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• U.S. may host ‘Soccer NIT’ for non-World Cup teams next summer

  14-11-2017 23:59
  The U.S. Soccer Federation is looking into the possibility of an event next year involving nations that did not qualify for the World Cup.The idea of an exhibition tournament has been floated for soccer teams such as the United States, Italy, Chile and Ghana that won't be playing in Russia.The USSF confirmed it was exploring the idea after a report Tuesday by Fox. The United States was eliminated from World Cup contention when it lost 2-1 at Trinidad and Tobago last month.The tournament idea, fi
  
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• McKennie scores in debut as US ties Portugal 1-1

  14-11-2017 23:59
  Weston McKennie scored in his U.S. debut, goalkeeper Ethan Horvath allowed a seemingly harmless cross to drop between his arms and into the net for an equalizer and the Americans tied Portugal 1-1 Tuesday night at Leiria in their first match since failing to qualify for next year's World Cup.The U.S. used eight starters 24 or younger in Dave Sarachan's first match as interim coach, the start of a five-year rebuilding process ahead of the 2022 World Cup.McKennie, a 19-year-old from Texas who has
  
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• Distrust, anger grip Russia sports ahead of Olympic doping vote

  14-11-2017 23:58
  St. Petersburg, Russia • As it edges closer to a ban from the Winter Olympics, the Russian sports world is a bitter place.Investigations into doping haven't encouraged Russian athletes to speak out about abuses. Instead, there is a public hunt for whistleblowers, or "traitors to the motherland," as cross-country ski federation president Yelena Valbe calls them.Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed the International Olympic Committee — which will make the final ruling
  
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• Federer already clinches ATP finals spot; Jack Sock snaps long U.S. skid

  14-11-2017 23:55
  London • A day after the ATP Finals lost Rafael Nadal to injury, Roger Federer lifted spirits at the O2 Arena by extending his stay to the weekend.The 19-time Grand Slam champion guaranteed his place in Saturday's semifinals by defeating Alexander Zverev 7-6 (6), 5-7, 6-1 on Tuesday.The top-ranked Nadal's withdrawal on Monday meant this was a clash between the two highest-ranked players left in the elite season-ending event, and it was predictably close.Federer looked in control when he bro
  
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• [USA Today] - Signed Michael Jordan jersey for sick girl stolen from grandfather's house

  14-11-2017 23:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... an, USA TODAY Sports Jordan's final shot with the Bulls, a fadeaway over the Jazz's Byron Russell to seal the 1998 Finals victory, is one of the most memorabl ...
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Flag of Our Fathers

  14-11-2017 23:32
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.Sandy Voters Free Up Mayor Dolan’s FutureGuns, God and GirlsNothing Good on TVDragon’s Tax HordeGuns Have More Rights Than PeopleThe Upside DownArch ConservativesRepublicans With PrinciplesWhat Hate Speech Looks LikeThe Lying PressWant more?Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Senate GOP insisting on 'Obamacare' repeal for tax overhaul

  14-11-2017 23:16
  Washington • Senate Republicans said Tuesday they are intent on repealing the health care law requirement that Americans get health insurance, targeting the provision as a way to finance deep tax cuts in their far-reaching overhaul.The surprise renewal of the failed effort to repeal the law’s mandate came a day after President Donald Trump renewed pressure on GOP lawmakers to include the repeal in their tax legislation. It has sharp political stakes for Trump, who lacks a major legisl
  
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• Utah funeral home fined $10K, put on probation after its employees allegedly mixed up ashes and stole jewelry

  14-11-2017 23:06
  Utah regulators have fined a South Salt Lake mortuary $10,000 and required sweeping changes to its business practices after recent allegations of misconduct — including mixing ashes, stealing jewelry from the deceased and leaving bodies unrefrigerated for days.The Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing (DOPL) finalized the order and stipulation document Monday. While it requires Carver Mortuary to pay a $10,000 fine, the order says the amount owed will increase to $50,000 if t
  
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• Max Boot: Trump's worst trip ever - until his next one

  14-11-2017 23:06
  Donald Trump’s trip to Asia was the most embarrassing foray by an American president abroad since … Donald Trump’s trip to Europe in July.That was the visit, recall, where he embraced the hard-right government in Poland. Trump’s speech is now cited as inspiration by the tens of thousands of fascists who marched through Warsaw on Saturday demanding a “White Europe” and an “Islamic Holocaust.”It was on this same trip that Trump blasted the American
  
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• Grand Staircase-Escalante monument will be pruned by half, Hatch official says

