Is Donald Trump's grip on the GOP slipping? New businesses opening in Goodyear; Explore the Desert Botanical Garden at night

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

Former President Donald Trump's upcoming rally for his Republican primary endorsements brings at least some political uncertainty.

Potato Barn furniture store, Ocho Rios Jerk Spot, McAlister's Deli and Jamba and BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse among new businesses opening in Goodyear.

Head out in the cooler evening hours for music, family fun and other activities at the Desert Botanical Garden's Flashlight Nights and Sonoran Sippin.

Today, you can expect it to be hot, with a high near 111 degrees. A slight chance of thunderstorms at night, with a low near 91 degrees. Get the full forecast here.

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Today in history

  • On this day in 1976, a 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, California, by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. (The captives escaped unharmed; the kidnappers were caught.)

  • In 1997, fashion designer Gianni Versace (ver-SAH’-chay), 50, was shot dead outside his Miami Beach home; suspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan (koo-NAN’-an), 27, was found dead eight days later, a suicide. (Investigators believed Cunanan killed four other people before Versace in a cross-country rampage that began the previous March.)

  • In 2018, President Donald Trump arrived in Finland for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Earlier, in an interview with CBS News, Trump named the European Union as a top adversary of the United States.

  • In 2019, avowed white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. was sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years for killing one and injuring dozens of others when he deliberately drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

  • In 2021, a jury found gunman Jarrod Ramos criminally responsible for killing five people in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland in 2018. (Ramos would be sentenced to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole.)

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: AZ Briefing: Is Donald Trump's grip on the GOP slipping?