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• What to do in case of a nuclear attack

  14-01-2018 23:53
  So what should you do in a nuclear missile attack?That key bit of advice was mostly missing from the mistaken alert sent out Saturday to mobile phones across Hawaii. All it said was, “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”A more detailed message scrolled across television screens in Hawaii, suggesting, “If you are indoors, stay indoors. If you are outdoors, seek immediate shelter in a building. Remain indoors well away from win
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz center Rudy Gobert returns to non-contact portions of practice

  14-01-2018 23:50 via sportspyder.com
  ...tibia after clashing with teammate Derrick Favors in Boston on Dec. 15. The Jazz are 3-10 without him on the floor during this latest injury. He also missed...
  
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• Utah falls to USC, 58-47, in Pac-12 women’s basketball

  14-01-2018 23:47
  The USC Trojans came to town for a Pac-12 women’s basketball game Sunday with some noticeable height limitations and the intent, if necessary, to play only a few of those suited out in uniform.As it turned out, that’s all Southern California needed in a 58-47 victory over the Utah Utes at the Huntsman Center.USC (13-4, 3-3), essentially using only six players for the vast majority of the contest, grabbed the lead at the end of the second quarter and the closest the Utes could make th
  
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• Jazz center Rudy Gobert returns to non-contact portions of practice

  14-01-2018 23:45
  SALT LAKE CITY — After a lengthy, three-hour practice Sunday morning, all eyes were glued to two big men on the main court at Zions Bank Basketball Center.Utah’s injured All-NBA center Rudy Gobert is still out with a knee injury, but returned to non-contact portions of practice where he appeared lively, agile and energetic in full-court 2-on-2 action against rookie Tony Bradley with the scout guards.“I know he’s dying to play,” said Jazz forward Jonas Jerebko, while
  
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• Utah Jazz teammates lament Thabo Sefolosha’s knee injury

  14-01-2018 23:28
  On Saturday afternoon, the Utah Jazz found out Thabo Sefolosha would possibly be gone for the rest of the season with an MCL injury in his right knee.On Sunday — following a marathon three-hour practice — Jazz players reacted to losing one of their most important teammates.“He’s the one who’s taught me a lot of the little things,” Utah rookie Donovan Mitchell said.“Part of the reason I’m in the NBA is because of Thabo,” Jazz veteran Jonas Jer
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz teammates lament Thabo Sefolosha’s knee injury

  14-01-2018 23:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... ness among the Jazz with Sefolosha. It was more than losing a teammate. It was like losing a big ...
  
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• Jaguars stun Steelers 45-42 to earn trip to AFC title game

  14-01-2018 23:25
  Pittsburgh • The Jacksonville Jaguars, yes, those Jacksonville Jaguars, are heading to the AFC championship game.Rookie running back Leonard Fournette ran for 109 yards and three touchdowns, and Blake Bortles added 214 yards passing and a vital fourth-quarter score as the relentless Jaguars stunned the Pittsburgh Steelers 45-42 on Sunday.The third-seeded Jaguars (12-6) will face top-seeded New England next week in Foxborough, Massachusetts, after jumping on Pittsburgh early, then holding on
  
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• Five things you should know about this year's very bad flu

  14-01-2018 22:59
  The nation is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad flu season.Flu is widespread in 46 states, according to reports to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Nationally, as of mid-December, at least 106 people had died of the infectious disease.In addition, states across the country are reporting higher-than-average flu-related hospitalizations and emergency room visits. Hospitalization rates are highest among people older than 50 and children younger than 5.In California, which
  
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• [Deadspin] - Sleepy DeMarcus Cousins Pays Dearly For Passing Ball To Wrong Team

  14-01-2018 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... y special self-ownage: Bradley Beal did something like this against the Utah Jazz last week, blowing his team’s final possession on an aborted move that becam ...
  
