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• Midler to Rivera: Apologize for alleged sexual assault

  30-11-2017 23:08
  Los Angeles • Bette Midler renewed an allegation of 1970s sexual misconduct against Geraldo Rivera on Thursday, a day after Rivera called the news business “flirty” amid Matt Lauer’s dismissal by NBC.In the tweet posted by the actress-singer and confirmed by her publicist, she included a video from the 1991 interview with Barbara Walters in which Midler made the allegation against Rivera.“Tomorrow is my birthday. I feel like this video was a gift from the universe to
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz injuries: Joe Johnson’s status updated, who will play in LA?

  30-11-2017 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... nd connecting on 50 percent of his 3-point shots. More from The J-Notes Utah Jazz at LA Clippers: Keys to beating wounded Clips 14h ago Utah Jazz rookie round ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz shootaround: Utah looks for a road win against the Clippers in battle between two injury-plagued teams

  30-11-2017 22:18 via sportspyder.com
  ... ying time with a frightfully short rotation. The good (sort of) news for the Jazz is that the Clippers are arguably even more fraught with injury. DeAndre Jor ...
  
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• BYU opens NCAA women’s volleyball tourney against American with sights set on sixth straight trip to Sweet 16

  30-11-2017 22:18
  Provo • BYU’s women’s volleyball team has been disrespected by the NCAA Tournament selection committee so many times before that the latest apparent snub — a No. 13 seed for a team ranked No. 7 in the latest AVCA poll — doesn’t even raise an eyebrow in Provo.Besides, unfavorable seeds didn’t stop the Cougars from advancing to the Sweet 16 the past five seasons. Why should it now?All 16 seeded teams get to host the first two rounds of the tournament, maki
  
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• South Salt Lake police say DNA ‘snapshot’ could help solve 2010 murder of Sherry Black

  30-11-2017 22:17
  For seven years, investigators have searched for a suspect and a motive in the stabbing of a South Salt Lake bookseller.
  On Thursday — the seven-year anniversary of 64-year-old Sherry Black’s death — South Salt Lake police Chief Jack Carruth said they now have “advanced DNA information” that has helped them figure out what the man who fatally stabbed Black may have looked like.He is an African-American with light brown to brown skin and black hair, police said.On No
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Style of Rudy Gobert on display as Jazz center recovers from knee injury

  30-11-2017 22:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... n the sidelines in Los Angeles, one of America’s top fashion markets, as the Jazz face the Clippers in Staples Center at 8:30 p.m. The Jazz (10-11) and Clippe ...
  
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• Style of Rudy Gobert on display as Jazz center recovers from knee injury

  30-11-2017 22:00
  LOS ANGELES — Rudy Gobert’s knee injury is certainly no joking matter.But as the Utah Jazz center continues to heal from his right tibia contusion, some fans have found humor in his stylish outfits while sitting on the bench with funny memes and statuses on social media.Whether it’s the tailor-fitted, dark burgundy suit he broke out for Tuesday’s home win on ESPN, with the slightly unbuttoned leopard print shirt underneath.Or the dapper light maroon ensemble he sported on
  
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• Jazz shootaround: Utah looks for a road win against the Clippers in battle between two injury-plagued teams

  30-11-2017 21:58
  Los Angeles • It’s only November, but Joe Ingles already is calling for one head to roll.Rudy Gobert’s stylist.From a tailored red suit during the Utah Jazz’s trip to New York to a leopard-print shirt that caught Twitter’s attention Tuesday night, Ingles has not been a fan of Gobert’s wardrobe choices.“It’s not my style,” he said. “We gave it to him a little in the locker room. I honestly thought he was joking. I didn’t think he wa
  
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• HBO cuts ties with Russell Simmons amid second allegation

  30-11-2017 21:47
  New York • HBO distanced itself from Russell Simmons and scrubbed his name from a stand-up comedy series he helped produce on the eve of its debut following a second sexual misconduct allegation.HBO said Thursday it will go ahead with Friday’s airing of “All Def Comedy” but will edit out any link to Simmons in the wake of allegations by screenwriter Jenny Lumet who claims that he had sex with her more than two decades ago despite her repeated demands that he stop.“Si
  
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• Max Boot: Trump is commander-in-chief of the war on mainstream media

  30-11-2017 21:43
  President Donald Trump is right. There is an epidemic of “fake news” in America. Only it’s being perpetuated not by his political opponents but by him and his supporters.This was made evident when the Washington Post published an account of how a Trumpkin named James O’Keefe, who runs the deceptively named Project Veritas, tried to fool its reporters by sending their way a woman who claimed she had been impregnated as a teenager by Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy
  
