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AZ Memo: Lake Mead falls below shortage mark; How to watch Memorial Day veterans cemetery wreath-laying; How a small business was shut down Arizona Republic A look at some of today's top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.  The Conspiracy to commit This One year after George Floyd's death, Latino activists continue to seek police reform. Arizona faith leaders condemn a proposed flat tax and say they will call for a referendum if it passes. Today, you can expect it to be very warm, with a high near 102 degrees. Clear at night, with a low near 74 ...

Mathias Rust, A German Teenager, Flew A Cessna To Red Square In 1987 Mathias Rust poses with his Cessna. (Photo by Peter Timmullstein bild via Getty Images) In 1987, Mathias Rust, a West German teenager, seemingly did the impossible when he flew a Cessna light aircraft through 500 miles of the most highly defended airspace in the world, all in the name of peace. Mathias Rust had just 50 hours of flying experience when he performed this daring stunt, during a time when the Cold War was still in full swing. He was motivated by the feeling that he could make a difference after a summit between t...

Caught with their pants down Russia menaces Alexei Navalny after he exposed its agents' ineptitude The opposition politician revealed the FSB poisoned his underpants S TAY ABROAD or rot in jail. That was the choice Vladimir Putin offered this week to Alexei Navalny, the opposition politician currently in Germany recovering from an attempt by Russian security agents to assassinate him last August. The new threat was delivered by Russia’s federal prison agency, which accused Mr Navalny of violating a probation period imposed as part of a trumped-up embezzlement conviction in 2014. It was an o...

Has Navalny’s Prank Shattered the FSB Myth Once and For All? Even as the Soviet Union withered and declined, the KGB and the GRU seemed both more competent and, oddly, cleaner than the current security forces. Peter Kovalev / TASS Is it fair to say that the spectacular trainwreck of the FSB’s operation to poison Alexei Navalny is the worst failure in the history of the Russian and Soviet security services?  To be sure, it’s just the latest in a series of incredible blunders. Consider the failure of the plot to kill Sergei Skripal that highlighted the astounding i...