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• In Weber County, Republican candidates favored by delegates get the shaft from their own party while their less-popular primary rivals receive the GOP nod

  12-06-2018 23:55
  Legislative candidate Steve Waldrip walked out of the Weber County Republican Convention in April with 71 percent delegate support and, he figured, the party endorsement going into the June 26 primary.Weeks later, Waldrip, an Eden developer and consultant, was shocked to learn that GOP leaders instead were endorsing his primary opponent, Jason Kyle, for the sole reason that Kyle sought the nomination exclusively through the convention, while Waldrip also gathered signatures.Kyle had finished wit
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Hawks could build Warriors-lite by selecting Trae Young, Kevin Huerter

  12-06-2018 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  ...draft promise to a prospect. Regardless, the Hawks (No. 19) pick before the Jazz (No. 21) in Huerter’s range. Earlier this week @JeremyWoo reported that team ...
  
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• 🚨 Complete Jazz 2018 Summer League Schedule Released 🚨 More: on.nba.com/2JvE27y #UJSL2018 https://t.co/eQiAsFHmAg

  12-06-2018 23:05 via twitter.com
  
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• Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow suffers heart attack

  12-06-2018 22:51
  New York • Larry Kudlow, the prominent economic commentator who joined the Trump administration this year as the president’s top economic adviser, is recovering after suffering a “very mild” heart attack, the White House said Tuesday.White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement that Kudlow is expected to remain at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as “a standard precaution” after suffering the heart attack on Monday.“H
  
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• Utah Royals come out of the international break in a good position to compete for a playoff spot

  12-06-2018 22:36
  If Utah Royals coach Laura Harvey knew before launching a new NWSL team that her squad would reach the international break with just two losses, she would have been thrilled.“I think anyone would,” Harvey said after training Tuesday. “I think that the disappointing thing is that we haven’t really played at a level that we think we are capable of. So that’s something that drives us every day, which actually is a nice thing.”On their way out of the international
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Villanova championship team visits governor, with souvenir

  12-06-2018 22:34 via sportspyder.com
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft profile: Josh Okogie FTW!

  12-06-2018 22:15 via sportspyder.com
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• Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft profile: Josh Okogie FTW!

  12-06-2018 22:01
  Georgia Tech wing Josh Okogie was one of the NBA Draft Combine’s biggest winners. Has he put himself on the Utah Jazz’s radar at No. 21? Over the years, the Utah Jazz have been major beneficiaries of the efforts of a couple of Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. From 2002 to 2009, Matt Harpring knocked down […]
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• Monson: Donovan Mitchell, with some help from the Jazz, will land a major free agent in Utah

  12-06-2018 21:28
  “I think I can recruit some guys — why not? — to play with us. You look at what we’ve done. You look at how we move the ball. We play with guys who don’t care who scores the most, who rebounds the most, who has the most this, the most that. We play with guys who genuinely want to win.<br>“I think if you’re a free agent who wants to actually win ballgames, like actually get to the Finals, and not just do it for show, then we’re where you want
  
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• Tiger Woods happy to be back at the U.S. Open, where he has won so often

  12-06-2018 21:27
  Southampton, N.Y. • A year ago, while watching the U.S. Open on television as he recovered from another back surgery, Tiger Woods had no idea if he’d ever compete again in what he calls “our national championship.”On Tuesday, he spoke about playing Shinnecock Hills as an opportunity to add to his three U.S. Open titles, but also as filling a hole in his existence after skipping the last two. This is his 20th U.S. Open.“I missed playing the U.S. Open,” Woods sai
  
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• Here we go again: Algal bloom found in Utah Lake prompts health warning

  12-06-2018 21:27
  Signs of the looming summer: kids out of school, flip-flops out in force and, for the third straight year, an algal bloom out in Utah Lake.Water experts are urging visitors to keep themselves, their pets and other animals out of Provo Bay after detecting a potentially toxic blue-green algal bloom there.The Utah County Health Department is posting warning signs at the Swede Sportsman Access on the bay’s south side to tell people not to recreate there because potentially harmful algal blooms
  
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• AP source: Toronto assistant Nick Nurse to coach Raptors

