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• Utah’s proudly conservative Black Rifle coffee gets a boost from upset Sean Hannity viewers after Keurig pulls its TV ads

  13-11-2017 23:53
  A Salt Lake City coffee company emerged Monday as the right wing’s preferred roaster and it all started because the Keurig coffee machine company pulled its TV ads after Sean Hannity defended the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama following sexual misconduct allegations.Roy Moore is accused of having inappropriately touched a 14-year-old girl and pursued other teens when he was in his 30s. An increasing number of Republicans, including a handful of senators, have asked Moore to drop o
  
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• This is what you've been waiting for - the @MountainAmerica Threes of the Week! 🎯🔥👌 https://t.co/PUj2FStUBU

  13-11-2017 23:52 via twitter.com
  
  This is what you've been waiting for - the @MountainAmerica Threes of the Week! 🎯🔥👌 https://t.co/PUj2FStUBU
  
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• [KSL] - The Jazz Daily: How will the Jazz replace Rudy Gobert and how much does it hurt them?

  13-11-2017 23:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... iously a much better defender, but can't carry the same load on offense. The Jazz also won't be able to gamble as much without Gobert behind them, so expect a ...
  
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• Miller Family donates $5.3M to UofU Hospital to fight diabetes

  13-11-2017 23:35
  Family members of the late Larry H. Miller fought back tears Monday while describing the life and legacy of the Utah businessman, who died in 2009 of complications from Type II diabetes.Gail Miller, owner of the Larry H. Miller Group of companies, said Larry H. Miller loved to serve other people. And one of the most important things her family can be involved in, she said, is helping to fight the disease that took her late husband’s life."It isn’t a solitary event that one person goe
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Derrick Favors is ready to step up (again).

  13-11-2017 23:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... ch a stat line, which came back in 2015 when he was the feature piece of the Jazz offense. Favors also seemed to develop some chemistry with point guard , som ...
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: You want to see how to stand up to Trump?

  13-11-2017 23:21
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich is showing fellow Republicans how to respond to President Donald Trump’s daily outrages and assaults on democracy. Too bad most of them aren’t paying attention - or are too nervous to depart from the example set by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (complete acquiescence and self-debasement).Asked on Sunday about Roy Moore on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Kasich was emphatic: “I think he should step aside. If not, maybe you can get a write-in cand
  
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  13-11-2017 23:13 via twitter.com
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Sandy Voters Free Up Mayor Dolan's Future

  13-11-2017 22:58
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.Guns, God and Girls
  Nothing Good on TVDragon’s Tax HordeGuns Have More Rights Than PeopleThe Upside DownArch ConservativesRepublicans With PrinciplesWhat Hate Speech Looks LikeThe Lying PressWhat Women Want (Just a wild guess)Want more? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Nominee to Utah Supreme Court breezes through Senate committee

  13-11-2017 22:55
  A Senate committee Monday unanimously advanced the nomination of 3rd District Judge Paige Petersen, bringing her just one vote away from claiming a seat on the Utah Supreme Court.“I am thrilled,” Petersen said after the hearing. “But I’m reserving my full excitement until the confirmation process is done. I don’t want to count my chickens before they hatch.”The full Senate is set to vote on Petersen’s nomination Wednesday. If confirmed, the 45-year-old
  
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• Judge Paige Petersen receives committee support

  13-11-2017 22:50
  A Senate committee Monday unanimously advanced the nomination of 3rd District Judge Paige Petersen, leaving her one vote away from taking a seat on the Utah Supreme Court.“I am thrilled,” Petersen said after the hearing. “But I’m reserving my full excitement until the confirmation process is done. I don’t want to count my chickens before they hatch.”The full Senate is set to vote on Petersen’s nomination Wednesday. If confirmed, the 45-year-old will fill
  
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• Jazz Gold uniforms are now ON SALE at the @jazzteamstore! 👉 Pick one up! 👈 https://t.co/0xgLwzl4bf

  13-11-2017 22:39 via twitter.com
  
  Jazz Gold uniforms are now ON SALE at the @jazzteamstore! 👉 Pick one up! 👈 https://t.co/0xgLwzl4bf
  
