AZ Briefing: $13.25M mansion has car wash; AG news updates partisan since Brnovich US Senate bid; Scottsdale now bachelorette destination
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A look at some of today's top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.
A Bechtel executive pays $13.25M cash for this Scottsdale Silverleaf mansion. It has its own car wash.
Partisan cases dominate Arizona attorney general's news updates since Mark Brnovich announced his U.S. Senate bid.
Vegas who? Here's how Scottsdale became the ultimate bachelorette party destination.
Today, you can expect there to be some sun, then a heavy thunderstorm late in the afternoon, with a high near 99 degrees. A thunderstorm in spots in the evening; otherwise, mainly cloudy at night, with a low near 83 degrees. Get the full forecast here.
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Today in history
On this day 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as the Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing them to die, as a way of studying the disease.
In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first “test tube baby,” was born in Oldham, England; she’d been conceived through the technique of in-vitro fertilization.
In 2010, the online whistleblower Wikileaks posted some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records that amounted to a blow-by-blow account of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.
In 2019, President Donald Trump had a second phone call with the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which he solicited Zelenskyy’s help in gathering potentially damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden; that night, a staff member at the White House Office of Management and Budget signed a document that officially put military aid for Ukraine on hold.
A bitterly-divided Senate voted to move forward with Republican legislation to repeal and replace “Obamacare.” Sen. John McCain, returning to the Capitol for the first time since he was diagnosed with brain cancer, cast a decisive “yes” vote. (Three days later, McCain joined with two other Republican senators and Democrats in defeating the repeal effort.) House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded in a shooting at a baseball practice on June 14, was released from a Washington hospital.
This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: AZ Briefing: This $13.25M mansion has its own car wash