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• Utes adjust their recruiting process with early football signing period

  30-11-2017 21:39
  Christmas comes early for college football fans. Signing day – always a welcomed gift wrapped in optimism for even the most high-strung fan bases – will take place in December this year.The NCAA approved the addition of an early signing period from Dec. 20 to 22. Instead of waiting for the traditional annual signing day in February to start a flood of activity, programs like Utah can sign recruits to a binding National Letter of Intent (NLI) during that 72-hour period. High school se
  
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• Tonight's 🗝 Matchup: Derrick Favors vs. DeAndre Jordan Tipoff: 8:30 PM MT #UTAatLAC https://t.co/JX4cqct2dg

  30-11-2017 21:30 via twitter.com
  
  Tonight's 🗝 Matchup: Derrick Favors vs. DeAndre JordanTipoff: 8:30 PM MT#UTAatLAC https://t.co/JX4cqct2dg
  
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• Brian Head Fire led officials to uncover survivalist’s explosive-filled bunkers hidden near makeshift cabins

  30-11-2017 21:09
  A wildfire that burned 71,000 acres in southern Utah, led firefighters and other officials to uncover several explosive-filled bunkers hidden near makeshift cabins illegally built by a survivalist on public land, police say.A Thursday news release from the Iron County Sheriff’s Office detailed how firefighters discovered the first bunker on June 27 — 10 days after the Brian Head Fire began.While working to suppress the blaze, firefighters near Henderson Hill heard “popping soun
  
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• Beattie to step aside after 15 years as president of the Salt Lake Chamber

  30-11-2017 21:06
  Lane Beattie is retiring after nearly 15 years as president and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber and the Downtown Alliance.The 66-year-old businessman, formerly a legislator and the state Olympic officer for the 2002 Winter Games, said Thursday that the time had come to step aside and to spend more time with his grandchildren.“When I took the job at the Chamber [in 2003],” Beattie said, “I planned to only stay on for two years. But two years turned into five, five turned into 10 an
  
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• .@UofUHealth Injury Report: - Rodney Hood (left ankle soreness) is OUT. - Raul Neto (left hamstring soreness) is OUT. #UTAatLAC

  30-11-2017 21:05 via twitter.com
  .@UofUHealth Injury Report:- Rodney Hood (left ankle soreness) is OUT. - Raul Neto (left hamstring soreness) is OUT. #UTAatLAC
  
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• Jim Nabors, who played Gomer Pyle on ‘Andy Griffith,’ dead at 87

  30-11-2017 21:02
  Jim Nabors, who starred as the bumbling gas-station-attendant-turned-Marine Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and his own subsequent spinoff, died Thursday morning in Hawaii. He was 87.His death was confirmed by his husband, Stan Cadwallader.While best known for his role as Pyle, Nabors also had a successful singing career, briefly hosted a variety show and held several stints on stage in Las Vegas.Nabors was born in June 1930 in Alabama, and after graduating from the state&rsqu
  
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• Police to release new developments in Sherry Black unsolved murder

  30-11-2017 20:53
  For seven years, investigators have searched for a suspect and a motive in the stabbing of a South Salt Lake bookseller.
  On Thursday — the seven-year anniversary of 64-year-old Sherry Black’s death — South Salt Lake police scheduled a news conference to announce developments in the case.Black had been beaten and stabbed at the bookstore she ran with her husband, B&W Billiards and Books, at 3466 S. 700 East. The door hadn’t been forced, police said, and there was no in
  
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• BYU adds Georgia Southern, Houston, Hawaii to future football schedules

  30-11-2017 20:53
  Provo • BYU may be looking for a place to land its independent football program, but the Cougars continue to schedule as if they plan to be outside a conference well into the future.BYU announced Thursday agreements for future football games with Houston, Hawaii and a program it has never played before, Georgia Southern of the Sun Belt Conference.Houston will visit BYU on Oct. 17, 2020 and a BYU will visit Houston on Oct. 7, 2023.Already scheduled to host Hawaii in 2018, the Cougars will a
  
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• Utah Jazz injuries: Joe Johnson’s status updated, who will play in LA?

  30-11-2017 20:42
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Johnson is progressing in his recovery from a wrist injury. Meanwhile, two other players could join him on the scratch list for the LA Clippers game. Although the Utah Jazz continue to roll with a skeleton crew, the team looks to be on the verge of returning some long-term absentees. Most […]
  Utah Jazz injuries: Joe Johnson’s status updated, who will play in LA? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Space tourism will surely be a blast, but can it also improve life on Earth?

