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• Bagley Cartoon: One Word — Plastics

  22-03-2018 23:56
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, March 23, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Adoration of the Donald<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>Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• ‘Behind the Headlines’: Curtis takes heat for ex-Provo top cop, Noel didn’t disclose pipeline interest and Utahns delete Facebook accounts

  22-03-2018 23:53
  Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, is accused of ignoring sexual-misconduct allegations against then-Provo Police Chief John King during Curtis’ tenure as mayor. Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, gets flak for not disclosing how he could benefit from the Lake Powell pipeline project he promoted in the Legislature. And Utahns are deciding whether to break ties with Facebook amid a global movement to delete accounts.At 9 a.m. Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Jessica Miller, Sean P. Means and Brian Maffly a
  
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• Minor league baseball players to lose salary protection under government spending legislation

  22-03-2018 23:44
  Minor league baseball players who make as little as $5,500 a season would be stripped of the protection of federal minimum wage laws under a provision in government spending legislation expected to be approved by Congress this week.The "Save America's Pastime Act" is included on page 1,967 of the $1.3 trillion spending bill and appears to pre-empt a lawsuit filed four years ago in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by three players alleging Major League Baseball and its teams violate the Fair
  
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• Trump replacing McMaster with Bolton

  22-03-2018 23:40
  Washington • President Donald Trump is replacing national security adviser H.R. McMaster with John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.Trump tweets that McMaster has done “an outstanding job & will always remain my friend.” He says Bolton will take over April 9.Trump has repeatedly clashed with McMaster, a respected three-star general, and talk that McMaster would soon leave the administration had picked up in recent weeks.His departure follows Trump&rsquo
  
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• In now-softened Facebook post, Davis County GOP hit Mitt Romney for ‘illegally obtaining’ delegate list early to gain an edge

  22-03-2018 23:38
  The Davis County Republican Party blasted U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney in a Facebook post Thursday — which it later deleted, softened and reposted — griping initially that his campaign “illegally obtained” its lists of new state delegates to send emails.It said he should have waited, as agreed by all candidates, for the party to provide the list to all campaigns at the same time.
  Others lashed out at the party for that criticism, and praised Romney for a campaign tha
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Jazz kick off short road trip in Dallas

  22-03-2018 23:29 via sportspyder.com
  ... T Sports Net - Rocky Mountain Radio: 1280 AM/97.5 FM The Zone Injuries: Utah Jazz: Thabo Sefolosha - OUT (Knee) - OUT (Wrist) - OUT (Concussion) Derrick Favor ...
  
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• Modern major league manager salesman as much as strategist

  22-03-2018 23:27
  Tampa, Fla. • Running a major league team for the first time in four seasons, 60-year-old Ron Gardenhire thought about all the data and video rammed into the microchip of his iPad, a slew of statistics his bosses hope transform defeats into triumphs.Baseball wasn't like this four decades ago, when Gardy left college to begin his career as an infield prospect in the low Carolina League, down in Lynchburg, Va."If you're not changing, you're probably not going to last," the new Detroit Tigers
  
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• Utah’s members of Congress, except for Hatch, oppose massive spending bill

  22-03-2018 23:26
  Washington • Utah’s four House members voted Thursday against a massive, $1.3 billion spending bill that includes more money for the Defense Department, a school safety initiative and partial funding for a new wall at the U.S.-Mexican border.Sen. Orrin Hatch is likely to vote for the measure when it comes up for approval but Sen. Mike Lee is opposed to it, joining Utah’s House members in citing concerns with the last-minute disclosure of the bill’s contents, as well as inc
  
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• Woman convicted in death of Utah sheriff’s deputy needs a new trial, appeal court says, but not for murder

  22-03-2018 23:20
  The Utah Court of Appeals has ruled that a jury relied on incorrect instructions when it convicted a Utah teen in a 2014 crime spree in which one peace officer was killed and another was wounded.But while the high court has remanded Meagan Grunwald’s case back for a new trial, the justice ruled that the woman’s convictions of aggravated murder — for the death of Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Cory Wride — and a charge of aggravated robbery for carjacking a vehicle will
  
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• Former teacher says Utah charter school’s ‘racist’ policies include punishing students for speaking their native languages

  22-03-2018 23:12
  A network of Utah charter schools is facing backlash over its top administrator’s use of social media, including a February statement that criticized illegal immigration for fueling a drug “scourge.”
  Students at American Preparatory Academy, or APA, in West Valley City protested last week, partly in response to a since-deleted Facebook post by Carolyn Sharette, executive director of American Preparatory Schools.“Yes let’s offer the dreamers a future,” Sharette
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-Dallas Mavericks: Can the Jazz bench contribute to a win?