  12-06-2018 21:19
  Nick Nurse spent almost three decades paying his coaching dues, toiling with teams in Britain, Italy and Belgium, college basketball and the G League.The chance he’s long coveted has finally arrived.Nurse has agreed to become the next coach of the Toronto Raptors, a person with direct knowledge of the hire told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Nurse will be replacing his former boss, Dwane Casey — under whom he spent the past five seasons as a Raptors assistant. Casey was fired after
  
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• Trump contradicts U.S. military stance on Korea war games

  12-06-2018 21:15
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s abrupt announcement Tuesday that he will suspend U.S. military drills in South Korea appeared to catch the Pentagon and the Seoul government flat-footed, and it contradicted a pillar of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s campaign to make U.S. troops more combat-ready.During a news conference following his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump pushed his unconventional approach even further by calling annual U.S.-South Korean militar
  
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• One of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnappers had a chance to ask Utah’s parole board for release — but Wanda Barzee was a no-show

  12-06-2018 20:54
  The woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart in 2002 had her first chance to sit before an officer with the parole board Tuesday and ask for her release. And if mental health experts had signed off, the Smart family wouldn’t have objected.But Wanda Barzee didn’t show up.The chair for state prisoners sat empty as board member Angela Miklos explained that 72-year-old Barzee refused to attend. Barzee has also refused thus far to meet with a psychiatrist at the Utah State Prison, Miklos s
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft Profile: Khyri Thomas

  12-06-2018 20:28 via sportspyder.com
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• Utah Jazz 2018 NBA Draft Profile: Khyri Thomas

  12-06-2018 20:13
  Former Creighton Bluejay Khyri Thomas would make for an exciting draft selection for the Utah Jazz with the No. 21 overall pick. The 2018 NBA Draft is less than 10 days away and the excitement for which prospects will end up where and which guy will ultimately end up in a Utah Jazz uniform is […]
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• Navajo Code Talker Samuel Tom Holiday dies at age 94

  12-06-2018 20:04
  St. George, Utah • One of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers has died in southern Utah.The Navajo Nation says Samuel Tom Holiday died Monday evening surrounded by friends and family. He was 94.Holiday was among hundreds of Navajos who used a code based on their native language to transmit messages in World War II. The Japanese never broke it.Holiday spent his later days living at the Southern Utah Veterans Home in Ivins.Fewer than 10 Code Talkers are believed to be alive today. The exac
  
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• Utah State professor hopes to save rare walnut tree on development site

  12-06-2018 20:02
  Ogden, Utah • A Utah State University professor is hoping to save a massive walnut tree in Ogden threatened by potential development.The Standard-Examiner reports the English walnut tree is 85 feet (26 meters) tall with a massive canopy spread of 100 feet (30 meters). Its trunk is 18 feet and 7 inches (6 meters) in circumference.Utah State University Professor Mike Kuhns says its size surpasses the biggest English walnut tree in the state currently on record.It’s unknown how old the t
  
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• At Salt Lake City’s ‘Hall of Breakfast,’ you can climb on a giant fried egg or swing on a pink doughnut with sprinkles. But you can’t order an omelette or French toast.

  12-06-2018 19:49
  Is it a restaurant?That’s the first question people ask when they hear the name Hall of Breakfast. There may be some initial disappointment among hungry diners, until they learn that it is actually an interactive pop-up exhibit — open for one month at The Gateway in Salt Lake City — where art, play and the first meal of the day intersect.“Breakfast represents a fresh start to the day with endless possibilities,” said Sophie Weichers, the exhibit’s project mana
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Jazz almost certain to add this crucial skill in the draft

  12-06-2018 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... t as a rookie, the Jazz could add another shooter to their roster. Despite having three players who...
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Offseason Q&A: Utah’s chances at PG, cap questions & other targets

  12-06-2018 19:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... l mode in rebuild, what would Tobias Harris cost? How do you like him in the Jazz? (Locke recently said he would be interested to play for the Jazz.) @JazzNat ...
  