  14-11-2017 22:42
  President Donald Trump will shrink the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by about half, to 700,000 to 1.2 million acres, following the recommendation of his Interior secretary, according to a staffer for Sen. Orrin Hatch.
  Ron Dean, Hatch’s central and eastern Utah director, revealed the potential magnitude of monument reductions Tuesday while fielding questions from the Utah Legislature’s Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands.He also confirmed Bears Ears National M
  
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• Venezuelan tycoon funds jailed Utahn Josh Holt's defense

  14-11-2017 22:41
  Caracas, Venezuela • A Utah man’s hopes for being freed from a Venezuelan jail, where he’s lingered for more than a year in declining health, now lie with a wealthy shipping magnate closely linked to the country’s socialist government.Just why Wilmer Ruperti is funding the defense of former Mormon missionary Joshua Holt is not clear. The Venezuelan businessman is not talking, and Holt’s parents say they are simply grateful for the help after 16 months of confinement
  
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• Charges: In phone call, man told his sister he killed their parents in their Utah home

  14-11-2017 22:41
  A Utah man has been charged in the deaths of his parents earlier this month.Robert John Liddiard, 51, was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated murder, a charge that could carry the possibility of the death penalty.Charges state the police were called to the Holladay home of Robert, 85, and Diane, 78, Liddiard on Nov. 4 after their daughter called authorities asking police to check on her parents. At about 5:30 p.m. that evening, she had called her parents at home after they did not answ
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - Former Kansas star Perry Ellis eyes unconventional route from Australia to NBA

  14-11-2017 21:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... eep stumbling Instead of a routine preseason matchup, the 108-84 loss to the Jazz was, for the Kings and Australia's NBL, a huge deal. It was the first time a ...
  
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• Byes could affect Pac-12’s big games, including Utah vs. Colorado

  14-11-2017 21:36
  Night games and Friday road assignments have become big topics in Pac-12 football this season, and another scheduling subject is coming into play in important games in November and December.Colorado, Washington State and USC all have waited until at least the 12th week of the season to have a bye, but that apparent hardship could turn into an advantage. Colorado is off this week before facing Utah, with bowl eligibility probably at stake for both teams. WSU is idle before meeting Washington in
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah, we have a problem ...

  14-11-2017 21:28 via sportspyder.com
  ...let everyone know... There are more cool quotes and insights there into the Jazz glory years. Wow were we spoiled to have such an all-time trio of Jerry Sloa ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - NBA Power Rankings are not high on Utah Jazz’s anemic offense

  14-11-2017 21:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... e will likely take a dip. With Rudy Gobert shelved for at least a month, the Jazz could fall out of the playoff picture quickly in the West. If Gobert heals s ...
  
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• Attorney General Sessions says he 'always told the truth' in describing Russia contacts

  14-11-2017 21:25
  Washington • Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he has "always told the truth" in describing his knowledge of Trump campaign contacts with Russians, although he acknowledged that he now recalls an interaction with a lower-level adviser to Donald Trump who said he told Sessions about contacts who could help arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.When asked previously about whether he thought that surrogates from the Trump campaign had communication
  
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• Series of California shootings kill 5, wound child at school

  14-11-2017 21:15
  Red Bluff, Calif. • A gunman killed four people and wounded a number of others at random Tuesday at multiple locations in rural Northern California, including an elementary school, before police shot him dead, authorities said.Two hospitals said they were treating seven people, including at least three children.Details were still sketchy hours after the shooting and authorities didn’t have a firm count of the wounded due to the number of places where the gunman opened fire in the comm
  
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• Much-improved UMass and its big-play ability concerns BYU

  14-11-2017 21:06
  Provo • BYU, with an abysmal record, a mediocre defense suddenly susceptible to big plays and a sluggish offense that only recently has been showing signs of life, can’t afford to take any team lightly.That’s especially true this week when the 3-8 Cougars host UMass, a team they walloped 51-9 last year at LaVell Edwards Stadium by scoring 44 unanswered points after the Minutemen had leads of 6-0 and 9-7 in the first half.BYU defensive coordinator Ilaisa Tuiaki said UMass has im
  
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• Dana Milbank: An absolutely not-made-up dossier on Trump's early years

  14-11-2017 20:49
  Washington • “I just asked him again, and he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they’re saying he did. … I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. … I think he’s very insulted by it, if you want to know the truth. … I think that he is very, very strong in the fact that he didn’t do it. … President Putin very strongly, vehemently says he had nothing to do with that.”That was President
  
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• Jazz face stormy seas ahead without Rudy Gobert

