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Facing mounting pressure from Democratic leaders, President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid and quickly endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.
As Biden sagged recently in the Arizona polls, Arizona Democrats consider how Harris will do at the top of the ticket.
Political strategists from the Democratic and Republican parties examine if Harris can beat Donald Trump in Arizona, keeping vital, divisive issues like abortion and immigration at the fore.
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people willing to push the political envelope further than almost anyone else? Listen to the full season of The Arizona Republic's 'Rediscovering: The Roots of Radicalism.'
➤ Do Arizona Democratic delegates have to vote for President Joe Biden? Your delegate questions answered.
➤ OPINION: Who will be Kamala Harris' vice president pick? Democrats would be fools to ignore Sen. Mark Kelly.
➤ Today, you can expect it to be mostly cloudy with a late-afternoon thunderstorm and a high near 109 degrees. Expect it to be partly cloudy at night with a low near 90 degrees. Get the full forecast here.
Big drop in measles protection in Arizona kindergartens
Arizona sees dramatic drop in kindergarten classes protected from measles. Only 17% of charter school kindergartens had herd immunity last school year. Private schools were near 33%, and public district schools were at 35%.
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Today in history
Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.
- On this day in 1933: Aviator Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world, flying from and returning to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City. His flight covered 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
- In 1942: Deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp began. Code-named “Grossaktion Warsaw” by the Nazi, more than 250,000 Jews were killed between the end of July and mid-September.
- In 1943: Allied forces, led by U.S. Gen. George S. Patton, successfully captured Palermo, the regional capital of Sicily and a strategic nexus for the Allied invasion of mainland Italy during World War II.
- In 1987: Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to banning intermediate-range and shorter-range nuclear missiles, paving the way for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
- In 1991: Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested by two Milwaukee police officers, Robert Rauth and Rolf Mueller. Tracy Edwards, one of Dahmer’s potential victims, managed to escape and flag down Rauth and Mueller, taking the officers to Dahmer’s apartment. It is there that Mueller discovered Polaroid pictures of Dahmer’s victims.
- In 1999: The catastrophic Woodstock ’99 began at the old Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, N.Y. Though meant to be a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the original Woodstock, the event turned into a deadly festival in which three people died and was described as “like being in a concentration camp.”
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