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• Utah police officer gets probation, community service for death of K-9 left in patrol vehicle

  13-11-2017 22:27
  A former Cache County sheriff’s officer was sentenced to probation and community service after his K-9, Endy, died after being left in a hot patrol truck in July.Jason Whittier, 38, pleaded no contest in October to class B misdemeanor aggravated cruelty to an animal. At his Monday sentencing, 1st District Judge Thomas Willmore ordered Whittier to a year of probation and 100 community service hours.The judge ordered that at least half of those community service hours must be spent working w
  
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• Court papers describe bizarre scene as former NFL prospect charged with murdering his wife in Park City

  13-11-2017 22:19
  Anthony Darnel McClanahan was crawling on his stomach when a Park City police sergeant first spotted him. McClanahan raised himself long enough to flag down the sergeant. Then, court papers filed Monday go on to say, McClanahan laid on his stomach again and began convulsing, making what the sergeant described as “snow angel” motions with his arms. The barefooted McClanahan told police that he, his wife, the 28-year-old Keri Colleen “KC” McClanahan, and “his baby&rdq
  
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• Phoenix, Phoenixes or Phoenices? Petitioner worries new Utah school mascot’s name will invite crude jokes

  13-11-2017 22:12
  Teenagers find ways to mock any opposing school’s mascot, but Farmington resident Kyle Fraughton said the proposed symbol for a new high school in Davis County makes it too easy for would-be hecklers.Fraughton launched an online petition Friday asking Davis School District to rethink its choice of “The Phoenix” as the mascot for Farmington High School.When pluralized, Fraughton said, the mascot would sound like “penises” and invite mockery of the school’s stud
  
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• Tonight's 🗝️ Matchup: Donovan Mitchell vs. Jimmy Butler Tipoff 🕰️: 7 PM MT #MINatUTA https://t.co/bzNKtsU5XK

  13-11-2017 22:11 via twitter.com
  
  Tonight's 🗝️ Matchup: Donovan Mitchell vs. Jimmy ButlerTipoff 🕰️: 7 PM MT#MINatUTA https://t.co/bzNKtsU5XK
  
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• Catholic cardinal calls for a ‘pro-life immigration policy’ that keeps families together

  13-11-2017 22:06
  The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops decried what he said were “the forces of division” in the country, as he called Monday for immigration policies that keep families together and a “humane” approach to policing the border.Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Texas, affirmed the government’s authority to protect national security. But he said recent policies and attitudes have often been rooted in anxiety about people who “look, t
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Favors says he's excited, ready to step in for injured Gobert as Jazz's center

  13-11-2017 22:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... against Brooklyn, will be starting in place of Gobert again tonight when the Jazz play the Minnesota Timberwolves in Vivint Arena at 7 p.m. “It’s not foreign...
  
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• Joe Critchlow will start again at QB when BYU faces UMass in home finale

  13-11-2017 21:34
  Provo • Freshman quarterback Joe Critchlow earned the right to start another game after he led BYU to a 31-21 win over UNLV last Friday, coach Kalani Sitake said Monday in his weekly press briefing.Besides, there isn’t another realistic option in a season filled with injuries for BYU’s quarterbacks.Sitake said that redshirt sophomore Beau Hoge will not play in BYU’s remaining two games because of a toe injury that he suffered against Utah State and re-aggravated in the 20
  
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• Utah preparing for an ‘angry football team’ as No. 16 Huskies come off upset at Stanford

  13-11-2017 21:30
  It doesn’t get any easier. That much is certain.
  Coming off a seven-turnover performance against No. 15 Washington State over the weekend, Utah (5-5, 2-5) preps for a road trip to the Northwest to face a motivated group of Huskies who were upset over the weekend. No. 16 Washington (8-2) was upset by No. 20 Stanford over the weekend in the Bay Area.Utah’s momentum after the win over UCLA is gone, and coach Kyle Whittingham said the Utes have to find a way to dig deep ahead of their tr
  
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• After Trump shrinks Bears Ears, it will still be larger than Zion and Bryce combined, says Interior secretary

  13-11-2017 21:24
  Washington • Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says he believes President Donald Trump will trim Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument as he recommended but it will still be larger than Zion and Bryce national parks combined. That could mean a dramatic reduction from the current 1.35 million acres to somewhere north of 180,000 acres. Zion covers 147,000 acres and Bryce nearly 36,000 acres. State leaders had asked Trump to cut Bears Ears down to 120,000 acres. “Monuments should protect
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Did Dion Waiters intentionally target Rudy Gobert?

