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• Marcus Peters, one of the Chiefs' top players, is booed by some of his own fans

  26-10-2017 23:56
  North Kansas City, Mo. • They slide into a booth and order their beers, preparing to watch the Kansas City Chiefs at the sports bar inside a casino.Then someone brings it up. Someone always brings it up.As this Thursday evening begins, the Chiefs are 5-1 and perhaps the AFC's most intriguing Super Bowl contender. But around here, there's no meatier or more divisive topic than Marcus Peters, the team's controversial and talented cornerback, and what should be done about him.Peters doesn't ju
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Five reasons to feel good about the team despite early losses

  26-10-2017 23:49 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz at Phoenix Suns reactions: What went right/wrong? by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Broncos holding out hope in face of embarrassment, injuries

  26-10-2017 23:46
  Englewood, Colo. • Trevor Siemian is sporting a black and blue nose courtesy of his latest trouncing and the rest of the Denver Broncos are red-faced over their poor play."Yeah, it's good. I got a little bruise," Siemian said, but "I probably should have broken it. I deserve it the way I played."Siemian was sacked five times and committed two turnovers in Denver's 21-0 loss to the Chargers last week that marked the franchise's first shutout since Nov. 22, 1992, when the 25-year-old quarterb
  
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• [KSL] - The Jazz Daily: Donovan Mitchell's shooting bad early, Jazz missing corner threes

  26-10-2017 23:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... off a cliff. That's a lot of red X's, especially from the corners, where the Jazz are just 2-15. The Jazz's offense is designed to get those kinds of shots, a ...
  
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• Democrats condemn proposed fee hikes at national parks

  26-10-2017 23:33
  Washington • Democratic senators on Thursday criticized a National Park Service plan to impose steep increases in entrance fees at 17 of its most popular parks, including the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone and Zion, calling the proposed rates “arbitrary and unjustifiable.”Under a plan announced this week, visitors to many national parks would be charged $70 per vehicle during the peak summer season, up from $25 or $30 per vehicle now. Officials say the higher fees are neede
  
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• Utah Jazz: Five reasons to feel good about the team despite early losses

  26-10-2017 23:30
  After back-to-back losses that can only be classified as embarrassing, there are still plenty of reasons to be psyched for the Utah Jazz. In the NBA, and sports in general, really, things can change in a heartbeat. Just a few, short days ago, the Utah Jazz were riding high following a big win over the […]
  Utah Jazz: Five reasons to feel good about the team despite early losses - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Powerful ‘Thank You for Your Service’ shows combat veterans’ rough road home

  26-10-2017 23:24
  George Carlin once delivered an intense monologue on the dehumanizing power of euphemisms, using as his case study how the terse World War I phrase “shell shock” morphed to “battle fatigue,” “operational exhaustion” and the clinical-sounding term we use now, “post-traumatic stress disorder.”It’s PTSD, and the way we and the government that’s supposed to represent us are derelict in how we treat our combat veterans, that fuels the emotio
  
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• Georgia election server wiped after suit filed

  26-10-2017 23:18
  A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.The server’s data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University, which runs the state’s election system. The data wipe was revealed in an email sent last week from an assistant state attorney general to plaintiffs in the case that was later obtained by
  
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• Martina Hingis to retire (for the third time) after WTA Finals

  26-10-2017 23:14
  Singapore • Martina Hingis announced Thursday that she will retire from tennis for the third time in her career at the end of the ongoing WTA Finals.The Swiss initially confirmed the news on Twitter and Facebook after winning her quarterfinal doubles match. The top-seeded pair, Hingis and Chan Yung-Jan of Taipei, defeated Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic 6-3, 6-2."I told Latisha (Chan) from the start (of the year), 'Hey this will probably be my last year,"
  
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• Monday is #MACUFamilyNight! Open a MyStyle checking account at a @MACU branch and get 6️⃣🎟 & 6️⃣🌭❗️ More Info:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-10-2017 23:10 via twitter.com
  Monday is #MACUFamilyNight!Open a MyStyle checking account at a @MACU branch and get 6️⃣🎟 & 6️⃣🌭❗️More Info:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• History has its eyes on Utah with ‘Hamilton’-inspired education initiative

  26-10-2017 23:10
  The phenomenal success of “Hamilton: The Musical” has been life-changing for the Miranda family, said Luis A. Miranda Jr. And the educational programs accompanying his son Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s touring musical are designed to have a similar impact on Utah students’ lives when the show plays Salt Lake City next spring.Miranda joked and charmed a crowd of influential donors, legislators and arts leaders in the lobby of the Eccles Theater on Thursday morning, as he lauded Uta
  
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• NBA PM: Worst Rookie Seasons

  26-10-2017 23:00 via basketballinsiders.com
  Jimmy Butler had one of the worst rookie seasons of any star in the league, but he isn't the only star that started off slowly.
  
