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Tue May 27 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.

A bloc of Senate Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, wants to ban members of Congress from trading stocks while in office, as Republicans have offered a competing bill to do the same thing.

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Who is the most iconic sports figure in Arizona? Voting for the Elite Eight concludes on June 2 at 6 a.m.

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Who is the most iconic Arizona sports figure? After the first round of voting, prominent names like Devin Booker, Steve Nash and Jerry Colangelo were eliminated. Only eight remain. Here’s where you can vote.

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Today in history

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

•	On this day in 1930: The Chrysler Building in New York was completed and opened, briefly becoming the world’s tallest building and tallest structure. The 1,046-foot height surpassed 40 Wall Street (also in New York) and the Eiffel Tower, but the following year the Empire State Building topped them all.
•	In 1937: The Golden Gate Bridge, spanning the strait that connects the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco Bay, opened to pedestrians. The following day, it opened to vehicles.
•	In 1939: Most of the 937 Jewish refugees aboard the St. Louis, a German ship, were turned away by Cuba, which had changed its immigration policy just weeks earlier. The ship then carried the refugees to the United States, where they were again turned away before returning to Europe in search of safe harbor.
•	In 1962: A fire was started to clear out room at the landfill used by Centralia, Pennsylvania. The fire is considered by many to be the event that sparked the vast underground fires in the coal mines under the area that have caused health issues, forced evacuations and are still burning.
•	In 1999: The space shuttle Discovery launched on a mission to the International Space Station, two days later becoming the first shuttle to dock with the ISS.
•	In 2016: President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan, touting peace, the use of science for the improvement of life instead of ending it, and “the future we can choose – a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of atomic warfare, but as the start of our own moral awakening.”

— William Cain, USA TODAY Network

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