AZ Briefing: I-10, Loop 101 among weekend road closures; Janet Yellen visits Sedona; Foxes euthanized after Tucson museum attack

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Valley drivers can expect multiple freeway closures this weekend, including westbound Interstate 10 closed between Loop 202 and U.S. 60 until 4 a.m. Monday. Southbound Loop 101 also will be closed between Guadalupe and Ray roads from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.

You can find all of the metro Phoenix freeway and road restrictions in our weekend closure roundup .

Other big stories

➤ Janet Yellen , President Joe Biden’s treasury secretary , addressed a crowd of high-profile newsmakers on Friday in Sedona to argue democracy is the best recipe for economic success .

➤ After an attack at a Tucson museum this week, the Arizona Game and Fish Department submitted the bodies of two wild foxes for rabies testing .

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➤ Today, you can expect it to be sunny, with a high near 94 degrees. It will be partly cloudy at night, with a low near 66 degrees. Get the full forecast here .

Lake challenges Gallego to abortion debate

Following the recent repeal of Arizona's near-total ban on abortions, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake tried Friday to go on the offensive by challenging her likely Democratic opponent Ruben Gallego to a debate on the topic.

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Today in history

Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.

• On this day in 1865 ,Abraham Lincoln was buried in Springfield, Illinois. Mourners had paid their respects as his funeral train traveled through 180 cities and seven states to reach his hometown.
• In 1905 ,the second, and successful, attempt to build the Panama Canal and connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans officially began.
• In 1959 ,Ella Fitzgerald became the first Black woman to win a Grammy Award at the inaugural awards show, and then she won another. Fitzgerald claimed the prizes for best jazz and female vocal performances with “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book” and “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book,” respectively.
• In 1961 ,the first Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C., aboard a Greyhound bus headed south. The 13 riders included a young John Lewis, who later served 33 years as a U.S. representative for Georgia. Met with increasing violence, the Freedom Riders eventually abandoned their plan to ride to New Orleans, being evacuated from Jackson, Mississippi.
• In 1994 ,the unofficial holiday for Star Wars fans had its pun introduced on the floor of Britain’s Parliament when Harry Cohen said one of his researchers had advocated for a National Star Wars Day and added, “May the fourth be with you,” and Cohen suggested the “very bad joke” should have led to the person’s firing, “but he is a good researcher.”
• In 2007 , the first tornado to be rated an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with winds estimated stronger than 200 mph, destroyed nearly all of the town of Greensburg, Kansas. The storm killed 11 people and injured 63 others.

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