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• Jared Bernstein: The Trump administration’s new poverty report builds a phony rationale to punish the poor

  16-07-2018 23:44
  As part of its full-court press to require low-income people who receive nutritional, health or housing support to work, the Trump administration's Council of Economic Advisers has released a new study touting the benefits of such requirements.Unfortunately, the CEA's study founders on logical inconsistencies, misuse of data and strong assertions that, were this analysis to guide policy, would lead to more, not less poverty and material insecurity for the most economically vulnerable Americans.
  
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• A car with a Utah Gun Exchange sticker was vandalized at Sandy town hall with Florida school shooting survivors

  16-07-2018 23:22
  A car with a Utah Gun Exchange sticker on the back was vandalized Saturday night outside the town hall where student survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting spoke about their national movement for gun reform.The car’s owner reported to police at 10 p.m. — about an hour after the event ended — that someone had scratched several lines and the word “f---ers” into the paint on the side of his vehicle.“It’s large enough to read at a distance,”
  
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• Ogden police probing 2nd ‘suspicious’ body found in 2 days

  16-07-2018 23:13
  Ogden, Utah • Police in Utah are investigating what an official called a suspicious death after the discovery of a body in Ogden.Ogden police Lt. Clint Christensen tells the Standard-Examiner that officers were called after the body was found near the intersection of 26th Street and Monroe Boulevard.Christensen declined to immediately disclose details about the person or the death.The body was the second found in Ogden in two days, after police were called Sunday afternoon to investigate th
  
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• Utah man arrested for impersonating officer, making threats

  16-07-2018 23:09
  Saratoga Springs, Utah • A Utah man has been arrested for allegedly impersonating a corrections officer and threatening to kill two men he accused of being in the country illegally.Police said 41-year-old Jerred Martin Loftus and three other men approached a pair of men on a trail outside of Provo Sunday and got into a heated argument.During the argument, Loftus allegedly said he was a corrections officer who had a gun.One of the men said Loftus threatened to kill them and bury their bodies
  
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• Amazon’s Prime Day runs into early snags

  16-07-2018 23:05
  New York • Amazon’s website ran into some early snags Monday on its much-hyped Prime Day, an embarrassment for the tech company on the shopping holiday it created.Shoppers clicking on many Prime Day links after the 3 p.m. ET launch in the U.S. got only images of dogs — some quite abashed-looking — with the words, "Uh-oh. Something went wrong on our end." Many took to social media to complain that they couldn't order items.Amazon didn't immediately respond to a request for
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Taking a Knee

  16-07-2018 22:59
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, July 17, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Barbarian at the Gate, An Orrin for All Seasons, He’s Just Putin Us On!, Boomstick Rights, This Is Not Fine, Trade War Collateral Damage, Good News, Bad News, Declaration of Independence (abbreviated) , Dog Days of Independence, A Murder of CrowsWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Russian gun rights advocate, charged in US with acting as Russian Federation agent

  16-07-2018 21:55
  Washington • A Russian national with alleged ties to a top Russian official was charged in federal court in Washington Monday with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation, and was ordered held without bond.Maria Butina, 29, was arrested Sunday in Washington and made her first appearance in U.S. District Court before Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson. Her attorney, Robert Neil Driscoll, told the judge that Butina's residence was searched by the FBI in April, that she had test
  
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• Gehrke: Come home, Ambassador Huntsman, your country needs you

  16-07-2018 21:53
  Ambassador Huntsman, you work for a pawn, not a president. It’s time to come home.There is no other reasonable course of action to take following Monday’s disgraceful joint news conference with President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.As Utahns, many of us were a bit stunned last year when you accepted the job as U.S. Ambassador to Russia, but your explanation made sense: It was a role you took on, much like your tenure in China, out of a deep sense of duty.But tha
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz news: Naz Mitrou-Long agrees to two-way deal with Utah

  16-07-2018 21:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... ith this, he also inked two 10-day contracts on February 11 and 24. With the Jazz’s G League affiliate — the Salt Lake City Stars, Mitrou-Long played in 40 ga ...
  