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• Astros’ World Series run lifts Houston amid Harvey recovery

  26-10-2017 22:59
  Houston • Paul Daulong hopes the Houston Astros jersey his daughter gave him after Hurricane Harvey's flooding devastated the family's home will be a good luck charm as his beloved baseball team tries to win its first World Series.So far, it seems to be working.Daulong started wearing the jersey after the Astros trailed the New York Yankees three games to two in the American League Championship Series. They won the next two games in Houston to advance to the fall classic against the Los Ang
  
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• Lindsey Vonn set for surprise season debut this weekend

  26-10-2017 22:52
  Soelden, Austria • While injuries have forced many of ski racing's biggest names to sit out the season-opening World Cup events this weekend, American standout Lindsey Vonn has unexpectedly announced her start in the women's giant slalom.The absence of GS specialists like Lara Gut, Anna Veith, Federica Brignone and Eva-Maria Brem might present Vonn with a good chance to score valuable World Cup points in Saturday's race, her first GS start since January 2016.Those points could ultimately he
  
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• Cowboys deny release of Damontre Moore was related to his anthem protests

  26-10-2017 22:51
  Cowboys place-kicker Dan Bailey injured his groin Sunday, and to make room for a temporary replacement, Dallas needed to release a player. Their decision to cut Damontre Moore, Coach Jason Garrett said Wednesday, had nothing to do with the defensive end's protests during the national anthem.Moore and defensive tackle David Irving have been the only Dallas players to protest. Neither knelt or sat, but both had staged brief demonstrations while standing as pregame renditions of "The Star-Spangled
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Notes: Udoh, Exum, Ingles

  26-10-2017 22:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... re minutes per contest. It’s not just the gaudy per-36 statline that has the Jazz organization impressed. Head coach Quin Snyder sees Udoh’s length and compet ...
  
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• Utah man who spent more than half his life in prison for murder kills himself rather than be arrested again

  26-10-2017 22:12
  A man who spent more of his life inside prison walls than out, shot himself in the head and died Wednesday night, rather than let surrounding officers arrest him again.David J. Corona died about 9:10 p.m. near 1600 W. Northstar Drive, in Salt Lake City, said Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Derryl Spencer.Corona had served 23 years in prison for a murder he committed at age 18, and was released on parole in May.On Oct. 18, Corona, now 43, violated his parole, said Utah Department of Corrections s
  
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• Pope Francis calls space, takes small step for Vatican-Russian ties

  26-10-2017 22:07
  Vatican City • Pope Francis took a small step toward improved Vatican-Russian relations Thursday when he chatted with Russian cosmonauts and praised their understanding of love during a call with the International Space Station.Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli played translator during the roughly 20-minute call that was interrupted once when the line dropped at the orbiting laboratory.Like a curious child, Francis peppered Nespoli and the five other crew members with questions both simple &m
  
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• Once robbed in Salt Lake City, rapper Twelvyy promises A$AP Mob's new show here will be 'very therapeutic'

  26-10-2017 21:59
  Bronx-born rapper A$AP Twelvyy has been to Utah before, and it proved a less-than-perfect experience.“I got love for Salt Lake City, but one time, I got robbed out there!” he told The Salt Lake Tribune in a telephone interview. “Not robbed physically, like at gunpoint, but they took my s--- out the room. So I got love for y’all, but yo, they need to bring my s--- back!“It’s all love, but I kinda understand why Gordon Hayward left!” he added jokingly.Shou
  
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• Turkish career forced Jazz’s Ekpe Udoh to grow, paving his way to NBA return

  26-10-2017 21:46
  An untold number of YouTube videos will extol the virtues of Jamal Crawford’s ankle-breaking crossover, and while he’s 37, he’s still good enough to make plenty of defenders trip over their own feet.On Friday night, as Ekpe Udoh switched onto him, Crawford looked like he had another victim in his sights. Only when Crawford crossed over, so did the 6-foot-10 Udoh, and there was no lane to the basket.There are not many centers who can stay in front of a 6-foot-5 guard like that &
  
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• Skyline's Nifai Tonga quickly transforms from football newbie to Division I prospect

  26-10-2017 21:24
  Skyline football coach Zac Erekson stopped in his tracks as he recognized the kid passing him in the hallway as the basketball player he saw shooting around in the gym a couple days earlier.It was the spring of 2016, and Erekson just had been hired at Skyline for the upcoming season.“Hey, I’m coach Erekson,” he remembers saying to now-senior defensive end Nifai Tonga. “I’m the new football coach, and you weren’t at our team meeting. So, why? Do you play footba
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Small Sample Size Theater: What’s wrong with the Utah Jazz?