  13-11-2017 21:20 via sportspyder.com
  ...had he not missed. In other news: Ricky Rubio missed a technical FT for the Jazz tonight. thus ending a string of 60 straight technical FTs made. 2nd longest ...
  
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• Chaffetz’s premature exit set up Utah for yet another problematic special election

  13-11-2017 21:11
  Thanks to Jason Chaffetz, we now have a congressional representative elected by 35 percent of the registered voters, with 65 percent not bothering to make a choice.The general election in which Republican John Curtis defeated Democrat Kathie Allen and United Utah Party candidate Jim Bennett actually had a lower turnout than the GOP primary, which had 40 percent turnout among Republicans.It was a special election for Congress, of course, which was piggybacked onto nonpartisan municipal races alre
  
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• Hale Centre Theatre debuts high-tech, $80 million stage with ‘epic’ production of ‘Aida’

  13-11-2017 20:53
  Sandy • On many levels, Hale Centre Theatre’s new production of “Aida” has a full-circle sensibility.The Elton John/Tim Rice Broadway musical will be the first show performed on the company’s new high-tech, arena-style Centre Stage. The 900-seat house is one of two new theaters in Sandy’s $80 million Mountain America Performing Arts Centre. The show opens with a gala preview Nov. 16, and the run continues through Jan. 20.“Aida” was the first chapter
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Favors says he's excited, ready to step in for the injured Gobert at the Jazz center spot

  13-11-2017 20:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... against Brooklyn, will be starting in place of Gobert again tonight when the Jazz will play the Minnesota Timberwolves at Vivint Arena at 7 p.m. “It’s not for ...
  
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• Favors says he's excited, ready to step in for the injured Gobert at the Jazz center spot

  13-11-2017 20:45
  SALT LAKE CITY – To Derrick Favors, it’s not a big deal that he’s been thrust into a different role as the starting center for the Utah Jazz after Rudy Gobert was ruled out of action for at least four weeks because of a leg contusion.The Jazz will miss Gobert, who is the anchor of the Jazz defense and has been improving his offensive game of late. But it’s nothing new to Favors, who had to fill in at the five spot when Gobert went down for 18 games in the 2015-16 season w
  
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• Favors says he's excited, ready to step in for injured Gobert as Jazz's center

  13-11-2017 20:45
  SALT LAKE CITY — To Derrick Favors, it’s not a big deal that he’s been thrust into a different role as the starting center for the Utah Jazz after Rudy Gobert was ruled out of action for at least four weeks because of a leg contusion.The Jazz will miss Gobert, who is the anchor of the Jazz defense and has been improving his offensive game of late. But it’s nothing new to Favors, who had to fill in at the five spot when Gobert went down for 18 games in the 2015-16 season w
  
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• Derrick Favors Shootaround Interview - 11.13.17 ➡️: on.nba.com/2zUwhmK #MINatUTA https://t.co/koeUXMHZxJ

  13-11-2017 20:45 via twitter.com
  
  Derrick Favors Shootaround Interview - 11.13.17➡️: on.nba.com/2zUwhmK#MINatUTA https://t.co/koeUXMHZxJ
  
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• Jazz remain stoic in the face of Rudy Gobert’s injury

  13-11-2017 20:37
  On Friday, Vivint Smart Home Arena erupted when Rudy Gobert checked in for the fourth quarter.Minutes before, the 7-foot-1 French center had been on the court grabbing his leg, after Dion Waiters had spilled into it, ostensibly trying to recover a loose ball. Gobert’s return signified that all was well after the scary collision.Only it wasn’t.After passing injury protocol on Friday night and returning to the game against the Heat, Gobert was icing his right leg postgame and told repo
  
