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• Bagley Cartoon: Mitt’s Moral Compass

  14-11-2018 23:28
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/11/14/bagley-cartoon-guns/" target=_blank><u>Guns Create Jobs</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/11/13/bagley-cartoon-executive/"><u>Executive Time</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/11/10/bagley-cartoo
  
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• Losing in Utah’s 4th District, Rep. Mia Love sues Salt Lake County to suspend vote counting until she has the chance to challenge ballots

  14-11-2018 23:27
  Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, is suing Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen, seeking to halt processing and counting of ballots until her campaign is granted the ability to oversee and challenge the effort in Utah’s closely watched and very tight 4th Congressional District election.In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in 3rd District Court, Love asks that her campaign be allowed to challenge the county’s verification of signatures on ballot envelopes, and seeks a judge’s order that those vo
  
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• ‘This is in our DNA’: Utah shows off its venues and Olympic enthusiasm to U.S. officials on the hunt for a Winter Games bid city

  14-11-2018 23:24
  The wait was over.After all the meetings and news conferences, all the lengthy discussions and all the endless what-ifs that have accompanied the past six years since Salt Lake City and Utah made it known that an Olympic return would not only be possible, but welcomed, the United States Olympic Committee arrived for its one-day visit.Yeah, the dream sequel, it appears, is very much in play.The five-person USOC team landed in Salt Lake City a day after spending Tuesday up the road in Denver from
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - 71 people died in Utah jails in the past five years, most within a week of when they got locked up

  14-11-2018 23:18 via sportspyder.com
  Utah lawmakers Wednesday got a glimpse at statewide data that showed how many people have died in state jails, though the new information wasn’t without its limitations.
  
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• 71 people died in Utah jails in the past five years, most within a week of when they got locked up

  14-11-2018 23:11
  Utah lawmakers Wednesday got a glimpse at statewide data that showed how many people have died in state jails, though the new information wasn’t without its limitations.Local officials reported that 71 people have died in county jails since 2013, according to a report compiled by Utah’s Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ).It’s the first time a state agency has tallied numbers from individual counties to create a single report detailing how many people have died w
  
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• Hearing reveals chilling details of fatal Southwest flight

  14-11-2018 23:00
  There was a loud bang, and suddenly the Southwest Airlines jet rolled 41 degrees to the left. Smoke began to fill the cabin, and flight attendants rushed row by row to make sure all passengers could get oxygen from their masks.When flight attendant Rachel Fernheimer got to row 14, she saw a woman still restrained by her lap belt but with her head, torso and arm hanging out a window.Fernheimer grabbed one of the woman's legs while flight attendant Seanique Mallory grabbed her lower body. They des
  
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• Suicide rates in Utah currently outnumber homicides and access to guns is a driving factor, according to a new report

  14-11-2018 22:39
  Suicide rates in Utah have been increasing since 2008 and currently outnumber homicides by a ratio of 8 to 1, according to a report being presented Wednesday to state lawmakers.And the overwhelming majority (87 percent) of firearm suicides are fatal, compared to low mortality rates for suicide attempts involving drugs or sharp instruments like knives, according to the report.“If a proportion of Utahns who would otherwise attempt suicide with a firearm were prevented from using a gun, there
  
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• SLCPD searching for person of interest in fatal stabbing

  14-11-2018 22:25
  Salt Lake City police have named a person of interest in a fatal stabbing last week.Kidus Chane Yahannes, 31, is wanted for questioning in the death of Candace Rose Samples, 20. Samples a second victim were stabbed next to a dumpster behind the Dollar Tree store at 477 N. 300 West shortly before 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7.Authorities were unable to locate either a suspect or a weapon at the time, and said the suspect should be considered armed and dangerous.Anyone with information is asked t
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Jazz shoot around ahead of Dallas: 'We have to create our own energy'

  14-11-2018 22:23 via sportspyder.com
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• [KSL] - Jazz guard Ricky Rubio dedicating late mother's memory to fight against cancer

  14-11-2018 22:07 via sportspyder.com
  Rubio has turned the most painful moment of his life into motivation to make a difference for others in their own fight against cancer.
  
