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• Long shots: Odds against Cavaliers in NBA Finals against Warriors

  29-05-2018 23:50
  Cleveland • The odds are longer than a Stephen Curry 3-pointer, Kevin Durant’s wingspan or Draymond Green’s catalog of technical fouls.LeBron James and the Cavaliers are being given little — or no — chance of winning their fourth straight NBA Finals matchup against the Golden State Warriors, who have been installed by Las Vegas bookmakers as the heaviest favorites in the past 16 years.Wanna bet?The Warriors are 12-point favorites to win Thursday’s Game 1, the l
  
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• Royals’ Becky Sauerbrunn, Amy Rodriguez and Abby Smith called up for USWNT friendlies vs. China

  29-05-2018 23:34
  The Utah Royals’ Becky Sauerbrunn, Amy Rodriguez and Abby Smith have all been called up to the U.S. Women’s National Team for a pair of upcoming friendlies between the USWNT and China — which will include a stop at Rio Tinto Stadium — the U.S. Soccer Federation announced Tuesday.The call-up comes during a FIFA break for the NWSL. The U.S. squad will also include Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and Tobin Heath.
  The USWNT call-up period will run from June 1-13, with the team pla
  
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• Scientists discover the fossilized skull of a mammal-like critter under a dinosaur’s foot in Utah — and then it gets even weirder

  29-05-2018 23:24
  Jennifer Cavin was uncasting a large dinosaur fossil excavated in southeastern Utah, removing the protective plaster, when she made a discovery within the discovery.“Come over here,” she yelled from across the lab, brushing away bits of dust and rock.“I think I found another skull.” There, tucked beneath the foot of the herbivore she was working on, was a fossilized cranium. The weird thing: It didn’t appear to belong to a reptile. Jim Kirkland knew that almost imme
  
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• Serena Williams wins at French Open, with nods to motherhood, royalty and Wakanda

  29-05-2018 23:20
  Paris • Serena Williams attended the recent royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle rather than play in the Italian Open, an important clay-court tuneup for the French Open. And though Williams isn’t a royal, posters advertising the French Open displayed a photo of her with the announcement, “The Queen is Back.”She is. And more accurately, “The Mother is Back.”Competing in her first Grand Slam since winning the 2017 Australian Open while pregnant, and i
  
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• Utahns will be voting on medical marijuana and Medicaid expansion — but not Utah’s candidate nominating law, says top election official

  29-05-2018 23:19
  Utahns will be voting on whether to legalize medical marijuana, according to Utah’s lieutenant governor, the state’s top election official.
  Despite opposition from some of Utah’s most powerful politicians and institutions, the marijuana initiative got sufficient signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
  Meantime, the Count My Vote effort to reaffirm Utah’s signature-gathering law for candidates faltered after a well-financed campaign to peel off signatures in targete
  
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• Commentary: Where are the local voices making the Bears Ears plan?

  29-05-2018 23:00
  On unsound advice from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, last December President Donald Trump illegally slashed over 1.1 million acres from Bears Ears National Monument, shrinking the monument by 85 percent.In so doing he said, “Some people think that the natural resources of Utah should be controlled by a small handful of very distant bureaucrats located in Washington … [and that] this very historic action will reverse federal overreach and restore the rights of this land to your citi
  
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• .@CJC9BOSS joined the Jazz in a midseason trade from the Cavaliers and made an immediate impact, scoring in double… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  .@CJC9BOSS joined the Jazz in a midseason trade from the Cavaliers and made an immediate impact, scoring in double… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Evangelist wants $54M jet — Jesus ‘wouldn’t be riding a donkey’

  29-05-2018 22:46
  Destrehan, La. • A prosperity gospel televangelist is asking disciples to “pray about becoming a partner” to his mission of obtaining a $54 million private jet.The Louisiana-based ministry of Jesse Duplantis has already paid cash for three other private planes, but he says God told him “I want you to believe in me for a Falcon 7X.”NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports that Duplantis made the pitch to his followers in the May 21 edition of his weekly video address.Dupla
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz alumni: Iso Joe intends to play next season

  29-05-2018 22:45 via sportspyder.com
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• Europe not so secular after all — survey finds a large group of nonpracticing Christians there