  22-03-2018 23:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... g way toward securing it. Key to winning: Bench Production In both contests, Jazz-killer JJ Barea scored 17 points. Preventing this kind of outburst will keep ...
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Republicans should stop whining about leaks and start challenging Trump

  22-03-2018 23:00
  Jonathan Swan at Axios quotes an unnamed Senate Republican aide as saying:“Everyone is over the leaks from this White House. Why is it that every emotional moment he has, has to be leaked, has to be a tick-tock, every second has to be transmitted to you guys in the press? ... It is a disservice to the president when every single thing and every single thought gets leaked out ... I don’t understand why people don’t get that. It’s not fair to the president, to his agenda an
  
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• House budget says CDC can study gun violence

  22-03-2018 22:49
  Washington • Accompanying the $1.3 trillion spending bill that the House passed Thursday afternoon is language that may open the door slightly to restoring federal funding for gun research.The language, which is still pending passage in the Senate, clarifies that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can indeed conduct research into gun violence. For more than two decades, a 1997 rule that Congress passed under pressure from gun lobbyists - known as the Dickey Amendment - has essen
  
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• Hawaiian BBQ restaurant in South Jordan is shut down after health officials find live cockroaches

  22-03-2018 22:49
  The Salt Lake County Health Department shut down a Hawaiian barbecue restaurant in South Jordan earlier this week after finding “numerous live and dead cockroaches.”Lanikai Grill, 1072 W. South Jordan Parkway, also had “harborrage conditions” that encouraged the pest infestation, according to a notice on the department website.In all, the restaurant was cited for 17 health code violations — four of which were deemed critical to human health.The restaurant will remai
  
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• Should the Idaho teacher who fed a dying puppy to a turtle be charged with a crime? The attorney general is deciding.

  22-03-2018 22:47
  The Idaho Attorney General’s office is reviewing potential animal cruelty charges against a Preston science teacher who has been accused feeding a sick puppy to a snapping turtle in his junior high school classroom earlier this month.After Franklin County Sheriff’s Office investigated the March 8 complaint of animal cruelty, the report was sent to the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Vic Pearson to review potential animal cruelty charges against Robert Crosland. The office passed
  
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• Ibrahimovic leaves Manchester United to join MLS, L.A. Galaxy

  22-03-2018 22:39
  Zlatan Ibrahimovic has signed a two-year contract with Major League Soccer to leave Manchester United and join the LA Galaxy, two people with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press.Ibrahimovic thanked Manchester United on Twitter."Great things also come to an end and it is time to move on after two fantastic seasons with Manchester United. Thank you to the club, the fans, the team, the coach, the staff and everybody who shared with me this part of my history. (hash)foreverred," he wrote
  
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• Pro rugby is coming to Utah. Will there an audience for it? League and team officials are curious themselves

  22-03-2018 22:29
  Rugby is a game of constant and continuous motion. As a professional sport in America, however, it has been anything but that with roughly a half dozen failed attempts over the past two decades.Can the Salt Lake-based startup, Major League Rugby, which kicks off its inaugural season later this month, be the one to buck the trend? Following Major League Soccer’s single-entity model, and thanks to multi-year broadcast deals with CBS Sports and ESPN, MLR officials believe they have found a wi
  
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• Utah Jazz-Dallas Mavericks: Can the Jazz bench contribute to a win?

  22-03-2018 22:28
  The Utah Jazz aim to recover from a bad loss to the Atlanta Hawks against the Dallas Mavericks, who are looking to end (or not) a three-game losing streak. After a frustrating loss against the Atlanta Hawks, the Utah Jazz will be back in action on Thursday against another lottery-bound club in the Dallas Mavericks. […]
  Utah Jazz-Dallas Mavericks: Can the Jazz bench contribute to a win? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - March memo: LeBron, Cavs send message with win over Raptors

  22-03-2018 22:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... by 98-year-old nun, fan in Sister Jean Suns' Chriss, Dudley fined $25K after Jazz's Rubio shoved Latest in section Wolfpack relish ride to Sweet 16 matchup vs ...
  