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• He’s known as the ‘Lonely Master’ in China; now back stateside, Jimmer still dreams of the NBA and is chasing something more basic — cash

  16-07-2018 21:45
  Former BYU basketball star Jimmer Fredette hasn’t given up on his dream of returning to the NBA. He’s also not averse to lining his pockets with more cash in the process.Hoping to catch the attention of an NBA club, the current star of the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association is playing for the first time in The Basketball Tournament, a $2 million winner-take-all single-elimination event being held at various arenas throughout the United States this summer.“I a
  
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• Gehrke: Ambassador Huntsman, your country needs you

  16-07-2018 21:26
  Ambassador Huntsman, you work for a pawn, not a president. It’s time to come home.There is no other reasonable course of action to take following Monday’s disgraceful joint news conference with President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.As Utahns, many of us were a bit stunned last year when you accepted the job as U.S. Ambassador to Russia, but your explanation made sense: It was a role you took on, much like your tenure in China, out of a deep sense of duty.But tha
  
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• Sandy mayor recommends interim police chief get the job on a permanent basis

  16-07-2018 21:19
  It looks like “interim” will soon be removed from the title of Sandy's interim police chief — Mayor Kurt Bradburn has named William O'Neal as his choice to lead the city's police department.O’Neal must be approved by the Sandy City Council; a vote is scheduled for Tuesday.The position has been open since former Police Chief Kevin Thacker was fired in April because of what Bradburn called “inappropriate touching” of other city employees. An investigation by an
  
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• Without mentioning president, Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee back U.S. intelligence assessment of Russian election interference

  16-07-2018 21:14
  After President Donald Trump seemed willing to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denial that his country interfered with the U.S. election, Utah Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee and Rep. John Curtis issued public statements siding with U.S. intelligence agencies, who concluded that Russia did meddle.Neither Hatch nor Lee mentioned Trump in their statements. Hatch has been a vociferous supporter of the president while Lee did not support Trump in the election and has voted against him
  
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• Utah’s Pac-12 men’s basketball pairings announced — Utes will miss trip to Oregon, and visits from Stanford, Cal

  16-07-2018 21:00
  Utah will miss the trip to the Oregon schools and won't host Stanford and California in the Pac-12's men's basketball schedule, according to the 2018-19 pairings announced Monday. Based on the Las Vegas odds for the conference's projected order of finish, the Utes will benefit from not playing at Oregon, while missing two good chances for home wins against the Bay Area schools.The Utes will open conference play by visiting Arizona and Arizona State during the first week of January. The order of
  
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• Grayson took in his first Summer League experience and was a hot commodity down in Vegas 🎙️🎥🎮🎰 https://t.co/PypLNMRb6j

  16-07-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  
  Grayson took in his first Summer League experience and was a hot commodity down in Vegas 🎙️🎥🎮🎰 https://t.co/PypLNMRb6j
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz legend Karl Malone rips modern NBA, AAU culture

  16-07-2018 20:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... lutchPoints Jazz legend Karl Malone rips modern NBA, AAU culture by July 16, 2018 It’s been a ...
  
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• Without mentioning president, Sen. Orrin Hatch, backs U.S. intelligence assessment of Russian election interference

  16-07-2018 20:18
  After President Donald Trump seemed willing to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denial that his country interfered with the U.S. election, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. John Curtis issued public statements siding with U.S. intelligence agencies, who concluded that Russia did meddle.Hatch did not mention Trump, whom he has vociferously supported and praised during his presidency. Curtis did not direcly respond to the president’s widely criticized comments after his private m
  
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• Tribune editorial: How low can Congress go?

  16-07-2018 19:54
  Whoever is in the White House is often criticized — if only by members of the other party — for the amount of time spent on the golf course.Meanwhile, members of Congress seem to be playing another form of the game. One where, in their minds, the low score wins.How else to explain the hyper-partisan gridlock that has dominated Captiol Hill for some time now? And the stunning heights of hypocrisy exemplifed by, in only one of the more outrageous examples, Sen. Orrin Hatch’s revo
  
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• Governor calls lawmakers into special session this week for changes on taxes and the controversial trading port

  16-07-2018 19:33
  Months of closed-door negotiations between legislators and members of the Salt Lake City Council have led Gov. Gary Herbert to call a special session for changes to the shipping-and-receiving hub in the city’s northwest corner.Council members say they agree with a draft bill, which as off 11 a.m. still hadn’t been made public. Herbert’s proclamation calls for changes that will shrink the port boundaries to exclude wetlands and address tax-sharing between the port authority and
  
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• ‘I been watching you’: A child killer taunted little girls with terrifying notes, police say. After 30 years, DNA led to an arrest.