  29-05-2018 22:39
  Paris • With its dwindling rates of attendance at religious services and rising numbers of churches shuttered or sold, Western Europe seems to be the region of the world where the outlook for faith is bleakest.Roman Catholicism’s Pope Francis was the latest to lament this trend, saying only last week that Western society seemed like “a journey ending in a shipwreck, with the survivors trying to build a raft.”A new survey by the Pew Research Center looks past the headlines
  
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• Going into debate with Rep. Curtis, GOP hopeful Chris Herrod says he has similar immigration views as controversial Trump nominee

  29-05-2018 22:32
  President Donald Trump’s nomination of a Utahn with hard-line views on immigration to oversee an office that deals with migrants and other displaced people has teed up what could be a contentious issue in Tuesday’s debate between U.S. Rep. John Curtis and his Republican rival, Chris Herrod.Herrod is a staunch ally of Ronald Mortensen, who Trump last week nominated to become assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration. The two share similar views on illegal imm
  
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• Sedrick Barefield will return to Runnin’ Utes next season

  29-05-2018 22:30
  The Utah men’s basketball team will have the services of one of its main cogs for next season. According to multiple sources, Ute guard Sedrick Barefield has informed the Utah coaching staff he intends to return to Utah for his senior season.Barefield, a junior, had declared for the upcoming NBA Draft, without hiring an agent. He worked out for the Jazz on Tuesday, after previously working out for the Los Angeles Lakers. The deadline for underclassmen returning to school is on Wednesday. B
  
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• Letter: Kirby’s Morgan Freeman column shows he doesn’t get it

  29-05-2018 22:30
  In his May 27 column, Robert Kirby talks about Morgan Freeman’s fall resulting from the #MeToo movement and asks how we know he hasn’t been sexually harassed or assaulted.True, but does he know what it is like to be subjected to sexual harassment from the time he hit puberty? To spend an entire life afraid to walk on dark streets because he might be raped while men do that freely? To have to put up with sexual harassment to keep a job he needs to feed his kids or to be harassed just
  
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• Utah Jazz alumni: Iso Joe intends to play next season

  29-05-2018 22:26
  Former Utah Jazz forward Joe Johnson’s season with the Houston Rockets is finally over. However, Iso Joe isn’t quite ready to call it a career. Following their Game 7 loss to the Golden State Warriors, the Houston Rockets’ season officially reached its conclusion on Monday. It was undoubtedly a bitter pill to swallow for Houston, […]
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• Megan McArdle: 12 rules for free speech

  29-05-2018 22:26
  If you write a column about athletes kneeling during the national anthem, you can expect to find yourself rapidly mired in debates about free speech. Because speech is (we lightheartedly hope) nuanced and complex, there will always be an element of “I know it when I see it” in placing cases into “protected” or “unprotected” categories. Which means we could spend the rest of our lives arguing about just what free speech means — and, frankly, we probably w
  
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• Commentary: Irish vote shows need for new anti-abortion strategy

  29-05-2018 22:26
  The overwhelming vote in Ireland in favor of allowing access to abortion shows that the pro-life movement needs a new strategy. Trying to preserve anti-abortion laws or trying to reverse the legalization of abortion is simply not working.In almost every country where abortion has been on the ballot, abortion has won. Rarely have pro-abortion-rights laws been reversed. This trend is not going to change. To think otherwise is simply ignoring reality.The U.S. anti-abortion movement still holds out
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Master Class in Dog Whistling

  29-05-2018 22:24
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, May 30, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Suffer the Children<br>Morning Commute<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>Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Rocky Mountain Power seeks bids for new solar, wind and geothermal projects in Utah, estimated to power 34,000 homes

  29-05-2018 22:19
  Rocky Mountain Power announced Tuesday it is seeking proposals for the construction of new alternative energy projects in Utah drawing on solar, wind and geothermal power.In response to what the utility says is broad demand from residential and business customers for electricity from renewable sources, Rocky Mountain Power is seeking cost-competitive bids for projects generating a total of 308,000 megawatt hours of power — enough for about 34,000 average homes in Utah.Because renewable pow
  
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• Christians in Western Europe less tolerant of immigrants, study shows

  29-05-2018 22:06
  Berlin • Christians in Western Europe are less accepting of immigrants and non-Christians than people without religious affiliations, according to a study published Tuesday that was based on a 15-country survey.The Pew Research Center report revealed that Christians — whether or not they are churchgoers — are more likely than Western Europeans who don’t identify with a religion to express negative views of Muslims, Jews and migrants. They also are more inclined to think th
  
