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• Layton teenager accused of fatally shooting 19-year-old over phony marijuana

  28-11-2017 23:55
  A Layton teenager has been charged as an adult for allegedly shooting a 19-year-old over fake marijuana in Davis County. Seth JD Carreras, 17, was charged Tuesday in 2nd District Court with first-degree felony murder for the death of Hunter Woodson at the victim’s Sunset home. Carreras reportedly intended to buy marijuana from Woodson on the afternoon of Nov. 21, according to court documents. Woodson instead sold Carreras “spices,” and Carreras “shot the victim multiple t
  
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• Utah Jazz: Joe Johnson momentarily announced as game-time decision, now out once again

  28-11-2017 23:33
  Despite a brief moment of raised hope, it turns out that the Utah Jazz will indeed be without Joe Johnson once again tonight. It’s been more of the same so far this season for the Utah Jazz as they’ve had to deal with injury after injury. Among the wounded this season, one key figure missing […]
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• Utah’s Larry Krystkowiak wants more interior offense from his Utes

  28-11-2017 23:17
  The Utah men’s basketball team has leaned heavily on the interior scoring of senior forward David Collette this season. Collette, who scored a season-high 24 points in 18 minutes in Friday’s win over Eastern Washington, has shot 60 percent from the field and averaged 14.7 points per game through six games.Utah men’s basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak wants to see his team get the ball into the paint even more.“You’ve got to have a little bit of a blend,” Kryst
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz offense has shown dramatic improvement

  28-11-2017 23:09 via sportspyder.com
  ... centage at 37.7% (8th in the league). That’s a trend we all like to see. The Jazz aren’t the only team with injury issues to start the season. The Washington...
  
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• Jazz shootaround: Utah excited for national TV exposure

  28-11-2017 23:09
  Rodney Hood talks about playing on ESPN, facing the Nuggets without Millsap, and what he’s still working on offensively. pic.twitter.com/ZHeNFu15py— Kyle Goon (@kylegoon) November 28, 2017
  The game against the Nuggets will have a special feel to it, and Jazz coach Quin Snyder broke in before the question about it could be finished.Are the Utah Jazz trying to prove anything on an ESPN-televised game?“We don’t — no. No, no, no, no,” he said. “We’re n
  
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• Five died in Utah highway crashes over Thanksgiving weekend

  28-11-2017 23:07
  Five people who died in a single highway crash accounted for all traffic fatalities over the Thanksgiving holiday, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. “Fatalities-wise, it’s definitely higher [than previous years],” said UHP Sgt. Todd Royce on Tuesday. “It was a bad weekend for us.”The Saturday crash, a head-on collision in Iron County, occurred when 19-year-old Fernando Ruiz, of Cedar City — who was heading eastbound on State Route 56 at 4:30 p.m. — c
  
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• Accused Benghazi ringleader convicted of terrorism charges in 2012 attacks that killed US ambassador

  28-11-2017 22:59
  Washington • A Libyan militant accused of being a ringleader of the 2012 Benghazi attacks on U.S. facilities was convicted on terrorism charges Tuesday in the assaults that killed U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. But the jury found the militant not guilty of the most serious of the charges, including murder.The case was seen as a test of detention and interrogation policies developed under the Obama administration to capture terror suspects overseas for crimina
  
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• Top Dems pull out of Trump meeting after his Twitter attack

  28-11-2017 22:56
  Washington • Congress’ top Democrats abruptly pulled out of a planned meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he declared he didn’t “see a deal” ahead with them on taxes and federal spending, casting doubt on prospects for averting a government shutdown at the end of next week.On Twitter just hours before the scheduled meeting at the White House, Trump also accused Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of New York and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
  
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• Megan McArdle: The fight over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is pointless

  28-11-2017 22:34
  The Trump administration has featured a succession of little battles between the establishment and the Trump people — between #MAGA and #Resist. But none are quite as odd as the one playing out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which as of Tuesday morning has two acting directors.The battle for supremacy between two claimants, each asserting that theirs is the true right to rule, is something we associate more with medieval kingdoms than modern bureaucratic democracies. Still le
  
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• Canada PM apologizes for oppression of LGBTQ communities

  28-11-2017 22:27
  Toronto • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized Tuesday to members of the LGBTQ community for actions taken by the government against thousands of workers in the military and public service during the Cold War.Trudeau said in a speech to Parliament that from the 1950s to the early 1990s, the federal government employed a campaign of oppression against members and suspected members of the LGBTQ communities. The thinking of the day, he said, was that all non-heterosexual Canadians
  