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• Up next... Ricky's game-winning three in Toronto OR Derrick coming up big in Game 2 of the first-round playoff mat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-06-2018 18:22 via twitter.com
  Up next...Ricky's game-winning three in Toronto OR Derrick coming up big in Game 2 of the first-round playoff mat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ricky's Game 3 performance takes the matchup! https://t.co/eNmnjimSke

  12-06-2018 18:19 via twitter.com
  
  Ricky's Game 3 performance takes the matchup! https://t.co/eNmnjimSke
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Aly Wagner believes US fans will embrace World Cup

  12-06-2018 18:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... petition in Rus… Facebook Twitter Email Print Save Top Comments Most Popular Jazz to unveil farthest north community court Smith-Pelly, Kempny are perfect pie ...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Should the Utah Jazz pursue Thaddeus Young if he hits free agency?

  12-06-2018 17:56 via sportspyder.com
  ... e’s a hard worker and relentless hustler who would bring a solid edge to the Jazz. Thaddeus Young’s approach is an option Danny Green could try to take this s ...
  
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• Health warning issued after blue-green algal bloom is found in Provo Bay in Utah Lake

  12-06-2018 17:55
  Water experts are telling visitors to Utah Lake to keep themselves, their pets and other animals out of Provo Bay, after finding a blue-green algal bloom there.The Utah County Health Department is posting warning signs at the Swede Sportsman Access on the south side of Provo Bay, to tell people not to recreate there because potentially harmful algal blooms are present.“We’re doing what we can with the signage we do have,” said Aislynn Tolman-Hill, spokeswoman for the Utah Count
  
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• Should the Utah Jazz pursue Thaddeus Young if he hits free agency?

  12-06-2018 17:42
  Indiana Pacers power forward Thaddeus Young could be available in free agency this summer. Would the Utah Jazz be wise to pursue him? Recently my J-Notes colleague John Keeffer wrote an interesting piece observing the impending free agency of Utah Jazz forward/center Derrick Favors. In trying to make a plan of whether or not the […]
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Podcast: NBA Finals reaction, Player recaps, Paul George

  12-06-2018 17:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... g decision. For Point 2, we continue our player reviews looking at a trio of Jazz forwards – Joe Ingles, Jae Crowder and Thabo Sefolosha. The Jazz only got a...
  
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• Utah Jazz Podcast: NBA Finals reaction, Player recaps, Paul George

  12-06-2018 17:20
  With the conclusion of the NBA Finals and an exciting Utah Jazz offseason ahead, there was plenty to chat about on the latest Three-Point Threat Podcast! The latest episode of the Three-Point Threat Podcast is here! Once again John Keeffer joins the show as we discuss all things NBA and Utah Jazz! For Point 1, […]
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• Catherine Rampell: No, we don’t treat immigrant families the same way we treat other ‘criminals’

  12-06-2018 17:10
  Sorry, Trump officials. It’s flat wrong to say that tearing asylum-seeking immigrant parents from their children is “no different” from how we handle other “crimes.”This past week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revived a problematic argument the Trump administration keeps using to defend its inhumane policy of forced family separations at the border.The logic goes like this: These immigrant parents are committing crimes by unlawfully sneaking into our country; crim
  
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• Trump-Kim shake hands, commit to ‘complete denuclearization’

  12-06-2018 17:06
  Singapore •Clasping hands and forecasting future peace, President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un committed Tuesday to “complete denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula during the first meeting in history between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader. Yet as Trump toasted the summit’s results, he faced mounting questions about whether he got too little and gave away too much — including an agreement to halt U.S. military exercises with treaty ally South K
  
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• Rep. Mia Love turns massive housing project into campaign issue, criticizes Mayor Ben McAdams for not doing more to stop it

  12-06-2018 17:06
  A proposed 8,800-home development was thrust into the campaign for Utah’s sole battleground House district Monday, as local residents plotted a referendum to kill the project.Republican Rep. Mia Love called on her opponent, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, to block the proposal by vetoing the necessary zoning reforms.McAdams, a Democrat, worked to delay the plan last week, but Love dismissed that as him “trying to look like a power broker” amid rising public opposition.Love,
  
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• History is made as Trump and North Korea’s Kim meet, but will they produce something historic?