  26-10-2017 21:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... x. Derrick Favors is a really good player and finally looks healthy. But the Jazz’s spacing suffocates his strengths. Unfortunately those same strengths are s ...
  
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• Chase Hansen, playing through injuries, still makes an impact for Utes

  26-10-2017 21:21
  There was just a chuckle from Chase Hansen.Maybe because it’s true, that he just is stuck in an ongoing string of bad luck, but one he doesn’t want to give a single ounce of credence to. Or maybe because he’s tired of hearing the same question again and again.How you feeling?How you feeling, physically?Are you ready?Think you’ll be out there next week?Find a way to pry, and Utah’s indispensable junior strong safety, the quarterback of this defense, has heard it. Whi
  
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• Here’s how to avoid making your dog miserable this Halloween

  26-10-2017 21:16
  Utah veterinarian Drew DeSocio has seen the worst of Halloween — a dog owner who thought it was cute to dress her pet up and seriously injured the animal.He recalled working in a veterinarian emergency room when a woman brought in her Shih Tzu. The owner, “going for an irony thing,” dressed up as Toto and dressed her dog as Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz.”The owner put bows in the dog’s ears — bows attached to rubber bands. They were intended to go aroun
  
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• At this new Utah grocery store, have a beer before buying milk and bread

  26-10-2017 21:02
  Park City • Guests sipped cold beer and chatted while they waited for their smoked chicken wings, wood-fired pizzas and hamburgers to arrive. A local band played live music in the corner.It was a typical opening day at the Silver Mine Taproom, except this full-service restaurant — with 24 beers on tap and more than two dozen wines by the glass — is inside the new Whole Foods grocery store, 6598 N. Landmark Drive.The 100-seat restaurant, which opened Oct. 18, takes the average Ut
  
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• Ashley Judd says a 'deal' helped her flee from Weinstein

  26-10-2017 21:02
  New York • Actress Ashley Judd says she escaped Harvey Weinstein's sexual advances by making a deal.She was a rising young actress two decades ago who had arrived at the hotel suite of this powerful film mogul for what she thought would be a business meeting.It wasn’t, she says. Weinstein first offered to give her a massage, then, when she demurred, asked her to give him one.She says she refused to sit down and surveyed the floor plan of the suite to plot her escape.“I thought &
  
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• Trump declares opioids a public health emergency

  26-10-2017 20:50
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency — a step that won’t bring new dollars to fight a scourge that kills nearly 100 Americans a day but will expand access to medical services in rural areas, among other changes.“This epidemic is a national health emergency,” Trump said in a speech at the White House, where he bemoaned a crisis he said had spared no segment of American society.“As America
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Downbeat: Turnovers, anyone?

  26-10-2017 20:25 via sportspyder.com
  ... ght cheer you up. Former Jazz man sneakily joined the ’ huddle last night, and the video is hilarious. My...
  
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• ‘Cat Videos Live!’ turns an internet pleasure into a communal theater experience — and it‘s coming to Utah

  26-10-2017 20:17
  As of 2014, YouTube had on its site around 2 million cat videos, garnering in total some 25 billion views — so it’s a given that most everyone with access to the internet has, at one time or another, watched a video of cats doing what cats do.“It’s a good escape from people’s day to day, just the onslaught of the bad news that we receive in our lives each day,” said Eric Dorris, the owner of the website CatVideos.com, which compiles its own library of feline f
  
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• The Whisper Game - part 2! 🗣👂 Starring: @TheJoeJohnson7 & @RodneyHood 😂😂 https://t.co/yngsNaU4z5

  26-10-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  
  The Whisper Game - part 2! 🗣👂Starring: @TheJoeJohnson7 & @RodneyHood 😂😂 https://t.co/yngsNaU4z5
  
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• Real Salt Lake extends coach Mike Petke after club's strong finish

  26-10-2017 19:43
  Real Salt Lake’s performance this season was enough to secure head coach Mike Petke a three-year contract extension, RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen announced Thursday morning in downtown Salt Lake City..Terms of the multi-year deal were not disclosed.“I’m ecstatic at the prospect of being here at least three more years,” Petke said in a team release. “And I’m excited and ecstatic about what I think we can accomplish together – Mr. Hansen, Craig Waibel, myself
  
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• BYU’s defense wants to get aggressive, too, but injuries limiting once-stout group

  26-10-2017 19:27
  Provo • When coach Kalani Sitake spoke at length Monday about the need for the Cougars to become a more aggressive football team, most observers believed he was talking about his team’s offense.And rightfully so. The Cougars offense ranks third from the cellar in the land with a 264.8 yards-per-game average. And they are averaging just 12.1 points per game, which also ranks 127th in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).But Sitake actually was talking about letting it all hang out in al
  
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• Dana Milbank: Jeff Flake is out, and Roy Moore is in. Heaven help us.

