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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell noncommittal on defending slam dunk title: ‘We’ll see’

  24-09-2018 23:58 via sportspyder.com
  ... diana’s Victor Oladipo to bring home the title, even paying homage to former Jazz star Darrell Griffith and Raptors legend Vince Carter in the process. Smith...
  
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• Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell noncommittal on defending slam dunk title: ‘We’ll see’

  24-09-2018 23:51
  SALT LAKE CITY — NBA All-Star Weekend seems like its light years away.Heck, the 2018-19 NBA preseason games haven't even started yet.Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell is certainly focused on reaching new heights in his sophomore campaign, but the rising star hasn't decided on whether or not he'll be defending his slam dunk title."I don't know … that's a good question," Mitchell said during Monday's Utah Jazz Media Day. "I don't know, we'll see. I'll leave it there."Utah Jazz guard Do
  
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• .@GraysonJAllen making the rounds during his first #NBAMediaDay 💙 » on.nba.com/2xK0kKd https://t.co/gSEzHR17ua

  24-09-2018 23:47 via twitter.com
  
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• Utah Jazz Media Day: Derrick Favors is working to adapt his game

  24-09-2018 23:33
  Utah Jazz big man Derrick Favors wants to become a better fit with the team and in the modern NBA by transforming his body and evolving his game. When Derrick Favors stepped to the podium during Utah Jazz media day, he made clear the fact that it wasn’t his first rodeo. Unprompted, the big man […]
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• . @spidadmitchell x @Lockedonsports & Ron Boone, live! #NBAMediaDay | #RoadToTipoff »on.nba.com/2xK0kKd https://t.co/FzROIqvUua

  24-09-2018 23:19 via twitter.com
  
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• Welcome to camp: NBA teams starting their new seasons

  24-09-2018 23:16
  There were some Larry O'Brien trophies were on display at Golden State's media day on Monday, shiny golden reminders of the three championships that the Warriors have picked up over the past four years.Their quest for another is about to begin.So will the quest by 29 other teams to thwart them.The offseason is over in the NBA. Most teams held media day Monday, the prelude to the start of training camps. And just like last year, those camps — from Hawaii to British Columbia to Massachusetts
  
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  24-09-2018 23:08 via twitter.com
  
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• .@dfavors14—about to enter his 9th NBA season 🏀 »on.nba.com/2xK0kKd https://t.co/RdKEthKfxe

  24-09-2018 23:06 via twitter.com
  
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• "As a team, we're going to be the best we've been so far." -Rudy Gobert #TakeNote | #NBAMediaDay https://t.co/pjywUTLzjS

  24-09-2018 22:53 via twitter.com
  
  "As a team, we're going to be the best we've been so far." -Rudy Gobert#TakeNote | #NBAMediaDay https://t.co/pjywUTLzjS
  
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• 😈😈😈 @CJC9BOSS doing work 🎙 »on.nba.com/2xK0kKd https://t.co/mjBQ3DFHev

  24-09-2018 22:51 via twitter.com
  
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• Utes need more production, Kyle Whittingham says, because ‘You’re not going to beat Washington State 21-17.’

  24-09-2018 22:46
  Utah's offense produced a total of 17 points in a win over Northern Illinois and a loss to Washington. If the Utes expect to beat Washington State, that's about how many points they will need in each half.Football coaches rarely publicize a minimum standard for offensive performance — or any allowance for their defense — but Utah’s Kyle Whittingham made it clear Monday that his offense will have to do more than usual Saturday in Pullman, Wash. That means scoring 30 points or mo
  
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• Kawhi Leonard says he is ready to go after quadriceps injury

  24-09-2018 22:46
  Toronto • Kawhi Leonard spoke publicly in his first appearance as a Toronto Raptor and said he is physically ready to play.Leonard joined the Raptors in a summertime blockbuster trade with the San Antonio Spurs. How long he stays in Toronto is unclear but the former NBA Finals MVP and two-time defensive player of the year who was limited to nine games last season because of a right quadriceps injury insists he is ready to go as the team gets ready for training camp in Vancouver, British Col
  
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• Bears Ears, Grand Staircase lawsuits will stay in D.C., as judge rejects Trump administration motion to move them to Utah

  24-09-2018 22:38
  Washington • A federal judge has denied the government’s effort to move the lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s shrinking of the Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to Salt Lake City and will keep them here.Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled Monday that the suits, filed by environmental groups and tribes that say Trump didn’t have the authority to diminish the monuments' footprint, should be heard in federal court in Washington.Chutkan also orde
  
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• 49ers lose QB Jimmy Garoppolo to season-ending knee injury

