Abe Hamadeh may have committed voter fraud; Migrant border encounters drop; Diamondbacks 2023 schedule

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A look at some of today's top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.

The voting actions could violate several laws, many of which are felonies. If he were elected AG, Abe Hamadeh would oversee election fraud cases.

Despite the two-month drop, encounters along the Arizona-Mexico border thus far this fiscal year have increased significantly from last year.

The Diamondbacks unveiled their schedule for 2023, providing a look at the balanced schedule that Major League Baseball will follow next season.

Today, you can expect it to be mostly sunny, with a high near 101 degrees. A slight chance of thunderstorms at night, with a low near 83 degrees. Get the full forecast here.

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Today in History

  • In 1718, hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some settling in present-day New Orleans.

  • In 2001, R&B singer Aaliyah (ah-LEE'-yah) was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas; she was 22.

  • Five years ago: Hurricane Harvey, the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade, made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, with 130 mph sustained winds; the storm would deliver five days of rain totaling close to 52 inches, the heaviest tropical downpour that had ever been recorded in the continental U.S. The hurricane left at least 68 people dead and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage in Texas.

  • In 2018, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who had spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before a 35-year political career that took him to the Republican presidential nomination, died at the age of 81 after battling brain cancer for more than a year.

  • In 2020, two people were shot to death and a third was wounded as 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle during a third night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake. (Rittenhouse, who was taken into custody in Illinois the next day, said he was defending himself after the three men attacked him as he tried to protect businesses from protesters; he was acquitted on all charges, including homicide.)

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