  14-11-2017 20:48
  In an odd quirk of analytics this season, the numbers say the Jazz have a higher offensive rating and a lower defensive rating when Rudy Gobert is off the floor. The numbers say opponents outscore Jazz lineups with the 7-foot-1 center, and lineups without him tend to outscore the competition.These splits were mentioned to Quin Snyder shortly before the Jazz took the floor against the Minnesota Timberwolves. He politely dismissed them.“Whatever the splits have been with Rudy off the floor,&
  
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• After 2 months without rain in southern Utah, emergency declared as farmers expect poor harvests next year

  14-11-2017 20:48
  At this time of year, Blaine Nebeker normally would be watching wheat seed sprout at his dryland farm in San Juan County, getting a jump on next spring’s growing season thanks to monsoonal storms that leave the ground damp and the forage green.But the weather has been far from typical for Utah, where almost no rain has fallen in the past two months. Producers like Nebeker are in trouble, even though reservoirs are much fuller now than they were last year.“It’s critical that we
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Scholars Fiona and Terryl Givens explore theology and discover modern Latter-day Saints may not fully understand the Christ they worship

  14-11-2017 20:27
  It turns out that some of Mormonism’s deepest theology can be traced back before founder Joseph Smith’s time to early Christian thinkers, and even Latter-day Saints may have to relearn their views of the God they worship.So argue scholars Fiona and Terryl Givens as they discuss their new book, “The Christ Who Heals,” with Salt Lake Tribune senior religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack and managing editor David Noyce in the latest edition of “Mormon Land.”Liste
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: ESPN is surprisingly nice to BYU, despite all the losses

  14-11-2017 20:25
  If ever there was a season for ESPN to be, well, less than supportive of the BYU football team, this is it.The Cougars were 2-8 heading into Friday’s game at UNLV, having beaten only a winless FCS team (Portland) and a one-win FBS team (San Jose State). And only one of BYU’s eight losses was even close (19-13 to Utah). And yet ESPN2 treated the Cougars gently and respectfully during Friday’s telecast. When play-by-play announcer Adam Amin told viewers there was “not a wh
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz react: Late to the party against the Minnesota Timberwolves

  14-11-2017 20:25 via sportspyder.com
  ...shelf, the defensive shortfall could compound the problem. Offensively, the Jazz were OK against Minnesota after the slow start, but if the team’s habit of m ...
  
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• Utah Jazz react: Late to the party against the Minnesota Timberwolves

  14-11-2017 20:02
  Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz were unable to bridge the gap in their bout with the Minnesota Timberwolves. In more than one way, the Utah Jazz’s Monday night bout with the Minnesota Timberwolves was a big one. Following their win against the Brooklyn Nets over the weekend, it was a chance to climb back […]
  Utah Jazz react: Late to the party against the Minnesota Timberwolves - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Garrison Keillor: Adrift in New York without a cellphone

  14-11-2017 20:01
  Slight panic in the airport out in Texas. Waiting to check a bag, pull out my billfold, no driver’s license. Check pockets, briefcase. Credit cards, no license. The brain flutters. Hotel? Taxi? Pickpocket? A teen terrorist from Izvestistan perhaps, trying to persuade TSA he is 75 and from Anoka, Minnesota?How about dementia? Loss of license today, tomorrow can’t conjugate “lay” and “say,” next day my wife’s name is missing along with the three branches o
  
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• Bill Gates joins the fight against Alzheimer's — and it's personal

  14-11-2017 20:01
  Billionaire Bill Gates is personally investing $50 million to help fund research to find a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that Gates says has struck members of his own family.There is no cure for Alzheimer's, which destroys memory and other mental processes, and so Gates said he is investing his own money into the Dementia Discovery Fund, a private-public partnership to search for a solution."It's a terrible disease that devastates both those who have it and their loved on
  
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• State trust land managers will auction 1,550 coveted acres in southern Utah Wednesday

  14-11-2017 19:35
  Trust lands officials are hoping to make another killing by auctioning a coveted piece of southern Utah this week when it puts five parcels, totaling 1,550 acres, on the block.The most interesting parcel offered for the state’s twice-a-year land auction Wednesday is the 120 acres that the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration had proposed for a sand and gravel operation on the edge of Teasdale in Wayne County.But a group of local residents raised a stink, arguing indust
  
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• Commentary: Are Mormons the new conscience of the GOP?