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• Losing in Utah’s 4th District, Rep. Mia Love sues Salt Lake County for right to challenge ballots

  14-11-2018 22:02
  Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, is suing Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen, seeking to halt processing and counting of ballots until her campaign is granted the ability to oversee and challenge the effort in Utah’s closely-watched and very tight 4th Congressional District election.In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in 3rd District Court, Love asks that her campaign be allowed to challenge the county’s determination of signatures on ballot envelopes, and that those votes remain uncounted until
  
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• Arizona to stock prized fishery near Page with rainbow trout

  14-11-2018 22:00
  Page, Ariz. • A prized fishery below Glen Canyon Dam is getting more rainbow trout.The Arizona Game and Fish Department says it will stock trout this week below the Lees Ferry boat ramp where anglers can walk in to the Colorado River. That hasn't been done since 1998.The walk-in section is about three miles long.Surveys had been showing a decrease in angler catch rates. The Game and Fish Department says the rates rebounded somewhat in the upper portions of the river where anglers go out wit
  
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• Ben McAdams holds a 1,229-vote lead over Rep. Mia Love after Salt Lake and Utah county election updates

  14-11-2018 21:58
  Democrat Ben McAdams held his tenuous lead over Republican Rep. Mia Love on Tuesday after the addition of roughly 40,000 votes to Utah County’s election totals and 17,000 votes in Salt Lake County.McAdams now leads with 50.3 percent of the vote, compared with 49.7 percent for Love, a margin of 1,229 votes.Dave Hansen, Love’s campaign manager, expressed optimism after seeing the new Utah County figures.
  Ben McAdams' lead over Mia Love in the 4th Congressional District race has narrowe
  
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• 📹| "We have to create our own energy. We've got to come out strong. We've don't have the altitude, we don't have ou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-11-2018 21:51 via twitter.com
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Senior stalwarts have carried BYU’s defense for years, standing out amidst the program’s overall struggles

  14-11-2018 21:28 via sportspyder.com
  Provo • Although the final chapter in BYU’s football season has yet to be written, there have been more disappointments than successes for the Cougars over the past two years than any stretch since the program went 14-21 from 2004 to 2006.
  
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• 🗝 Matchup: Ricky vs. Dennis Tipoff: 6:30PM MT @USFcorp | #KeyMatchup https://t.co/zorMSdkMd9

  14-11-2018 21:25 via twitter.com
  
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• Senior stalwarts have carried BYU’s defense for years, standing out amidst the program’s overall struggles

  14-11-2018 21:10
  Provo • Although the final chapter in BYU’s football season has yet to be written, there have been more disappointments than successes for the Cougars over the past two years than any stretch since the program went 14-21 from 2004 to 2006. It is tough to blame the Cougars’ defense for the program’s downturn, however. Third-year defensive coordinator Ilaisa Tuiaki’s guys have been mostly solid the past 23 games. It could be said that the defense has carried the progra
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - A Utah man has been arrested in a Mississippi rape case

  14-11-2018 21:06 via sportspyder.com
  Ocean Springs, Miss. • Authorities say DNA from a 2014 rape in Mississippi was recently matched to that of a Utah man arrested on a drug charge this year.
  
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• A Utah man has been arrested in a Mississippi rape case

  14-11-2018 21:02
  Ocean Springs, Miss. • Authorities say DNA from a 2014 rape in Mississippi was recently matched to that of a Utah man arrested on a drug charge this year.News outlets report 32-year-old Aaron Roy McMillian of American Fork, Utah, was arrested Friday on a rape charge and is at a Utah jail awaiting an extradition hearing.Ocean Springs, Mississippi, police Capt. William Jackson says the department learned of the match last month and verified McMillian lived in the area at the time of the attac
  
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• Robert Bliss, founder of University of Utah’s architecture grad school who influenced a generation of builders, dies at 97

