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Fri Jun 20 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.

Harmful blooms of algae like the one floating near the dam on Apache Lake are on the rise worldwide and are likely to proliferate more in Arizona as warming temperatures create encouraging habitats for the blue-green toxic scum.

If you’re heading out on the water, here’s what to do if you see suspicious algae, how to keep pets safe, where algal blooms have happened and how long they last.

Huge new water park opening in metro Phoenix

The slide pool at the new Rescue Oasis Park in Surprise, Arizona.

Provided by the City of Surprise

The Rescue Oasis Park family fun complex has three pools – one with rock-climbing walls – plus a shaded splash pad. Here’s where and when it’s open .

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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 1943: The Detroit Race Riot broke out amid deep social unrest over inequities with racially charged Black and White youths fighting on Belle Isle. Police stopped the violence there that night, but more racist beatings and looting erupted downtown. The riots ended after over 3,500 national troops cleared the streets. Of 25 Black people who died in the riots, 17 of them involved police force. Nine White people died, but none were at the hands of police. Nearly 700 others were reportedly injured, and property damage totaled $2 million.
•	In 1963: The United States and USSR established the Washington-Moscow hotline, a “red telephone” that linked the Pentagon with the Kremlin in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
•	In 1990: David Levy and Henry Holt discovered 5261 Eureka, a Mars asteroid that shared the same orbit, at Palomar Observatory in California.
•	In 2005: American engineer Jack Kilby, who while working at Texas Instruments helped invent the integrated circuit that revolutionized electronics with interconnected transistors on a single microchip, died at 81 in Dallas. Integrated circuits became key in nearly every electronic device.
•	In 2007: Citing opposition to the “deliberate destruction of human embryos,” President George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would have removed some restrictions on using federal funds for embryonic stem cell research. The Democratic-controlled Congress didn’t try to override the veto.
•	In 2019: Tensions escalated after Iranian forces shot down a U.S. Navy surveillance drone aircraft flying over the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. President Donald Trump, in a tweet, said that Iran had made a “big mistake,” though he later tweeted that he called off a counter strike. “We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die,” Trump said, adding: “150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone.”

— Charlie White, USA TODAY Network

AZ men killed in plane crash were generous, friends say

Jeremy Bingham and his three adult sons — Bailey, Gavin and Ayden — were presumed dead after a small plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean on June 8.

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