  16-07-2018 19:25
  The message was slashed onto the weather-beaten planks of a barn in the empty farmland not far from where the girl’s body had been found.Police in northern Indiana stared at the jerky handwritten scrawl in May 1990, realizing this was the most significant clue to drop in the region’s most publicized unsolved crime. In 1988, 8-year-old April Tinsley had been found murdered and sexually assaulted. Two years later, police were now studying the white building on a stretch of lonely rura
  
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• Thai cave rescuer considers suing Elon Musk over deleted ‘pedo’ tweets

  16-07-2018 19:16
  It has been five days since a dozen boys were rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand, and five days since Elon Musk has been wandering in a Twitter labyrinth of his own making.The Silicon Valley engineer and billionaire was briefly seen in Thailand last week, hauling a miniature submarine to the mouth of the cave just before an international dive team rescued the boys without it.Since then, he has been arguing with people who accuse him of shoehorning himself into the drama and imagining hypoth
  
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• Weber State picked second in Big Sky football preseason polls

  16-07-2018 19:05
  Following its history-making run in 2017, the Weber State football team has been picked to finish second in the Big Sky Conference for the 2018 season. The Wildcats were selected second in both the coaches and media polls, released Monday at the Big Sky football media kickoff in Spokane, Washington.Eastern Washington was picked to finish first in both polls. The Eagles garnered six first-place votes in the coaches poll and 27 in the media poll.The Wildcats picked up three first-place votes and t
  
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• In its first major event of the #MeToo era, Comic-Con is still grappling with harassment

  16-07-2018 19:04
  Los Angeles • Comic-Con, the annual gathering of over 130,000 fans, artists, collectors and geek culture savants, has already been changed by the #MeToo and Time’s Up era, with at least one notable figure stepping aside due to sexual misconduct allegations. But questions remain about its atmosphere and whether convention organizers will take any extra steps to address longstanding allegations of harassment issues during the event which kicks off Wednesday night in San Diego.The conven
  
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• FCC chairman has ‘serious concerns’ about Sinclair-Tribune merger, could seek to block deal

  16-07-2018 18:58
  Washington • Sinclair Broadcasting’s proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media has raised “serious concerns” at the Federal Communications Commission about the amount of control the combined company would have over the U.S. television market, said Ajit Pai, the agency’s chairman.Pai said Monday that he intends to send key parts of the deal to review by an administrative law judge, which is typically the first step the FCC takes when it seeks to block a deal.
  
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• There is no offseason for Rudy ❌ twitter.com/BleacherReport…

  16-07-2018 17:59 via twitter.com
  There is no offseason for Rudy ❌ twitter.com/BleacherReport…
  
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• Utah’s Zack Moss headlines several Utes named to national preseason watch lists

  16-07-2018 17:40
  Sure, they’re subjective as can be, but for fans, they’re also the start of a bread crumb trail that leads straight through the dog days of summer to the opening of preseason camp.And there, that’s where college football officially starts.On Monday, four University of Utah football players were announced to be on national award preseason watch lists as the start of Utah’s 2018 fall camp nears on Wednesday, Aug. 1.Headlining the crew is junior running back Zack Moss, who w
  
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• DPOY, always ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/eQFJmYX05S

  16-07-2018 17:18 via twitter.com
  
  DPOY, always ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/eQFJmYX05S
  
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• Muslim candidates run in record numbers across U.S. but face backlash

  16-07-2018 17:17
  Springfield, Mass. • A liberal woman of color with zero name recognition and little funding takes down a powerful, long serving congressman from her own political party.When Tahirah Amatul-Wadud heard about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning upset over U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in New York’s Democratic primary last month, the first-time candidate saw parallels with her own long-shot campaign for Congress in western Massachusetts.The 44-year-old Muslim, African-American civil rights
  
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• Trump says summit with Putin is off to a ‘very, very good start’

  16-07-2018 17:03
  Helsinki • President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin opened their long-awaited summit Monday with a wink and slouch, respectively, then talked one on one behind closed doors for two-plus hours before the American leader declared their meeting was off to a “very, very good start for everybody.”Neither leader revealed what was discussed. But in advance of the talks, Trump listed a series of topics that did not include Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elect
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz Offseason Personality Test

  16-07-2018 16:22 via sportspyder.com
  .... From traveling the world to tending the kids, Jazz players have been seen in various locations participating in diverse activit ...
  
