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• Rock On: Rodney Hood and the Ostertag Rule

  17-01-2018 23:53
  BOO ETIQUETTERodney Hood missed a down-the-barrel open 3 against Indiana, drawing boos from Jazz fans.Donovan Mitchell took exception, tweeting “for people to boo him is INSANE. He gives his all for us and we do the same for him! GOOD NIGHT!”Here's a rule of thumb for fans: No Jazz player is allowed to be booed unless it’s Greg Ostertag spitting out his bridgework or Karl Malone returning as a Laker.NEXT UP: OVERHEARD
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz at Sacramento Kings: Keys to righting the ship

  17-01-2018 23:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... Thabo Sefolosha opts for surgery, Utah Jazz pursue injury hardship exception by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Utah Jazz at Sacramento Kings: Keys to righting the ship

  17-01-2018 23:30
  The struggling Utah Jazz will look to earn a much-needed road win tonight over the West’s bottom-dwelling Sacramento Kings. It’s been bad times in Utah Jazz land of late as the team has now lost 15 of their last 19 games and regardless of their opponent or the location, they’ve been unable to even remain […]
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• White House Chief of Staff John Kelly expresses optimism about DACA deal without suggesting timeline

  17-01-2018 23:22
  Washington • As House Republican leaders worked to avoid a government shutdown by rounding up votes for a short-term spending bill, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly expressed optimism that Congress will work out a deal to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.Kelly, while offering no timetable for when an agreement might be reached, gave an upbeat assessment of the state of play in the debate over legal status for immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.&
  
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• Utah’s governor launches youth suicide task force as state reveals 44 suicide deaths among 10-to-17-year-olds in 2017

  17-01-2018 23:16
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Wednesday announced he has formed a community task force that will attempt to tackle the state’s soaring youth suicide numbers, just as health officials shed more light on the trend.Herbert named a 14-member group to meet in the coming weeks and return by Feb. 15 with recommendations about how to slow the state’s suicide rate in young people. That four-week timeline, he noted, would allow the panel’s ideas to be taken up by Utah lawmakers before they c
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - 273 people died in crashes on Utah roads in 2017, and at least 20 of those deaths were caused by distracted driving

  17-01-2018 23:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... ards, officials rolled out short social media videos. One video shows former Jazz star Thurl Bailey, RSL midfielder Sebastian Saucedo, Utah football coach Kyl ...
  
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• 273 people died in crashes on Utah roads in 2017, and at least 20 of those deaths were caused by distracted driving

  17-01-2018 23:13
  In May, a truck driver was browsing online classifieds for a new car for his wife when he smashed his semitruck into the back of a sedan.The crash paralyzed one of the sedan’s occupants and killed the other. The man who died, Landon Peatross, was one of 273 people who were killed on Utah roads in 2017.And his death was one of at least 20 fatalaties caused by distracted driving, according to a preliminary report released on Wednesday by the Utah Department of Transportation and the Departme
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell and the Jazz attempting to overthrow the Kings

  17-01-2018 23:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... 0-assist game. Donovan seems to have the upper edge in this matchup, but the Jazz cannot let their guard down. vs His Old Team: George Hill has had an alright ...
  
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• Kragthorpe: Eagles are NFC’s top seed, but they have become underdogs in these NFL playoffs

  17-01-2018 22:43
  Philadelphia fans hardly needed another reason to doubt their Eagles, and the skepticism about the team’s Super Bowl possibilities was justified in mid-December when star quarterback Carson Wentz sustained a season-ending knee injury and Nick Foles took the job.Yet here are the Eagles, one game away from their first Super Bowl appearance in 13 years. In advance of Sunday’s NFC championship game vs. Minnesota, a closer look at the Eagles:Team’s themePhiladelphia spent most of th
  
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• Pope Francis denounces indigenous violence in symbolic Chile Mass