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• Jonas Jerebko Shootaround Interview - 11.13.17 ➡️: on.nba.com/2AGGIav #MINatUTA https://t.co/vP7O4zy6Hj

  13-11-2017 20:36 via twitter.com
  
  Jonas Jerebko Shootaround Interview - 11.13.17➡️: on.nba.com/2AGGIav#MINatUTA https://t.co/vP7O4zy6Hj
  
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• Head Coach Quin Snyder Shootaround Interview - 11.13.17 ➡️: on.nba.com/2ABP0PX #MINatUTA https://t.co/yLdITOgRzq

  13-11-2017 20:27 via twitter.com
  
  Head Coach Quin Snyder Shootaround Interview - 11.13.17➡️: on.nba.com/2ABP0PX#MINatUTA https://t.co/yLdITOgRzq
  
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• Hale Centre Theatre debuts high-tech, $80 million renovation with ‘epic’ production of ‘Aida’

  13-11-2017 19:44
  Sandy • On many levels, Hale Centre Theatre’s new production of “Aida” has a full-circle sensibility.The Elton John/Tim Rice Broadway musical will be the first show performed on the company’s new high-tech, arena-style Centre Stage. The 900-seat house is one of two new theaters in Sandy’s $80 million Mountain America Performing Arts Centre. The show opens with a gala preview Nov. 16, and the run continues through Jan. 20.“Aida” was the first chapter
  
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• Business briefs: Tolero opens new HQ, molecular pathologists to meet

  13-11-2017 19:32
  This week in business news:Tolero Pharmaceuticals opens new HQTolero Pharmaceuticals opened its new headquarters in Lehi on Friday, a facility that includes a research laboratory where the company will expand its efforts to develop treatments for acute myeloid leukemia and other cancers.Officials from Tolero’s parent company in Japan, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co. were on hand to help dedicate the building at 3900 N. Traverse Boulevard. Also joining Tolero CEO and Founder David Bearss at t
  
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• Ann Cannon: Tips for getting into the Thanksgiving spirit amid the onslaught of Christmas music

  13-11-2017 19:31
  Our son called to complain yesterday.You know what makes me grumpy, he said. Christmas music before Thanksgiving.He’d been working at a Macy’s in Houston and yes. They’re playing Christmas music in Texas.It’s not even good Christmas music, our son said. It’s Mariah Carey singing “All I Want for Christmas is You.”Ugh, I said.He went on. The thing of it is this—Thanksgiving is one of the few holidays that all Americans can celebrate together regardle
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz vs. Minnesota T-wolves key matchup: Can Favors carry the Jazz past Towns?

  13-11-2017 19:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... ey. Fav with 22 & 12 💪 #TakeNote #BKNatUTA pic.twitter.com/Pac5MZmPsu — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) November 12, 2017 With more spacing on the floor, Favors and Ric ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Keys to getting revenge against the pesky Timberwolves

  13-11-2017 19:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... Three-Point Threat Episode 20: Gobert injury, Utah Jazz fixes, Week 5 preview by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Utah Jazz vs. Minnesota T-wolves key matchup: Can Favors carry the Jazz past Towns?

  13-11-2017 19:24
  With Rudy Gobert ailing, Utah Jazz F/C Derrick Favors faces the unenviable task of taking on Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns. With Rudy Gobert out with an injury on Saturday, Utah Jazz big man Derrick Favors carried the weight against the Brooklyn Nets with his best game since 2015-16. Favors will start at center to […]
  Utah Jazz vs. Minnesota T-wolves key matchup: Can Favors carry the Jazz past Towns? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinio
  
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• Letter: Keep Trump — and his destroying pen — out of Utah

  13-11-2017 19:19
  We all know, all of us, Republicans, Democrats and independents alike, that the current president has absolutely no interest in anything but money.He can see land only as a source of wealth from drilling and fracking. He cares nothing for anything else. One of the major pillars of his administration is destroying everything President Obama put in place. While he’s about it, he’ll take away something another Democratic president, Bill Clinton, put in place: Grand Staircase-Escalante N
  