  12-06-2018 17:03
  With smiles and handshakes and words of mutual warmth, President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un entered the history books in Singapore on Tuesday as the first sitting leaders of their countries ever to meet face to face. Whether their summit turns out to be a truly historic event depends much more on what comes next.The United States and the world community have tried before to rein in North Korea. Three recent presidents were parties to agreements in which North Korea pledged
  
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• A 5-year-old girl’s sudden paralysis was a mystery. Then her mother checked her scalp.

  12-06-2018 16:46
  As soon as Kailyn Griffin’s feet hit the floor Wednesday morning, she collapsed in a heap.The 5-year-old kept trying to stand but fell every time. She was also struggling to speak, her mother Jessica Griffin noticed.Her daughter had been fine when the family went out to a T-ball game the night before, Midway, Florida, NBC-affiliate WLBT in Jackson, Miss., reported. Maybe Kailyn was having a hard time waking up Wednesday morning, or perhaps her legs were asleep.Then Griffin saw the tick.She
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Thank the Millers for the Utah Jazz

  12-06-2018 16:25 via sportspyder.com
  ... you to. The amount of risk that Larry H. and Gail took on to ensure that the Jazz would stay in the small market of Salt Lake became even more real to me. Fro ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018 NBA Draft Player Profile: Keita Bates-Diop

  12-06-2018 16:25 via sportspyder.com
  ...injury concerns may still be a red flag for NBA front offices. Fit The Utah Jazz have assembled a defensive nightmare the past couple years, with in the midd ...
  
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• Expedia declares Heber City is one of America’s most beautiful towns

  12-06-2018 16:21
  Heber City is one of the most beautiful towns in America, according to travel booking website Expedia.com.It’s not an altogether exclusive list. Heber is listed at No. 7 on the new list, which is the website’s second such ranking of the 30 most beautiful towns in America; it published an entirely different list in April 2016.“From endearing architecture and preserved nature trails to serene coastlines and mountaintop views, we’re bringing you even more pretty towns and ci
  
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• Tribune editorial: America already has a perfectly good Mount Vernon, and it’s not in Utah

  12-06-2018 16:17
  King Arthur: Please go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest, and if he will give us food and shelter for this night he can join us in our quest for the Holy Grail.French knight: Well, I’ll ask him, but I don’t think he’ll be very keen. He’s already got one, you see?— Monty Python and the Holy GrailIf anyone really has the ability to pass the hat and come up with $70 million in private money to build something in Utah that extols
  
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• Letter: Goodbye, Tribune — I’m done paying for your shrinking content

  12-06-2018 15:58
  After more than 50 years as a dedicated subscriber to The Salt Lake Tribune, when my current subscription expires I shall not renew.The paper is but a shadow of its former self, with limited content and depth of coverage. There is nothing in the paper I cannot get elsewhere and for much less cost. You name it, and the paper has reduced it — except for the cost of a subscription.We pay more for less. The comics, sports pages, want ads, editorial content, and news both national and local are
  
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• Letter: That ‘tax cut’ wasn’t for us; it was for politicians like Romney

  12-06-2018 15:57
  We are now being inundated with Romney ads about fiscal responsibility and how high the national debt is, but he still supports the crazy tax cuts brought about by our Republican legislators. If you think you got a tax cut, start counting the increases in taxes and expenses since November. Gas, property tax, sales tax, hidden fees to support budgets, your “tax cut” disappeared very quickly, and the only people who still are in the positive sides of this are the very wealthy investors
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: The ‘war or peace’ binary on North Korea is dangerously wrong

  12-06-2018 15:56
  Interviewed on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., who may miss the wise counsel of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., evidenced a bit of the foolish thinking that has gotten the United States into the position of giving Kim Jong Un an international stage — and maybe more — for nothing.He suggested, “Peace, where we have a win-win solution; military force where they — we devastate the North Korean regime and stop their program by force; or to capi
  
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• Letter: Helping coal miners shouldn’t come at the expense of Utah farmers

  12-06-2018 15:54
  President Trump wants to help those involved in providing electricity from coal-fired and nuclear power plants. He would require utilities to buy this power, even when it is more expensive. Yet, in southern Utah in places like Sanpete County, farmers are struggling with a horrific drought.I don’t know if this drought is related to climate change, but science tells us that we can expect ever more dry weather if we continue to burn coal the same as we have in the past. I want to help coal mi
  
