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• Emails show pattern of deception by disgraced doctor Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics

  24-05-2018 23:56
  Indianapolis • USA Gymnastics agreed to use false excuses in 2015 to account for the absence of sports doctor Larry Nassar, who had been accused of sexually abusing female athletes, according to emails obtained by a newspaper.Nassar suggested that USA Gymnastics tell people that he couldn’t attend two major events that summer because he was sick or needed to focus on his work at Michigan State University, the Indianapolis Star reported Thursday.“We’ll let Ron know to advis
  
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• A loss to Portland almost made Laura Harvey quit coaching. Now she’s facing the team again, as leader of the Utah Royals.

  24-05-2018 23:55
  Laura Harvey almost gave up on her NWSL coaching career on the steps outside Providence Park in June 2013. “I can’t do this,” she remembers telling people after the Seattle Reign’s ninth straight loss, 2-0 to the Portland Thorns. “I’m done. I’m going to leave.”It was in league’s inaugural season and two months into it, Harvey’s team had yet to win a match. On Friday, the now-Utah Royals coach returns to Portland’s Providence Park
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert shut out of All-NBA honors

  24-05-2018 23:54 via sportspyder.com
  ... the frontcourt. Meanwhile, Gobert spearheaded the league’s best defense. The Jazz surrendered less than 98 points per 100 possessions when he was on the floor ...
  
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• [USA Today: For The Win] - Block machine Rudy Gobert shows no mercy, spikes little kid's shot out of the air

  24-05-2018 23:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... uited Chris Paul to take on Kevin Hart in a game of 3-on-3 Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz, NBA shares share tweet pin sms send email ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert shut out of All-NBA honors

  24-05-2018 23:36
  The league may have recognized Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert’s defensive prowess this week, but All-NBA honors are a no-go. “All-NBA center” — has a nice ring to it, huh? For the last year, that’s what Utah Jazz fans have been able to call star big man Rudy Gobert. The Stifle Tower may not have […]
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• Officials: Weinstein to surrender in sexual misconduct probe

  24-05-2018 23:15
  New York • Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities Friday to face charges involving at least one of the women who have accused him of sexual assault, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.It would be the first criminal case against Weinstein to come out of the barrage of sexual abuse allegations from scores of women that destroyed his career and set off a national reckoning that brought down other powerful men in what has become known as th
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Morning Commute

  24-05-2018 23:08
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, May 25, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>If I Had a Hammer<br>Nyet Collusion!<br>High Church<br>Always In Our Hearts<br>Ruffing the Fourth Estate<br>Mother’s Day<br>Takers<br>Be Prepared <br> Keep on Truckin’ Trump <br>We Care About Memories <br>Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Ricky Rubio thrived in his first year with the Jazz, setting career highs in points (13.1) and 3-pointers (1.2) per… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 23:04 via twitter.com
  Ricky Rubio thrived in his first year with the Jazz, setting career highs in points (13.1) and 3-pointers (1.2) per… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Greg Sargent: James Clapper’s bombshell: Russia swung the election. What if he’s right?

  24-05-2018 23:00
  Thursday morning, “Fox and Friends” aired an interview with President Donald Trump, in which he hailed the National Football League’s decision to herd African-American players prone to kneeling during the national anthem into locker rooms, sparing NFL audiences the uncomfortable spectacle of accomplished black athletes protesting systemic racism and police brutality.Trump said: “I don’t think people should be staying in locker rooms. But still, it’s good. You
  
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• Utah football agrees to future non-conference dates with Houston and Weber State

  24-05-2018 22:49
  The far-away future is being pieced together for the Utah football team. The Utes announced Thursday they have agreed to non-conference dates with Weber State as well as the University of Houston. The agreement between Utah and Weber State has the two teams facing off Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, at Rice-Eccles Stadium, pending the approval of the Pac-12 Conference. The Pac-12 has the option to move the game to September 1 or 2, per the announcement. The Utes and Wildcats will meet in 2021 and will
  
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• Timberwolves place 2 on All-NBA teams; Damian Lillard makes 1st team; Utah Jazz's Rudy Gobert just misses out

  24-05-2018 22:37
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves have two All-NBA players in the same season for the first time in 14 years.Jimmy Butler and Karl-Anthony Towns were both named to the All-NBA third team. Towns (99 points) kept Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, who received 51 points, from making the team. The league's all-star teams were announced Thursday.Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell received two points. His Rookie of the Year rival Ben Simmons received 36.Former Weber State star Damian Lill
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Timberwolves place 2 on All-NBA teams; Damian Lillard makes 1st team; Utah Jazz's Rudy Gobert just misses out

  24-05-2018 22:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... 's all-star teams were announced Thursday. Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell received two points. His Rookie of the Year rival Be ...
  
