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• This pic is too much to handle 🤯 #TakeNote twitter.com/markeaton7ft4/…

  21-03-2018 23:51 via twitter.com
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• Gov. Herbert signs bills to send statue of Martha Hughes Cannon to U.S. Capitol, allow terminally ill ‘right to try’ medical marijuana

  21-03-2018 23:49
  Gov. Gary Herbert said Wednesday he signed a bill into law to evict television inventor Philo T. Farnsworth — or at least a statue of him — from the U.S. Capitol to make way for one of Martha Hughes Cannon, the nation’s first woman state senator.Each state is allowed to place two statues in the Capitol to honor prominent historical residents. Utah had placed Brigham Young, who led Mormon pioneers to the state, and Farnsworth.Cannon supporters argued it is time for a Utah woman
  
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• Metropolitan Division madness gets contenders playoff-ready

  21-03-2018 23:47
  The bruises on Travis Konecny's legs are marks of Metropolitan Division hockey.In the third period of a crucial late-season divisional game, the undersized Philadelphia Flyers forward got in the way of not one but two slap shots from Washington Capitals defensemen. The two points from the victory made it all feel better."It's that time of year when those shots are crucial to make sure they're not getting to your goaltender," Konecny said. "I have a feeling that's the way the body is going to fee
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Adoration of the Donald

  21-03-2018 23:46
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, March 22, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. <br>Bloodsuckers<br>Killing Justice<br> A Tale of Two Moabs <br> Nesting Fib Face <br> The Kids Are Alright <br> Putin on Fifth Avenue <br>DeVos at the Wheel<br>Democratic Senior Discount<br> Trade War<br>Counting the Minutes <br> Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• NFL competition committee to recommend catch rule changes

  21-03-2018 23:37
  West Palm Beach, Fla. • The NFL’s catch rule would get less complicated if team owners approve recommendations from the powerful competition committee.One of the first orders of business when the league’s annual meetings begin Monday in Orlando, Florida, will be a proposal by the committee to clarify what is a catch. Commissioner Roger Goodell said during the week of the Super Bowl he would urge simplification of the rules.“Catch/no catch is at the top of everyone’s
  
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• After pleading guilty to manslaughter, a Utah man is sent to prison for fatal shooting

  21-03-2018 23:37
  A Sevier County man will serve up to 30 years in prison for shooting and killing another man in 2015.William Muir, 42, pleaded guilty in February to second-degree felony manslaughter and felony discharge of a firearm, admitting he shot 36-year-old David Rioja during a fight that involved a baseball bat.A 6th District judge on Tuesday sentenced Muir to two consecutive prison terms of up to 15 years in prison on each charge.Police have said Muir shot Rioja on Nov. 22, 2015, during a fight, but a f
  
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• Russia stuck in stalemate with WADA after doping scandal

  21-03-2018 23:35
  Lausanne, Switzerland, Russia seems to be stuck in stalemate that is blocking its full re-entry to international sports after a state-backed doping scandal.The World Anti-Doping Agency said Wednesday it is "not wavering" from two key demands in a road map to rehabilitate Russia, whose anti-doping body was suspended in November 2015.Russia has refused to formally accept the findings of WADA-appointed investigator Richard McLaren, who detailed the doping program and state-orchestrated cover-ups, n
  
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• As $1.3 trillion spending deal nears finish, DACA talks fall apart while a border wall gets some funding

  21-03-2018 23:29
  Washington • Negotiators closed in on a $1.3 trillion spending deal Wednesday that includes some obstacles to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda but leaves a major New York area infrastructure project he fiercely opposes in limbo, according to multiple officials familiar with its outlines.But Trump’s support for the emerging compromise was suddenly cast into doubt, despite his aides participating in weeks of negotiations, forcing House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to rush
  
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• Utah baseball coach Bill Kinneberg is back after serving a suspension, probably just in time

  21-03-2018 23:27
  Utah baseball coach Bill Kinneberg’s return has been relatively seamless. He spent a recent practice session bouncing around the Utes’ practice field on Guardsman Way overseeing drills in the outfield, watching his pitchers throw bullpen sessions, having conversation with players and staff.Kinneberg wasn’t interested in getting overly introspective about the time he spent away from the team during a university-imposed 14-game suspension, nor was he interested in making excuses
  
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• Defiant Rick Pitino insists he did nothing wrong — and wants back in

