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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.

Park Service to reopen areas of Grand Canyon North Rim

Dragon Bravo Fire

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