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AZ Briefing

YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Wed Oct 8 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.

House Speaker Mike Johnson again denied he has delayed swearing in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, but he also didn’t commit to when she would formally join Congress.

Here’s what we 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 1958: The first scheduled transatlantic passenger jet service began. Pan Am’s Boeing 707 took off from New York’s Idlewild Airport (now JFK) and flew nonstop to Paris, drastically reducing the travel time between the two continents and revolutionizing commercial aviation.
•	In 1967: Iconic Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, who played a key role in the Cuban Revolution, was captured by the Bolivian army and executed, solidifying his status as a martyr and symbol of global revolution.
•	In 1993: The U.N. General Assembly lifted economic sanctions against South Africa following the end of racial apartheid. The sanctions had been imposed since the 1960s.
•	In 1998: The popular search engine Google, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, was incorporated as a privately held company.
•	In 1998: The U.S. House of Representatives voted 258-176 to approve a resolution launching an impeachment inquiry of President Bill Clinton. It was only the third time in U.S. history the House launched a formal impeachment inquiry of a sitting president
•	In 2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announced the creation of the Office of Homeland Security in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The office later became the Department of Homeland Security, a federal agency responsible for coordinating the country’s defense against terrorism and ensuring national security.