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Pilot reports unknown missile-like object flew over plane during flight to Phoenix Peiyu Lin, Arizona Republic Replay Video UP NEXT A pilot at American Airlines radioed that an unidentified object flew over their passenger jet during a flight in the area of New Mexico from Cincinnati to Phoenix on Sunday. At approximately 1:19 p.m. CST, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 2292 reported, "Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of ...

A lot of hope: Black immigrant advocates praise Joe Biden for reinstating deportation protections for Liberians Daniel Gonzalez, Arizona Republic © Patrick Breen/The Republic Lester Myers, president of the Liberian Association of Arizona, poses for a picture outside his work in Phoenix on Feb. 12, 2021. PHOENIX – President Joe Biden has signed more than a dozen immigration actions since taking office. One measure that reinstates deportation protections to undocumented Lib...

Push to extend foster care from age 18 to 21 could keep more young adults with services they need Mary Jo Pitzl, Arizona Republic © Mark Henle/The Republic A portrait of Cheyenne Planck, February 8, 2021, at Tempe Beach Park, Tempe, Arizona. Foster care ends abruptly when a youth turns 18. Once young people in state care hit that age, theyre legally free of the system — and many foster youth are more than eager to depart. Naketa Ross was one of them when she left her foste...

Arizona weather updates: Dry, sunny skies forecast for metro Phoenix this weekend Arizona Republic Winter storms that hit Arizona with rain, hail, graupel and snow last week have passed, leaving in their wake what many would consider ideal weather. © Patrick Breen/The Republic Morgan Silverman holds her son Connor as she watches her other son Jack come down a slide at Papago Park in Tempe on Feb. 1, 2021. Follow coverage of the winter storms across Arizona by Republic repo...

UpdatedTue, Feb 2, 2021 at 7:32 am MT Reply Peter Johnson, chief executive officer of Phat Scooters, rides his product with his family. (Patrick Breen/The Republic) TEMPE, AZ — When the pandemic first began in March 2020, business boomed at Phat Scooters. With so many people isolating at home and searching for ways to entertain themselves in quarantine, the Tempe-based company could barely keep up with demand for their electric scooters. Peter Johnson, chief executive officer of Phat Scoot...

Reps. Paul Gosar & Andy Biggs cant shake their links to extremists. That is a good thing EJ Montini, Arizona Republic In many ways, each day’s news is meant to be forgotten. There is simply too much of it. So the events of any given 24 hours are swept aside or buried under the events of the next day, and the next, and so on. Better to let bygones be bygones. Except…when it’s not. Politicians like Arizona’s Republican Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar would very much like u...

Wed Jan 27, 2021 at 12:12pm ET Star War’s Oscar Isaac’s virtual performance in Beirut will re-broadcast on January 28. Pic credit: MCC The one-act play, which stars Issac as well as Marisa Tomei and Patrick Breen, was originally performed in April 2020 as a fundraiser for the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater. Eerie echoes Beirut, written by Alan Bowne and introduced in 1987, has eerie echoes for 2020-2021 life. It concerns a man named Torch, who is quarantined in his Lower East Side apartment i...

Theater to Stream: Jerry Herman’s Tunes; Marisa Tomei, Twice The Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of “Hello, Dolly!,” and Tomei turns up in “Beirut” and “Three Hotels.” Nicholas Christopher, left, and Ashley Blanchet in “You I Like: A Celebration of Jerry Herman.”Credit...Jeff Lorch Jan. 20, 2021 One of the benefits of streaming theater — come on, we must think of that glass as half-full — is that we can now mix and ma...

Capitol protest tracker: What happened at capitols across the US on Sunday Jay Cannon, Chastity Laskey, Jordan Culver and Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY © Winslow Townson, AP Armed protesters stand in front of the Statehouse Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021, in Concord, N.H. Federal officials warned of armed and potentially violent protests at all 50 state capitals and the U.S. Capitol in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Bidens inauguration, according to an internal FBI bulletin ...

Double standard: Biden, Black lawmakers and activists decry police response to attack on US Capitol Grace Hauck and Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY Chaotic scene in US Capitol as pro-Trump rioters storm the building Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden, civil rights leaders and activists blasted law enforcement agencies for their slow response to rioters at the U.S. Capitol, noting the massive show of police force in place for Black Lives Matter de...