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• Video shows Weinstein caressing woman before alleged rape

  12-09-2018 23:56
  New York • A video of Harvey Weinstein caressing and propositioning a woman who accused him of rape aired on television Wednesday.Melissa Thompson, who sued Weinstein in June, said she made the recording, shown by Sky News, while demonstrating video technology for the movie mogul-turned-#MeToo villain at his New York City office in 2011.Weinstein is seen on the video rejecting a handshake from Thompson and then hugging her instead and rubbing her back.He then caresses her shoulder as they s
  
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• A man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing a University of Utah international student

  12-09-2018 23:42
  Nearly a year after he shot and killed a University of Utah student, Austin Boutain stood in a Salt Lake City courtroom Wednesday and calmly admitted his guilt.Boutain, 24, admitted that last October, he shot five times into a car that sat in a dirt parking lot in Red Butte Canyon, one of the bullets striking and killing 23-year-old Chenwei Guo, a computer science major from China.And after he killed Guo, Boutain admitted that he ordered the passenger out of the car and fired his gun towards her
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Some Utahns push plan they say could end gerrymandering — but lawmakers say the effort is about helping Democrats

  12-09-2018 23:16
  Salt Lake County is represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by three different Congress members, none of whom live in Salt Lake County.Utah’s voting maps, which divide the state’s most populous county — and home to its capital city — into three congressional districts, boosting the voice of rural and suburban conservatives over that of the urban, and predominately liberal voters in Salt Lake City and the east bench.To critics, Utah’s maps are a clear-cut ex
  
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• 36 new natural-gas buses, which save money and pollute less, are added to Jordan School District’s fleet

  12-09-2018 23:07
  Jordan School District now has the largest fleet of natural-gas fueled school buses in Utah.The district, which covers much of the Salt Lake Valley’s south end, added 36 new CNG — or compressed natural gas — buses to its transportation department Wednesday. It now has a total of 105.The buses emit 40 to 86 percent less particulate matter compared to old diesel school buses. And they save the district about $630,000 in fuel costs each year, according to a news release.
  
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• Jazz land five in Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 NBA Players

  12-09-2018 22:45
  “The strength of the team is the team.”That’s been the Jazz’s mantra for months now, ever since they found a way to turn around their 2017-18 season and finish with an impressive run to the playoffs.But this week, Sports Illustrated gave some credence to that claim, thanks to their annual Top 100 player list. In it, all five members of the Jazz’s starting lineup finish among the league’s top 60 players. The Jazz are one of only two teams with five players in t
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Former bishop Sam Young discusses his stance on youth interviews, his possible excommunication and how church leaders are misinterpreting his opposition

  12-09-2018 22:30
  Sam Young is a Mormon on a mission.He wants bishops’ one-on-one interviews with Latter-day Saint youths to end. He wants the sometimes sexually explicit “worthiness” questions they are asked in these private sessions to cease. To propel his cause, he formed a group, Protect LDS Children, launched an online petition and led a march to church headquarters to deliver tens of thousands of supportive signatures. He even staged a three-week hunger strike to draw attention to the issu
  
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• Small earthquake hits southwestern Utah desert overnight

  12-09-2018 22:27
  Cove Fort • A small earthquake hit the southwestern Utah desert overnight.The University of Utah's seismograph stations recorded the 3.8 magnitude earthquake just before midnight Tuesday. The epicenter was 15 miles northwest of Cove Fort, a historical site in Millard County.The university says four aftershocks occurred in the next hour, the largest of which was a 2.3 magnitude.The university says the region has had 19 small earthquakes since 1962. The largest of those occurred in February 2
  
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• The old gang from BYUtv’s ‘Studio C’ plans 5 new shows and their own online network

  12-09-2018 21:54
  The soon-to-be-former cast of BYUtv’s “Studio C” have big plans. They’re going to launch not one, not two, but five new online shows.But that’s just the beginning. They’re launching an online network in January.“We are creating an exclusively digital, family-friendly comedy network,” said cast member Natalie Madsen. “It’s such an underserved market.”All 10 members of the original cast of the BYUtv sketch comedy show — Madsen
  
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• Why is the Great Salt Lake half red and half blue?