  30-11-2017 20:42
  My body is suspended midair, and it's all I can do to breathe steadily. Everything around me is whitewashed. The padded ceiling and floor have blurred. I'm not consciously twitching a muscle, yet I'm moving. And I'm laughing — uncontrollably — because my mind cannot accept the absurdity of what my body knows to be true: I'm flying.I am onboard a Boeing 727 owned by the Zero Gravity Corp. It's the only commercial plane that has been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration to t
  
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• Monson: Mob rule! What happens when fans and media are wrong about guys like Ty Detmer, Greg Schiano and Herm Edwards? And who pays for it?

  30-11-2017 20:41
  When fans and media gang up to pick — or even attempt to pick — college football coaches, it sometimes is a bad, bad thing. Even when the notion clearly seems like a brilliant one at the time.It becomes mob rule.Who was it that said he didn’t believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance?Let’s come clean with it here: What the hell do we know?Usually not enough.Mobs can be emotional and ignorant, less than informed about the inner-workings and nuances of a spec
  
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• Southern Utah white leaders cry discrimination, say they’re being driven off just like Native Americans — huh?

  30-11-2017 20:29
  Who knew?The beleaguered and persecuted white guys in southern Utah are actually brothers in arms with the Native Americans who were massacred and driven off their lands.That was the message given to the Utah Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands at its November meeting at the Capitol.“Red Cloud said the white man made many promises but only kept one. They took our land,” Garfield County Engineer Brian Bremner testified to the commission.“We have much in common with th
  
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• Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal challenges his boss for Salt Lake County sheriff

  30-11-2017 20:23
  Unified Police Department Lt. Justin Hoyal on Thursday said he’ll seek the GOP nomination to challenge his boss — Utah’s first-ever female sheriff Rosie Rivera — for the job of Salt Lake County sheriff in 2018.Hoyal launched his campaign outside the county’s jail surrounded by dozens of family members, friends and political allies,including Salt Lake County County Councilwoman Aimee Winder Newton and Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan.If elected, Hoyal said he will bring a &ldqu
  
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• Brian Head Fire led officials to uncover several explosive-filled bunkers hidden near makeshift cabins

  30-11-2017 20:22
  A wildfire that burned 71,000 acres in southern Utah, led firefighters and other officials to uncover several explosive-filled bunkers hidden near makeshift cabins illegally built on public land.A Thursday news release from the Iron County Sheriff’s Office detailed how firefighters discovered the first bunker on June 27 — 10 days after the Brian Head Fire began.While working to suppress the blaze, firefighters near Henderson Hill heard “popping sounds,” the release said.
  
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• Police say a man suspected of killing a woman in a Salt Lake City hotel room is in custody

  30-11-2017 19:57
  A man suspected of killing a woman in a downtown Salt Lake City hotel is in custody, police announced Thursday. He was booked into Salt Lake County Jail “a couple of days ago,” on charges unrelated to the homicide of 25-year-old Mechelle Lindberg, Salt Lake City police Detective Greg Wilking said.Lindberg’s body was found under suspicious circumstances at the the Gateway Inn, 819 W. North Temple, on Tuesday morning. The identity of the man in custody won’t be released unt
  
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• Nancy Pelosi calls on Conyers to resign amid sex allegations

  30-11-2017 19:54
  Washington • The top Democrat in the House on Thursday called on Michigan Rep. John Conyers to resign in the face of multiple accusations of sexual misconduct. Conyers’ lawyer swiftly rejected the request, saying Nancy Pelosi “sure as hell won’t be the one to tell the congressman to leave.”House Minority Leader Pelosi called the accusations against Conyers, the longest serving member of the House, “very credible” and “serious,” and said he sho
  
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• #tbt to November 26, 2000 vs. the Detroit Pistons. John Stockton appeared in his 1,271st NBA game, all in a Jazz… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-11-2017 19:49 via twitter.com
  #tbt to November 26, 2000 vs. the Detroit Pistons. John Stockton appeared in his 1,271st NBA game, all in a Jazz… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Clippers take on Jazz amidst 3-game winning streak

  30-11-2017 19:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... . 24 that showcased L.A.’s early-season commitment to defense. And while the Jazz won’t ease up on a depleted Clippers squad, Utah actually did offer some sym ...
  