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• U.S. secretary of state to push to defend religious minorities around the world

  29-05-2018 22:01
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the administration will prioritize religious freedom by working to defend religious minorities around the world.“The United States will not stand by as a spectator,” Pompeo said as he unveiled the annual international religious freedom report. “We will get in the ring and stand in solidarity with every individual who seeks to enjoy the most fundamental of human rights.”As an indication of the more aggressive approach he wil
  
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• Paul Waldman: The Trump administration’s immigration policies are impossibly cruel, but that’s the point

  29-05-2018 22:00
  Amid growing outrage over the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents when families arrive at the border, many are asking how the administration can be so cruel as to literally tear children from their mothers’ arms. There’s a clear answer, one that runs through all of the administration’s policies on immigration:The cruelty is the whole point.It’s both a reflection of President Donald Trump’s beliefs and those of his key advise
  
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• [KSL] - Donovan Mitchell wants to bring a championship to Utah; Jazz work out locals

  29-05-2018 21:51 via sportspyder.com
  ...bring a trophy." With Mitchell, it even seems possible. Mitchell was at the Jazz's practice facility on Tuesday, watching the workout and catching up with th ...
  
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• Letter: That Trump has unrestrained power is hard to believe

  29-05-2018 21:30
  It is a sad commentary that President Trump and his supporters are making such a controversy over some professional football players failing to stand during the playing of the anthem, stating that such actions are a disgrace and show a complete lack of patriotism and loyalty to our country, while he and his followers simultaneously seemingly show a complete disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America.President Trump is being investigated for the possible commission of actions,
  
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• Walt Perrin — VP of Player Personnel — spoke to the media about today's local-heavy workout. "They all have a chan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 21:28 via twitter.com
  Walt Perrin — VP of Player Personnel — spoke to the media about today's local-heavy workout."They all have a chan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jimbo’s Mailbag: Denver’s Pick, A Message From the Future, and Halftime Acts

  29-05-2018 21:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... s? @RedStaplerGuy I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again–the Utah Jazz should eventually become the Utah Brinezz. You know, after brine shrimp from ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Houston falling to Golden State shows just how far Utah Jazz still have left to go

  29-05-2018 21:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... fenses and versatile defenses in the Association. Yet at the very least, the Jazz are headed in the right direction. They have two All-Star caliber players in ...
  
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• Houston falling to Golden State shows just how far Utah Jazz still have left to go

  29-05-2018 21:23
  The Houston Rockets’ defeat in the Western Conference Finals just goes to show how much the Utah Jazz still have to grow in order to not only catch Houston, but also the defending champion Golden State Warriors. It’s not like we didn’t see this coming. The Houston Rockets falling to the Golden State Warriors in […]
  Houston falling to Golden State shows just how far Utah Jazz still have left to go - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion a
  
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• .@afhoopster from @UtahMBB — a Utah native — talked about working out today. "It's been a dream for me to play for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 21:19 via twitter.com
  .@afhoopster from @UtahMBB — a Utah native — talked about working out today."It's been a dream for me to play for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• .@Rich22Ryan from @WeberStateMBB on his first predraft workout ⤵️ "It was a lot of fun to get to play against guys… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 21:04 via twitter.com
  .@Rich22Ryan from @WeberStateMBB on his first predraft workout ⤵️"It was a lot of fun to get to play against guys… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Letter: Among harsh news, the bridge column gives me respite

  29-05-2018 21:00
  In response to Robert Hanford’s “Coverage priorities” letter to the Public Forum, I am one of the many bridge-playing Tribune readers whom you have not yet met! I barely glance at the sports section but have never complained of sports receiving its own section on a daily basis.These days the news is harsh and our credible news sources are shrinking. I was incredibly sad to view Pat Bagley’s political cartoon personalizing the dismissal of wonderful Tribune staff reporters
  
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• Greg Sargent: Trump’s ugly spin about separated children gives away his game

  29-05-2018 21:00
  With national attention riveted on the Trump administration’s new policy of prosecuting all people who cross the border illegally, resulting in untold numbers of children getting separated from their parents, officials have offered a rationale for the change. The idea is that the looming horror of separation from one’s child will act as a deterrent, so parents don’t attempt the journey and crossing in the first place.But now President Donald Trump and the White House are puttin
  
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• Pierce: ABC canceling ‘Roseanne’ after her racist tweet is stunningly courageous