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• Officials: Efforts failing to save U.S. West sagebrush land

  24-05-2018 22:00
  Boise, Idaho • Public lands managers are losing a battle against a devastating combination of invasive plant species and wildfires in the vast sagebrush habitats in the U.S. West that support cattle ranching and recreation and are home to an imperiled bird, officials said.The Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies in a 58-page report released this month says invasive plants on nearly 160,000 square miles (414,400 sq. kilometers) of public and private lands have reached enormous
  
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• Don Gale: The fault is not in Mr. Trump, but in ourselves

  24-05-2018 22:00
  If you voted for Mr. Trump, don’t read this. It’s about you, and you won’t like it. If you join studio audiences in cheering for Stephen Colbert when he trashes Trump every night, don’t read this. You won’t like it because you, too, are part of the problem. It’s time to stop worrying about our pretend president. It’s time to focus on the many good Americans who voted for the man ... and the many good Americans who jeer whenever Trump’s name is ment
  
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• Morgan Freeman apologizes in wake of harassment accusations

  24-05-2018 21:57
  Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman apologized on Thursday to anyone who may have felt “uncomfortable or disrespected” by his behavior, after CNN reported that multiple women have accused the A-list actor of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior on movie sets and in other professional settings.“Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy,” the actor, now 80, said in a statement
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: New insights on LDS Church finances, MoTabs salute black Americans, Muslim ties praised, and a first for BYU

  24-05-2018 21:50
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want Mormon Land in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: Mother in Heaven In 2015, the LDS Church issued a short essay matter-of-factly affirming its belief in a Heavenly Mother. Some argue whole books should be written about her. And that’s precisely
  
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• 1st sex assault trial set for ex-Utah State football player

  24-05-2018 21:47
  Logan • A trial for a former Utah State football player accused of sexually assaulting seven women has been set for January.The Herald Journal reports that 24-year-old Torrey Green appeared in court Tuesday, where attorneys established a plan for trial. The seven cases charged against him will be tried in two separate trials in Box Elder County.The first trial will cover sexual assaults allegations by six young women who met Green on a dating app. The second trial will cover the seventh all
  
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• Former Google exec wants Utah to come up with an idea to save the middle class — and is offering $1M

  24-05-2018 21:30
  Do you have an idea that could save your community’s shrinking middle class?Google guru Eric Schmidt is offering up to $1 million for winning proposals from Utah, Wisconsin, Arizona and Ohio. “There’s never been this kind of an overarching push before to solve this problem,” said Pam Perlich, director of demographics with the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah, which will host the state’s effort.On Wednesday, the flagship research institution
  
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• When you’re first team all-defense ALWAYS 🖐❌ (via @rudygobert27) https://t.co/BfHiozvJr7

  24-05-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  
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• Nevada marijuana sales blow past top projections again, hit a new monthly high

  24-05-2018 21:00
  Reno, Nev. • Nevada marijuana sales continue to outpace projections, reaching the highest monthly total in March since recreational sales became legal last July.The Nevada Department of Taxation said Wednesday taxable sales of adult-use marijuana topped $41 million in March, a 16 percent increase from February and 14.5 percent more than the previous monthly record of $35.8 million in December.Taxes on medicinal and recreational pot brought in nearly $7.1 million in state revenue in March, b
  
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• Letter: Lower birthrates and lower population levels are a ‘win-win’ story

  24-05-2018 21:00
  We at the Utah Population and Environment Council applaud — loudly applaud — the recent 30-year low in the U.S. birthrate. We also loudly applaud the continuing decline in Utah total fertility noted in a recent Kem Gardner Policy Institute report. UPEC works hard to accelerate this trend in Utah.Why are we enthusiastic about these reports given that many organizations across the political spectrum, including here in Utah, voice concern about these trends? Because lower birth rates, a
  
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• Chloe Zhao’s ‘The Rider’ is a spiritual and poetic Western

