Online STEM-to-classroom pipeline: Central Arizona College is taking applications for its fall and spring Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, letting students complete upper-division coursework fully online across Arizona, with live virtual classes plus 120 hours of field experience and a 12-week student teaching placement before K-8 certification. ICE body-cam transparency fight: Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it will equip officers with body cameras by end of September, but its policy lets the agency decide whether to release footage based on what’s in its “best interests,” raising concerns about selective public access. Arizona energy storage zoning shift: Surprise’s planning commission approved a proposal that cuts the setback for large battery energy storage systems from 1,500 feet to 100 feet from homes, sending the plan to City Council. Space science milestone: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch Aug. 30, about nine months ahead of schedule, to map billions of galaxies with a wide-field survey. AI supply chain pressure: SK Hynix board approval commits $38B to new DRAM and NAND fabs in South Korea, underscoring that the US still lacks HBM wafer fabrication capacity. Extreme heat impacts: A new AP-NORC poll finds extreme heat is increasingly disrupting Americans’ travel, sleep, bills, and daily routines, with the biggest effects reported in the West and Midwest.