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• Three recruits from Texas commit to Utes football program on the same day

  14-01-2018 22:09
  The Utes enjoyed a successful football recruiting weekend as they picked up a trio of three-star commitments, including one junior college player, from Texas on Sunday.Blake Kuithe, a 6-foot-2, 230-pound defensive end and his brother Brant Kuithe, a 6-3, 212-pound running back for Cinco Ranch High School, joined Blinn College defensive back Vonte Davis (6-1, 180 pounds) in announcing their commitments to the Utah football program following campus visits this weekend.Brant Kuithe has been listed
  
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• Utah Rep. Mia Love, the only Haitian-American in Congress, says Trumps 's---hole countries' remark was racist

  14-01-2018 22:03
  Washington • Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, told CNN on Sunday that President Donald Trump was being racist when he referred to Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “s---hole countries.”Love, the first and only Haitian-American in Congress, had previously called for Trump to apologize.“I can’t defend the indefensible,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “You have to understand that there are countries that struggle out there. But their people, their people ar
  
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• Magnitude 7.1 quake hits off Peru, killing at least 1

  14-01-2018 21:59
  Lima, Peru • A powerful earthquake struck off Peru’s coast early Sunday, tumbling adobe homes in small, rural towns, killing at least one person and leaving dozens injured, officials said.The U.S. Geological Survey said the early morning quake had a magnitude of 7.1 and was centered 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Acari in the Arequipa department of southwestern Peru.The quake jolted people awake as far away as capital city of Lima, some 350 miles (560 kilometers) from Acari, blocked so
  
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• Trump presidency is at odds with Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, leaders say

  14-01-2018 21:54
  Atlanta • The first Martin Luther King Jr. holiday of Donald Trump’s presidency is taking place amid a racial firestorm of Trump’s own making.In the same week that he honored King by making a national park out of the ground where King was born and preached until his death, Trump denigrated practically the entire African diaspora, and left many Americans headed into the civil rights icon’s birthday convinced that the leader of their country is a racist.For African-Americans
  
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• George F. Will: In Oregon, progressivism spills over at the pump

  14-01-2018 21:31
  Washington • Frank Lloyd Wright purportedly said, “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” Today, however, Oregon is the state with the strangest state of mind, which has something to do with it being impeccably progressive: In the series “Portlandia,” the mention of artisanal lightbulbs might be satirical, but given today’s gas-pumping controversy, perhaps not.On Jan. 1, by the grace of God -- or of the government, which
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: The Jazz are cursed and somebody somewhere somehow needs to do something about it

  14-01-2018 21:25 via sportspyder.com
  ...east wind a’blowing? Did somebody around here raid King Tut’s tomb? Are the Jazz paying now for two decades of otherworldly indestructible ironman health for ...
  
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• Monson: The Jazz are cursed and somebody somewhere somehow needs to do something about it

  14-01-2018 21:18
  Remember that infamous line Captain Barbossa utters to Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean, after she informs him that she doesn’t believe in ghost stories, anymore?“You best start believing in ghost stories …,” he says. “You’re in one!”Don’t know how anybody out there feels about believing in curses.But the Jazz are afflicted by one.And somebody needs to do something about it soon.Somebody needs to do something right now.Somebody needs to
  
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• BYU rediscovered its offensive prowess in easy wins over Pepperdine, Santa Clara

  14-01-2018 21:08
  Provo • After sustaining two losses in their first five non-conference games last November, the BYU Cougars reeled off nine straight wins.Can they do that again, after starting West Coast Conference play with a similar 3-2 record?They are certainly on the right track, erasing the bitter memories of last-second failures in losses to Saint Mary’s and Pacific with a pair of dominating performances last week against Pepperdine and Santa Clara. Behind a pair of sensational outings from sop
  
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• #NBAVote | Donovan Mitchell | vote.nba.com/#/ https://t.co/iHPQAkydRk

  14-01-2018 20:57 via twitter.com
  
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• Chelsea Manning confirms U.S. Senate run

  14-01-2018 20:57
  North Bethesda, Md. • Chelsea Manning on Sunday confirmed via Twitter that she is a candidate for U.S. Senate.Three days after making her intention known to federal election officials, Manning tweeted “yup, we’re running for senate” with an attached campaign video indicating her intention to run in the 2018 Maryland Democratic primary. She sent a subsequent tweet seeking donations to her campaign.yup, we're running for senate 😎🌈💕 #WeGotThis https://
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz sign Georges Niang to two-way deal after waiving college teammate

  14-01-2018 20:49 via sportspyder.com
  ...came to watch his former Iowa State teammate Naz Mitrou-Long tonight at the Jazz-Warriors game. pic.twitter.com/8o7VsRk1kL— Eric Woodyard (@E_Woodyard) Decem ...
  