  29-05-2018 20:53
  Utah’s biggest TV star is out of a job. Again.In one of the most amazing displays of courage network television has ever seen, ABC canceled “Roseanne” — TV’s top-rated show this past season — after Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet about a former adviser to President Barack Obama.“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC Entertainment president Channin
  
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• >… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="viewarticle">.@dayongoodman of @wc_griffins on working out for the Jazz: "I wasn't going to miss this opportunity." >>… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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• Real Monarchs coach charged with assaulting his girlfriend and offering her money to stop speaking to prosecutors and police

  29-05-2018 20:47
  The head coach of the Real Monarchs soccer team has been charged with multiple misdemeanor counts of domestic violence, and reportedly tried to persuade his accuser to stop talking to police and prosecutors about her allegations.Mark Briggs, 36, is scheduled to appear in Draper’s justice court June 12 to answer the charges, including two counts of domestic assault, domestic violence in the presence of a child and witness tampering, according to court records. All charges are class B misdem
  
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• MLS week in review: Cincinnati set to join MLS, along with fellow expansion teams in Nashville and Miami

  29-05-2018 20:45
  Cincinnati has a party planned for Tuesday, when MLS commissioner Don Garber and FC Cincinnati are expected to announce Cincinnati as the league’s next expansion franchise.To kick off the evening, Garber, FC Cincinnati owner Carl Linder III and general manager Jeff Berding are scheduled to speak at at a local brewpub.The announcement also will be streamed at Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati.Winning the expansion bid will make Cincinnati the 26th MLS franchise. However, Sports Illustr
  
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• Rocky Mountain Power seeks bids for new solar, wind and geothermal projects

  29-05-2018 20:43
  Rocky Mountain Power announced Tuesday it is seeking proposals for the construction of new alternative energy projects in Utah drawing on solar, wind and geothermal power.In response to what the utility says is broad demand from residential and business customers for electricity from renewable sources, Rocky Mountain Power is seeking cost-competitive bids for projects generating a total of 308,000 megawatt hours of power — enough for about 34,000 average homes in Utah.Because renewable pow
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018 Utah Jazz Team Grades: Joe Johnson

  29-05-2018 20:40 via sportspyder.com
  ... r for the , we’ll cheer for Joe Johnson to get his chip. He carried the Utah Jazz to a 1st round playoff win much like how carried Utah to one this year. If w ...
  
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• Chris Herrod backs Utahn Ron Mortensen, an immigration hard-liner, to head U.S. refugee services and is ready to defend him in today’s debate with U.S. Rep. John Curtis

  29-05-2018 20:35
  President Donald Trump’s nomination of a Utahn with hard-line views on immigration to oversee an office that deals with migrants and other displaced people has teed up what could be a contentious issue in Tuesday’s debate between U.S. Rep. John Curtis and his Republican rival, Chris Herrod.Herrod is a staunch ally of Ronald Mortensen, who Trump last week nominated to become assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration. The two share similar views on illegal imm
  
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• Letter: Messy room incident has made VA hospital even more committed to its mission

  29-05-2018 20:30
  Our veterans have placed their lives on the line to fight for our freedoms. Their sacrifices cannot be repaid. But we can honor and serve them every day through our commitment to provide them the best possible health care experience.The VA Salt Lake City Health Care System takes that responsibility very seriously.The recent attention concerning one of our own heroes’ treatment in a messy and unsightly room was unacceptable. I can assure you this is not how we do business and we were equall
  
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• After racist tweet, ABC cancels ‘Roseanne’ and star quits Twitter

  29-05-2018 20:03
  New York • ABC has cancelled its hit reboot of “Roseanne” following her racist tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey says the comment “is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel the show.”The “Roseanne” revival this spring was an unexpected major hit for ABC. It was particularly popular among many conservative viewers because Barr’s character expresse
  
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• Commentary: For opponents of Utah monuments, it’s not about the facts

  29-05-2018 20:00
  I just returned from my annual May pilgrimage to southern Utah. This year I spent a glorious week each in Grand Staircase-Escalante and in Bears Ears national monuments. The slickrock, slot canyons, cliffside ruins and spring wildflowers were as extraordinary as ever.I’ve been visiting the area for more than 30 years now as a tourist, explorer, researcher and college field-trip leader. Never have I seen so many people at visitor centers, overlooks, trailheads, vying for camping spots and i
  
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• Monson: Donovan Mitchell says he won’t be satisfied till he brings a championship to Utah — and he means it