  17-01-2018 22:33
  Temuco, Chile • Pope Francis denounced the use of violence to achieve political gains as he traveled Wednesday to the heart of Chile’s centuries-old conflict with indigenous peoples, where a spate of church burnings have been blamed on radical Mapuche factions pressing for their cause.Hours after another church and three helicopters were torched, Francis celebrated Mass at a former military base that not only lies on contested Mapuche land but was also a former detention center used d
  
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• .@ThaboSefolosha is out of surgery and looks strong enough to pull the ears off a Gundark 💪 https://t.co/Q0NUogwrxA

  17-01-2018 22:26 via twitter.com
  
  .@ThaboSefolosha is out of surgery and looks strong enough to pull the ears off a Gundark 💪 https://t.co/Q0NUogwrxA
  
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• Jazz guard Dante Exum gets OK for non-contact basketball activities

  17-01-2018 22:25
  Sacramento • The Utah Jazz received a bit of good news in the middle of the toughest stretch of their season.Point guard Dante Exum, who has yet to play a game this season, has been cleared to participate in non-contact basketball activities, meaning he can work out, shoot and work with assistants.The Jazz still haven’t given an official return date, but league sources tell The Tribune that Exum hopes to come back following the All-Star break. Exum originally separated his shoulder ag
  
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• Commentary: Patriarchy is alive and well in the Mormon church — witness new leader’s response to Tribune’s question

  17-01-2018 22:19
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rolled out its new president, prophet and revelator Tuesday, and I’m happy to report that Russell M. Nelson seems about as compos mentis as any 93-year-old I’ve run into.On the other hand, he and the dozen apostles, including his counselors Dallin H. Oaks, 85, and Henry B. Eyring, 84, conveyed the image of their increasingly diverse and far-flung communion about as well as a convention of retired Midwestern pharmacists, c. 1955.The reve
  
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• Police asking for help identifying people involved in assault at Jackalope Lounge that left man with broken jaw and other injuries

  17-01-2018 22:17
  Salt Lake City police are asking for help from the public to identify five people involved in a fight on Saturday at the Jackalope Lounge, 372 S. State St., in which a man was seriously injured.The assault occurred about 9:30 p.m. inside the bar, toward the back of the building, a news release from SLCPD says.Anyone with information about the people captured on surveillance video is asked to contact the Salt Lake City police.Police declined to identify the injured man other than to say he is 32
  
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• Malnourished dog found in Utah desert is on the mend

  17-01-2018 22:13
  Salt Lake City • A malnourished dog found in a Utah desert was on the mend Wednesday after being discovered by a man riding off-road west of Salt Lake City.The dog had lost all her hair to a skin disease caused by mites when Matt Bentley of Sandy found her in an off-roading area in the west desert on Sunday. He loaded the pup into his Jeep, got her some food and took her to a veterinarian for treatment.It’s unclear how the dog ended up in the desolate landscape with little to eat or d
  
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• Democrat Kathie Allen takes swipe at new senator’s religion

  17-01-2018 22:11
  When Democrat Kathie Allen lost her race for Congress last November, she tweeted that she lost because new Rep. John Curtis is Mormon and Republican, “I am neither,” and that seems “to be the only thing Utah County cares about,” where she lost big.She apologized a few hours later. But Allen, who is now running for the state Senate, took a shot Tuesday at the religion of her new opponent, Sen. Brian Zehnder, R-Holladay, on the day he was sworn in to replace former Sen. Bri
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Injured Jazz guard Dante Exum cleared for non-contact practice drills

  17-01-2018 22:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... op draft pick Markelle Fultz, who is also recovering from a shoulder injury. Jazz head coach Quin Snyder said Exum’s rehabilitation is coming along just fine. ...
  
