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YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Tue Jun 24 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.

Gov. Katie Hobbs told state agencies to prepare for an unprecedented government shutdown after the state House of Representatives began work on a “skinny” state budget plan Hobbs has already rejected.

Much of the state government would shut down if Hobbs doesn’t sign a new budget before the start of a new fiscal year on July 1.

17 historic restaurants in metro Phoenix

A portrait of Frank (left) and Hannah Shawneh (owners), on Jan. 14, 2025, at Frank’s New York Style Deli in Phoenix.

Mark Henle/The Republic

From fry bread tacos to soul food to Italian grinders and wood-fired pizza, these historic restaurants built Phoenix’s food scene. And they’re still great.

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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 1922: The National Football League became the new name for the former American Professional Football Association. Owners of over 20 teams met in Cleveland, where they also banned active college players from NFL teams.
•	In 1989: Garth Brooks made his Grand Ole Opry debut about two months after the release of his self-titled first album. A year after his Opry debut, singer-comedian Johnny Russell inducted him into the Opry.
•	In 2004: The New York Court of Appeals ruled the death penalty to be unconstitutional within the state.
•	In 2007: Iraqi Gen. Ali Hassan al-Majid, aka “Chemical Ali,” received his first death sentence for genocidal crimes against humanity that included the use of chemical weapons. A cousin of the country’s longtime dictator Saddam Hussein, al-Majid was hanged after a fourth trial and death sentence in 2010. Al-Majid carried out Hussein’s orders that killed tens of thousands of Kurdish people in the 1980s and 1990s, with one estimate up to 100,000 in 1988 alone.
•	In 2021: Nearly 100 people died when a 12-story condominium tower collapsed in Surfside, Florida, one of the worst building disasters in U.S. history.
•	In 2022: The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey with its ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which stripped federal protections by concluding the Constitution doesn’t grant abortion rights and returned the regulation of the procedure to elected federal and state government leaders.

– Charlie White, USA TODAY Network

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