  14-11-2018 20:48
  Robert Bliss, who influenced many of Utah’s major architects as the founder of the University of Utah’s Graduate School of Architecture and championed the preservation of Utah landmarks, has died.Bliss died Nov. 2 in Salt Lake City. He was 97.“Most of the [architecture] firms in the state are led by graduates [who] were students when he was dean” of the U.’s Graduate School of Architecture, said Edward Smith, professor emeritus of what’s now the U.’s Col
  
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• Jazz are getting more free throws than any team in the NBA, but not hitting as many as they would like

  14-11-2018 20:48
  Dallas • No team shoots more free throws than the Utah Jazz. Their free-throw rate is at 35.3 percent right now, two points better than second-place Philadelphia and nearly 10 points better than last year (when they ranked 10th in the league).The increased rim pressure the Jazz are putting on opponents has meant not only more dunks and layups, but more free throws too. Rudy Gobert is the key there, but Donovan Mitchell, Joe Ingles, Jae Crowder and even Dante Exum are all getting to the line
  
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• Bob Bliss, founder of U.’s architecture grad school and an influence on a generation of builders, dies at 97

  14-11-2018 20:47
  Robert Bliss, who influenced many of Utah’s major architects as the founder of the University of Utah’s Graduate School of Architecture and championed the preservation of Utah landmarks, has died.Bliss died Nov. 2 in Salt Lake City. He was 97.“Most of the [architecture] firms in the state are led by graduates [who] were students when he was dean” of the U.’s Graduate School of Architecture, said Edward Smith, professor emeritus of what’s now the U.’s Col
  
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• Rep. Mia Love sues Salt Lake County clerk seeking to halt ballot processing, counting until it can make challenges in tight 4th District race

  14-11-2018 20:34
  Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, is suing Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen, seeking to halt processing and counting of ballots until it is granted the ability to oversee and challenge the effort in the closely-watched 4th Congressional District election.In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in 3rd District Court, Love asks that her campaign be allowed to challenge the county’s determination of signatures on ballot envelopes, and that those votes remain uncounted until those challenges are resolved.The
  
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• Utah is pitching high-end seats in the south end zone as the prime feature of the stadium expansion plan

  14-11-2018 20:21
  The end zone is not historically known as the prime vantage point for football fans, yet that location is the centerpiece of the current trend in stadium remodeling. Premium seating in the south end zone will drive the University of Utah’s funding of the Rice-Eccles Stadium expansion project.Wednesday's news conference celebrated the university Board of Trustees' approval of an $80 million bonding plan for the project as an initial move toward construction, scheduled to start in December 2
  
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• Oakland cancels Bay Area port project that would ship Utah coal

  14-11-2018 20:20
  City leaders in Oakland, Calif., have formally yanked the plug on a marine port project that Utah’s coal country hoped would connect its mining output with Asian markets.In a correspondence exchange last month, the city notified project developer Phil Tagami it was terminating his firm’s lease for failure to meet construction milestones specified in the contract. Tagami responded with a 51-page notice of claim threatening to sue the city for allegedly sabotaging the project.The propo
  
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• Jim Hansen, who served longer in the U.S. House than any Utahn, dies at age 86

  14-11-2018 20:12
  Farmington • The first thing one would notice when entering Jim Hansen’s Farmington cabin located east of the Lagoon amusement park was the wall filled with framed political cartoons, many poking fun of him.Hansen, Utah’s longest-serving member of the U.S. House, died Wednesday, according to multiple sources close to the family. He was 86.“With Congressman Jim Hansen’s passing, Utah has lost a true statesman," said Sen. Orrin Hatch. "Whether it was in the Navy, in th
  
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• #WallpaperWednesday 📱 x #HeadbandJoe 🤕 https://t.co/cDmIpAcs6t

  14-11-2018 19:53 via twitter.com
  
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• Utah kicker Matt Gay’s school-record game comes just in time for awards season

  14-11-2018 19:41
  Utah kicker Matt Gay stepped into position, eyed the goalposts 55 yards away and saw something that startled him. Oregon had stationed a player in the end zone, in case Gay's kick was short and created a return opportunity to end the first half of last Saturday's game.Sound strategy? Maybe, but the Ducks' alignment became laughable when Gay blasted the ball through the uprights and beyond. “Just a little bit of disrespect,” Gay said good-naturedly this week, reliving the scene at Ric
  
