Phoenix will reduce speed limits; Arizona teachers lag in reflecting student diversity; Fiesta Bowl Parade 2022

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

A review by the Phoenix's streets department concluded drivers should slow down at spots downtown, in Laveen and Moon Valley. Here's how much and where.

Arizona teachers lag in reflecting their students' diversity. Here's why that's a problem.

Planning on going to the Fiesta Bowl Parade 2022 in Phoenix? Here's the route, the start time and how to watch.

Today, you can expect it to be mostly sunny, with a high near 65 degrees. Partly cloudy and chilly at night, with a low near 44 degrees. Get the full forecast here.

Today in history

• On this date in 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• In 1980, rock star and former Beatle John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by Mark David Chapman.
• In 1987, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty at the White House calling for destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
• In 2008, in a startling about-face, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal he would confess to masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks; four other men also abandoned their defenses.
• In 2014, the U.S. and NATO ceremonially ended their combat mission in Afghanistan, 13 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks sparked their invasion of the country to topple the Taliban-led government.