  24-09-2018 22:38
  Santa Clara, Calif. • Jimmy Garoppolo’s addition last season immediately turned around the fortunes of the San Francisco 49ers. Now the 49ers will have to go back to life before Garoppolo for the rest of the season.The Niners announced Monday that Garoppolo tore the ACL in his left knee while making a cut late in a loss at Kansas City, sidelining him for the rest of the season.The injury deals a serious blow to the 49ers (1-2), who had planned their rebuild around Garoppolo and now mu
  
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• BYU is doing its best to ignore its new national ranking as the showdown at No. 11 Washington approaches

  24-09-2018 22:37
  Provo • Coach Kalani Sitake is determined to not let BYU’s lofty national ranking go to his players’ heads.Basically, the third-year coach is ignoring the fact that the Cougars (3-1) moved from No. 25 to No. 20 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll. The Cougars are 26th in the Amway Coaches Poll.Before last week, BYU had not been ranked since early in the 2015 season after wins over Nebraska and Boise State.“Things are trending the right way, but we are not rea
  
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• Mormon women’s group calls on Senate to postpone Kavanaugh confirmation until allegations are investigated

  24-09-2018 22:25
  Washington • A group of Mormon women is urging the Senate to halt the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until after an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by two women decades ago.Mormon Women for Ethical Government, a group of some 6,000 women founded in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election, notes that there are four members of the Judiciary Committee — Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee of Utah, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Mike Crapo of I
  
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• Rosenstein to stay in job for now and will meet Trump on Thursday

  24-09-2018 22:21
  Washington • Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will stay in the job for now, but will meet with the president on Thursday, White House officials said Monday, after officials described a series of private discussions that pointed to his resignation or firing."At the request of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, he and President Trump had an extended conversation to discuss the recent news stories," said White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders. "Because the President is at th
  
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• Utah teen riding in a car with his family accidentally shot and killed by a target shooter

  24-09-2018 21:51
  A 14-year-old boy died Sunday afternoon after authorities say he was accidentally shot and killed while riding in a car with his family near target shooters in a remote area in northern Utah.The boy was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle as his father drove their family in the Monte Cristo area, according to the Rich County Sheriff’s Office, when he was struck in the head by a bullet fired at a target several hundred feet away.The boy died before police could reach him.The target shoo
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Top question marks heading into the season

  24-09-2018 21:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz tap Barnett Frank to head performance science efforts by Ryan Aston Utah Jaz ...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Raul Neto already saddled with the team’s first injury

  24-09-2018 21:43 via sportspyder.com
  ...over 40 percent of his 3-point attempts. The 26-year-old re-signed with the Jazz on a two-year, $4.4 million deal in July. RELATED PRODUCT Men's The J-Notes...
  
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• Panguitch Lake closed because of toxic algal bloom

  24-09-2018 21:35
  Panguitch Lake has been closed because of “extremely high toxin levels” from an ongoing algal bloom, according to the Southwestern Utah Health Department.Closure signs were being posted Monday at the Garfield County lake after results from a Sept. 12 test showed levels of microcystin — also known as blue-green algae — from the cyanobacteria bloom were 12.5 times the threshold for a danger advisory. And, according to the SUHD, those levels could go even higher.Toxin test r
  
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• A Utah hydroelectric plant is ready to reopen after a $42M makeover

  24-09-2018 21:35
  Orem • A Utah hydroelectric plant is ready to come back online after a $42 million makeover that took three years.The Olmsted hydroelectric power plant has a new look and new turbines and will provide water and power to residents throughout several communities, including Orem and Provo, The Daily Herald reported .Hundreds of workers, political leaders, stakeholders and residents travelled to the mouth of the Provo Canyon on Wednesday to celebrate the completion of the new Olmsted campus."Th
  
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• Utah Jazz: Raul Neto already saddled with the team’s first injury

  24-09-2018 21:19
  The oft-injured Utah Jazz are set to tip-off training camp on somewhat of a sour note as point-man Raul Neto suffers the team’s first setback. I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating now — there seems to be three certainties in life: death, taxes and the Utah Jazz being perpetually injured. Although the Jazz […]
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz are back: Here's live coverage of media day

  24-09-2018 20:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... The Utah Jazz are back and are fielding questions from local media today, starting at 1:30 ...
  