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• Utah Jazz sign Georges Niang to two-way deal after waiving college teammate

  14-01-2018 20:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — Two days after Christmas, new Utah Jazz signee Naz Mitrou-Long walked out of the visitor’s locker room in Oracle Arena to a familiar face.His former Iowa State teammate Georges Niang, a member of the G-League’s Santa Cruz Warriors, stood outside waiting for him with family and friends.Little did they know at the time that less than a month later, one would be replacing the other’s role in Salt Lake City.The Jazz have now signed Niang to a two-way deal, ju
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump's latest target is no puppet for the Democratic party

  14-01-2018 20:29
  Twenty-three years ago, I arrived at the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau as a congressional reporter at about the same time as a scruffy and perpetually untucked fellow named Glenn Simpson.I’ve been friends with “Shaggy,” as I dubbed him, ever since. Over the years, I’ve watched him make mischief: exposing the Clintons’ campaign finance abuses, including the “Chinagate” scandal of 1996; scoring a key scoop in the Clinton travel office scand
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Sign Georges Niang to Two-Way Contract

  14-01-2018 20:23 via sportspyder.com
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• We have signed Georges Niang to a two-way contract. Welcome, @GeorgesNiang20!! ➡️: on.nba.com/2DwCu75 https://t.co/Gr1qSzGY36

  14-01-2018 20:14 via twitter.com
  
  We have signed Georges Niang to a two-way contract. Welcome, @GeorgesNiang20!!➡️: on.nba.com/2DwCu75 https://t.co/Gr1qSzGY36
  
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• Letter: ‘Sickening celebration’ goes with ‘Utahn of the Year’?

  14-01-2018 20:07
  On Dec. 7 The Tribune had an editorial entitled: “Anti-monument celebration was Utah at its very worst.”The second and third paragraphs of this editorial, which I totally agree with, follow:“But no one should be able to look at the celebration that unfolded Monday in our state’s Capitol building and see anything other than a disgraceful display of powerful people whooping it up over the pain they were inflicting on, among others, hundreds of thousands of Native Americans.
  
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• Martin Luther King Jr. met Malcolm X just once, and the photo still haunts us with what was lost

  14-01-2018 20:04
  Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met only once. On March 26, 1964, the two black leaders were on Capitol Hill, attending Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.King was stepping out of a press conference, when Malcolm X, dressed in an elegant black overcoat and wearing his signature horn-rimmed glasses, greeted him.“Well, Malcolm, good to see you,” King said.“Good to see you,” Malcolm X replied.Cameras clicked as the two men walked down the Senate hall together
  
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• Letter of the Week: No end in sight for mistreatment of women

  14-01-2018 20:04
  Nearly every day I read of the price women/girls pay for being female. Recently I read of two women who were sexually assaulted by the same teacher 30 years apart. Then I read about another groper who flashed women, then assaulted them. And there was the young girl lured from her home to help find a kitten, only to be raped and murdered.I recently read of the sexual abuse of young girls being schooled in their wifely duties as members of a polygamous sect. Japan and South Korea are haggling over
  
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• White House claims Wall Street Journal misquoted Trump as saying he has a good relationship with North Korea's Kim Jong Un

  14-01-2018 19:01
  Palm Beach, Fla. • President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that the Wall Street Journal deliberately misquoted him as saying he probably has a good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.The White House is disputing the newspaper’s story from an interview last week in which Trump claimed some success in countering the nuclear threat from North Korea and said he could be open to talks under the right conditions. He claimed good relationships with other Asian leaders dealing wi
  
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• Commentary: This is how ignorant you have to be to call Haiti a 's---hole'

  14-01-2018 18:37
  The president had no respect for Haiti. He could see as well as anyone following the news that the country was a basket case — racked by political unrest, filthy, incapable of handling its own affairs. There was no doubt his opinion of the black republic was informed by his blatant racism, which included praising members of the Ku Klux Klan. He had criticized his predecessors’ foreign wars while running for office. But in the White House, he realized he was willing to flex the countr
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz 2017-18 Week 14 Outlook, Predictions

  14-01-2018 18:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... Despite injury, Utah Jazz should aim to keep Thabo Sefolosha by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Utah Jazz 2017-18 Week 14 Outlook, Predictions

  14-01-2018 18:21
  The Utah Jazz are in for a busy and important four-game slate in Week 14 where none of the teams they face hold an above .500 record. With news that Thabo Sefolosha is likely done for the season and after dropping a disappointing game in Charlotte, it seems that each and every passing day just […]
  Utah Jazz 2017-18 Week 14 Outlook, Predictions - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: In a sea of Republican cowards, Mia Love spoke up