  12-09-2018 21:52
  A railroad causeway built in 1959 cut Utah’s Great Salt Lake into two very different lakes, ecologically speaking, as seen in this striking drone footage posted by ABC News on Wednesday. The water north of the causeway is a deep red, reflecting its highly saline chemistry.Striking drone footage shows the stark split of Utah's Great Salt Lake—with one side a deep pink and the other a cool blue due to different levels of salinity. https://t.co/q7G3TRWdAT pic.twitter.com/jiP51srWPD&mdas
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert is in SI’s Top 15 once again

  12-09-2018 21:49 via sportspyder.com
  ... and what Gobert’s contributions on that side of the floor have meant for the Jazz franchise. The Stifle Tower entered this year’s SI rankings at No. 14 and wa ...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz rank 2018-19: Trey Lewis enters the list at No. 19

  12-09-2018 21:49 via sportspyder.com
  ... a guy who played with the guy. And he showed as much during his run with the Jazz during summer league. In six games with the Jazz, he put up eight points, 2. ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rockmonster Unplugged: Utah's not the only place that's high on the Jazz

  12-09-2018 21:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... t the news here for Utah fans is they’re not alone in their opinion that the Jazz are an up-and-coming team. With five players among the top 57, that puts the ...
  
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  12-09-2018 21:42 via twitter.com
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• Rockmonster Unplugged: Utah's not the only place that's high on the Jazz

  12-09-2018 21:32
  Sports Illustrated is counting down its list of "Top 100 NBA Players of 2019."There are approximately 420 players in the Association, counting those on the inactive list. So if you make SI's list, you're in the top 24 percent.This is good news for Jazz fans. They have all five starters on the list. Ricky Rubio is No. 57, with Joe Ingles at 56, Derrick Favors at 51, Donovan Mitchell 34 and Rudy Gobert 14.To lend perspective, Gobert is rated just ahead of the unstoppable Damian Lillard and right b
  
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• Got $1,100? Apple shows off its most expensive iPhone yet

  12-09-2018 21:22
  Cupertino, Calif. • Apple unveiled three new iPhones on Wednesday, including its biggest and most expensive model yet, as the company seeks to widen the product’s appeal amid slowing sales.CEO Tim Cook showed off the Apple XS, which has a bigger screen than the one on last year's dramatically designed model , the iPhone X. It'll cost about $1,000. A bigger version will be called the iPhone XS Max, which looks to be about the size of the iPhone 8 Plus, though the screen size is much la
  
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• Utah Jazz rank 2018-19: Trey Lewis enters the list at No. 19

  12-09-2018 21:06
  Trey Lewis, a former teammate of Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell at Louisville, had a strong showing during summer league play. Our 2018-19 Utah Jazz preseason player rankings continue today with No. 19, former Louisville guard Trey Lewis. When the 25-year-old combo guard joined the Jazz on a camp deal last month, he made headlines […]
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• [NBA] - Public invited to free Utah Jazz team event

  12-09-2018 21:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... e “Meet the Team” event includes a game entertainment portion highlighted by Jazz Dancers, the Jazz Dunk Team and Jazz Bear. The entire 2018-19 Utah Jazz rost ...
  
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  12-09-2018 20:57 via twitter.com
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• ‘We need to find a way to pay them more’: Utah governor pushes for better salaries to retain, recruit more teachers during shortage

  12-09-2018 20:50
  Gov. Gary Herbert pleaded during a Wednesday morning news conference for Utah teachers to stay in their classrooms and for those who have left to come back.The statewide shortage of educators, he said, is dire. The simplest solution to stem the flow, he suggested, is to increase salaries.“We need to find a way to pay them more.”The appeal is the latest from Herbert on education. And it comes after the governor has spent much of the summer visiting schools across the state, testing ou
  
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• New sculpture made from 6 tons of willow branches taking shape at Utah State University

  12-09-2018 20:45
  Logan • A library at Utah State University will soon have a new sculpture made out of 6 tons of willow branches.The Herald Journal newspaper reports that the sculpture is being constructed at Merrill-Cazier Library over the course of several weeks, with the help of people in Logan.Sculptor Patrick Dougherty of Chapel Hill, N.C., has made more than 250 sculptures in locations around the world, often using sticks as raw material. He says he hopes people walk into the sculpture and feel someth
  
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• Myth of the MUSS? Opponents fear Rice-Eccles Stadium, but the Utes haven’t thrived at home in the Pac-12

  12-09-2018 20:10
  Ask anybody in the Pac-12, and they will say the Rice-Eccles Stadium crowd gives Utah one of the biggest home-field advantages in the conference.Preparing to play in front of 90,000 fans at Nebraska last week, Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre cited the experience of visiting the Utes' 46,000-seat venue. USC's Clay Helton has called Utah “a phenomenal place to play, an electric atmosphere.” Washington's Chris Petersen, bringing the No. 10 Huskies to town Saturday, labeled the Rice-Eccles
  