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• Kragthorpe: If Jazz lose to Minnesota, they may never get back to .500 this season

  13-11-2017 19:19
  If the Jazz were going to establish themselves as a playoff team in the Western Conference, they needed to take advantage of this initial, home-heavy phase of the schedule.Instead, this stretch with 10 of the first 14 games at home couldn’t have gone much worse for them.The Jazz (6-7) deserve credit for showing some toughness in wins over Denver, Oklahoma City and Portland, but those efforts barely masked their offensive troubles. And now with center Rudy Gobert sidelined for four weeks o
  
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• Utah Jazz: Keys to getting revenge against the pesky Timberwolves

  13-11-2017 19:05
  The Utah Jazz face a return engagement against a Northwest Division foe in the Minnesota Timberwolves . When Rudy Gobert went down with an injury during a loss to the Miami Heat on Friday night, Utah Jazz fans feared the worst. When he came back to finish the game however, it seemed as though the […]
  Utah Jazz: Keys to getting revenge against the pesky Timberwolves - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• George F. Will: Alabama rolls toward a high-stakes skirmish

  13-11-2017 19:00
  Birmingham, Ala. • But for the bomb, the four would be in their 60s, probably grandmothers. Three were 14 and one was 11 in 1963 when the blast killed them in the 16th Street Baptist Church, which is four blocks from the law office of Doug Jones, who then was 9.He was born in May 1954, 13 days before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision. He was 16 when he attended, at this city’s Legion Field, the Alabama Crimson Tide vs. University
  
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• Ancient shark with a snake head and 300 teeth is why we should just say nope to the ocean

  13-11-2017 19:00
  Maybe it's time we Homo sapiens re-evaluated our relationship with the oceans of the world.It has been a good few millennia, sure, but our love affair may have been a little rushed. After all, what do we really know about the ocean? Roughly 95 percent of it remains unexplored, and it seems as if everyotherday we're finding out something new and unsettling.Old emotions can die hard. So for the unconvinced holdouts, here's a little push, via Twitter:Prehistoric, Dinosaur-Era Shark With Insane Teet
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: Jazz's 'Rudy moment' makes playoffs a wish

  13-11-2017 18:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... Oklahoma City and Cleveland have worse records but are better teams than the Jazz. By the time the Jazz get through that, their record will almost certainly b ...
  
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• Brad Rock: Jazz's 'Rudy moment' makes playoffs a wish

  13-11-2017 18:55
  SALT LAKE CITY — In the big picture, North Korea could start a war, the economy collapse, or antibiotics become ineffective.In the small picture, Rudy Gobert is out for at least a month.Some things hit closer to home than others.The Jazz’s brightest hope in the post-Gordon Hayward era was that their shot-smothering center would evolve into an All-Star. Gobert played well enough to do that, last year, though he never made the cut. But with Hayward moving to Boston, and George Hill to
  
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• Child-labor case tied to polygamous group in appeals court

  13-11-2017 18:54
  Denver • A Utah contractor with ties to a polygamous group is appealing a judge's finding that they put nearly 200 children to work picking pecans for long hours in the cold without pay.Lawyers for Paragon Contractors are set to appear before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Monday.They argue the kids were volunteering with their families to pick up fallen nuts for the needy and children looked forward to the break from home-schooling.U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell, however
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Waiters responds to Gobert's 'dirty play' claim: 'Tell him to get out of his feelings' - CBSSports.com

  13-11-2017 18:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... ssume it was a dirty play would mean he was intentionally trying to hurt the Jazz big man, and it's no surprise he wants to defend himself from that kind of a ...
  
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• More than 400 millionaires tell Congress: Don't cut our taxes

  13-11-2017 18:47
  More than 400 American millionaires and billionaires are sending a letter to Congress this week urging Republican lawmakers not to cut their taxes.The wealthy Americans, which include doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs and CEOs, say the GOP is making a mistake by reducing taxes on the richest families at a time when the the nation's debt is high and inequality is back at the worst level since the 1920s.The letter calls on Congress to not to pass any tax bill that adds to the debt and that "further
  
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