  21-03-2018 23:15
  Miami • When the NCAA basketball tournament games tipped off last Thursday, Rick Pitino was sitting in a lounge chair on the patio of his palatial, waterfront home on a tiny island dubbed the "billionaire bunker." He'd just finished a round of golf. His son, owner of a margarita salt company, watched the early games with him but left in the afternoon because his children were in the school play, "Mary Poppins." Pitino's wife went, too, leaving him alone at home, where he watched the late ga
  
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• On Netflix’s ‘Nailed It,’ even bad bakers get a chance to shine

  21-03-2018 23:11
  Let’s face it, folks: We’re not all Great British Bakers.And now there’s a place for home bakers to humiliate oursel … er … do the thing we love and win a $10,000 prize.That place is “Nailed It.”Each episode of the Netflix series pits three dessert makers against each other. They clearly love to bake. But like me and probably you, their love exceeds their skill set.Reportedly inspired by YouTube clips in which amateurs try to re-create astonishing bake
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - By the Stats: Utah’s loss to Atlanta

  21-03-2018 22:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... nd 3-10 in games when he shoots worse than 25 percent) Before this game, the Jazz were 19-3 in games where their opponent shot worse than 30 percent from thre ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Loss to Hawks was a much-needed heat check moment

  21-03-2018 22:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... Series sweep complete, both teams unhappy Utah Jazz: Steph Curry will likely be back before Sunday’s Jazz-Warriors showdown Utah ...
  
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• .@daldridgetnt on Rudy Gobert: "...he is a monster, a one-man wrecking crew at that end of the floor, and Utah's de… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 22:47 via twitter.com
  .@daldridgetnt on Rudy Gobert: "...he is a monster, a one-man wrecking crew at that end of the floor, and Utah's de… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Holly Richardson: Happy Down Syndrome Awareness Day!

  21-03-2018 22:18
  Today is International Down Syndrome Awareness Day. Get it? 3/21 or three chromosomes on #21. Clever. Down Syndrome International encourages people all over the world to help raise awareness of what Down syndrome is, what it means to have Down syndrome, and how people with Down syndrome play a vital role in our lives and communities. This year’s theme is “What I bring to my community.” An adorable “carpool karaoke” video with 50 moms and their children with Down syn
  
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• Loss to lowly Hawks provides Jazz with some urgency as they head out on the road

  21-03-2018 22:15
  The Utah Jazz hope Tuesday night represents a minor speed bump in the pursuit of their second consecutive playoff berth.They also hope losing to the Atlanta Hawks for the second time this season teaches them a difficult lesson to learn in late March.The Jazz displayed a shocking inability to make shots in falling to Atlanta. A sellout crowd at Vivint Smart Home Arena groaned a little louder and became increasingly uneasy with each turnover. And when it became apparent that the Jazz were in troub
  
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• Commentary: HB272 should be vetoed because Utah Lake is not for sale

  21-03-2018 22:13
  If ever a bill deserved a gubernatorial veto, it would be HB272, Utah Lake Amendments, which barely passed by a single vote in the waning hours of this year’s Utah legislative session.Under the guise of restoring Utah Lake, HB272 paves the way for an outlandish real-estate development in the middle of the lake by authorizing one of the most egregious land grabs in Utah history. At face value, HB272 appears to provide a much-needed fix for Utah Lake. The bill outlines a comprehensive approa
  
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• McCutchen hopes meetings with players show NBA refs' commitment

  21-03-2018 22:09
  New York • As Monty McCutchen visits NBA teams on behalf of referees, he's hearing plenty of what he calls constructive criticism, delivered in a professional way."That's exactly what we're hoping to attain on the floor, is that no one is asking everyone to agree, no one is asking for there not to be constructive criticism," McCutchen said. "What we are trying to achieve is the sense of how to disagree respectively, how to disagree with an empathy and understanding."McCutchen left his job o
  
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• George Ezra’s songwriting journeys lead to new album

  21-03-2018 22:03
  George Ezra can’t stand still. “Staying at Tamara’s,” his second album, arrives four years after “Wanted for Voyage,” which included breakthrough smash “Budapest” and led to two years on tour and plenty of traveling.Ezra gets writer’s block at home, so he took to the road to hone his songwriting. Barcelona was his first destination — the album title references the shared Airbnb where he stayed — but later stops in his native Brita
  
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• Utah Jazz: Loss to Hawks was a much-needed heat check moment