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• Utah Jazz are back: Here's live coverage of media day

  24-09-2018 20:28
  The Utah Jazz are back and are fielding questions from local media today, starting at 1:30 p.m.The Deseret News' Eric Woodyard, Mike Sorensen, Ryan McDonald and Brad Rock are at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus.Follow along with us:A Twitter List by desnewssports
  
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• Pope Francis praises Latvians for keeping faith during occupation

  24-09-2018 20:22
  Aglona, Latvia • Pope Francis praised Latvians on Monday for persevering through the horrors of Soviet and Nazi occupation, persecution and exile, and urged them to keep their Christian faith alive as subsequent generations confront new oppressions today.On the third day of his Baltic pilgrimage, Francis traveled to Latvia and placed flowers at the monument to Latvian independence. He joined Lutheran and Orthodox leaders at a music-filled ecumenical prayer and acknowledged the many trials L
  
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• Utah Jazz: Top question marks heading into the season

  24-09-2018 20:18
  As training camp begins for the Utah Jazz, we’ll take a look at a few of the unanswered questions we’ll hope to have answered prior to the start of the season. Can you hear that Utah Jazz fans? That faint sound of a ball bouncing? That’s the sound of NBA basketball right around the corner! […]
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• Salt Lake City ER reports 160 percent spike in visits involving e-scooters

  24-09-2018 19:37
  As injured electric scooter riders pour into emergency departments around the country, doctors have scrambled to document a trend that many view as a growing public safety crisis.A detailed statistical portrait of that crisis won't be available for another year, emergency physicians say, but some early samples are beginning to emerge.In Salt Lake City — where dockless e-scooters have been on city streets since June — one hospital says it has seen a 161 percent increase in the number
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Summer Book Report: How the Jazz and the NBA Are Chasing Perfection

  24-09-2018 19:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... h, curious… These are the things we have identified and that we try to add.” Jazz coach for evaluating personnel, and it’s likely borne from the same desire t ...
  
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• Bears Ears, Grand Staircase lawsuits to say in D.C., as judge rejects Trump administration motion to move it to Utah

  24-09-2018 18:39
  Washington • A federal judge has denied the government’s effort to move the lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s shrinking of the Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to Salt Lake City and will keep them here.Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled Monday that the suits, filed by environmental groups and tribes, should be heard in the federal court in Washington.The Justice Department, which is defending Trump, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and others who ar
  
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• The white police officer accused of fatally shooting her black neighbor inside his own apartment has been fired

  24-09-2018 18:33
  Dallas • A white police officer accused of fatally shooting her black neighbor inside his own apartment has been dismissed, the police department announced Monday.The Dallas Police Department fired Officer Amber Guyger on Monday, weeks after she fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean inside his own apartment on Sept. 6. Court records show Guyger said she thought she had encountered a burglar inside her own home.Guyger was arrested on a preliminary charge of manslaughter days after the shootin
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz announce that Raul Neto is out with a hamstring injury

  24-09-2018 18:29 via sportspyder.com
  ... has suffered an injury to his right hamstring, the team said Monday morning. Jazz guard Raul Neto has suffered a right hamstring injury. He will be reevaluate ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz announce Raul Neto is out with a hamstring injury

  24-09-2018 17:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... has suffered an injury to his right hamstring, the team said Monday morning. Jazz guard Raul Neto has suffered a right hamstring injury. He will be reevaluate ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: The day Hot Rod Hundley stood tall with Elgin Baylor on civil rights

  24-09-2018 17:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... about Hot Rod was he was a man of his word, a very honorable person.” Former Jazz coach Jerry Sloan never played with Baylor, but they were contemporaries. “H ...
  
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• Brad Rock: The day Hot Rod Hundley stood tall with Elgin Baylor on civil rights

  24-09-2018 17:52
  SALT LAKE CITY — When the Jazz left New Orleans for Utah in the 1970s, Elgin Baylor missed the trip. He had been fired as the team's coach and never found his way to the Rockies. That was a shame, even though he had retired as a player. He was the original sky pilot. Connie Hawkins, Julius Erving and Michael Jordan followed in his slipstream.Baylor spent so much time above the rim he would joke he got his hang time by inhaling helium. Now 84, he modestly says he didn't stay airborne longer
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz are back, baby!!

  24-09-2018 17:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... gement drama. With Butler now available, of course we have to ask, would the Jazz be interested in a trade? The quick answer to that would be “no”. The long a ...
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Raul Neto pulls hamstring, will miss training camp

  24-09-2018 17:43
  SALT LAKE CITY—For a few years running now, the Utah Jazz have been beset by injury, so perhaps it should come as little surprise that there's already a player sidelined before training camp even begins on Tuesday.On Monday morning prior to the Jazz's annual preseason media day, the team announced that Raul Neto suffered a right hamstring injury and would be reevaluated in two weeks.When it was his turn at the podium Monday, Neto said the hamstring pull occurred this past week during a gam
  
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• Utah Jazz announce that Raul Neto is out with a hamstring injury

  24-09-2018 17:43
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz won't start training camp until tomorrow, but the team has already announced an injury.Reserve guard Raul Neto has suffered an injury to his right hamstring, the team said Monday morning.Jazz guard Raul Neto has suffered a right hamstring injury. He will be reevaluated in two weeks.— Eric Woodyard (@E_Woodyard) September 24, 2018
  The team said he will participate in today's team media day, and that he will be reevaluated in two weeks, which is about nin
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz announce that Raul Neto is out with a hamstring injurry

  24-09-2018 17:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... has suffered an injury to his right hamstring, the team said Monday morning. Jazz guard Raul Neto has suffered a right hamstring injury. He will be reevaluate ...
  