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• Ramesh Ponnuru: Let us now praise the great President Trump

  22-03-2018 22:00
  “As great as this president is, he’s occasionally wrong.” So spoke Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican, by way of explaining his opposition to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.He’s not the only one to preface his disagreements with Trump with a display of obsequiousness. A group called Farmers for Free Trade is running a national advertising campaign against the tariffs. In its ad, a Montana farmer says, “We’re very optimistic about the economy under P
  
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• RSL plagued by another string of injuries to start the season

  22-03-2018 21:49
  The injuries started to pile up as Real Salt Lake emerged from preseason.First there was Adam Henley’s hamstring then Aaron Herrera’s groin. Marcelo Silva had to leave Friday’s training session with a hamstring injury the next week. Then Shawn Barry (knee) went down against LAFC. Joao Plata (hamstring) missed Saturday’s match against the Red Bulls, and Luis Silva was a late scratch as a precautionary measure.Nine players have missed matches due to injury just three matche
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - UConn's Auriemma criticizes Cincinnati's coach firing

  22-03-2018 21:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... by 98-year-old nun, fan in Sister Jean Suns' Chriss, Dudley fined $25K after Jazz's Rubio shoved Latest in section ACC rivals Duke, Syracuse to match 2-3 zone ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Top-seeded Kansas faces Clemson, Duke gets 'Cuse in Sweet 16

  22-03-2018 21:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... by 98-year-old nun, fan in Sister Jean Suns' Chriss, Dudley fined $25K after Jazz's Rubio shoved Latest in section ACC rivals Duke, Syracuse to match 2-3 zone ...
  
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• Obscure company called Ayers Energy bought a bunch of controversial public-lands leases in Utah’s San Juan County — but who are they?

  22-03-2018 21:42
  Whoever is trying to buy drilling rights in an archaeologically rich corner of Utah canyon country, they appear to be going to great lengths to hide their identity.A lone and obscure company purchased nearly all the public-lands leases the Bureau of Land Management auctioned on Tuesday in an area blanketed with prehistoric structures, rock art and other artifacts left by Ancestral Puebloan cultures.Acting on behalf of Ayers Energy LLC, a Texas lawyer named Jeremy Westphal submitted the winning b
  
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• 🗝️: Rudy 🆚 Dirk Tipoff ⏰: 6:30PM MT https://t.co/Ig4yzi0DIV

  22-03-2018 21:06 via twitter.com
  
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• Noah Feldman: Justice Department is headed down a dangerous path

  22-03-2018 21:00
  Before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe for alleged dishonesty, McCabe led an investigation of Sessions for, well, dishonesty.This may or may not be proof of wrongdoing in McCabe’s firing. Sessions’s lawyer says the investigation of the attorney general, which was continued by special counsel Robert Mueller, is over; it’s at least possible that Sessions didn’t know that McCabe was the one investigating him.Regardless, Wednesday’
  
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• Gov. Herbert says it’s time to tighten gun rights to prevent school shootings

  22-03-2018 20:58
  Although Utahns normally are strident protectors of gun rights, Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday that the time has arrived to set tighter parameters on them to help prevent school shootings — and ticked off a list of possible steps.Also at his monthly press conference on KUED-TV, he issued a call for zero tolerance of sexual harassment — and punishment for it — after a former president of the LDS Missionary Training Center this week acknowledged sexual misconduct in the 1980s w
  
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• YouTube bans firearm sales and how-to videos, prompting backlash

  22-03-2018 20:57
  YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, this week quietly introduced tighter restrictions on videos involving weapons, becoming the latest battleground in the U.S. gun-control debate.YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to websites selling firearms and accessories, including bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic rifle to fire faster. Additionally, YouTube said it will prohibit videos with instructions on how to assemble firearms. The video site, owned by Alphabet&rsqu
  
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• BYU basketball faces a scholarship crunch, could see some roster shakeup in tumultuous offseason

  22-03-2018 20:49
  Provo • BYU basketball coach Dave Rose could have a quandary on his hands this offseason.BYU’s program faces a possible scholarship crunch with no seniors on the 2017-18 roster, meaning no scheduled departures.If all 12 scholarship players return and Nick Emery rejoins the team after withdrawing from school last fall in the midst of an NCAA investigation into improper benefits and some personal issues he has detailed in blogs, the Cougars would be two over the NCAA-allotted 13 scholar
  
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• Gov. Herbert signs another 44 bills, including a $1.7M fee break for EnergySolutions