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• Voters to decide future of Weber County’s form of government

  12-09-2018 20:04
  Ogden • Weber County voters will be asked next year if they want to move forward with a study that will look into the idea of changing the county’s three-commissioner form of government that some critics have called insufficiently representative.The Standard-Examiner reports Weber County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday agreeing to put the question to voters.Weber County Elections Director Ryan Cowley says voters will be asked in November 2019 whether they want
  
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• Recreational use of marijuana violates LDS Word of Wisdom, church leaders say, regardless of legality

  12-09-2018 20:02
  Mormon doctors who recommend cannabis to their patients, and voters who support medical marijuana legalization efforts, are not at risk of jeopardizing their standing within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a member of the faith’s leadership said Wednesday.But recreational use of marijuana is prohibited by the faith’s Word of Wisdom, one leader said, comparing cannabis to tobacco or addictive hallucinogens.While speaking on the KUER program “RadioWest," three LD
  
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• Once a Ute, safety Austin Lee has emerged as a force on BYU’s defense

  12-09-2018 20:02
  Provo • Before linebacker Francis Bernard switched schools in the state of Utah’s fiercest college football rivalry, defensive back Austin Lee proved it could be done successfully.With much less fanfare.An Alta High product who signed with Utah way back in 2012 and played for the Utes in 2015 after a church mission to Tulsa, Okla., Lee will get his third-straight start at free safety for BYU on Saturday when the Cougars face No. 6 Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium.“Austin has em
  
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• Catherine Rampell: There’s lots of deregulation afoot. But will it really help anyone?

  12-09-2018 19:46
  President Trump may be amoral, erratic, ill-informed, petty. He may speak admiringly of autocrats. His behavior may deserve invocation of the 25th Amendment.But, hey, the tax cuts and deregulation!So declared the anonymous senior Trump administration official who published an op-ed in the New York Times last week. And this Publius is not exactly alone in offering this refrain.Trump and his many non-anonymous surrogates often use a similar talking point. To distract from virtually any White House
  
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• Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert is in SI’s Top 15 once again

  12-09-2018 19:39
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert is getting major props in the national media, landing in the Top 15 of SI’s Top 100 NBA Players. All week long, Sports Illustrated and their hoops vertical, The Crossover, have been counting down their list of the NBA’s Top 100 Players. If you’re a fan looking for a little […]
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• Undefeated BYU is the No. 1 women’s volleyball team in the nation and No. 24 Utah is also rolling. The rivals meet Thursday night in Provo.

  12-09-2018 19:38
  Provo • BYU women’s volleyball star Roni Jones-Perry learned the Cougars are ranked No. 1 in the country for the first time since 1986 when her husband texted her the news on Monday.The No. 24-ranked Utah Utes are surely aware of that, too.The BYU-Utah women’s volleyball rivalry never needs any extra spice, but it will have some Thursday night in the Smith Fieldhouse for good measure thanks to the Cougars’ ascension to the top spot in the American Volleyball Coaches Associ
  
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• 3,677 sex abuse cases in German Catholic Church, report says

  12-09-2018 19:29
  Berlin • A report on sexual abuse inside the Catholic Church in Germany says 3,677 people were abused by clergy between 1946 and 2014, two leading German media outlets said Wednesday.Spiegel Online and Die Zeit said the report they obtained — commissioned by the German Bishops Conference and researched by three universities — concludes that more than half the victims were 13 or younger and most were boys. Every sixth case involved rape and at least 1,670 clergy were involved, bo
  
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• Pope Francis summons world’s bishops for February sex abuse prevention summit

  12-09-2018 19:25
  Vatican City • Pope Francis is summoning the presidents of every bishops conference around the world for a February summit to discuss preventing clergy sex abuse and protecting children — evidence that he realizes the scandal is global and that inaction threatens to undermine his legacy.Francis’ key cardinal advisers announced the decision Wednesday, a day before Francis meets with U.S. church leaders who have been discredited anew by the latest accusations in the Catholic Churc
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rudy Gobert’s potential All-Star season bolstered by No. 14 ranking in Sports Illustrated’s Top 100

  12-09-2018 19:09 via sportspyder.com
  ... dinarily love to take, all for fear of Gobert swatting them away. Though the Jazz managed to defeat the in the first round of last season’s playoffs, Utah was ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz fans invited to ‘Meet the Team’ ahead of first preseason game

  12-09-2018 18:54 via sportspyder.com
  ... int shootout after being introduced on the court. Entertainment will include Jazz Bear, the Jazz Dunk Team and the Jazz dancers. No photograph or autograph op ...
  