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• Rod Rosenstein, who had been overseeing Russia probe, has offered to resign

  24-09-2018 17:22
  Washington • Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein has told White House officials he is willing to resign in the wake of revelations he once suggested secretly recording the president, but it’s unclear if the resignation has been accepted, according to people familiar with the matter.One Justice Department official said Rosenstein is preparing to be fired.Rosenstein had been overseeing the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing Russian interference in the 201
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Western Notes: Suns, McCollum, Jazz, Middleton

  24-09-2018 17:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... y Jones of The Salt Lake Tribune suggests () that Bucks wing is a player the Jazz like a lot. With , , and others on expiring deals this season, Utah could ha ...
  
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• Royce # of days until tipoff 😬😬😬 https://t.co/wRkMpkJ1gh

  24-09-2018 16:33 via twitter.com
  
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• Morning links: Could Donovan Mitchell play quarterback? McNeese State coach calls Kalani Sitake 'class act'

  24-09-2018 16:29
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell is a star on the basketball court, and his baseball acumen has been well-chronicled.Could he be a quarterback, too?On Saturday night, Mitchell and Jazz teammates Royce O'Neale and Georges Niang attended the Utah State Aggies football game against the Air Force Falcons in Logan, and a fan caught a video of Mitchell throwing a long pass from the sideline.Take a look:@spidadmitchell with a 70 yd throw at the @USUFootball halftime. ???? pic.twitter.com/C0Bdrg88W5&mda
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What will the Utah Jazz rotation look like in 2018-19?

  24-09-2018 16:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... nders, and if his offensive consistency improves in Year 2, he’s yet another Jazz player who probably needs more playing time than I’ve set aside. Unfortunate ...
  
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• [The Athletic] - Donovan Mitchell wants to forget that last year even happened, and that’s great – The Athletic

  24-09-2018 16:06 via sportspyder.com
  ...first-round win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. The 40-point outbursts, the Jazz’s team success, the adulation from a fan base yearning for its next star in...
  
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• Romney and Wilson split on Utah’s medical marijuana initiative, Medicaid expansion and the future of U.S. health care

  24-09-2018 16:03
  No matter who wins Utah’s U.S. Senate race in November, the Beehive State will have an advocate in Washington, D.C., for moving marijuana off the list of Schedule 1 controlled substances, a designation that cannabis now shares with heroin, LSD and ecstasy.Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Jenny Wilson told The Salt Lake Tribune that reclassification of marijuana is needed to facilitate research and use of cannabis products as a medical treatment.“Let’s take this off the categ
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Here is why you call the FBI

  24-09-2018 16:03
  Even before The New Yorker broke the story on Sunday of a second woman accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, Republicans were having a tough time pushing back against demands to conduct a legitimate investigation.According to Republicans, we don't need the FBI to investigate Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teens. On "Face the Nation," Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., bizarrely claimed this is not within the FBI's expertise.He said, &
  
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• Tribune editorial: Utah driver licenses need stars upon thars

  24-09-2018 15:58
  “Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars. Those stars weren’t so big. They were really so small. You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.”— Dr. Seuss, “The Sneetches,” 1953As far as anyone can tell, no Sneetch ever tried to board a airplane, or enter a facility of the United States government, with or without a star on their belly.But for people, and their driver licenses, those star
  
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• Paul Waldman: Republicans stunned to learn voters understand exactly what their tax cut did

  24-09-2018 15:54
  The American public is, shall we say, less than perfectly informed about matters of politics and policy. For instance, people believe that foreign aid makes up a huge portion of the federal budget, when in truth it accounts for less than 1 percent of federal spending. Indeed, if voters were all well-informed, you'd barely need campaigns at all, since people who pay lots of attention to politics and understand issues are almost impervious to the persuasive efforts of 30-second ads and inflammator
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President’s aides fear he will be too enthusiastic about engaging with ‘wily’ U.S. adversaries at the United Nations General Assembly this week

  24-09-2018 15:53
  At President Donald Trump’s first visit to the United Nations last year, he called North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a suicidal “rocket man” and threatened to “totally destroy” his country. But when he returns to the general assembly this week, Trump’s advisers see the biggest risk for the president as not that he will be undiplomatic but that he will be overly enthusiastic about engaging with “wily adversaries.” [NYTimes]Happy Monday.Topping the new
  
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