  14-01-2018 18:02
  Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and David Perdue, R-Ga., co-sponsors of a bill to cut legal immigration in half, could not remember (!) hearing President Donald Trump refer to African countries as “s---holes.” (Would not such language have stuck in their memories, or was the phrase so unexceptional as not to warrant notice?)Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., wouldn’t publicly confirm the remarks, although he shared them with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan called the rema
  
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• Rose McGowan knows how to make film events like Sundance safe for women

  14-01-2018 18:01
  Pasadena, Calif. • Actor-turned-activist Rose McGowan thinks she knows how to make the Sundance Film Festival — the event she was attending when one of the worst events in her life happened — a safe space for women.But, she told TV critics recently, it’s not a quick or easy fix. Basically, the entire culture of the entertainment industry has to change, she said. And American culture has to change.“You’ve got 96 percent male directors in the DGA,” she said
  
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• Government, citing ruling, again will accept requests for DACA protection

  14-01-2018 17:13
  Washington • The federal government, citing a recent court order, said Saturday that it is again accepting requests for grants of deferred action under the DACA, or “dreamers,” program, which has protected thousands of young people from deportation.The Trump administration had planned to rescind work permits for the young undocumented immigrants, insisting that it was for Congress to find a solution to the issue of their status. The Obama-era program has protected those without
  
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• Letter: Our selfish, brain dead behavior makes “gumment” indispensable

  14-01-2018 17:01
  Take everything the right has said about Barrack Obama and apply it to Donald Trump and our beloved right wing loved ones would be within a galaxy of making any sense.I went to Salt Lake City. The air quality is a disgrace. The highway is thick with diesel pickup trucks putting out a cloud of soot in one’s face. Selfish, I get. I’m selfish. But this behavior is beyond selfish. It’s an assault. Our right wingers whine and moan about being picked on by the “gumment” b
  
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• Letter: We need to start the new year on the winter solstice

  14-01-2018 17:00
  ​Happy New Year, supposedly. Now that we’re well into the so-called 21st century, we need to change our calendar. We need to start the new year on the winter solstice. The Caesars and the Popes blew it centuries ago.We need to pull the whole 365-day calendar back 10 days. Jan. 1 would begin at 12 a.m. on what is now Dec. 21. Every month would begin 10 days earlier. Then, new year would mean something, a new beginning as the days start getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere.We shou
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Dr. King's words still have meaning, 61 years on

  14-01-2018 16:59
  A few words on the difficulty of voting while black.As we mark what would have been his 89th birthday, it seems fitting to recall that Martin Luther King spoke to that difficulty in a 1957 speech whose words ring relevant 61 years later. “All types of conniving methods are still being used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters,” lamented King.As he saw it, neither political party was blameless. He castigated Democrats for capitulating to the rabid racists of their Southe
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Despite injury, Utah Jazz should aim to keep Thabo Sefolosha

  14-01-2018 16:41 via sportspyder.com
  ...year. Given how well Thabo has played and how friendly his contract is, the Jazz would be hard-pressed to come out winners in a deal involving him. Now that...
  
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• Despite injury, Utah Jazz should aim to keep Thabo Sefolosha

  14-01-2018 16:34
  Although Thabo Sefolosha is likely done for the season and is on a non-guaranteed contract for 2018-19, the Utah Jazz should still aim to keep him around. As if the 2017-18 season hadn’t already been full enough of bad news for the Utah Jazz, they received yet another blow of bad fortune on Saturday as […]
  Despite injury, Utah Jazz should aim to keep Thabo Sefolosha - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Warrants approved in just minutes: Are Utah judges really reading them before signing off?

