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YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Mon Jun 30 2025

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.

Downtown Phoenix apartment building boom draws all types of residents.

Downtown Phoenix’s population has doubled since 2010, and thousands of new apartments have opened since 2010. But who can afford to live there?

Locals name best pizzeria in Phoenix

Restaurant named best pizza in Phoenix

Michael Chow/The Republic

The restaurant named best pizza in Phoenix by readers in 2025 has a name that’s an inside joke and a long history. Here’s where to get your new favorite slice.

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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 1905: A German physics journal published Albert Einstein’s paper that included his theory on special relativity, the relationship between energy and matter, which is expressed in the equation, E=mc². A decade later, Einstein added gravity in a published paper on general relativity.
•	1934: Nazi German Chancellor Adolf Hitler ordered elite SS guards to carry out a bloody purge of SA paramilitary leader Ernst Röhm, an early Hitler ally, and hundreds of other perceived political opponents in what’s called the Night of the Long Knives. The massacre — under the guise that Röhm’s Storm Troopers had planned to overthrow the dictator — continued two more days.
•	1953: Chevrolet production-line workers finished assembling the first Corvette at its plant in Flint, Michigan.
•	1966: At the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women in Washington, D.C, 28 activists seeking equal rights founded the National Organization for Women, including author Betty Friedan, who became NOW’s first president.
•	1997: After 156 years of British rule in the former colony of Hong Kong, the U.K. gave back control to China during a night ceremony that lasted into the next day.
•	2019: Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Taylor Swift’s six-album catalog of music in its $300 million purchase of Big Machine Label Group from founder Scott Borchetta, who remained CEO. Swift later began rerecording her albums and selling them as “Taylor’s Version.”