  24-05-2018 20:30
  Cinema might have a worthy successor to early Terrence Malick in Chloe Zhao, whose second feature, “The Rider,” is a spiritual and poetic journey into the fading world of the Lakota cowboy, starring the real people who inspired her film.As in her first, the beautiful “Songs My Brothers Taught Me,” which also was set on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Zhao transports us to the badlands of South Dakota to tell the story of a rodeo cowboy who must give up his dream after
  
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• A rodeo cowboy plays himself in ‘The Rider’

  24-05-2018 20:30
  Chloe Zhao is driving through the Arizona desert just north of Mexico on a research expedition for a film.“I’m keeping an eye on the border,” Zhao, a Chinese-born, U.S.-based filmmaker, says with a chuckle. “I don’t have my passport with me.”In her young and promising career, Zhao has made flirting with boundaries a specialty. She was born in Beijing and attended boarding school in England before studying political science at Massachusetts’ Mount Holyoke
  
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• Letter: We should ask ourselves: How are we helping The Road Home in its extraordinary mission?

  24-05-2018 20:28
  The underlining demands for The Road Home to make the improvements suggested by audits and recent commentaries reveals a misunderstanding of its exceptional mission or a disagreement with it. If the latter, then what?The Road Home heroically determined to be the provider of last resort for the homeless, most debilitated by mental health afflictions and drug and alcohol addictions. That decision shocks many with the inescapable reality that to be the provider of last resort, The Road Home will ne
  
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• [Deadspin] - Rudy Gobert Mercilessly Owns Tiny Basketball Child 

  24-05-2018 20:19 via sportspyder.com
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• Extra Utah Highway Patrol troopers will be watching for drivers speeding or talking on phones this holiday weekend as ‘100 deadliest days’ on the road begin

  24-05-2018 20:09
  Martin Herrera remembers too vividly the horrible night five years ago when his 18-year-old daughter, Maria, was driving too fast on Interstate 15 to react to traffic that had stopped for an accident.“Two highway patrolmen came to our door. One of them was holding her little purse,” he says. “We saw that and just knew what happened. There weren’t many words,” but plenty of tears. “She died on impact.”He now has a warning to help others avoid such nights:
  
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• Ballet West dancers share their impending baby news on Twitter

  24-05-2018 20:01
  Two of Ballet West’s more prominent dancers are adding baby booties to their toe shoe collection.Dancers Allison DeBona and Rex Tilton announced on her Twitter feed Wednesday that “Our Pas de Deux is officially a Pas de Trois.” In English, they’re having a baby, due in December.The tweet included a photo of the pair, showing off the tiniest of baby bumps.Rex and I are so excited to share this news! Our Pas de Deux is officially a Pas de Trois... Baby Tilton due December 2
  
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• Rudy Gobert Mercilessly Owns Tiny Basketball Child 

  24-05-2018 19:57 via deadspin.com
  A lesson for everyone, taught to this basketball child by Rudy Gobert: Do not, under any circumstances, bring that weak shit, or it will be obliterated.
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• Royals coach Laura Harvey returns to Portland, where she has a rich history

  24-05-2018 19:48
  Laura Harvey almost gave up on her NWSL coaching career on the steps outside Providence Park in June 2013. “I can’t do this,” she remembers telling people after the Seattle Reign’s ninth straight loss, 2-0 to the Portland Thorns. “I’m done. I’m going to leave.”That was back in the league’s inaugural season, and two months into it, Harvey’s team had yet to win a match. On Friday, the now-Utah Royals coach returns to Portland’s Prov
  
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• ‘It’s about time’: Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson

  24-05-2018 19:45
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Thursday granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson’s name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially-charged conviction.“It’s my honor to do it. It’s about time,” Trump said during an Oval Office ceremony, where he was joined by boxer Lennox Lewis and actor Sylvester Stallone, who has drawn awareness to Johnson’s cause.Trump said Johnson ha
  
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• Report: Eight women accuse Morgan Freeman of sexual misconduct

  24-05-2018 19:42
  Eight women have accused actor Morgan Freeman of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior on-set, at his production company, and during press junkets, according to a report.CNN reports that 16 people have spoken out against Freeman’s alleged misconduct, half of which claimed to have been victims of what some called “harassment,” and others termed “inappropriate behavior” by the actor.One woman, a production assistant on 2017’s “Going in Style,”
  