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• Anne Applebaum: NATO is still practicing for the worst

  12-06-2018 15:51
  Northern Poland • Scruffy, yellowish-brown buildings are bunched around a long courtyard; portable toilets and generators have been set up on the dusty ground beside. Inside, military-grade laptops, the kind that don’t break if you drop them, are arrayed along a series of tables, their cables spooling off onto the floor. Men from different countries, some dressed in camouflage, talk in low voices. A large map of Europe’s Baltic coast has been projected onto one of the walls, wit
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s West Wing enablers get no sympathy here

  12-06-2018 15:48
  The New York Times reports on the dismal atmosphere in the White House, where “burned-out aides are eyeing the exits, as the mood in the White House is one of numbness and resignation that the president is growing only more emboldened to act on instinct alone.” With regard to chief of staff John Kelly, the Times notes:“Mr. Kelly told visiting senators that the White House was ‘a miserable place to work,’ according to a person with direct knowledge of the comment. ..
  
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• Letter: Do you really think you’re safe from Trump?

  12-06-2018 15:44
  Is separating children from parents a form of torture? It would be for me.Children, as we know, have developmental milestones that, if not met because a child is stuck away indefinitely in a crowded pen somewhere within the bowels of a U.S. government warehouse, can’t entirely be made up for later. Who pays for that deficit? Donald J. Trump? I wish.Apparently, the list of GOP approved forms of torture is growing. Waterboarding: Approved. Separating children from parents: Approved.One has t
  
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• Letter: That slick huckster Mitt is campaigning on empty promises

  12-06-2018 15:43
  Marla Mott-Smith is right. Mitt Romney’s ads are sickening.Romney is a slick huckster who says he is a “deficit hawk,” whatever that means. Romney says he wants to reduce the deficit/debt without offering one single way how to do it. Not one!Marla smartly points out that to reduce, we have to either raise taxes or reduce services. What do you say, Mitt?We know Romney is just going to campaign on “going to Washington to work on solutions.” Which means he’ll fiz
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Meet the guys who tape up Trump’s shredded documents

  12-06-2018 15:37
  Meet the guys who tape up Trump’s shredded documents. Utah’s members of Congress say it’s time for immigration reform. Love blasts McAdams for taking donations from the Olympia housing project.Happy Tuesday. President Donald Trump has a habit of ripping up papers after he’s done with them. And that’s a big problem because U.S. law requires presidential paperwork to be archived and preserved for history. So meet the guys whose job it is to tape up the shredded leftov
  
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• Albert R. Hunt: Democrats don’t need a message; they have Trump

  12-06-2018 15:37
  Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota has warned fellow Democrats that they shouldn’t just oppose Trump in the midterm elections; she thinks they need a substantive alternative policy message. Rep. Steve Stivers of Ohio, who runs the House Republican Campaign Committee, has the same advice for his Democratic rivals: to avoid making the same mistake in November that his party made in 1998 by stressing the negatives of a Democratic president.That sounds good. It’s wrong. Midterm elections ar
  
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• Ishaan Tharoor: After blowing up the G-7, Trump seeks peace with North Korea

  12-06-2018 15:33
  President Donald Trump and North Korean autocrat Kim Jong Un have arrived in Singapore ahead of the big show — an unprecedented meeting between Washington and Pyongyang’s leaders that could, if things go well, pave the way for a historic rapprochement and the eventual end of the last major frozen conflict of the Cold War.But while their Tuesday summit is this week’s headline event, the opening act left many observers fearing the worst.Trump’s two-day stop in Quebec for a
  
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• Drawn by Utah’s gun-friendly culture and politicians, survivors of Florida’s Parkland shooting are visiting to register young voters

  12-06-2018 15:00
  Ten survivors of the deadly February mass shooting at a Florida high school will visit Utah this summer as one stop on their nationwide road trip to register young voters, challenge members of Congress and continue the political momentum behind their grassroots movement calling for stricter gun laws. In Salt Lake City, the Parkland students will find thousands of teenagers who have particularly embraced their message, who led a massive march on the state capitol and who have outlined their own l
  
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