinian Liberation Organization was founded, with the Palestine National Charter of 1964 announcing the goal of establishing an Arab homeland with the borders used for what was previously known as the British Mandate and declaring the creation of Israel to be illegal. The PLO later accepted Israeli sovereignty and instead sought statehood for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
•	In 1971: The Soviet Union launched its Mars 3 probe, which in December became the first craft to successfully execute a soft land on Mars.
•	In 1998: President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 13087 to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation for federal civilian employees.
•	In 2003: Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed the Texas Defense of Marriage Act, which said the state would not recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions.
•	In 2016: After a 3-year-old boy fell into an enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, the gorilla Harambe grabbed the child and dragged him through the enclosure, prompting the zoo’s Dangerous Animal Response Team to shoot and kill the gorilla. The incident spurred debate over keeping primates in captivity and discussion about the child’s parents’ accountability.

— William Cain, USA TODAY Network

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