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• Injured Jazz guard Dante Exum cleared for non-contact practice drills

  17-01-2018 22:01
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s unclear of when injured Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum will be returning to the lineup, but the Aussie has been ever present recently.Exum has been getting up shots ahead of games and has now been cleared for non-contact practice drills in a one-on-one setting.After Wednesday’s shootaround at Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center, Jazz assistant and player development coach Lamar Skeeter put Exum through a series of half-court and full-court layup drills, whe
  
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• "I got hustle though, ambition, flow, inside my DNA." 🙏 #KiaROY https://t.co/KnwoKoujog

  17-01-2018 22:01 via twitter.com
  
  "I got hustle though, ambition, flow, inside my DNA." 🙏#KiaROY https://t.co/KnwoKoujog
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Notes: Sefolosha, Exum, Gobert, Stone

  17-01-2018 22:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... o Tony Jones of The Salt Lake Tribune (), Sefolosha’s diagnosis prompted the Jazz to apply for a disabled player exception in advance of Monday’s deadline. If ...
  
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• Holly Richardson: To get more women elected, we need to move beyond lip service

  17-01-2018 21:53
  Heard any of these lately? “We need more women in elected office.” “I wish more women would run.” “More women should run.” I have. The gender gap in politics continues to be large, but interest in women running is on the upswing and that’s a good thing.Saturday, Real Women Run held its annual daylong training for women who want to run for office, support those running for office or be more involved in the political process. Several colleges in Utah have
  
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• Jerseys = jammies twitter.com/lane_wilkes/st…

  17-01-2018 21:38 via twitter.com
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• Dana Milbank: Kirstjen Nielsen doesn’t know that Norwegians are white?

  17-01-2018 21:29
  Washington • This way madness lies.I knew that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, when she appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, would deny that Trump said what the whole world knows he said: that he wants immigrants from Norway rather than from “s---hole” countries in Africa.What I was not expecting was that Nielsen would raise a question about whether Norwegians are mostly white.Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., displayed a poster from the dais proc
  
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• Kragthorpe: The state of college basketball in Utah? Dismal, in NCAA Tournament context

  17-01-2018 21:04
  The state’s college basketball outlook was slightly better last season, when Utahns could order eight teams for delivery to Vivint Smart Home Arena.Even in a year when no Utah schools made the NCAA Tournament field, having the first two rounds staged in Salt Lake City with Arizona and eventual runner-up Gonzaga in town last March kept us connected to the event. This season? Boise, Idaho, is 340 miles away.I-84 looks like the only easy avenue to the tournament, from a Utah perspective. This
  
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• Elizabeth Smart to California children allegedly kept prisoners by parents: ‘There is happiness in the future’

  17-01-2018 21:04
  Elizabeth Smart on Wednesday discussed what it may have been like for the 13 adult and minor children who police say were held prisoners by their parents in their Southern California home and how those kids might move forward. “Speaking as one who has been physically chained up, and as one who has also been held by chains of manipulations and threats, I will tell you ... the chains of manipulation and threats are so much stronger than actual physical chains,” Smart told ABC News.Smar
  
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• Former Utah high school counselor charged for alleged sexual contact with a student

  17-01-2018 21:01
  A woman who formerly worked as a high school counselor in St. George was charged Tuesday with having a “sexual encounter” with a female student in 2008.Heidi Tasso, 50, faces one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a 17-year-old, a third-degree felony, in 5th District Court.According to charging documents, Tasso was employed at Millcreek High School in St. George when she worked with the teen. The two had a “sexual encounter” at Tasso’s house the night of June 2,
  
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• Dana Milbank: Kirstjen Nielson doesn’t know that Norwegians are white?

  17-01-2018 20:28
  Washington • This way madness lies.I knew that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, when she appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, would deny that Trump said what the whole world knows he said: that he wants immigrants from Norway rather than from “s---hole” countries in Africa.What I was not expecting was that Nielsen would raise a question about whether Norwegians are mostly white.Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., displayed a poster from the dais proc
  
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• A second Knights of the Crystal Blade organizer charged with sodomy of a child

  17-01-2018 20:25
  Samuel Shaffer, the former self-proclaimed prophet of Knights of the Crystal Blade, has been charged with two counts first-degree felony sodomy of a child in Sanpete County.The charges, filed Wednesday, come on the day Shaffer was supposed to be in court in Iron County for kidnapping charges, but his preliminary hearing was continued to Feb. 20.Shaffer, 34, of Beryl, Iron County, was the original prophet of the religious group, which is a small fundamentalist Mormon offshoot. When interviewed by
  