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• Utah shows off its venues and Olympic enthusiasm to U.S. officials on the hunt for a Winter Games bid city

  14-11-2018 19:39
  The wait is over.After all the meetings and news conferences, all the lengthy detailed discussions and all the endless what-ifs that have accompanied the past six years since Salt Lake City and Utah made it known that an Olympic return would not only be possible, but welcomed, the United States Olympic Committee arrived for its one-day, on-site visit.Yeah, the dream sequel, it appears, is very much in play.The five-person USOC team landed in Salt Lake City a day after spending Tuesday up the roa
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Pope Francis warns against lying, says ‘to gossip is to kill’

  14-11-2018 19:39 via sportspyder.com
  Vatican City • Pope Francis is denouncing gossip as a form of “terrorism” and is warning the faithful against telling lies.
  
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• After her son and husband died, religious scholar Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives

  14-11-2018 19:38
  A rare lung disease killed Elaine Pagels’ 6-year-old son, and then about a year later her husband fell to his death while mountain climbing. After that Job-like run of tragedies, no one would have blamed Pagels if she had decided to “curse God and die.”But she held on. Through rage and terror and despair so overwhelming that it made her faint, she held on.“I had to look into that darkness,” she says at the opening of her new memoir, “Why Religion?” &ldqu
  
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• Pope Francis warns against lying, says ‘to gossip is to kill’

  14-11-2018 19:32
  Vatican City • Pope Francis is denouncing gossip as a form of “terrorism” and is warning the faithful against telling lies.Francis explored the Catholic commandment against “bearing false witness” during his Wednesday general audience.He warned the faithful in a chilly St. Peter’s Square that “we all live by communicating, and we are continuously on the edge between truth and lies.”He repeated his complaint about gossip, saying it “kills becau
  
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• Report: Restricting gun access would prevent Utah suicide deaths, but most who take their life would pass a background check

  14-11-2018 19:30
  Suicide rates in Utah have been increasing since 2008 and currently outnumber homicides by a ratio of 8 to 1, according to a report being presented Wednesday to state lawmakers.And the overwhelming majority (87 percent) of firearm suicides are fatal, compared to low mortality rates for suicide attempts involving drugs or sharp instruments like knives, according to the report.“If a proportion of Utahns who would otherwise attempt suicide with a firearm were prevented from using a gun, there
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tell The Tribune: Are you a Utes or Cougars fan living in enemy territory?

  14-11-2018 19:16 via sportspyder.com
  Are you a Utah fan who proudly wears red in Provo? Or are you a BYU fan unabashedly donning the Y around Salt Lake City? The Salt Lake Tribune is looking to talk to die-hard Utah and BYU fans who live in the heart of enemy territory ahead of the Utah-BYU.
  
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• Rohingya, fearful of doctors, keep faith healers in business

  14-11-2018 19:15
  Kutupalong, Bangladesh • Abul Kalam sits cross-legged on the floor of his tiny mud hut and whispers prayers into a small plastic bottle filled with water, creating what he says is a potion that will cure stomach cramps.“I got these powers in my dreams,” he says. “People come to me because I heal them.”Kalam is a boidu, or faith healer, and for decades has been treating fellow Rohingya Muslims, first in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State and now in a squalid camp
  
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• Tell The Tribune: Are you a Utes or Cougars fan living in enemy territory?

  14-11-2018 19:08
  Are you a Utah fan who proudly wears red in Provo? Or are you a BYU fan unabashedly donning the Y around Salt Lake City? The Salt Lake Tribune is looking to talk to die-hard Utah and BYU fans who live in the heart of enemy territory ahead of the Utah-BYU rivalry game on Saturday, Nov. 24, at Rice-Eccles Stadium.Your responses won’t be published without your permission. A reporter from The Salt Lake Tribune might call you for an interview.window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="//c
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tribune editorial: At least Utah’s election woes are not on purpose

  14-11-2018 18:12 via sportspyder.com
  If you can, as the old saying goes, blame your problems on incompetence rather than evil, you might live in Utah. Utah County, that is.
  