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• ‘Utah has long stood as one of our nation’s most patriotic states’ — Declassified documents show the pitch to lure National Security Agency Data Center

  16-07-2018 16:17
  In January 2006, David M. Winberg wrote a two-page paper lobbying the National Security Agency to build a computing center at Camp Williams.Winberg, a Utahn with a long history with the NSA, lauded the technical advantages of the site. Then he used the last paragraph to promote Utahns as a whole.“Utah has long stood as one of our nation’s most patriotic states,” Winberg wrote. “The people of Utah are committed to the principles and practices of maintaining and improving o
  
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• ‘Utah has long stood as one of our nation’s most patriotic states' — Declassified documents show the pitch to lure National Security Agency Data Center

  16-07-2018 16:07
  In January 2006, David M. Winberg wrote a two-page paper lobbying the National Security Agency to build a computing center at Camp Williams.Winberg, a Utahn with a long history with the NSA, lauded the technical advantages of the site. Then he used the last paragraph to promote Utahns as a whole.“Utah has long stood as one of our nation’s most patriotic states,” Winberg wrote. “The people of Utah are committed to the principles and practices of maintaining and improving o
  
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• ‘I think about it every day’ — These Utahns survived the mass shooting in Vegas but remain haunted by what they saw

  16-07-2018 16:07
  St. George • In work meetings, DJ Tischner used to sit anywhere. Now he finds a chair near the door. At restaurants, the 26-year-old puts his back against a wall. Better to see everything that’s going on, he figures.Loud noises jolt him — the sound of sudden laughter or a scream or construction workers hammering in the St. George building where he works as a country music disc jockey.Tischner was covering the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest Festival for his station, Big Kickin’
  
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• Police believe report of woman stabbed in Magna is a hoax

  16-07-2018 16:06
  Police believe the report of a woman stabbed while jogging in Magna on Sunday is a hoax.The woman had reported that, as she was jogging in Magna Copper Park on Sunday night, she was confronted by two or three people who attempted to rob her and then stabbed her. “But she had no description of her attackers, and no real information,” Gray said.“The doctors believe that these stab wounds were probably self-inflicted,” said Unified Police Sgt. Melody Gray of the Unified Poli
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump calls U.S. media ‘fake news,’ but loves the Russian media flattery

  16-07-2018 16:03
  Trump calls U.S. media ‘fake news,’ but loves the Russian media flattery. The president calls his London visit a success. Sen. Warren appears to be eyeing 2020 presidential bid.Happy Monday. President Donald Trump continues his running war with the U.S. news media, but he may not be so quick at flinging “fake news” accusations at the largely government-controlled or influenced Russian press, which is giving him sympathetic coverage as a mistreated maverick. [AP]Topping th
  
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• Morning links: Karl Malone sounds off on today's NBA; RSL coach Mike Petke apologizes

  16-07-2018 15:59
  Once you're a Jazzman, you're always a Jazzman.That's what Karl Malone said when asked why he was in Las Vegas to watch Utah's summer league team. NBATV asked the Mailman to be a guest commentator and he was his usual entertaining self.He dished on why this current Jazz team is playing so well ("They are a group of guys that like to play with each other. When they like each other, they go out and play hard and they pull for each other."), why he continues to stay in shape (so he can fish and hun
  
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• How the Las Vegas shooting turned one Utah nurse into an advocate for her profession

  16-07-2018 15:36
  Enoch • When Debbie Bowerman went to see a movie recently with her husband and teenage daughter, they settled into their seats, and she scanned for the emergency exits.It’s a habit the Enoch resident repeats in many confined public places, ever since the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting in Las Vegas last fall.Know the fastest way out. Have a plan.Bowerman wasn’t wounded in the mass shooting. Actually, she wasn’t even at the festival. Instead, she witnessed the carna
  
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• Gehrke: Elections have consequences, and we’ll see them for years to come with Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court

  16-07-2018 15:30
  “Remember the Merrick!”It sounds like it could be a rallying cry for the Spanish-American War and it might as well be, because it’s so quaint and naive.Instead, it’s the closest thing the Democrats have to a strategy for trying to stop the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court.Bless their hearts.Democrats are justifiably angry that President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland — a man who
  
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• Lakers give LeBron a good show, make NBA Summer League semis

  16-07-2018 06:12
  Las Vegas • The Los Angeles Lakers put on a good show for LeBron James.With James in attendance , the defending NBA Summer League champions cruised back into the semifinals, beating the Detroit Pistons 101-78 on Sunday.Second-round pick Svi Mykhailiuk scored 19 points and Josh Hart added 18 for the Lakers, who shot out to a 33-14 lead after one quarter inside UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center.James wore gold Lakers shorts in watching the Lakers improve to 5-0. He left as his former team
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Podcast: Free Agency frenzy, Jazz stand pat, SL recap

  16-07-2018 06:05 via sportspyder.com
  ...we feel won or lost free agency. For Point Two, we transitioned to the Utah Jazz and the decision they made to largely stand pat this off-season. Jared and I ...
  