  26-10-2017 19:26
  Washington • Out: Jeff Flake.In: Roy Moore.This week brought a clarifying moment in the sad denouement of the once-proud GOP into an organ of grievance and intolerance. Flake, a Republican from Arizona, said he was retiring from the Senate. This honorable man and faithful conservative followed another good man, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., in concluding that there is no place for their service in Trump’s America.Yet even as Flake bowed out Tuesday, Senate Republicans were tightening the
  
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• Officials say Trump's opioid emergency won't mean new money

  26-10-2017 19:18
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s plan to declare the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency won’t bring new dollars to fight a scourge that kills nearly 100 Americans each day, but will expand access to medical services in rural areas and shift some federal HIV money to help addicts, among other changes, White House officials said Thursday.Trump intended to use an afternoon speech to announce that he was directing his acting health and human services secretary t
  
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• Park Service denies permit for a 45-foot statue of a naked woman on the Mall

  26-10-2017 19:06
  The National Park Service is denying a permit to a group wanting to place a 45-foot statue of a naked woman on the Mall near the Washington Monument.Group members had said they were optimistic about receiving the necessary permits for the unusual, 16,000-pound display and raised upward of $100,000 to transport the statue from San Francisco and assemble it on the Mall, where it would stand for four months.A National Park Service spokesman earlier this month said it was "plausible" that the agency
  
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• Fisher-Price recalls 65,000 baby seats due to fire hazard

  26-10-2017 19:05
  Washington • Fisher-Price is voluntarily recalling about 65,000 motorized infant seats because of risk of a fire hazard.The Consumer Product Safety Commission says it has received three dozen reports of Soothing Motions Seats overheating and one report of a fire contained in the motor housing. The government agency says no injuries have been reported.The CPSC says the seats were sold by Amazon, Walmart, Target and other retailers from November 2015 to this month. About 63,000 of the seats w
  
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• Terry Diehl enters not guilty plea — for the third time — in narrowed federal criminal case as the trial looms

  26-10-2017 19:03
  It was déjà vu all over again Thursday for embattled former Utah Transit Authority board member Terry Diehl.Before a federal magistrate, Diehl entered a plea of not guilty to criminal charges — the third time he’s done so since a grand jury first indicted him earlier this year.The politically-connected developer now faces just two of the 14 felonies federal prosecutors had once stacked against him in connection with allegations that he failed to disclose $1 million in a
  
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• Five '80s tropes that 'Stranger Things' turns upside down

  26-10-2017 18:56
  When “Stranger Things” debuted last year, it felt like a concentrated, binge-watchable dose of 1980s film splendor. That’s one reason the Netflix series became such a phenomenon - all those nostalgic nods to Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter and Stephen King.But it wasn’t all homage. In fact, the creators, the Duffer Brothers, cleverly subverted some of the most typical tropes from movies of that era, which kept audiences guessing. Ahead of the show’s Season 2 launch
  
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• Disney’s made-in-Utah series, ‘Andi Mack,’ adds a gay storyline

  26-10-2017 18:20
  The Disney Channel series “Andi Mack,” which is produced on location in Utah, will feature a storyline about one of its regular characters realizing he is gay in Season 2.The show has always pushed Disney Channel boundaries, to some extent. When the series began, Andi (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) learned that Bex (Lilan Bowden), who she thought was her older sister, was actually her biological mother — that she had been raised by her grandparents after Bex gave birth to her as an unw
  
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• NBC political analyst Mark Halperin is accused by five women of sexual harassment, CNN reports

  26-10-2017 18:12
  Five women have come forward with allegations that Mark Halperin, one of the country's most prominent political journalists, sexually harassed them during his time at ABC News, according to a CNN report.Halperin, who has been a high-profile analyst for NBC News, often appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program, is co-author of "Game Change," the best-selling book about the 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain. He formerly hosted a Bloomberg TV show called "With All Due Respect."Early Thursd
  
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• No sweat, no sport: EU says bridge card game is not a sport

  26-10-2017 18:06
  Brussles • The European Union's top court ruled Thursday on a topic that vexes sports fans and card players alike: Is a game like bridge a sport?The answer: When it comes to taxes, no sweat, no sport.The European Court of Justice announced in its ruling that "bridge, which is characterized by a physical element that appears to be negligible, is not covered by the concept of 'sport.'"The English Bridge Union, which has some 55,000 members, wanted a tax exemption linked to sports so that entr
  