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• Report: Trump to cut crucial landscapes out of Grand Staircase and Bears Ears

  30-11-2017 19:37
  Two of the nation’s most scientifically significant landscapes — the Kaiparowits Plateau and Cedar Mesa —could be largely stripped of hard-won protections when President Donald Trump appears in Utah Monday to announce major reductions to Grand Staircase-Esclante and Bears Ears national monuments, according to leaked documents obtained by The Washington Post.The areas form the very hearts of their respective national monuments, yet portions of them were targeted for removal unde
  
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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…

  30-11-2017 19:19 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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• Utah’s youth suicide rates growing at alarming pace, new federal report says

  30-11-2017 19:06
  As Utah’s suicide numbers surged upward, state health officials asked in January for help from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The federal agency released key findings Thursday from that study. The state’s suicide rate among youth ages 10 to 17 had indeed more than doubled from 2011 to 2015, growing at an annual clip nearly four times faster than the national average.Numbers of young Utahns turning up at emergency rooms across the state due to self-inflicted i
  
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• Texas Rep. Barton, embarrassed by sex scandal, to retire

  30-11-2017 19:06
  Washington • Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, Texas’ most-senior member of Congress, announced Thursday that he won’t seek re-election after a nude photo of him circulated online and a Republican activist revealed messages of a sexual nature from him.Barton, 68, initially apologized for the explicit photo that surfaced on Twitter just before Thanksgiving but refused to heed calls that he not seek re-election in 2018. Barton suggested he could be the victim of online exploitation
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Why the delay of Joe Johnson’s return will hurt Utah

  30-11-2017 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  ...patch like Utah currently is. When you look at the current rotation for the Jazz, you see players such as Gobert, Donovan Mitchell, Derrick Favors and Ricky...
  
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• Will the South ever win the Pac-12 football championship game? USC hopes so

  30-11-2017 19:00
  With powerful USC ineligible to play in the first Pac-12 football championship game in 2011 due to NCAA sanctions, the North division enjoyed an initial advantage. That’s not enough explanation for why the South contestants keep losing.All of the South members except Utah have taken turns playing in the title game, while this theme has remained intact: The North always wins. Oregon, Stanford and Washington have claimed championships in the first six years of the expanded conference. Stanfo
  
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• Report: Sen. Franken groped an Army veteran during USO tour

  30-11-2017 18:57
  Washington • An Army veteran has accused Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of inappropriately touching her more than a decade ago while she was on a military deployment to Kuwait.She's identified in CNN's Thursday report as Stephanie Kemplin, 41, of Maineville, Ohio. She's the fifth women in the last two weeks to accuse the embattled Franken of sexual harassment allegations. Franken has welcomed an ethics investigation of the accusations.CNN reports that Kemplin met Franken, a comedian at the time,
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: The last thing we need is a massive tax cut

  30-11-2017 18:56
  The Wall Street Journal reports:“The U.S. economy is running at its full potential for the first time in a decade, a new milestone for an expansion now in its ninth year.“Total economic output in the third quarter was slightly above the maximum sustainable level of output as estimated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.”Given that one has to come back to the underlying problem with the tax bill: It is totally unnecessary and counterproductive.The central argument fo
  
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• Madeleine K. Albright: The security crisis we're not talking about

  30-11-2017 18:52
  America’s diplomatic professionals have issued a dire warning about the crisis facing the State Department: Scores of top diplomats, including some of our highest-ranked career Foreign Service officers, have left the agency at “a dizzying speed” over the past 10 months.“The rapid loss of so many senior officers has a serious, immediate and tangible effect on the capacity of the United States to shape world events,” wrote former ambassador Barbara Stephenson, preside
  
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• James O'Keefe, head of Project Veritas, vows further undercover operations: ‘Being hated is a sign of respect’

  30-11-2017 18:52
  Dallas • James O'Keefe, the self-described "guerrilla journalist" who runs Project Veritas, spoke to students at Southern Methodist University here on Wednesday night, highlighting his organization's undercover efforts to expose what it says is liberal bias in the media and defending the deceptive tactics that are its trademark.O'Keefe spoke just days after it was revealed that one of his organization's undercover operatives was attempting to plant a fake story with The Washington Post, and
  
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• Great minds think alike 🤝 twitter.com/RealSaltLake/s…

  30-11-2017 18:24 via twitter.com
  Great minds think alike 🤝 twitter.com/RealSaltLake/s…
  
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• President Trump to cut Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent, Grand Staircase-Escalante by half, documents show

  30-11-2017 18:23
  President Donald Trump plans to shrink Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent and reduce Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by half, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post that show the Utah sites would be cut even more than administration officials previously signaled.Individuals briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement, cautioned that some changes still could be made before Trump makes his final decision public o
  