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• Washington’s rebuild ahead of schedule under longtime Syracuse assistant Mike Hopkins

  17-01-2018 20:20
  Washington coach Mike Hopkins saw something in a school and a program roughly 2,750 miles away from the place he’d spent 22 years as an assistant coach. It made him to vacate his perch as the coach in waiting at Syracuse University, his alma mater. This winter, Hopkins’ Huskies have collected more overall victories and more Pac-12 wins than last season — this after the team lost Markelle Fultz, who left after his freshman season to become the No. 1 pick of the NBA draft, in the
  
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• ‘Phantom Thread,’ with Daniel Day-Lewis’ last great role, is a beautiful movie woven with menace

  17-01-2018 20:00
  Some movies, like some clothes, are functional without being particularly beautiful — but some movies, like writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s luxurious and breathtaking “Phantom Thread,” are the equivalent of high fashion, allowing us to get lost in the beauty and fantasy of their folds.Fashion is all Anderson’s main character, designer Reynolds Woodcock, wants to create in life. Woodcock, played with precise detail by Daniel Day-Lewis in what the actor has sai
  
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• Letter: We keep seeing mothers and children being deported — where are the men?

  17-01-2018 20:00
  Where are all the men, the fathers and husbands of these mothers and children who are being deported?There are men in the lives of these women; where and who are they? Are they supporting the children or is there pubic assistance in the picture?If the children are left in the U.S., who cares for them?It is always a young mother with several children, never a father with children facing deportation. Does this not seem off balance again?Linda Tueller, Millcreek
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Thabo Sefolosha opts for surgery, Utah Jazz pursue injury hardship exception

  17-01-2018 19:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... ays — Tony Jones (@tribjazz) January 17, 2018 Considering how frequently the Jazz have had to deal with devastating injuries, I would hope that the league fin ...
  
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• He fled to Mexico after killing his girlfriend in a Utah cemetery nine years ago. Now, he’ll spend at least 15 years in prison.

  17-01-2018 19:47
  A man who brutally stabbed his girlfriend to death in a Huntsville cemetery nearly a decade ago was sentenced to prison on Wednesday.An Ogden jury in November found 42-year-old Gutberto Heras-Corrales guilty of first-degree felony murder for killing 26-year-old Noemi Rodriguez on Christmas 2008.Though he contested the evidence at trial, Heras-Corrales admitted during his Wednesday sentencing hearing that he was the one who killed his girlfriend, a mother of three.“I feel a lot of remorse f
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - BREAKING: Jazz, Bulls Organizations Swap Players, Pick

  17-01-2018 19:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... biased opinions about— Kyle Goon (@kylegoon) In acquiring Diamond Stone, the Jazz() have officially landed the best name in basketball... will loom great in t ...
  
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• Thabo Sefolosha opts for surgery, Utah Jazz pursue injury hardship exception

  17-01-2018 19:32
  With Thabo Sefolosha officially out for the season, the Utah Jazz will seek permission from the league to call in reinforcements with an injury hardship waiver. If you had to choose one word to describe the poor fortune of the Utah Jazz over the past three seasons, the word you’d most likely go with is […]
  Thabo Sefolosha opts for surgery, Utah Jazz pursue injury hardship exception - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - SLC Stars trade for a Diamond Stone

  17-01-2018 18:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... ck and the returning player rights to center Henry Sims. Relatedly, the Utah Jazz's G-League affiliate also announced that it has waived guard Dakarai Allen....
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz at Sacramento Kings key matchup: Rookie rivalry

  17-01-2018 18:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... ta Hawks. Meanwhile, the Sacramento Kings have a better away record than the Jazz, but are currently the worst team in the Western Conference and third worst...
  