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• Tribune editorial: At least Utah’s election woes are not on purpose

  14-11-2018 18:04
  If you can, as the old saying goes, blame your problems on incompetence rather than evil, you might live in Utah. Utah County, that is.Candidates and their supporters in Florida, Georgia and Arizona are still attacking one another — and their respective state and county election officials — alleging malice, skulduggery and downright cheating.Razor-thin margins in races for governor, U.S. Senate and other positions are tied to voter suppression efforts that range from pre-election pur
  
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• ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ takes aim at web culture with happily hilarious results

  14-11-2018 18:01
  Where Disney’s 2012 comedy “Wreck-It Ralph” was a delightfully retro dive into video games, the sequel “Ralph Breaks the Internet” is giddily of its moment, a colorfully wacky satire of web culture that doesn’t care whether it’s still relevant in five years or five days.The new movie returns to the world of the video arcade and the friendship between former bad-guy bruiser Wreck-It Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) and candy-coated racer Vanellope von Sch
  
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• Dana Milbank: Matthew Whitaker is steeped in time travel and Bigfoot. He’s the right man for the job.

  14-11-2018 18:00
  Washington - My colleague Ruth Marcus writes: “The acting attorney general of the United States is a crackpot.”As though that's a bad thing.Which it isn't.The "crackpot" bit is not in dispute. In addition to his exotic legal views and his lack of relevant experience, Matthew G. Whitaker was already known to have hawked hot-tub seats for a business that shut down this year after reaching a $26 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for defrauding customers. But that's ju
  
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• The Huntsman Cancer Institute will name a new therapy center after Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch

  14-11-2018 17:51
  The Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah will name its newest, soon-to-be-built therapy center after retiring Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch.The U.’s board of trustees unanimously approved the name, meant to honor Hatch for his role in helping to build the institute, and a $10 million donation for the expansion from the Huntsman Cancer Foundation on Tuesday.Hatch, who’s retiring after 42 years in the Senate, secured some of the initial donations needed to construct the ho
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Intensity is the Key For Jazz to Succeed on 5-Game Trip

  14-11-2018 17:39 via sportspyder.com
  It did start with a bang in a thrilling slugfest between two Western Conference heavyweights. Okay, not really. But the Jazz won, which is all that really counts. It was glorious.
  
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• Paul Waldman: The White House is in meltdown

  14-11-2018 17:34
  Every White House experiences tension and turnover; it's a stressful environment where punishingly long hours are the norm, everyone has his or her own ambitions, and the stakes are extremely high. A certain amount of controlled chaos is inevitable. But there's ordinary White House chaos, and then there's Trump White House chaos.New reporting paints a picture of the administration descending into a thunderdome of backstabbing and resentment as staffers jockey for position or wonder whether they
  
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• Utah kicker Matt Gay’s school-record game comes in just time for awards season

  14-11-2018 17:25
  Utah kicker Matt Gay stepped into position, eyed the goalposts 55 yards away and saw something that startled him. Oregon had stationed a player in the end zone, in case Gay's kick was short and created a return opportunity to end the first half of last Saturday's game.Sound strategy? Maybe, but the Ducks' alignment became laughable when Gay blasted the ball through the uprights and beyond. “Just a little bit of disrespect,” Gay said good-naturedly this week, reliving the scene at Ric
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - NBA Power Rankings: National media not impressed with Boston win

  14-11-2018 16:38 via sportspyder.com
  A 2-1 week included a cathartic win over the Celtics, but the rankings didn’t reflect it.
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Another government shutdown in the making? Fight over Mueller, border wall could make it so

  14-11-2018 16:28
  Another government shutdown in the making? Fight over Mueller, border wall could make it so. McAdams still in the lead, but Love gaining. Romney touches down in Washington.Happy Wednesday. Could another government shutdown be on the horizon? Congress needs to pass another spending bill by Dec. 7 and already both sides of the aisle are offering their must-have additions. Democrats want the bill to include protection for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and Republicans are dem
  
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