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• Rodney Hood Shootaround Interview - 11.28.17 🎥: on.nba.com/2idAURF #DENatUTA https://t.co/Nj8f4rECRb

  28-11-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Rodney Hood Shootaround Interview - 11.28.17🎥: on.nba.com/2idAURF#DENatUTA https://t.co/Nj8f4rECRb
  
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  28-11-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  
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• A girl fights for her family’s survival among the Taliban in powerful, poetic ‘The Breadwinner’

  28-11-2017 21:58
  Shining a ray of hope into one of the darker corners of recent history, the animated drama “The Breadwinner” is a powerful and heartwarming story of a girl persevering in a place where the mere act of being a girl could get one killed.Parvana (voiced by Saara Chaudry) is an 11-year-old girl living in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the time when her country was controlled by the Taliban. She spends her day sitting in the market with her father, Nurullah (voiced by Ali Badshah), trying to sell
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz vs Denver Nuggets 11/28: Keys to third straight win

  28-11-2017 21:57 via sportspyder.com
  ... nities. However, teams tend to make their threes more often when playing the Jazz, who roll in at 26th in the league in opponent 3-point percentage. Punish De ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz gameday update: Tony Mitchell recalled, injury report

  28-11-2017 21:57 via sportspyder.com
  ... “playing in pain.” Over the last five games, the Jazz have outscored opponents by 24.1 points per 100 possessions and registered a ...
  
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• Utah’s late, local TV news audience declines by almost half in 10 years

  28-11-2017 21:46
  A decade ago, KSL-Ch. 5 averaged about 113,000 homes for its Monday-Friday late newscast, easily finishing first in the November 2007 sweeps. In the November 2017 sweeps, KUTV-Ch. 2 edged out KSL in the household ratings at 10 p.m. — but the two stations averaged about 109,000 homes combined. Here’s the difference between November sweeps approximate household results in 2007 and 2017:KSL-Ch. 5 • 113,000 — 54,100 <br> KUTV-Ch. 2 • 92,000 — 55,000 <br>
  
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• Utah Jazz gameday update: Tony Mitchell recalled, injury report

  28-11-2017 21:41
  The latest news on the Utah Jazz-Denver Nuggets game, including the return of Tony Mitchell and the latest on Wilson Chandler, Mason Plumlee and more. Just ahead of their nationally televised game against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets, the Utah Jazz announced a small roster move. Rookie Tony Bradley, the No. 28 pick in […]
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• Head Coach Quin Snyder Shootaround Interview - 11.28.17 🎥: on.nba.com/2zxZfVk #DENatUTA https://t.co/pOST0UIyfF

  28-11-2017 21:41 via twitter.com
  
  Head Coach Quin Snyder Shootaround Interview - 11.28.17🎥: on.nba.com/2zxZfVk#DENatUTA https://t.co/pOST0UIyfF
  
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• Adora Anae leads a group of four Utes selected as All-Pac-12 honorees

  28-11-2017 21:34
  Utah senior outside hitter Adora Anae didn’t wait until Thursday’s NCAA Volleyball Tournament opener to make program history. Anae became the first Utah player selected first-team All-Pac-12 Conference in three consecutive seasons.The Pac-12 announced its postseason awards Tuesday, and Anae garnered her fourth postseason honor in four years. She made the all-Freshman Team in 2014 and has been a first-team selection each season since.Senior middle blocker Tawnee Luafalemana, senior ou
  
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• Trump will shrink Bears Ears during Utah visit Monday and five tribes promise to sue him that same day

  28-11-2017 21:11
  Washington • President Donald Trump will fly into Utah on Monday to announce that he’ll shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, sources familiar with the trip confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune.Trump will travel to Salt Lake City for the announcement to change the boundaries of the two monuments but will not visit them, the sources said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the trip.The president is not expe
  
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• Police investigating suspicious death of woman found in room at downtown Salt Lake City hotel

  28-11-2017 21:02
  A woman’s body was found at a downtown Salt Lake City hotel Tuesday morning, and police say the death appears suspicious.
  Someone outside of a second-floor room at the Gateway Inn, near 800 West on North Temple, called police to report “a person down” at 8:41 a.m., according to Salt Lake City police Detective Greg Wilking. Police found a woman’s body, and evidence at the scene “suggests it’s suspicious,” Wilking said. “It doesn’t look like an
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Extension Talks Never Got Serious For Jazz, Favors

  28-11-2017 21:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... Favors, who is earning $12MM in 2017/18 on an expiring deal. Considering the Jazz didn’t show much interest in extending Favors’ contract last season when the ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - ESPN takes in-depth look at the Utah Jazz's 'doomsday challenge'

  28-11-2017 20:54 via sportspyder.com
  ... nd we continue a path which best serves the Jazz," Utah general manager Dennis Lindsey said. "And that path is to draft and d ...
  