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• Dana Milbank: How many Benedict Arnolds can one administration hold?

  12-09-2018 18:50
  Video: President Trump has accused his opponents of McCarthyism, but he is the one making wildly unsupported accusations, argues columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr. (Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)Washington - “I’ll write the real book!” says President Trump, vowing to counter the “scam” Bob Woodward has just published.This is no idle threat. By the time his presidency is over, he may be the only one left to write a book. The rest of us will have gone to the gallows.Trump
  
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• Utah Jazz fans invited to ‘Meet the Team’ ahead of first preseason game

  12-09-2018 18:47
  SALT LAKE CITY — Technically, the first Utah Jazz preseason game to kick off the 2018-19 season isn't scheduled until Saturday, Sept. 29, against the Perth Wildcats.However, local fans will get to see the team back in action a day early.The public is invited to attend the free "Meet the Team" event on Friday, Sept. 28, at 6 p.m. in Vivint Arena.There is no ticket requirement, and all the squad will be in attendance. Players will also participate in a 3-point shootout after being introduced
  
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• Less snow prompts push to lengthen Grand Canyon visit season

  12-09-2018 18:43
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • With snowfall dwindling at the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, tourism promoters see an opportunity to stretch out the visiting season at the less popular side of the canyon so more people experience it and spend money in the region.The canyon's North Rim is fully open less than half of the year and isn't as easy to get to as the South Rim, which attracts 90 percent of the canyon's annual 6.25 million visitors. The North Rim has equally stunning views but is more serene,
  
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• Alexandra Petri: What your bagel order says about you and your fitness to govern

  12-09-2018 18:42
  New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon recently caused a Great Deal of Stir by ordering a cinnamon raisin bagel with lox, cream cheese, capers, tomato and red onion. Good heavens!But this is raisin an important question: Which bagel order marks you as fit to serve the people of your state as governor, and which correctly casts you into the Outer Darkness for all eternity? What does your order say about you? I have taken the liberty of determining this for you, using science. At any rate
  
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• Navajo activists protest company eyeing coal-fired plant

  12-09-2018 18:40
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • About a dozen Navajos traveled to New York City to protest a company eyeing a coal-fired power plant on their reservation.The Navajo Generating Station near Page is set to close next year unless a new buyer is found. The current owners say energy produced by natural gas is cheaper.New York-based Avenue Capital Group has said it's interested in purchasing the plant and is talking with tribal officials. It's also been pushing an Arizona entity to commit to buying coal-fired
  
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  12-09-2018 18:03 via twitter.com
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• The old gang from BYUtv’s ‘Studio C’ plan 5 new shows and their own online network

  12-09-2018 17:37
  The soon-to-be-former cast of BYUtv’s “Studio C” have big plans. They’re going to launch not one, not two, but five new online shows.But that’s just the beginning. They’re launching an online network in January.“We are creating an exclusively digital, family-friendly comedy network,” said cast member Natalie Madsen. “It’s such an underserved market.”All 10 members of the original cast of the BYUtv sketch comedy show — Madsen
  
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• Political Cornflakes: The Left’s last-ditch effort to stop Brett Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court

  12-09-2018 17:33
  The Left’s last-ditch effort to stop Brett Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court. Democrat Ghorbani comes within 11 points of Rep. Stewart. Bob Woodward’s new book talks about Rob Porter.Happy Wednesday. Brett Kavanaugh avoided glaring missteps — and most tough Democratic questions — at his confirmation hearings. But that’s not stopping the Supreme Court nominee’s liberal critics from unleashing new ads and grass-roots campaigns in one last shot at derailing him. I
  
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• U.S. Justice Department seeks dismissal from Navajo Nation’s lawsuit

  12-09-2018 17:30
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Attorneys for the U.S. Justice Department want a federal judge to drop a lawsuit that faulted the office for not prosecuting an Arizona police officer in a Navajo woman’s death.The Navajo Nation sued the federal government and the city of Winslow in March on behalf of Loreal Tsingine’s daughter.Authorities say Tsingine posed a threat to now former Winslow police Officer Austin Shipley when he killed her in March 2016.Navajo officials say he should have used no
  
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• Moon rock hunter closes in on tracking down missing stones