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• Monson: If NFL players want to protest, they should, just not during the anthem, that’s company time

  24-05-2018 19:36
  The NFL changed its national anthem policy Wednesday, declaring if players sit or kneel during “The Star-Spangled Banner” their teams will be fined. If individual players do not wish to stand, they can remain in the locker room until after it is played.Sounds like a reasonable rule, although some players and patriots are firmly against it.I’m already on the record as saying I had no real problem with players in the past doing whatever they wanted to do during the traditional pl
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Poet discusses Mother in Heaven and why she should play a bigger part in LDS Church lessons, sermons and conversations

  24-05-2018 19:34
  In 2015, the LDS Church issued a short essay matter-of-factly affirming its belief in a Heavenly Mother.Some argue whole books should be written about her. And that’s precisely what Rachel Hunt Steenblik did with her volume “Mother’s Milk: Poems in Search of Heavenly Mother.”She discusses her writings and research in the latest edition of “Mormon Land“ along with the need for the feminine deity to become more prominent in LDS Church teachings.Click here:
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert says ‘let’s have the debate’ and vote on medical marijuana

  24-05-2018 19:26
  The Governor's Monthly News Conference | May 2018Thursday at 10AM, it's The Governor's Monthly News Conference – a live, unedited exchange between reporters and Governor Gary Herbert. Watch live on Facebook & online at kued.org/governorPosted by KUED Channel 7 on Thursday, May 24, 2018Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday that ballot initiatives are a bad way to write laws, and that he personally opposes a current initiative to legalize medical marijuana.But the initiative should be al
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Watch an unrepentant Rudy Gobert block a small child's shot into oblivion

  24-05-2018 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... g children into oblivion gets, and there are few bigger mismatches than Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert — a.k.a the Stifle Tower, the NBA’s likely Defensive Play ...
  
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• Missing Provo woman’s body found 3 years later, but ‘the investigation is not finished,’ police say

  24-05-2018 19:12
  Spanish Fork • For three years, police, volunteers and family of Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado searched Provo trying to find her. In the early days, they hoped to find her alive. Later, they began looking in Provo’s canals, drain pipes, vacant lots and other locations that might be hiding her body. It turns out, everyone was looking in the wrong place. Her body was located Friday in Hobble Creek Canyon, whose mouth is about 13 miles from where she was last seen, the Utah County Sheri
  
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• Letter: The bridge column remains, but fishing and hunting are out? Curious.

  24-05-2018 19:09
  I highly value my subscription to The Tribune. However, like many others, I have my pet peeve and feel obligated to input it. With all the downsizing, I often notice the bridge column and wonder how many subscribers read it.My mother played bridge, but my daughters laugh at the thought, and I know no one even remotely interested in this game. (I realize there must be some in the valley who play?)On the other hand, I personally know many hundreds of individuals interested in hunting and fishing &
  
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• Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado, a Provo woman missing since 2015, has been found dead in Hobble Creek Canyon

  24-05-2018 18:36
  Spanish Fork • The body of Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado, last seen on a busy Provo street in 2015, has been found in Hobble Creek Canyon, police confirmed Wednesday. “This is an active homicide investigation,” Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy said at a news conference here Thursday. “We don’t know exactly how or why she ended up in Hobble Creek Canyon,” Tracy later added. The discovery ends one part of the mystery that began April 16, 2015, when Laguna-Salgado,
  
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• Salt Lake’s Tan France will return on Season 2 of ‘Queer Eye’ on June 15

  24-05-2018 18:07
  Salt Lake resident Tan France and the rest of the Fab Five will return soon with Season 2 of “Queer Eye,” Netflix announced. Season 2′s eight episodes will begin streaming on Friday, June 15. As was the case in Season 1, the guys will be back in Georgia, doing makeovers, redecorating, teaching and “forging connections with communities from a wide array of backgrounds and beliefs often contrary to their own, touching on everything from self-love and faith, to immigration a
  
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• Why does this new Salt Lake City hotel have a $10,000 prosciutto slicer?