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• Once homeless himself, Utah composer brings a tale of giving to the stage

  28-11-2017 20:50
  Daniel Carter’s journey with “The Other Wise Man” started on a scorching summer day in an Oklahoma antiques mall in the mid-1990s. Something about the 1896 Henry van Dyke novella — a sort of biblical fanfic about a fourth magus whose quest to deliver precious gifts to the Christ Child is repeatedly thwarted — spoke to him. Carter bought the book and immediately started scribbling song ideas in the margins.This week, after several rewrites and personal setbacks inclu
  
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• ESPN takes in-depth look at the Utah Jazz's 'doomsday challenge'

  28-11-2017 20:45
  Gordon Hayward's decision to leave the Utah Jazz after seven seasons put the franchise in a bind, no doubt. To that point, ESPN writer Zach Lowe bluntly opined that "one man's choice burned a road map to a half-decade of 55-win seasons."In a very insightful and detailed article, Lowe took a deep dive into the Jazz's approach of overcoming what he calls "the doomsday challenge of recovering after your best player leaves in free agency."https://twitter.com/ZachLowe_NBA/status/935526640645558282Her
  
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• U.S. Marshals arrest former Utah corrections officer who nearly 10 years ago skipped sentencing on forcible sexual charge

  28-11-2017 20:44
  A former Utah corrections officer — who in 2006 used his badge to intimidate a woman into performing sex acts with him — is back in custody after nearly 10 years on the run.U.S. Marshals arrested William F. Lawrence, 41, on Monday at a McDonald’s restaurant in Kauai, Hawaii, according to a news release from the U.S. Marshals Service.In 2007, Lawrence pleaded guilty to forcible sexual abuse, but fled before his sentencing date. Charging documents say Lawrence showed his badge to
  
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• U.S.: North Korea fires missile for the first time in more than two months

  28-11-2017 20:34
  Washington • A U.S. official says North Korea has conducted its first missile launch in more than two months.The official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity.The Pentagon on Tuesday was more cautious, calling it a “probable” missile launch. Col. Rob Manning, a spokesman said, “We detected a probable missile launch from North Korea” at approximately 1:30 p.m. EST. He said the Pentagon is assessing the situation and has no fur
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Raul Neto available for Jazz game against Denver Nuggets on ESPN

  28-11-2017 20:32 via sportspyder.com
  ... rages 5.2 points, 2.0 assists and 1.4 rebounds on 48.1 percent shooting. The Jazz are hosting the Denver Nuggets at 8 p.m. live on ESPN in their first nationa ...
  
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• U.S. home prices leapt in September by the most in 3 years

  28-11-2017 20:31
  Washington • U.S. home prices rose at the fastest pace in more than three years in September, lifted by a record-low supply of houses for sale.The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index released Tuesday rose 6.2 percent in September from a year earlier, the largest gain since June 2014. In 13 of the 20 cities tracked by the index, yearly price gains in September were faster than in August.Home buyers are desperately bidding up prices because so few prop
  
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• Monson: Now that Ty Detmer is out, what does BYU really want to be? We’re about to find out

  28-11-2017 20:31
  He was the obvious choice.He was the most qualified candidate when BYU needed a new head football coach two years ago, but ….But.At a unique place, at a quirky, religious school, he brought none of the so-called negatives and carried on and off the field all the perceived positives, all the needed requirements to lead BYU football, to make and keep it a winner … except for one.Ken Niumatalolo ran the wrong kind of offense.The love for and adherence to his religion, the spotless per
  
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• Chobani gets new look and hints at going beyond yogurt

  28-11-2017 20:31
  New York • Chobani, the company that helped kick-start the Greek yogurt craze, is shrinking those words on its label as it may expand beyond that food in an increasingly crowded yogurt market.The new look, which will show up in supermarkets this week, removes “Greek Yogurt” from underneath the Chobani name. The yogurt inside will stay the same. Its packaging will be more muted than the current bright white, use a new font and style, and feature watercolor paintings of fruits rat
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Sen. Schumer is right: The tax bill violates everything John McCain stands for