  14-11-2017 19:27
  “Unfit.” That’s what Mitt Romney said late last week about Roy Moore, the controversial former state judge who’s on the ballot as the GOP Senate nominee for Alabama’s special election Dec. 12. Moore is under fire for allegations that he had sexual and romantic contact with girls as young as 14.Romney said Moore should step aside, and that he believed the accusers. It wasn’t until Monday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., followed suit by sayin
  
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• John Cleese, Utah Jazz fan, coming to Salt Lake City to talk about ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’

  14-11-2017 19:25
  John Cleese gets on the phone with the reporter from Utah and starts with an urgent question: “I want to you tell me: What happened to Gordon Hayward?”The reporter would have sooner expected the comedian and Monty Python co-founder to talk about the Spanish Inquisition — and nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.Cleese wanted the details of the former Utah Jazz forward’s horrific ankle injury in his first game playing for his new team, the Boston Celtics, a month ago.Cle
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Why John Cleese wants to look like Jerry Sloan

  14-11-2017 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  ...and, of course, it was much more fun if I pretended that I was a fan of the Jazz, and by the end, I was," Cleese said in a phone interview. "I used to watch...
  
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• Police hunt house by house for Florida killer after 4th slaying

  14-11-2017 19:20
  Tampa, Fla. • Tampa police blockaded a neighborhood and searched with a SWAT team and dogs for a possible serial killer Tuesday after a fourth person was shot dead for no apparent reason.Residents of the Seminole Heights neighborhood reported hearing shots just before 5 a.m. Tuesday. Officers quickly moved in, and found the body of Ronald Felton, 60, who had been walking across the street when a gunman came up behind him and fired, interim Police Chief Brian Dugan said.“Our officers r
  
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• Monson: Kyle Whittingham is no maniac; just a man who understands the condition of his team

  14-11-2017 19:18
  The man didn’t pound the table, didn’t rant and rave and act like a maniac, didn’t put on a show, didn’t behave like a spoiled, emotional wreck who had been cheated or wronged or betrayed or personally messed over by his team or anybody else.No.Kyle Whittingham looked and sounded cool and calm as a man could look and sound under the circumstances.And from this viewpoint, that cool and calm made him look like more of a man, not less.He answered questions, unhappy question
  
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• There's still time to bid on some amazing items in our Charity Auctions for Folds of Honor! Check it out in the Ja… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-11-2017 18:56 via twitter.com
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• Catherine Rampell: If the tax bill is so great, why does the GOP keep lying about it?

  14-11-2017 18:45
  Nearly every claim Republicans are using to market their tax plan is at best a distortion, at worst a deliberate falsehood.Which raises the question: If their plan is really so great, why not sell it on the merits?Consider just a few of the Republicans’ key talking points and their tenuous relationship to reality.1. The tax cuts will pay for themselves.Republicans claim that tax cuts will unleash boundless economic growth. Through that growth, we’ll all become richer. And as our inco
  
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• American detained trying to enter North Korea; North Korean soldier escapes south

  14-11-2017 18:45
  Tokyo • The demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas was the scene of an unusual amount of action Monday as an American man unsuccessfully attempted to cross into the North and a North Korean soldier succeeded in defecting to the South.The 2.5-mile-wide strip between North and South Korea, which President Bill Clinton once called "the scariest place on Earth," has kept the two states separate since the Korean War ended in 1953 in an armistice and without a peace treaty.But a handful of
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: New rule may force Jazz to tank this season

  14-11-2017 18:44 via sportspyder.com
  ... dramatically, as detailed in this article. Luckily, for the suddenly hapless Jazz, these new anti-tanking rules won’t come into effect until 2019. Understandi ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Despite injury, Rudy Gobert determined to become the NBA’s most fearsome shot-blocker: ‘It’s pride’

  14-11-2017 18:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... ng help pull off plays like that effortlessly. “He’s not deterred,” said Jazz coach Quin Snyder. “There’s a play a few years ago where (Andrew) Wiggins we ...
  
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• Despite injury, Rudy Gobert determined to become the NBA’s most fearsome shot-blocker: ‘It’s pride’

  14-11-2017 18:35
  SALT LAKE CITY — With 9.8 seconds remaining in regulation, the Utah Jazz were knotted 94-94 with the Portland Trail Blazers at Vivint Arena.Evan Turner inbounded the ball to All-Star guard Damian Lillard, who blew past defensive specialist Thabo Sefolosha in a one-on-one situation with a quick dribble drive.As Lillard floated a 17-footer in the air for a potential game-winner, a large, 7-foot-1 Frenchman skied through the air gracefully like a bird defending its nest. Denied.Rudy doing Rud
  
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• [Sporting News] - Former Kansas star Perry Ellis eyes unconventional route from Australia to NBA

  14-11-2017 18:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... eep stumbling Instead of a routine preseason matchup, the 108-84 loss to the Jazz was, for the Kings and Australia's NBL, a huge deal. It was the first time a ...
  