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• San Juan County is suing for access to a trail after an illegal ATV ride caused nearly $100,000 in damages to American Indian archaeological sites

  30-11-2017 18:19
  San Juan County is suing the federal government, saying it is the rightful owner of access to Recapture Canyon.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for Utah on Wednesday, seeks dominion of a path in Bureau of Land Management territory that was closed to motorized use in 2007 due to damage at nearby archaeological sites. The section starts at Recapture Dam and goes south for about 3 miles, County Commissioner Phil Lyman said.The lawsuit says the path was first put on official maps as a road
  
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• White House readies plan to replace Tillerson with Pompeo, install Cotton at CIA

  30-11-2017 18:10
  Washington • The White House has readied a plan to oust embattled Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who has become one of the most personally loyal and politically savvy members of President Trump's national security team, two administration officials confirmed Thursday.The plan, hatched by White House chief of staff John F. Kelly, is expected to be set in motion over the next few weeks, and has broad support within Trump's inner circle, the off
  
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• He was accused of killing a man in a botched robbery — but his attorney says there's no proof he was even there. A Utah jury earlier this month found him not guilty.

  30-11-2017 18:09
  For two years, Utah authorities have accused one man — Richard Lawrence Trujillo — of pulling the trigger and killing another man in an apparent robbery gone wrong at a Millcreek apartment.But earlier this month, a Salt Lake County jury acquitted the man of all charges.Trujillo, 29, was one of four people charged with aggravated robbery and murder in the 2015 shooting death of 32-year-old Gildardo Toledo at an apartment located at 875 W. Meadowbrook Expressway (4000 South).The three
  
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• 🎷 // 🚢 - TONIGHT Tipoff: 8:30 PM #UTAatLAC https://t.co/48uH2w8RC1

  30-11-2017 17:53 via twitter.com
  
  🎷 // 🚢 - TONIGHTTipoff: 8:30 PM #UTAatLAC https://t.co/48uH2w8RC1
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz, Quin Snyder, and “Advantage Basketball”

  30-11-2017 17:32 via sportspyder.com
  ... ll” is an intriguing concept, one that makes complete sense if you watch the Jazz play. Lowe provides some heavy insight on the Jazz offense under Snyder, com ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz look to extend their winning streak against the hapless LA Clippers

  30-11-2017 17:32 via sportspyder.com
  ...night since returning from his injury, and with Raul Neto possibly out, the Jazz will turn to and (and maybe more of ? pretty please?) to again take over mor ...
  
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• The food at Yeah Hot Pot & Grill is so good you won’t want to share — but it’s more fun if you do

  30-11-2017 17:25
  West Jordan • Don’t play with your food.Remember that saying? Now, forget you ever heard it.At Yeah Hot Pot & Grill, you’ll definitely want to play with your food — and here, it’s even encouraged.The folks behind Yeah have built an atmosphere that celebrates communal dining and the customer experience, if not a little bit of trial and error. (I’d say I have no regrets about trying that quail egg that exploded in my mouth like a Fruit Gusher, but that’
  
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• Geraldo Rivera sorry for calling news business ‘flirty’

  30-11-2017 17:25
  New York • Geraldo Rivera has apologized for calling the news business "flirty" in the wake of "Today" show host Matt Lauer's firing by NBC over sexual misconduct allegations.The Fox News reporter tweeted Wednesday that the sexual harassment issue is "so red hot right now there is no room for any thought or opinion but hang em high." He added: "If News wasn't (formerly) a flirty biz then how do we explain so many newsroom courtships that have led to happy marriages?"Rivera also suggested th
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump says pharma gets away with murder. Alex Azar is the guy with the hatchet.

  30-11-2017 17:05
  Washington • President Trump could not have been more clear.“The drug companies, frankly, are getting away with murder,” he said in mid-October. He had used the same “getting away with murder” line previously, adding that “pharma has a lot of lobbies and a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power.”Yet just four weeks later, Trump nominated the former president of Eli Lilly’s U.S. business to run the Department of Health and Human Services. If drug compan
  
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• Pope Francis arrives in Bangladesh, demands ‘decisive measures’ to resolve Rohingya Muslim exodus

  30-11-2017 16:59
  Dhaka, Bangladesh • Pope Francis demanded Thursday that the international community take “decisive measures” to resolve the causes of the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, breaking his recent silence over what the United Nations has declared to be a textbook case of “ethnic cleansing.”Arriving in Bangladesh from Myanmar, Francis said it also was “imperative” for world governments to immediately provide assistance to help the Bangladeshi govern
  
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