AZ Briefing: Arizonans' wages too low to make rent; AZ spent millions to bus asylum seekers to Washington, DC; 'Arizona Midday' has new host
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A look at some of today's top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.
Many Arizona workers' wages are too low to make the rent. What will help?
Arizona has spent millions to bus more than 1,000 asylum seekers to Washington, D.C., with much more to come.
Vanessa Ramirez, the new host of "Arizona Midday" on 12 News, can finally get some sleep.
Today, you can expect it to be humid and cloudy, with an afternoon thunderstorm in spots and a high near 99 degrees. Expect it to be mostly cloudy and humid at night, with a low near 83 degrees. Get the full forecast here.
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Today in history
On this day in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.
In 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced that Imperial Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.
In 1995, Shannon Faulkner officially became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, South Carolina’s state military college. (However, Faulkner quit the school less than a week later, citing the stress of her court fight, and her isolation among the male cadets.)
In 1997, an unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing. (McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001.)
In 2012, Vice President Joe Biden sparked a campaign commotion, telling an audience in southern Virginia that included hundreds of Black voters that Republican Mitt Romney wanted to put them “back in chains” by deregulating Wall Street. (Biden later mocked Republican criticism over the remark while conceding he had meant to use different words.) Ron Palillo, the actor best known as the nerdy high school student Arnold Horshack on the 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter,” died in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, at age 63.
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