  21-03-2018 22:01
  Although it was one of their worst losses of the season, the Utah Jazz’s latest setback against the Atlanta Hawks should provide a necessary wake-up call. If you’re a person who plays basketball or watches the NBA with any level of regularity, “heat checks” are a concept you’re well familiar with. For the uninitiated, a […]
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• Rep. John Curtis says he ‘never attempted to protect’ a former Provo police chief accused of sexual misconduct, as lawsuit alleges

  21-03-2018 21:45
  Rep. John Curtis fired back Wednesday at a lawsuit filed a day earlier that accuses him of ignoring sexual harassment complaints made against Provo’s former police chief.“I want to set the record straight,” the Republican and former Provo mayor wrote in a lengthy statement his office sent to several news outlets Wednesday.“I have not and would never knowingly do anything to shield any individual who acted inappropriately with respect to sexual harassment,” Curtis sa
  
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• Customers in three states left hanging as Utah-based Legend Solar shows signs of an ‘extreme cashflow problem’

  21-03-2018 21:36
  Once a rising star in Utah’s booming solar industry, Legend Solar appears to be showing signs of financial strain, potentially leaving scores of customers — and employees — in limbo.In just one year, annual sales for the St. George-area firm fell from a 2016 peak of $32 million down to an estimated $12 million in 2017. That precipitous decline brought layoffs and what one company blog post in January called its “extreme cashflow problem” that has prevented Legend So
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Revisiting Assists, Turnovers and Ricky Rubio’s Hand In Both

  21-03-2018 21:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... a dribble and if the defense sucks in, kicks it to the corner for a three, a Jazz favorite. It’s basically a designed play.  Recently, however, the assist num ...
  
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• Police have interviewed three who witnessed a Granite police officer shoot a teenager after getting hit by a car

  21-03-2018 21:23
  Police have interviewed and released three teenagers who are believed to have been in a car that struck a Granite School District officer and then “scattered” after the officer shot the teenage driver through the windshield.Officers are looking for one more passenger, an adult man, Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley said Wednesday.The Granite police officer, who is in his first year in law enforcement, had been patrolling a neighborhood near Hunter High School looking for
  
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• .@UofUHealth report for #UTAatDAL: Derrick Favors (left knee soreness) is available. Raul Neto (left wrist frac… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 21:22 via twitter.com
  .@UofUHealth report for #UTAatDAL: Derrick Favors (left knee soreness) is available. Raul Neto (left wrist frac… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz rumors: Igor Kokoskov in play for Phoenix Suns job

  21-03-2018 21:16 via sportspyder.com
  ... uring qualification in 2016. In December of that year, Kokoskov directed the Jazz to a 107-101 win over the Los Angeles Lakers when Snyder was out with an ill ...
  
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• Solid choice. twitter.com/ochoaSLC/statu…

  21-03-2018 21:01 via twitter.com
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• Commentary: BYU is having a conversation it has never had before

  21-03-2018 21:00
  On March 15, 2018, at 12:30 p.m., something happened that I never dreamed I’d see.I had just spent the last 90 minutes participating on Brigham Young University’s LGBTQ & SSA Student Forum panel with Kait Wright, Sarah Langford and Gabe Cano. Each of these people is a dear friend. We were selected to represent each of the letters in the acronym LGBT. I was the G.We had all been vulnerable, honest and hopeful as we answered questions from the audience, not mincing words as we disc
  
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• What’s getting Utah police in trouble? Searching official databases when they shouldn’t.

  21-03-2018 20:48
  Sandy • Kevin Pepper was warned twice not to look up friends, family or co-workers in any law enforcement database unless he had a legitimate reason. But Pepper wanted to look up his own truck to see when the registration needed to be renewed. He wondered if his son-in-law’s unpaid traffic tickets had led to warrants being issued. And he wanted to know his supervisors’ dates of birth so he could mark their birthdays on his calendar. Pepper said he couldn’t remember why he
  
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• Late-season starter Joe Critchlow eager to keep pace in BYU’s crowded quarterback derby

  21-03-2018 20:42
  Provo • BYU coach Kalani Sitake will conclude the Cougars’ ninth spring camp practice at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Friday morning with another fully padded scrimmage if the weather cooperates. No word yet on whether the quarterbacks will be subjected to contact and tackling like they were in an 11-on-11 exercise last week. Joe Critchlow certainly hopes that is the case.The sophomore, a bit forgotten in the closely watched quarterback derby of 2018 spring camp, hopes to show he can be
  