  28-11-2017 20:29
  Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has never let party politics drive his decisions. In the health-care debate, he brushed off his fellow Republicans’ pleas that they had to make good on a campaign promise. He voted against an ill-conceived, rushed health-care bill that had failed the basic requirements of good legislative process — open hearings, full debate, bipartisan buy-in. Now he faces similar pleas from Republicans. If we don’t pass tax reform, we’re toast in 2018. If we c
  
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• Pope Francis demands rights for all in Myanmar, omits ‘Rohingya’ Muslims

  28-11-2017 20:17
  Naypyidaw, Myanmar • Pope Francis insisted Tuesday that Myanmar’s future depends on respecting the rights of each ethnic group, an indirect show of support for Rohingya Muslims who have been subject to decades of discrimination and a recent military crackdown described by the U.N. as a textbook campaign of “ethnic cleansing.”Francis didn’t cite the crackdown or even utter the contested word “Rohingya” in his speech to Myanmar’s civilian leader, Aung
  
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• Jazz to get national airtime when they clash with the Denver Nuggets

  28-11-2017 20:15
  Rodney Hood talks about playing on ESPN, facing the Nuggets without Millsap, and what he’s still working on offensively. pic.twitter.com/ZHeNFu15py— Kyle Goon (@kylegoon) November 28, 2017
  Quin Snyder broke in before the question could be finished.Are the Utah Jazz trying to prove anything on an ESPN-televised game?“We don’t — no. No, no, no, no,” he said. “We’re not about trying to prove anything. We play 82 games. We want to play well every night
  
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• Raul Neto available for Jazz game against Denver Nuggets on ESPN

  28-11-2017 20:10
  SALT LAKE CITY — No. 25 was spotted at the Utah Jazz shootaround this morning putting in extra work.As of Monday’s practice, floor general Raul Neto was listed as questionable to play in tonight’s game against the Denver Nuggets with a costochondral sprain — near the rib area.But during Tuesday’s shootaround, Jazz coach Quin Snyder confirmed that the backup point guard will be available tonight.“We are expecting Raul to play,” Snyder said. “He&rsqu
  
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• Utah parents sentenced to prison for giving drugs to newborn daughter

  28-11-2017 20:02
  A Utah County couple have been sentenced to prison for giving their newborn daughter drugs on the day she was born to mask addiction withdrawal symptoms from hospital workers.Elk Ridge residents Colby Glen Wilde, 29, and Lacey Dawn Christenson, 26, each pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree felony drug distribution and third-degree felony child abuse charges.In October, a judge sentenced Wilde to spend up to 15 years in prison for his crimes. On Tuesday, Christenson received the same
  
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• Get FREE Jazz tickets when you donate to Bear’s Sock Drive!! @1280sports will be doing a radio remote at the Ameri… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-11-2017 20:02 via twitter.com
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• Slamdance Film Festival and ‘Captain America’ filmmakers add $25,000 prize to competition

  28-11-2017 19:58
  The Slamdance Film Festival will serve up 10 narrative features and eight documentaries in its 2018 competition slate — which will add a new prize backed by two alumni who made good.Slamdance, the upstart little brother to the bigger Sundance Film Festival, will throw its 24th annual edition Jan. 19-25 at Park City’s Treasure Mountain Inn.The new award has been launched by directing brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, who debuted at Slamdance with “Pieces” in 1997 — and
  
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• Court of Appeals upholds murder conviction, despite Utah shooter claiming ‘snitch’ who testified against him was ‘highly incentivized’

  28-11-2017 19:52
  The Utah Court of Appeals on Friday upheld the conviction of a man accused of fatally shooting a South Salt Lake woman in 2012.Santiago Diaz Crespo, 58, was convicted of first-degree felony murder, first-degree felony aggravated burglary and third-degree possession of a firearm by a restricted person in 2015.He appealed the next month, saying the evidence used against him wasn’t strong enough due to what Crespo called the “self-serving and inconsistent testimony of a highly incentivi
  
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• The long five minutes: Abortion doulas bring comfort during a complicated time

  28-11-2017 19:44
  "Do you support reproductive choices of all shapes and sizes?" the flier had read, posted online in early April. "Become an abortion doula."More than 50 women had seen the flier on Facebook or Twitter and responded to the email address at the bottom, not entirely sure what an abortion doula was. Twenty-five had been selected for a weekend-long training at a Virginia abortion clinic, and now, one Saturday morning in May, they'd arrived to see whether they were right for the work.A doula, traditio
  