  22-03-2018 20:27
  Utah’s governor has agreed with legislators in deciding that EnergySolutions, the low-level radioactive waste disposal company, needs a $1.7 million break on the regulatory state fees it has been paying.
  Gov. Gary Herbert signed HB169 on Wednesday, his office said in a Thursday press release. The release provided no explanation or commentary on this or any of the other 43 bills Herbert signed.The Tribune has requested a comment from the governor’s office.
  Also in the latest batch of
  
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• Monson: Maniac parents of young athletes in Utah, drink a cup of shut the hell up

  22-03-2018 20:25
  I interviewed Frank Martin once but don’t know the South Carolina basketball coach, don’t know what the man is like to play for, how he treats his players and assistants and fans and reporters who cover him and all other sorts of human beings.I do know this: Parents right here in Utah and everywhere else need to listen to him, parents who have kids who play sports.If you fit into that category or spend time watching young athletes, you should check out the three-minute video that rec
  
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• Utes’ NIT success has turned initial postseason disappointment into something a little more special

  22-03-2018 20:24
  Utah’s season felt like it had been dealt a final blow two weeks ago in the Pac-12 Tournament. The Utes’ NCAA Tournament hopes, which had grown increasingly realistic, all of a sudden popped like a balloon. However, they have managed to let what happened in Las Vegas stay right there. Utah has continued to make postseason memories, though not in the setting it had initially envisioned, by earning a spot in the NIT semifinals at Madison Square Garden in New York next week. The program
  
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• St. George now nation’s fastest-growing metro area, while Uintah County skids to one of country’s worst population losses

  22-03-2018 20:24
  Population growth in much of Utah now tops the nation, thanks to newcomers drawn by its strong economy, according to U.S. Census estimates released Thursday.
  But the Uinta Basin — where the energy boom went bust — is suffering one of the country’s worst losses of population.Major findings in the new data include:
  • St. George is now America’s fastest-growing metropolitan area — and Provo-Orem isn’t far behind at No. 8.• For the second year in a row,
  
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• Salt Lake’s Nathan Chen leads world figure skating championships

  22-03-2018 20:21
  Assago, Italy • American skaters Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou both finished in the top three in the men's short program at the world figure skating championships on Thursday after a critical error by the Olympic silver medalist.Chen, the Salt Lake City star, neatly vanquished ghosts of the Olympic short program to finish first going into the final free, while Zhou was one of the few skaters to outdo his Olympic performance to place third in the technically loaded short program.Mikhail Kolya
  
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• ‘The Death of Stalin,’ from the creator of ‘Veep,’ deploys pointed satirical stings

  22-03-2018 20:14
  The style of humor in satirist Armando Iannucci’s latest film, “The Death of Stalin,” is a frightfully uneasy one. Sight gags and slapstick erupt from a pervasive atmosphere of dread and terror.In one early scene, an orchestra conductor is so overcome with worry that a wiretap may have caught him disparaging the titular dictator’s musical discernment that he faints, thwacking his head on a metal bucket. Just moments before, Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) had phoned in a reque
  
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• ‘Paul, Apostle of Christ’ portrays the early Christian community at its most fragile

  22-03-2018 20:03
  “Paul, Apostle of Christ” comes from Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Affirm label, an offshoot that has produced Christian-themed dramas such as “Heaven Is for Real,” “Soul Surfer” and “Risen.” Less interested in blunt proselytizing than more open-ended explorations of faith and its challenges, Affirm films have gratifyingly avoided the kind of pietistic Sunday-school pageantry that characterizes so many motion pictures of the genre.Written and
  
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• Letter: To opposing sides set to rally on gun issues in Salt Lake City: Be courteous

  22-03-2018 20:00
  On March 24, “March for our Lives” will trek from West High School to the state Capitol to commemorate the people murdered in Florida and call for some kind of gun control.The same morning, according to The Tribune (March 18), our gun totin’ friends will rally against any kind of restrictions on guns and gun ownership. All heavily and legally armed.Confrontations will surely ensue. I ask all of us: Have a spirited but courteous debate. No rudeness. Pro-gun folks, no aggression
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Analyzing the Utah Jazz's Small-Ball Lineup | SI.com

  22-03-2018 19:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... gher level of precision. Enter Crowder, who in his month and a half with the Jazz has established himself as the stretch four of choice. There has been room i ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Hornets' Howard suspended after technical foul in 30-30 game

  22-03-2018 19:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... by 98-year-old nun, fan in Sister Jean Suns' Chriss, Dudley fined $25K after Jazz's Rubio shoved Latest in section Ohio Valley Conference hoops tourneys to st ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz need to correct to course vs Nowitzki, Mavs

