School lunches no longer free for all students; Suns name interim governor; Savory Mexican crepes

Arizona Republic
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Elija Espinoza-Patterson, seventh grade, bottom center, receives chicken nuggets during lunch at Horizon Elementary School on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in Glendale.

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

Keeping all students well-fed recently became more challenging. Policies that allowed schools to serve free meals to all students have expired.

Sam Garvin has held a minority stake in the team since 2004 and has been the Suns' alternate governor since 2007.

The chilorio crepe at El Cafezito Coffee and Crepes is one of the best Mexican breakfast dishes in Phoenix. Try it at this homey westside café.

Today, you can expect it to be very warm and sunny, with a high near 106 degrees. Clear at night, with a low near 81 degrees. Get the full forecast here.

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Today in history

  • On this date in 1974, President Gerald R. Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam war deserters and draft-evaders.

  • In 1987, two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth’s ozone layer by calling on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000.

  • In 2001, President George W. Bush, speaking on the South Lawn of the White House, said there was “no question” Osama bin Laden and his followers were the prime suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks; Bush pledged the government would “find them, get them running and hunt them down.”

  • In 2007, contractors for the U.S. security firm Blackwater USA guarding a U.S. State Department convoy in Baghdad opened fire on civilian vehicles, mistakenly believing they were under attack; 14 Iraqis died. O.J. Simpson was arrested in the alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors in Las Vegas. (Simpson was later convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery and sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison; he was released in 2017.)

  • In 2016, after five years of promoting a false conspiracy theory about Barack Obama’s birthplace, Republican Donald Trump abruptly reversed course, acknowledging that the president was born in America, but then claiming the “birther movement” was begun by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. (While the question of Obama’s birthplace was raised by some backers of Clinton’s primary campaign against Obama eight years earlier, Clinton had long denounced it as a “racist lie.”)

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