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• Utah Jazz vs Denver Nuggets 11/28: Keys to third straight win

  28-11-2017 19:39
  The Utah Jazz are looking for their third-straight win when they host a divisional rival in the Denver Nuggets, who are without big man Paul Millsap. On Tuesday night, the Utah Jazz host the Denver Nuggets, who look to even the season series 1-1 in a division rivalry game. The Nuggets have been up and down […]
  Utah Jazz vs Denver Nuggets 11/28: Keys to third straight win - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• U.S. Olympians — including Utah’s late Steve Holcomb — will be given medals they were cheated out of as Russian athletes are sanctioned

  28-11-2017 19:30
  The fog surrounded Katie Uhlaender.It was unavoidable.In the days after she came up four-hundredths of a second short of her Olympic moment, the American skeleton athlete found herself still in Sochi, Russia, with nothing but the math in her head and the turns on the track to haunt her. There she met someone who was, at one point, in her shoes.Uhlaender bumped into U.S. speedskating legend Dan Jansen. And one of the first questions she posed to the one-time world-record holder was one Jansen him
  
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• .@UofUHealth Injury report: Raul Neto is available to play tonight. #DENatUTA

  28-11-2017 19:13 via twitter.com
  .@UofUHealth Injury report:Raul Neto is available to play tonight.#DENatUTA
  
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• Erin Alberty: Don’t make your kids watch the ‘Star Wars’ prequels

  28-11-2017 18:55
  It’s that time of year, folks! Time to pull out the DVDs for one last “Star Wars” binge before the Dec. 15 release of a new installment in the beloved franchise.As a parent of a young kid, and a cusp-GenX-er whose childhood was timed for peak “Star Wars” nostalgia, I put a lot of thought into how I’d introduce the series to my child. After a year of hearing her beg to watch “Star Wars” and then some research — yes, this matter can be research
  
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• Going Gold again tonight 🎷 Tipoff: 8 PM MT #DENatUTA https://t.co/ilxgjjLBnZ

  28-11-2017 18:45 via twitter.com
  
  Going Gold again tonight 🎷Tipoff: 8 PM MT#DENatUTA https://t.co/ilxgjjLBnZ
  
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• Trump vowed to end the ‘war on Christmas.’ Here’s how the White House is decorated this season.

  28-11-2017 18:36
  Washington • The sparkle of the holiday season comes to the White House every year, but Donald Trump had promised the country more than twinkling lights and decked halls. As a candidate on the campaign trail, he pledged to end the perceived "War on Christmas.""You go to stores, you don't see the word Christmas," Trump said last year. "It says 'happy holidays' all over. I say, 'Where's Christmas?' I tell my wife, 'Don't go to those stores.' . . . I want to see Christmas."Melania Trump seemed
  
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• Sharpton: Meek Mill represents victims of the justice system

  28-11-2017 18:36
  Philadelphia • Rev. Al Sharpton said a broken criminal justice system is responsible for Meek Mill’s imprisonment and called Monday for the judge who sentenced the rapper to reconsider or step aside.Sharpton said he met with the 30-year-old musician in a Pennsylvania prison and told reporters outside the facility that Mill has become a symbol for the thousands of people who have been “victimized by abusive probationary and parole systems.”“He’s representative o
  
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• The Force will be strong on Friday when we host the Pelicans for Star Wars Night!! Ticket packages start at $75 an… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-11-2017 18:14 via twitter.com
  The Force will be strong on Friday when we host the Pelicans for Star Wars Night!!Ticket packages start at $75 an… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Utah and USU’s telecasts were fine; BYU got the worst of it from CBS Sports Network

  28-11-2017 18:04
  The last night of the college football regular season must have taxed more than a few TV remotes in Utah. BYU, Utah and Utah State all played Saturday night in games that kicked off within about an hour of each other — and they were all on national TV outlets. Which speaks more to the proliferation of games on national TV than anything else. Only one team in those three games had a winning record, and after USU’s loss to Air Force (on ESPN2), that number dropped to zero. Utah’
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Why are Republicans in such a rush to pass tax reform? To outrun the truth.

  28-11-2017 18:03
  There are lots of pressing issues Congress could be focusing on right now.Lawmakers could work on reauthorizing the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which expired Sept. 30, leaving the 9 million kids who depend on it in limbo.Or maybe they could find a solution for so-called “dreamers,” the undocumented immigrants brought here as children, who will lose their protected status soon unless Congress acts.Or, hey, they could try to prevent the U.S. government from setting off a
  
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