  12-09-2018 17:05
  A strange thing happened after Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew returned from the moon with lunar rocks: Many of the mementos given to every U.S. state vanished. Now, after years of sleuthing, a former NASA investigator is closing in on his goal of locating the whereabouts of all 50.In recent weeks, two of the rocks that disappeared after the 1969 mission were located in Louisiana and Utah, leaving only New York and Delaware with unaccounted-for souvenirs.Attorney and moon rock hunter Josep
  
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• The Afghanistan war has gone on so long that people born after Sept. 11 can now enlist

  12-09-2018 16:03
  A day after hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center towers, tore into the Pentagon and cratered a Pennsylvania field, thousands of babies were born in the United States.They emerged from the womb on Sept. 12, 2001, as hospital televisions were tuned to smoldering rubble, and they grew alongside the subsequent war against al-Qaida and the Taliban.Wednesday marks a new era for the war in Afghanistan and the young people who make up the bulk of enlistees. It is the first day someone born a
  
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• Calgary interested in bidding for 2026 Winter Olympics

  12-09-2018 16:01
  Calgary is considering a bid for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, with the cost of the games estimated at $5.23 billion.Calgary voters will decide on Nov. 13 whether they want to host the games.Calgary 2026 bid corporation chief executive officer Mary Moran told the Calgary council the $5.23 billion figure was calculated in 2018 dollars. She says the total could be $5.99 billion by 2026.The 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, cost about $7.7 billion.Calgar
  
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• Novelist who wrote about ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ charged with murdering her husband

  12-09-2018 15:59
  Nancy Crampton Brophy seemed to have a knack for writing about the murder of spouses.The Portland-based romance novelist authored books about relationships that were "wrong" but "never felt so right," often featuring bare-chested men on the cover. In "The Wrong Cop," she wrote about a woman who "spent every day of her marriage fantasizing about killing" her husband.In "The Wrong Husband," a woman tried to flee an abusive husband by faking her death.And in “How to Murder Your Husband”
  
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• Trump administration diverted nearly $10 million from FEMA to ICE detention program, according to DHS document

  12-09-2018 15:53
  The Trump administration appears to have diverted nearly $10 million in funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency at the forefront of the president’s zero-tolerance immigration policy that led to the separation of hundreds of children, some as young as 18 months, from their parents.The reallocation of public money is documented in a "Transfer and Reprogramming" notification prepared this fiscal year by the Departme
  
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• Kirby: Utah is second ‘happiest state.’ If you’re laughing at that, does it prove the point?

  12-09-2018 15:23
  According to a recent study by WalletHub, Utah ranks second (just below Hawaii) on a list of the “happiest states in America.”Scream and howl all you want, but it’s a fact — or at least as factual as such studies can be. Maybe some guy named Wallet Hub just made it up.Never mind. At No. 50, West Virginia is the unhappiest state. This surprises me because it’s beautiful and one of the funniest guys I know (Steve Hirzel) is from there. Arkansas is 49th and Louisiana 4
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Confirmed: the Utah Jazz have the best fans in the NBA

  12-09-2018 15:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... is set for Saturday, Oct. 20. Training camp will start Monday, Oct. 22. Utah Jazz affiliate, the Salt Lake City Stars, hold the No. 1 overall pick in the draf ...
  
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• Letter: Where to sign up for the First Amendment

  12-09-2018 15:00
  Last week Nancy Walker asked in her letter to The Public Forum, “Where’s the lobbying organization for the First Amendment?” saying she’d gladly become a member. That organization exists. It is the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU has been the foremost champion of our First Amendment rights for nearly 100 years!Dana E. Wilson Sr., HolladaySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Mia Love’s talk doesn’t match her walk

  12-09-2018 15:00
  Rep. Mia Love must think we aren’t paying attention. She says her positions on issues from climate change to immigration are moderate but, when it’s time to vote, Love has supported the administration’s conservative agenda 96 percent of the time. This lockstep alignment with the administration means that she’s voted for laws to deregulate banks and discard important health care options that endanger Utahns with pre-existing conditions and has not said anything about the a
  
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• Letter: Kirby is wrong to pick on a victim

  12-09-2018 15:00
  I am normally a passing fan of Robert Kirby’s light-hearted articles. But when you take the time to shame a victim, shame on you.While I appreciate his light-hearted tone, his column about McKenna Denson presents the exact problem that needs to be addressed: Victims and perpetrators are around us, and we are so uncomfortable hearing what the victims have to say that we force them into a forgotten oblivion.Furthermore, this was the ultimate “man-speak” — where a man thinks
  
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