  22-03-2018 19:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... reer, posting a career-high .557 effective field goal percentage. Jazz bigs will have to be diligent in their close-outs and recovery. Team defense ...
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: The most interesting team in the West playoff race

  22-03-2018 19:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... dy Gobert has helped save the season 3/12 - Utah Jazz have stormed onto the Western Conference playoff scene Earlier this week, Ut ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Column: Rules tinkering by baseball bosses ruining sport

  22-03-2018 19:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... by 98-year-old nun, fan in Sister Jean Suns' Chriss, Dudley fined $25K after Jazz's Rubio shoved Latest in section FAU hires Dusty May as its new men's basket ...
  
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• Delete Facebook? Or stay and fight? Debate rages in Utah and around the world

  22-03-2018 19:06
  Chiemi Maloy has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Facebook for years — but on Monday, in the wake of the social network’s unfolding scandal involving a data-mining firm, she’s unfriending for good.“The idea that our activities are being tracked in some sort of data bank has always been out there,” Maloy, 28, of Salt Lake City, said Wednesday. “This seems like the weaponizing of your personal preferences and personal information. … It just se
  
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• Letter: Make illegal any weapon that can fire more than two rounds without being reloaded

  22-03-2018 19:00
  In the Public Forum on March 20, Matthew Hansen suggested changes in age restrictions, health laws, background checks and mandatory firearm training to help reduce gun violence.I don’t disagree. Such changes should be part of the solution.But I don’t see enough opinions being expressed about the prevalence of assault weapons.I would like to have the following law in place:It would be a federal crime to sell, purchase, own or possess any weapon that can fire more than two rounds witho
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Deleting Facebook? Don't worry, I'll replace it for you.

  22-03-2018 19:00
  I can understand why you might wish to delete Facebook, especially given that the company responded to the news about Cambridge Analytica by saying, oh, no, the problem was not that someone had access to the data of 50 million people, most of whom had no idea that their information was being shared, that part was okay; the problem was they sold it.That is why I have this special offer: If you want to delete Facebook, but are worried that you will miss it, I am happy to become your personal Faceb
  
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• Utah Jazz need to correct to course vs Nowitzki, Mavs

  22-03-2018 18:54
  Following a bad loss with potential playoff implications, Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz need a strong bounce-back effort in their bout with the Dallas Mavericks. Let’s be real here — the Utah Jazz were never going to win every game for the rest of the season. Tuesday’s loss to the Atlanta Hawks definitely wasn’t […]
  Utah Jazz need to correct to course vs Nowitzki, Mavs - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Utah Jazz need to correct course vs Nowitzki, Mavs

  22-03-2018 18:54
  Following a bad loss with potential playoff implications, Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz need a strong bounce-back effort in their bout with the Dallas Mavericks. Let’s be real here — the Utah Jazz were never going to win every game for the rest of the season. Tuesday’s loss to the Atlanta Hawks definitely wasn’t […]
  Utah Jazz need to correct course vs Nowitzki, Mavs - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Provo police arrest Utah man on suspicion of killing his girlfriend’s 4-month-old daughter

  22-03-2018 18:47
  A 23-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of child abuse homicide.Cameron Willingham, of Provo, was booked into the Utah County jail on Wednesday night on suspicion of child abuse homicide in connection to the death of a four-month-old baby girl. Provo police identified the child as Nevaeh King.Nevaeh, whose mother is dating Willingham, died Wednesday morning. Police officials said a press release that the baby died from serious head and neck injuries, as well as abdominal hemorrhagi
  
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• Ishaan Tharoor: The scary truth that Cambridge Analytica understands

  22-03-2018 18:30
  Cambridge Analytica, a London-based data firm that sold its services to political campaigns, has been thrust into the spotlight this week thanks to a number of startling exposés. Undercover footage, along with testimony and evidence provided by a former employee-turned-whistleblower, offered a glimpse of the company’s shadowy dealings around the world. It secretly harvested the data of tens of millions of Facebook users and may have engaged in all sorts of offline skulduggery, inclu
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Carter's shot propels Texas A&M women into the Sweet 16

  22-03-2018 18:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... by 98-year-old nun, fan in Sister Jean Suns' Chriss, Dudley fined $25K after Jazz's Rubio shoved Latest in section Rhode Island's Dan Hurley to coach UConn te ...
  
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