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• Utah Jazz Podcast: Free Agency frenzy, Jazz stand pat, SL recap

  16-07-2018 05:52
  As the dust of the off-season is beginning to settle, Jared Woodcox and I will recap some of the top free agent signings, the actions made by the Utah Jazz, and finally, we’ll mention some summer league standouts in the latest podcast. The latest episode of the Three-Point Threat Podcast is here, and Jared Woodcox […]
  Utah Jazz Podcast: Free Agency frenzy, Jazz stand pat, SL recap - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Carnoustie presents a fast, brown look for British Open

  16-07-2018 05:45
  Carnoustie, Scotland • Jon Rahm had heard about a dry summer in Scotland. It didn’t really hit home until he checked into the Carnoustie Golf Hotel and caught his first glimpse of the course with a reputation as the toughest links in golf.“I forgot the fact the R&A lets Mother Nature set up the course,” he said Sunday. “It wasn’t until I got to my hotel room when I looked out and said, ‘This is baked. This is brown.’ I’m just glad they wat
  
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• Former NHL goalie Ray Emery drowns in Hamilton, Ontario

  16-07-2018 05:04
  Retired NHL goaltender Ray Emery, who helped the Ottawa Senators reach the final in 2007 and won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2013, drowned in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. He was 35.Hamilton Police said Emery was identified as the victim of a swimming accident in the harbor Sunday morning. Staff sergeant Paul Evans said police received a call just after 6 a.m. that an adult swimmer did not surface and that the Niagara Police assisted in the recovery effort.Emery’s b
  
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• Cameron Champ wins Utah Championship; BYU’s Patrick Fishburn finishes in top 25

  16-07-2018 04:59
  Farmington • Although he posted top-10 finishes in four consecutive Web.com Tour starts coming into the Utah Championship, Cameron Champ never really experienced the nervousness that comes with having a chance to win.Those feelings hit him this weekend at Oakridge Country Club, and his breakthrough did not come easily. Even so, winning the tournament was not as tough as the process of turning around his season a couple of months ago.Champ absorbed an 18th-hole bogey Sunday, finishing one sh
  
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• Police: Suspect in killing of college student dead after wounding 3 Kansas City officers

  16-07-2018 03:14
  Kansas City, Mo. • A gunman being investigated in the killing of a university student from India shot and wounded three Kansas City police officers Sunday before dying in an exchange of gunfire with police, authorities said.The three officers' wounds were not life-threatening, police said.The suspect, whose name has not been released, had been identified as a person of interest in the slaying of Sharath Koppu and officers had him under surveillance, according to police. Koppu, 25, was a mas
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Rudy Gobert watches the French National Team win it all

  16-07-2018 02:45 via sportspyder.com
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• Watch @RudyGobert27 in his hometown of Saint-Quentin as the French team wins the #WorldCup 🇫🇷 https://t.co/EAQ9Ws7mee

  16-07-2018 02:22 via twitter.com
  
  Watch @RudyGobert27 in his hometown of Saint-Quentin as the French team wins the #WorldCup 🇫🇷 https://t.co/EAQ9Ws7mee
  
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• Infamous Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot claims responsibility for on-field protest in World Cup finale

  16-07-2018 02:05
  Moscow • Russian protest group Pussy Riot claimed responsibility Sunday for four people who brought the World Cup final to a brief halt by running onto the field dressed in police uniforms.The three women and one man who charged onto the field simultaneously in the 52nd minute of one of the world's most watched sporting events were tackled to the ground by stewards. Croatia defender Dejan Lovren pushed the man, helping a steward to detain him.Before being hauled away, one of the women manag
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Will the blue wave start in Jersey?

  16-07-2018 02:00
  Bordenton, N.J. • “Do you feel like there is a steady hand at the wheel? Do you feel like you’re in good hands right now?”Andy Kim, a Democrat challenging Republican Rep. Tom MacArthur for a congressional seat in south-central New Jersey, sees these questions as pivotal to November's election. They are singularly appropriate after a week of dangerous chaos ignited by President Trump's European trip and new indictments in the Russia probe.In an interview at a diner here bef
  
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• Man killed by Chicago police ran away, reached toward his waist where he had a gun holstered

  16-07-2018 00:59
  Chicago • A man killed by Chicago police had a gun in a holster at his hip and was shot multiple times as he ran away, spun around and reached toward his waist, according to footage released Sunday from an officer’s body-worn camera.Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said it's the quickest he has ever ordered such video released and that he hoped to dispel rumors that Harith Augustus, 37, was unarmed. He also hoped that making the 30-second clip public before a planned protest would
  
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