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AZ Briefing: Phoenix housing market's slowing; White Mountain Apache tribe recovering after fire; meet D-Backs broadcaster Chris Garagiola

Arizona Republic

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

Metro Phoenix's housing market is definitely slowing. What has to happen for prices to fall

The 2002 Rodeo-Chediski Fire dealt a near-fatal blow to the eastern Arizona White Mountain Apache Tribe. Here's how it has fought to recover.

Diamondbacks radio broadcaster Chris Garagiola talks about his grandfather, MLB Hall of Famer Joe Garagiola, and carving out his own place in sports

Today, you can expect clouds and sun with a high near 105 degrees. Cloudy and warm at night with a thunderstorm and a low near 87 degrees. Get the full forecast here.

Today in history

  • On this day in 1917, the first troops of the American Expeditionary Force deployed to France during World War I landed in St. Nazaire.
  • In 1990, President George H.W. Bush went back on his “no-new-taxes” campaign pledge, conceding that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators.
  • In 1996, the Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
  • In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed, 5-4, that an individual right to gun ownership existed.
  • In 2013, in deciding its first cases on the issue, the U.S. Supreme Court gave the nation’s legally married gay couples equal federal footing with all other married Americans and also cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California.