  24-05-2018 18:00
  One of the most expensive pieces of art in Salt Lake City’s new AC Hotel by Marriott is not a statue or a painting.It’s the $10,000 prosciutto slicer used to carve paper-thin slices of cured meats for the hotel’s self-serve breakfast.“When it is set correctly it slices the prosciutto so thin, it almost melts in your mouth,” said Jared Steere, general manager of the hotel at 255 W. 200 South.The gourmet piece of kitchen equipment, made by Berkel, is fire-engine red,
  
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• Letter: I will continue to subscribe to The Tribune as long as I can read

  24-05-2018 18:00
  I moved to Salt Lake City in 1980 to attend the University of Utah. Living in the dorms, we were offered a good rate to receive The Tribune delivered to us. At that point, I started my very first newspaper subscription. Seemed like a good idea. I had watched my dad reading the Chicago Sun Times for years. I have continued my Tribune subscription uninterrupted, with the exception of the 18 years in which I lived in Connecticut.I want to express my gratitude for all that you have done, as well as
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Young Utah Jazz aren't necessarily looking to add older, experienced players

  24-05-2018 17:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... w Orleans 28.0 Philadephia 27.2 Toronto 27.1 Boston 25.7 Utah 25.2 So do the Jazz need to find a couple of older, more experienced players to move to the next ...
  
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• Young Utah Jazz aren't necessarily looking to add older, experienced players

  24-05-2018 17:10
  SALT LAKE CITY — While he’d eventually love to win an NBA title, Utah Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey says the goal for his team right now is to break into the top four of the NBA and stay there on a consistent basis.That way, he said, “hopefully things will line up where you can break through a few years in advance” of a title run, much like the Jazz did for over a decade in the John Stockton/Karl Malone years and the San Antonio Spurs, for whom Lindsey used to work,
  
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• Max Boot: Trump is doing long-term damage to Israel

  24-05-2018 17:00
  I supported President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem because that has always been Israel’s capital, and I wasn’t worried that it would harm a “peace process” that was already defunct. The muted reaction to the move across the Arab world — everywhere except in Hamas-controlled Gaza — suggests that it wasn’t as big of a problem as many had feared.But I strongly disagree with the emerging conservative talking point that
  
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• Letter: Our representatives don’t care what we think — it’s not in their power manual

  24-05-2018 17:00
  Dear Scott Dalgarno: I loved your commentary chastising Christians (or anyone human) for not flooding our representatives with calls concerning the heartless separation of immigrant children from their parents at the border.I have some bad news. No one is calling because none of our representatives cares what we think or feel. Our “representatives” represent whomever or whatever gives them enough money to keep them in power, and that is rarely anyone who represents the poor. No one i
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rudy Gobert is chasing legends

  24-05-2018 16:25 via sportspyder.com
  ... t the fact that the Jazz will have little cap space to work with if they resign some of their key pla ...
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump: The U.S.-North Korea summit is canceled after the regime threatens ’nuclear-to-nuclear shutdown’

  24-05-2018 16:14
  Trump: The U.S.-North Korea summit is canceled after the regime threatens ‘nuclear-to-nuclear shutdown.’ A U. grad wins as part of a case against Trump blocking Twitter followers. UTA repeats firing of former CEO, ensuring $282k severance.Happy Thursday. So that’s done. President Donald Trump canceled his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday, writing in a letter that the historic gathering “will not take place” on June 12 in Singapore as scheduled
  
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• Jason Bateman ‘incredibly embarrassed’ after ‘mansplaining’ to ‘Arrested Development’ co-star Jessica Walter

  24-05-2018 16:07
  Amid movements such as #MeToo and Time’s Up, Hollywood is experiencing an era of change. While a number of men in the industry have stepped up to support their fellow female actors, a recent New York Times interview featuring the predominantly male cast of “Arrested Development” left some feeling frustrated and disheartened.And it left cast member Jason Bateman tweeting a lengthy apology Thursday morning, after some of the comments he made sparked backlash.In the sometimes emot
  
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• Utah led the nation in housing growth, but would-be buyers are feeling the price pinch, Census reports

  24-05-2018 16:04
  Spurred largely by population growth, a thriving economy and a flurry of preconstruction activity in its capital city, Utah’s housing stock reportedly grew at the fastest rate in the country from 2016 to 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau said.Newly released Census data indicate the number of housing units in the state grew by 2.1 percent in that one-year period, while Idaho and Colorado saw the second- and third-fastest housing growth rates, at 1.7 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively.The Beeh
  
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