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• Utah Jazz rumors: Igor Kokoskov in play for Phoenix Suns job

  21-03-2018 20:32
  Utah Jazz assistant coach Igor Kokoskov could be in play for the Phoenix Suns head coaching job this summer. Although the Utah Jazz have made incredible progress over the last three years, success often comes with a down side. Specifically, other teams covet what you have and will do what they can to take it. […]
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• Happy #WallpaperWednesday https://t.co/LpKSd4vuTV

  21-03-2018 20:03 via twitter.com
  
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• Do you want a little behind-the-scenes look at @spidadmitchell shooting a cover for @SLAMonline? Of course you do. https://t.co/kaaOYq74Un

  21-03-2018 19:15 via twitter.com
  
  Do you want a little behind-the-scenes look at @spidadmitchell shooting a cover for @SLAMonline?Of course you do. https://t.co/kaaOYq74Un
  
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• Rugby-obsessed Tonga shaken by apparent ban to keep girls from playing the sport in high school

  21-03-2018 19:12
  Upon hearing the words “Tonga” and “athlete,” the first thing that most likely comes to mind is an image of Olympian Pita Nikolas Taufatofua in all his oily, muscular glory. Taufatofua competed in taekwondo.But the Pacific nation is better known for another sport, rugby, for which it has an undying love.So Tongans and rugby fans around the world were outraged when it was revealed recently that the country’s Ministry of Education and Training was apparently imposing
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: The Jazz bench is experiencing a scoring outage

  21-03-2018 19:08
  There’s a lot to pick at after Utah’s first loss to a team with a losing record in two months, including missed layups, missed 3-pointers and giving up a career high to Dennis Schroder. But there’s a thread that many Jazz fans may not like pulling, because it reaches back well into the nine-game winning streak and beyond.Utah’s bench is struggling.That continued on Tuesday night, and was in some ways magnified by the absence of Derrick Favors, who was out with knee sorene
  
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• We wanted to give a shout out to the winner of our Bailey’s Moving & Storage Getaway, Tiffany D! We’re excited for… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 19:08 via twitter.com
  We wanted to give a shout out to the winner of our Bailey’s Moving & Storage Getaway, Tiffany D! We’re excited for… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Letter: As a Republican, I’m disgusted at GOP attempts to renege on the compromise of Count My Vote

  21-03-2018 19:00
  As a lifelong partisan Republican, former Republican state legislator and former member of the Republican state central committee, I cannot adequately express my disgust with the current central committee’s continuing efforts to renege on the compromise of SB54 (Count My Vote) and to thwart the obvious will of the Republican electorate.They seem to have forgotten who is responsible for electing Republicans in Utah. I, for one, have contributed my last dollar to the party (including check-a
  
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• Salem Hills star Lauren Gustin earns Gatorade Utah girls’ basketball player of the year

  21-03-2018 18:56
  Salem Hills senior Lauren Gustin turned in dominant performance after dominant performance to help lead the Skyhawks to the Class 4A girls’ basketball state title.Gustin was rewarded for her efforts when she was named the Gatorade Utah girls’ basketball player of the year.The 6-foot senior averaged 29.3 points, 17.2 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game for the 24-1 Skyhawks.“Lauren Gustin is a complete player who is nearly impossible to defend,” Springville coach Camie Oakey
  
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• Kragthorpe: Could BYU’s Zach Wilson and Utah’s Jack Tuttle start as freshmen QBs? That would be historic.

  21-03-2018 18:52
  This has happened once in the state’s major college football history when Utah State’s Chuckie Keeton became a season-opening starting quarterback as a freshman in 2011.This never has happened in journalism: a story about high school football players enrolling in college in the winter that fails to list the senior prom among everything they’re potentially missing by graduating early.Those are the challenges and opportunities awaiting BYU’s Zach Wilson, Utah’s Jack
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Donovan Mitchell becomes second Utah Jazz player to make cover of SLAM magazine

  21-03-2018 18:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... the years. It has been around since 1994. Mitchell poses on the front in the Jazz’s Nike City Edition uniform. The slam dunk champion is also profiled by SLAM ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-Atlanta Hawks: Series sweep complete, both teams unhappy

  21-03-2018 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... e pointed out that this seemed similar to the Sacramento Kings game that the Jazz nearly lost. They would be wrong. In terms of 3-point percentage, the Sacram ...
  