  14-01-2018 15:53
  Twenty-seven seconds.That’s all the time it took for a Utah judge to sign off on an officer’s request to search phone records in a homicide investigation.In another case, it took 38 seconds to get a warrant to search a hard drive.And 48 seconds after asking, a judge gave permission for officers to break into a safe.These instances, in which a judge approves a search warrant in less than a minute, are rare. There were two dozen in the more than 8,400 electronic warrants served in a 12
  
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• Utah cops would have to answer more questions before getting a no-knock warrant, under new proposal

  14-01-2018 15:52
  It all began with an anonymous tip.Children were living in unhealthy conditions, an American Fork police sergeant wrote in a March search warrant. There might even be drug use in the house on 200 East.Sgt. Ryan Archuleta did not alert the Division of Child and Family Services. Instead, he opened a drug investigation — rooting through the trash and finding burnt foil, hollowed-out pens and plastic baggies that field-tested positive for methamphetamine.Archuleta thought that gave him probabl
  
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• For the next Mormon prophet, challenges abound (retention, slowing growth, gays, women) but so do opportunities

  14-01-2018 13:52
  Gordon B. Hinckley, an 84-year-old optimist, took the helm of the LDS Church in 1995, when most Americans knew little about it.During Hinckley’s 13-year presidential tenure, the indefatigable Mormon leader jetted around the globe, energizing the faithful, calling for more temples, tweaking churchwide programs and bringing the Utah-based faith out of obscurity. In his first year, Hinckley scored an interview with the TV newsmagazine “60 Minutes” and won over the show’s ske
  
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• From 135 chapters to under 3 hours of epic adventure, here’s the story behind Utah Opera’s new read on ‘Moby-Dick’

  14-01-2018 13:38
  Kristine McIntyre has read “Moby-Dick” seven times so you don’t have to.“I had to know the novel so I could know what was essential,” said McIntyre, who had resisted reading Herman Melville’s classic tale for years.In addition to telling the story of Captain Ahab’s quest for revenge on the legendary beast that cost him a leg, the 135 chapters of ”Moby-Dick” include notoriously detailed digressions about whaling, whales (in nature and in art),
  
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• Kirby: Maybe these new ‘discussion’ classes can rid Mormons of correlated thinking

  14-01-2018 13:32
  The Mormon church has rolled out the new priesthood and Relief Society class curriculum, which it argues will eliminate boring, predictable lessons from manuals.Instead, we will have “discussions,” an assertion I find encouraging because real discussions require at least something over which ideas may differ, even if only slightly.Here’s the definition of the word “discussion” from Dictionary.com:“1. a discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involv
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert is raising money as if he’s running for re-election — though he says he’s not

  14-01-2018 13:30
  While Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has said he will not seek re-election in 2020, he still raked in nearly $630,000 in political contributions last year.Herbert wasn’t just letting money flow in, he actively sought it — including spending at least $158,000 to host his annual fundraising gala, and another $15,500 to stage a fundraising golf event.So why is noncandidate Herbert still raising so much?“The governor has a lot of things and issues that he cares about, including supporting
  
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• Hey racists — go back to trolling the internet and leave ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ alone

  14-01-2018 13:29
  Pasadena, Calif. • Remember the good ol’ days when racists stayed in their houses, occasionally venturing onto their front porches to tell those damn kids to get off their lawns? Today, they’re all over social media, outing themselves as the bigots, misogynists and homophobes that they are. And, in the case of “Star Trek: Discovery,” displaying their utter ignorance. “There was a fragment of the audience who were very upset with the show,” said executive
  
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• You up? #NBAVote | @spidadmitchell | vote.nba.com/#/ https://t.co/cWrwfsflYN

  14-01-2018 10:07 via twitter.com
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Zach LaVine scores 14 in return to Bulls’ lineup

  14-01-2018 08:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... 2082662401 The veteran swing man has been solid mostly off the bench for the Jazz this season, averaging 8.2 points per game, shooting 38 percent from three a ...
  
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• Sources: Thabo Sefolosha Expected to Undergo Season Ending Surgery

  14-01-2018 07:56 via basketballinsiders.com
  Utah Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha is expected to undergo season-ending surgery on an MCL injury in his right knee, league sources say. Utah Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha is expected to undergo season-ending surgery on an MCL injury in his right knee, league sources say. — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 13, 2018 Source: Shams Charania on […]
  
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• Curry scores 24 in return, Warriors hold off Raptors 127-125

  14-01-2018 07:10
  Toronto • Stephen Curry returned from a two-game absence to score 24 points, Klay Thompson had 26 and the Golden State Warriors blew nearly all of a 27-point lead before beating the Toronto Raptors 127-125 on Saturday night.DeMar DeRozan scored 42 points for the Raptors, but the Warriors had just enough to beat Toronto for the eighth straight time.Kevin Durant scored 25 points and Draymond Green had 14 for the Warriors, who have won 12 straight on the road. Golden State's 19 road wins are t
  
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