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• SLC Stars trade for a Diamond Stone

  17-01-2018 18:45
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake City Stars are getting a gem of a player.The Stars have acquired Diamond Stone from the Windy City Bulls in exchange for SLC's 2018 third-round pick and the returning player rights to center Henry Sims. Relatedly, the Utah Jazz's G-League affiliate also announced that it has waived guard Dakarai Allen.Stone has a nice game to go with his unique name. The 6-foot-11 center was originally drafted in the second round (40th overall) by the New Orleans Pelicans bef
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha to undergo knee surgery

  17-01-2018 18:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... .2 rebounds and 1.4 steals in 38 games. "I haven't even processed that yet," Jazz coach Quin Snyder said Monday. "The biggest thing is probably just his leade ...
  
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• We have assigned Tony Bradley to the @slcstars 🌟 https://t.co/bY3JVOj29D

  17-01-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  
  We have assigned Tony Bradley to the @slcstars 🌟 https://t.co/bY3JVOj29D
  
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• Utah Jazz at Sacramento Kings key matchup: Rookie rivalry

  17-01-2018 18:29
  Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz goes up against fellow rookie guard De’Aaron Fox of the Sacramento Kings in a contest that could end up determining draft order. I would love to say that the Utah Jazz will go into Sacramento and wipe the floor with the Kings. Sadly, based on Utah’s play of late, […]
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• Rookie Of The Year Watch – 01/17/18

  17-01-2018 18:26 via basketballinsiders.com
  Shane Rhodes checks in on a tightening Rookie of the Year race.
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha to undergo knee surgery

  17-01-2018 18:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... Shares SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah Jazz forward Thabo Sefolosha will have surgery on his right knee Wednesday. The d ...
  
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• His role as a gay teen was a breakout hit at Sundance in 2016. Now J.J. Totah is back with a similar character in an NBC sitcom.

  17-01-2018 18:11
  Pasadena, Calif. • To say that J.J. Totah has fond memories of his trip to the Sundance Film Festival in 2016 would be an understatement. “That was the best experience of my entire life,” he said. “I’m not even kidding. That changed me.” Not that his “entire life” is particularly long at this point. Totah is 16; he was 14 when he took Sundance by storm, playing flamboyant gay teenager Justin in “Other People” — a role for which Va
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 137: Utah Jazz struggles and NBA Celebrity Deathmatch

  17-01-2018 17:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... Podcast: Play in new window | Download The Utah Jazz are 17-26 overall and 4-15 in their last 19 games. 538 now projects them to...
  
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• Rival Koreas agree to form first unified Olympic team

  17-01-2018 17:45
  Seoul, South Korea • The rival Koreas agreed Wednesday to form their first unified Olympic team and have their athletes parade together for the first time in 11 years during the opening ceremony of next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea, officials said.The agreements still require approval from the International Olympic Committee. But they are the most prominent steps toward rapprochement achieved by the Koreas since they recently began exploring cooperation during the Olympics followi
  
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• 🎷 | 👑 | TONIGHT Tipoff ⏰: 8PM MT #UTAatSAC https://t.co/r184C6ykTi

  17-01-2018 17:43 via twitter.com
  
  🎷 | 👑 | TONIGHTTipoff ⏰: 8PM MT#UTAatSAC https://t.co/r184C6ykTi
  
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• John McCain: Mr. President, stop attacking the press

  17-01-2018 17:07
  After leaving office, President Ronald Reagan created the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award to recognize individuals who have fought to spread liberty worldwide. Nancy Reagan continued the tradition after her husband’s death, and in 2008 she bestowed the honor on human-rights icon Natan Sharansky, who credited Reagan’s strong defense of freedom for his own survival in Soviet gulags. Reagan recognized that as leader of the free world, his words carried enormous weight, and he used it to ins
  
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• Abuse survivor confronts gymnastics doctor: 'I have been coming for you for a long time'

  17-01-2018 17:05
  Two yearbook photos floated side-by-side on a projection screen in the Michigan courtroom.Both images caught the same small girl — in one, all gawky smile and bangs; the next, braces and long hair — a few years apart. Until this week, the child in the snapshots had been officially identified only as "Victim Z.A." or "a family friend."But on Tuesday, Kyle Stephens, now a grown young woman, stepped out from the curtain of anonymity to directly address disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor La
  
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