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• BYU basketball begins difficult week Wednesday night at Princeton

  14-11-2017 18:00
  BYU basketball coach Dave Rose already was looking ahead to this week a few minutes after his Cougars walloped Mississippi Valley State 91-61 last Saturday.And for good reason.It definitely will be one of the Cougars’ most difficult weeks of the season. They boarded a flight for the East Coast on Monday morning and will meet defending Ivy League champion Princeton at 5 p.m. MST Wednesday at 6,800-seat Jadwin Gymnasium in New Jersey. They then will host the team that knocked them out of th
  
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• Thousands of scientists issue bleak 'second notice' to humanity

  14-11-2017 17:50
  In late 1992, 1,700 scientists from around the world issued a dire "warning to humanity." They said humans had pushed Earth's ecosystems to their breaking point and were well on the way to ruining the planet. The letter listed environmental impacts like they were biblical plagues — stratospheric ozone depletion, air and water pollution, the collapse of fisheries and loss of soil productivity, deforestation, species loss and catastrophic global climate change caused by the burning of fossil
  
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• Commentary: Tax reform should invest in our future, our kids

  14-11-2017 17:50
  Kids don’t vote and they don’t donate to political campaigns. This means they often don’t have a seat at the table and the needs of those living in poverty can easily be overlooked during national debates.Children in Utah were certainly denied a seat at the table in the House and Senate’s tax reform plans introduced this month in Washington, D.C. But members of the Senate, including Utah’s Orrin Hatch, still have a chance to address the needs of Utah’s childre
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Rudy Gobert to Dion Waiters: “It’s not my feelings, it’s my knee”

  14-11-2017 17:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... tarted at center Saturday and had 24 points, 12 rebounds and two blocks. The Jazz plan to re-evaluate Gobert after four weeks and the general timeline for his ...
  
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• Utah liquor stores have made these changes so customers get shorter lines, longer hours and stocked shelves during the holidays

  14-11-2017 17:36
  Utah liquor stores hope to reduce long lines and empty shelves during the busy holiday season by adding more deliveries, increasing employee hours and possibly keeping some outlets open longer, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control announced Tuesday.The changes in operations are designed “to better facilitate customers and supply during the busiest time of the year at Utah State Liquor Stores,” spokesman Terry Wood said in a news release. The extra effort is needed as Uta
  
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• Noah Feldman: Roy Moore's defiant brand can't protect him now

  14-11-2017 17:33
  To anyone who’s been following Roy Moore for the past 15 years, there’s a single question that won’t go away: Why are we here? Given that Moore, as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court defied federal court orders and was removed from office — not once but twice! — it seems astonishing and outrageous that Republican voters chose him as a U.S. Senate candidate, leading to the current wave of sex-related allegations against him.If you sense frustration in my tone
  
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• Sessions mulling second special counsel to investigate Republican concerns, letter shows

  14-11-2017 17:31
  Washington • Attorney General Jeff Sessions is entertaining the idea of appointing a second special counsel to investigate a host of Republican concerns — including alleged wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation and the controversial sale of a uranium company to Russia — and has directed senior federal prosecutors to explore at least some of the matters and report back to him and his top deputy, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post.The revelation came in a respons
  
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• Burglar went through fridge, changed clothes and hung out in Taylorsville home for two hours before stealing vehicle

  14-11-2017 17:31
  Police are looking for a man they say hung out in a Taylorsville house he was burglarizing for hours before stealing a sports-utility vehicle when a resident arrived home.The man got into the home by reaching up through a doggy door and unlocking a deadbolt about 4:30 p.m. Friday, said Unified Police Lt. Brian Lohrke. Surveillance video shows the man spent about two hours meandering through the house looking for things to steal, going through the family’s fridge and changing into clothes h
  
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• Hike to the Pando overlook for a glimpse of the world's most massive known living thing

  14-11-2017 17:29
  At 106 acres, the Pando aspen grove near Fish Lake in Sevier County is hard to see as a single thing. Its thousands of trunks are united by a single root system, but up close, they look like a forest.The best spot to get a distant view of Pando — the largest aspen clone and most massive single living organism known on Earth — is across Fish Lake, on one of the lookouts along the south ridge of Mytoge Mountain.The best view is from an overlook on Forest Road 046 N, which can be reache
  
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