  29-05-2018 19:58
  This column isn’t about what the Jazz achieved this past season.It’s about what they didn’t achieve. And what they will achieve.Why? Because that’s the way Donovan Mitchell and the rest of his teammates look at it. And if there are some of them who don’t look at it that way, oh ye of little faith … um, Mitchell, the team leader with the staff in one hand and the tablets in the other, would like a word with them.The man, I swear, is basketball’s version
  
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• Letter: Turpitude of Trump permeates deep within the Republican party

  29-05-2018 19:30
  To all those members of the GOP who don’t particularly relish the idea of the president joining up with them on the ol’ campaign trail: Tough.As far as I’m concerned, if you haven’t — vehemently — spoken out against the president, then you are in his camp and under his tent. And he’s under yours, right there beside you.I see him. Hi Donny!The turpitude of Trump permeates deep within the Republican party.Peter Orum, Salt Lake City
  
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• 2-year-old who shot himself with his father’s gun dies

  29-05-2018 19:24
  A 2-year-old boy died early Tuesday, almost three days after he shot himself with his father’s gun in West Valley City. Police responded to a “shots fired” dispatch at 2700 S. Fair Isle Lane at 11:45 p.m. Saturday, and discoved the boy bleeding from the head and neck. The boy’s father, Tasman Maile, 27, told police the child got his gun and shot himself with it. The boy was flown to Primary Children’s Hospital, where he had been on life support According to West Va
  
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• Virginia’s Rep. Garrett becomes the latest Republican to leave Congress after announcing he is an alcoholic and will not seek re-election

  29-05-2018 19:20
  Richmond, Va. • Rep. Thomas Garrett, R-Va., announced Monday that he is struggling with alcoholism and will abandon his run for a second term in Congress so he can focus on recovery and his family.Garrett, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, is the 48th Republican to retire or announce they will not seek reelection to the House this year, according to a list maintained by the House Press Gallery.Many are leaving in anticipation of a strong Democratic performance in congressional ra
  
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• Harvard study estimates nearly 5,000 people died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria

  29-05-2018 19:11
  Caguas, Puerto Rico • At least 4,645 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria and its devastation across Puerto Rico last year, according to a new Harvard study released Tuesday, an estimate that far exceeds the official government death toll, which stands at 64.The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that health-care disruption for the elderly and the loss of basic utility services for the chronically ill had significant impacts across the U.S. territory, which
  
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• Heres why there are so many coyotes and why they are spreading so fast

  29-05-2018 19:04
  For eons, coyotes roamed what is now the western United States, with its wide-open plains. Then came European settlers, who cut down forests for farms and ranches in a steady east-west march. Along the way, they killed large predators such as pumas and wolves to protect livestock and for their own safety.The predators they obliterated were mortal enemies of the coyote, holding them in check, a new study in the journal ZooKeys says. As mountain lions and wolf packs disappeared from the landscape,
  
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• Letter: Poll on NFL anthem ruling is dismaying

  29-05-2018 19:00
  Because I grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, I read the Sioux City Journal daily, much like I read The Tribune.Occasionally, The Journal conducts polls. Today’s poll question:Poll: President Trump thinks NFL players who don’t stand for the national anthem shouldn’t be playing. Do you agree?As of right now, the results are 61 percent yes and 39 percent no. I am dismayed with my former neighbors. But then again, I am not shocked. They elected Steve King as their representative in the U
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Republicans’ inhumanity at the border reveals their grand scam

  29-05-2018 18:43
  Video: By canceling DACA, President Trump is attempting to endear himself to his shrinking base, says Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin. He knows the only thing that truly “energizes the dead-enders is vengeance fueled by white grievance.” (Adriana Usero, Kate Woodsome/The Washington Post)
  Since October, more than 700 minor children have been separated from their parents at the border. More than 100 have been under 4 years old.Some, like an 18-month-old Honduran boy torn from
  
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• Ramesh Ponnuru: Trump is right that someone is out to get him

  29-05-2018 18:00
  President Donald Trump, “who has never been convinced that his aides have his best interests at heart, has felt increasingly aggrieved” in recent months. We have that word from two reporters for the New York Times, Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers, and it fits with what we have seen from him in public.The reporters explain Trump’s anger as a function of his “sense of paranoia.” But this is typical MSM nonsense. Trump is absolutely right that someone in his administr
  
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