AZ Briefing: Phoenix-area weekend freeway closures

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AZ Briefing

YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Sat Jun 21 2025

Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know about what’s happening.

Drivers should plan for multiple freeway restrictions in north and northwest Phoenix this weekend, with closures and lane reductions tied to widening and bridge work projects, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.

Here is what drivers should know for June 20-22, including along Loop 101 and Interstate 17.

Could ICE show up to Chase Field?

U.S. immigration agents were denied entry to Dodger Stadium parking lots.

Will ICE try to access other stadiums such as Chase Field in Phoenix?

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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 1915: Black people’s 15th Amendment right to vote was upheld in Guinn v. U.S., a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared Oklahoma’s Voter Registration Act of 1910 unconstitutional. It found the state law ― one of numerous suppression attempts in various states that eventually led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ― had disfranchised Black voters through its “grandfather clause” that required passing a literacy test to register to vote yet exempted people whose grandfathers were entitled to vote in 1866.
•	In 1940: Italy tried but failed to invade France during the first Battle of the Alps in World War II.
•	In 1945: The Battle of Okinawa, the last major battle of World War II, ended as the bloodiest in the Pacific. It took nearly three months of U.S. ground forces fighting the Japanese to secure the island, which gave Allied forces an airbase to use for launching bombers to ramp up air strikes on Japan and helped Allied fleets blockade shipping routes. Over 12,500 U.S. service members were killed or missing, and 49,000 were wounded. Estimates of the Okinawan civilian death toll are as high as 150,000, and an estimated 110,000 Japanese died trying to defend the island.
•	In 1964: The U.S. House adopted the Civil Rights Act and passed it to the Senate, which approved the measure on July 2, 1964, the same day President Lyndon Johnson signed it. The landmark law pushed by President John F. Kennedy before he was assassinated prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for integrating schools and other public facilities, and made workplace discrimination illegal.
•	In 1989: In Texas v. Johnson, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning an American flag is a form of protest that’s protected symbolic free speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution. The court found protester Gregory Johnson had been wrongfully convicted for burning a flag outside the 1984 Republican National Convention.
•	In 2000: Scotland repealed controversial Section 28 of the United Kingdom’s Local Government Act of 1988, which had prohibited local authorities such as schoolteachers from teaching that homosexuality is acceptable.