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• Donovan Mitchell becomes second Utah Jazz player to make cover of SLAM magazine

  21-03-2018 18:45
  SALT LAKE CITY — If you stroll past newsstands or places where magazines are sold, you’ll likely notice a familiar face on the cover of a popular basketball one.Donovan Mitchell continues to keep the Utah Jazz in the national spotlight with his stellar play.This time, the 21-year-old’s face is stamped on the front of the latest SLAM magazine, which is synonymous for infusing hoops with the hip-hop culture.https://twitter.com/SLAMonline/status/976478863986495489Allen Iverson, Le
  
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• Nearly 200 cheeses are sold at Harmons grocery stores in Utah, and this 32-year-old has eaten them all

  21-03-2018 18:24
  Mariah Christensen has every cheese lover’s dream job — traveling, tasting and deciding which of the world’s cheddars, goudas and mozzarellas should be sold at Harmons Grocery Stores in Utah.The 32-year-old specialty cheese buyer is good at it, too. She recently was inducted into the Guilde Internationale des Fromagers,the French name for the International Cheese Guild. She’s only the second Utah resident to be accepted into the worldwide organization that promotes the ar
  
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• Austin bombing suspect dies after detonating explosive as SWAT team closed in, police say

  21-03-2018 18:17
  Round Rock, Texas • The suspected serial bomber who terrorized Austin with a string of exploding packages died early Wednesday after detonating an explosive device in his vehicle as police closed in on him, authorities said.Austin police and the FBI tracked him to a hotel parking lot in Round Rock, about 18 miles north of Austin, where they found him inside his vehicle, Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said. Officers wanted to wait for tactical units to arrive before engaging the su
  
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• After her father forced her and her three siblings into his fundamentalist Mormon offshoot Knights of the Crystal Blade, one 4-year-old asks ‘Can they just kill him?’

  21-03-2018 18:15
  Micha Coltharp has to keep the house cold. She has to avoid Spam and Pop-Tarts at the grocery store. She has to monitor the TV and radio to make sure a man’s voice doesn’t fill the house.These things are triggers for her two boys and two girls, who spent three months under the care of their father while he led the fundamentalist Mormon offshoot Knights of the Crystal Blade. They were in his custody as he and his fellow believer allegedly prepared for a prophesied Muslim invasion of t
  
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• Letter: Cyberwar is about dividing us; let’s confront it with a unified response

  21-03-2018 18:10
  When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the Americans responded with horror, then commitment, followed by action. Every American was involved in the war effort in some way, through joining the military, covering the civilian positions of those who did, and converting factories and services to support the war effort.Our generation has experienced its Pearl Harbor in the Russian cyberattack on the 2016 elections. What is the American response to this attack? Congress has proposed a timid response o
  
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• Utah gymnasts pleased to open Pac-12 Championships on uneven bars

  21-03-2018 18:09
  Utah’s gymnastics team didn’t hesitate when deciding which event to begin its Pac-12 Championships effort, picking the uneven bars, the event the Utes start on when they are in dual road meets.Top-seeded UCLA not surprisingly selected the vault for its opener in Saturday’s competition in Tucson.“I really think our bars team has improved through the season,” Utah coach Megan Marsden said. “We have done the rotation a lot, so it should be good for us.”Utah
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Who is paying for Orrin Hatch’s monument?

  21-03-2018 17:59
  With Orrin Hatch having finally announced that he is not seeking another term in the U.S. Senate, and all attention now focused on the process to replace him, one might think that the large amounts of money still flowing to the senator, and his nonprofit foundation, no longer matter.One would be wrong.As outlined in a recent article by Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Thomas Burr, the campaign to create a living memorial to the six-term senator has raked in at least $6 million already — tow
  
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• Utah Jazz-Atlanta Hawks: Series sweep complete, both teams unhappy

  21-03-2018 17:57
  The Utah Jazz suffered their second setback against the Atlanta Hawks this season and lost ground in the playoff race as a result. The Utah Jazz had an opportunity to extend their win streak to 10 games on Tuesday. Instead, they lost the season series to the lowly Atlanta Hawks, who picked up only their […]
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• [Give Me Sport] - Dennis Schroder becomes first Hawks player to record a 40 point-game since 2009 | GiveMeSport

  21-03-2018 17:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... e fifth-year man asked head coach Mike Budenholzer to allow him to guard the Jazz's rookie sensation Donovan Mitchell down the stretch. "I want to prove mysel ...
  
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