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AZ Briefing
YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP
Thu Jan 29 2026
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 Phoenix police officer fired a rifle through a doorway into Christian Diaz’s home before the officer knew who he was shooting at, Diaz’s family said.
The family’s version of what happened contrasts with the police account.
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➤ The National Park Service has targeted signage, exhibit text and images that refer to the removal of Native peoples or discuss restrictions placed on tribal cultural practicesfrom what is now Grand Canyon National Park. Here’s what we know.
➤EXCLUSIVE: The prosecutor for a rural Arizona county who signed an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementallowing his office to enforce federal immigration laws said he vows to press forward, despite county supervisors ordering him to stop. Watch the exclusive interview.
➤ EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security closed on a $70 million deal for a 418,400 square-foot warehouse in Surprise. Here’s what we know.
➤ A local Democrat official seen in a viral video yelling obscenities at two women during a protest of the Zipps Sports Grill raids apologized for his action and resigned his political position.
➤ Gilbert Public Schools has joined the long list of Arizona districts to close a school due to declining enrollment.
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➤ Today, you can expect it to be mostly sunny and nice with a high near 76 degrees. Expect it to be clear at night with a low near 46 degrees. Get the full forecast here.
Park Service to reopen areas of Grand Canyon North Rim

Smoke from the Dragon Bravo Fire burning on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon blows across to the South Rim on July 14, 2025.
Michael Chow/The Republic
Grand Canyon National Park is preparing to reopen portions of the North Rim after the Dragon Bravo Fire devastated the region last summer. 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 1924: Carl Taylor received the U.S. patent for an ice cream cone-rolling machine designed to form “thin, freshly baked wafers while still hot into cone-shaped containers such as are commonly used in dispensing ice cream.”•In 1936: The National Baseball Hall of Fame announced its first inductees in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.•In 1964: Stanley Kubrick’s acclaimed “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” a witty Cold War satire, was released in theatres across the U.S.•In 2002: In his first State of the Union address since the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush described Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an “axis of evil” for alleged roles in sponsoring terrorism and producing weapons of mass destruction.•In 2009: The Illinois Senate voted to unanimously remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office after his conviction of corruption charges, including solicitation of bribery in exchange for an appointment to the U.S. Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.•In 2017: Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, opened fire on the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, killing six and wounding 19 others. He pleaded to six counts of first-degree murder, as well as five counts of attempted murder, and was sentenced to life in prison.
— Hoang Tran, USA TODAY Network
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