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• Volleyball star Roni Jones-Perry wanted to be a Ute, but she’s now flourishing at No. 8 BYU

  26-10-2017 18:04
  Provo • Veronica “Roni” Jones’ parents were skeptical at first, maybe even a bit unhappy.They were lifelong Salt Lake-area residents, die-hard University of Utah fans and not members of the faith that owns and operates BYU.But their daughter, an all-state volleyball player at West Jordan’s Copper Hills High who also is not LDS, wouldn’t stop talking about taking a recruiting visit to check out the Cougars’ nationally prominent women’s volleyball pro
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Maryland, Turgeon confident they can sustain momentum

  26-10-2017 18:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... ell-Pope hits 3, Lakers beat Wizards 102-99 in OT Warren scores 27, Suns top Jazz 97-88 to go 2-0 under Triano Business Directory Latest Local Offers Forge Je ...
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’ — Historian D. Michael Quinn talks about his exploration of LDS Church wealth. What he found may surprise you; it did him.

  26-10-2017 17:34
  Historian D. Michael Quinn has released the final volume of his “Mormon Hierarchy” trilogy with a deep look at the LDS Church’s wealth and financial prowess — along with the economics and theology that drive the Utah-based faith.After decades of research, Quinn joins Tribune Editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce and managing editor David Noyce on “Mormon Land” to discuss what he found — from Mormonism’s humble beginnings to its current global empire. The r
  
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• Thousands of educators in limbo as DACA ends

  26-10-2017 17:22
  Vicente Rodriguez runs an after-school program in Loma Linda, California, but dreams of becoming an English and ethnic studies teacher in a state desperate to fill teaching jobs.But there's a problem: The 30-year-old Rodriguez has a work permit through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that will expire in 2019, before he even has a chance to set foot in a classroom."My ability to become a teacher is slowly slipping away," Rodriguez said, speaking before an audience at a news con
  
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• Alexandra Petri: I'd love to be able to look my grandkids in the eye, but if I do I'll be primaried from the right

  26-10-2017 17:21
  Sure, I want to be able to look my grandkids in the eye.But I know that if I espouse that brave and controversial position, I will immediately face a primary challenge from the right.I certainly don’t favor lockstep allegiance to a creepy demagogue who appeals to the worst parts of our nature — is something I’d love to say, if I weren’t afraid that saying it would put a huge target on my back.Of course, I’d like nothing better than to be able to stand with Jeff Flak
  
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• Joe Girardi fired after a decade as Yankees manager

  26-10-2017 17:18
  Joe Girardi is out as New York Yankees manager after 10 seasons.The team made the announcement Thursday. A person familiar with decision says Yankees general manager Brian Cashman recommended that Girardi not return.The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no comments were authorized.Girardi succeeded Joe Torre after the 2007 season and led the team to a World Series title in 2009 but has fallen short each year since.Girardi led a young squad on a surprising run to the AL Championship
  
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• Could Carmine’s thrive where others have fizzled?

  26-10-2017 17:17
  Cottonwood Heights • A parade of restaurants have moved in and out of the semihidden dining location near Fort Union Boulevard over the past three years, a disappointment for locals who have yearned for a solid place that served food worthy of the neighborhood.The newest occupant — Carmine’s Italian Cuisine — has found a formula that should endure.Chef/owner Carmine Delli Bovi has updated the interior, which for years leaned Mexican, with stylish shades of gray and black t
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: How to communicate with teens — without snooping

  26-10-2017 17:16
  Dear Ann Cannon • I just got caught reading my 16-year-old son’s texts. I feel bad about him being mad at me, but not about doing it. Here’s my justification: He doesn’t talk to me anymore, so how else am I going to find out about what’s going on in his life? Any thoughts on how to be a better communicator with teenagers?— Caught Red-HandedDear Red-Handed • I’ll never forget the time Teenage Me caught my dad snooping through my diary. There had been
  
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• House narrowly passes $4T Republican budget in major step forward for GOP tax overhaul

  26-10-2017 17:12
  Washington • The House on Thursday gave a significant boost to President Donald Trump’s promise to cut taxes, narrowly passing a GOP budget that shelves longstanding concerns over federal deficits in favor of a rewrite of the tax code that Republicans promise will jump-start the economy.The 216-212 vote permits Republicans to begin work on a follow-up $1.5 trillion tax cut and move it through Congress without fear of blocking tactics by Democrats. The tax bill is the top item on the G
  
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