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• Ownership dispute over 1881 steam engine in Ogden unresolved as work on restoration continues

  26-12-2018 23:07
  Ogden • Uncertainty about who owns an 1881 locomotive steam engine in Ogden is complicating restoration efforts.The Standard-Examiner reports that Salt Lake City donated the engine to the state in 1979 after it sat at Liberty Park for decades. The state then moved it to Ogden for restoration.Steve Jones, president of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society's Golden Spike Chapter, says there apparently is no paper trail documentation of those ownership changes.Jones says the dispute le
  
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• Missing Herriman teenager found unharmed

  26-12-2018 22:55
  A Herriman teenager who hadn’t been seen since Friday was found safe, according to Herriman City Police.No further details were released about Lily Stephens, 15, who was last seen at her home in Herriman on Friday about 5:30 p.m. According to police, Stephens said she was going to stay with friends; after she left, her family found "a hand-written note in her bedroom threatening self-harm.”Herriman police had asked for the public’s help to locate the girl.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ownership dispute over 1881 steam engine in Ogden

  26-12-2018 22:46 via sportspyder.com
  Ogden • Uncertainty about who owns an 1881 locomotive steam engine in Ogden is complicating restoration efforts.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - First Responder Bowl between Boise State and Boston College cancelled due to weather

  26-12-2018 22:46 via sportspyder.com
  Dallas • The SERVPRO First Responder Bowl between No. 23 Boise State and Boston College has been canceled because of the threat of severe weather after a delay of nearly an hour and a half.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert ‘prepared to guard anyone’ as team flips the switch defensively

  26-12-2018 22:44 via sportspyder.com
  Gobert is averaging 16.8 points, 12.6 rebounds and 3.4 blocks on 55.4 percent shooting during this five-game stretch as a major force in the paint.
  
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• Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert ‘prepared to guard anyone’ as team flips the switch defensively

  26-12-2018 22:41
  SALT LAKE CITY —Decked out in a tailor-fitted white suit and unbuttoned navy blue undershirt, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert was still in the Christmas spirit after the team's latest 117-96 win versus Portland.Gobert logged his 29th double-double of the season with 18 points and 14 boards, plus a season-high seven swats.His seven blocks also tied for the second-most on Christmas Day in NBA history with Elvin Hayes (1980) while Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan's eight swats in 2011
  
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• Ownership dispute over 1881 steam engine in Ogden

  26-12-2018 22:12
  Ogden • Uncertainty about who owns an 1881 locomotive steam engine in Ogden is complicating restoration efforts.The Standard-Examiner reports that Salt Lake City donated the engine to the state in 1979 after it sat at Liberty Park for decades. The state then moved it to Ogden for restoration.Steve Jones, president of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society's Golden Spike Chapter, says there apparently is no paper trail documentation of those ownership changes.Jones says the dispute le
  
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• BYU’s football program took a step forward in 2018, but never was able to capitalize on the big road win at then-No. 6 Wisconsin

  26-12-2018 22:01
  Provo • Progress was made, but opportunities to take even bigger steps were lost.That sums up BYU’s football season in 2018, the third under coach Kalani Sitake and second that ended with a winning record and a bowl victory.After going 9-4 in 2016 — the four losses were by a combined eight points — and beating Wyoming 24-21 in the Poinsettia Bowl before abruptly falling to 4-9 last year, the Cougars finished at 7-6 to put Sitake one win above .500 heading into what is beli
  
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• First Responder Bowl between Boise State and Boston College cancelled due to weather

  26-12-2018 21:56
  Dallas • The SERVPRO First Responder Bowl between No. 23 Boise State and Boston College has been canceled because of the threat of severe weather after a delay of nearly an hour and a half.The game was stopped with BC leading 7-0 with 5:08 remaining in the first quarter Wednesday at Cotton Bowl Stadium. The delay came not long after AJ Dillon ran 19 yards for a touchdown.Before the announcement, fans began returning to their seats after a line of severe storms rolled through the area near d
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert rocks Xmas; is he an All-Star?

  26-12-2018 21:44 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert was epic in his team's big Christmas Day win over the Portland Trail Blazers. There were a lot of heroes in the Utah Jazz's 1...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tell the Tribune: Are you a federal worker who has been affected by the government shutdown?

  26-12-2018 21:38 via sportspyder.com
  The Salt Lake Tribune wants to hear from Utah’s federal workers affected by the government shutdown. Your comments will not be posted publicly and we will never quote you without first getting your explicit permission. This information will never be...
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Rose, Nader, Schroder, Jazz

  26-12-2018 21:36 via sportspyder.com
  If Derrick Rose continues at his current pace, he could become just the second player ever to win Sixth Man …
  
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• Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2018

  26-12-2018 21:35
  In a year filled with heightened political vitriol, two deaths brought the nation together to remember men who represented a seemingly bygone era of U.S. politics.George H.W. Bush was a president, vice president, congressman, CIA director and Navy pilot during World War II, where he flew 58 missions and was shot down over the Pacific. As a politician, he had his fair share of critics and was voted out of office after one term as president. But the Republican reinvented himself in the years after
  
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  26-12-2018 21:27 via twitter.com
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• Tell the Tribune: Are you a federal worker who has been affected by the government shutdown?

  26-12-2018 21:23
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump makes unannounced visit to Iraq

  26-12-2018 21:23 via sportspyder.com
  Al-Asad Airbase, Iraq • President Donald Trump made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Wednesday, leaving behind a partially shuttered U.S. government to greet American troops helping hold off extremists in a country where thousands of Americans died...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Serena voted AP Female Athlete of the Year for 5th time

  26-12-2018 21:23 via sportspyder.com
  She showed up in Paris wearing a black catsuit, a reminder that nobody can command the Grand Slam stage quite like Serena Williams.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, released from hospital after lung cancer surgery

  26-12-2018 21:23 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from the hospital Tuesday, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg confirmed.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - BYU’s football program took a step forward in 2018, but never was able to capitalize on the big road win at then-No. 6 Wisconsin

  26-12-2018 21:22 via sportspyder.com
  Provo • Progress was made, but opportunities to take even bigger steps were lost.
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jazz’s Big Christmas Win Underscores Gobert’s Impact

  26-12-2018 21:02 via sportspyder.com
  Behind a strong performance from their defensive stalwart, the Utah Jazz got the win in their first Christmas Day game in 21 seasons. Frankly, I think its showed. Is...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Sierra off-roaders sue US over grouse in Nevada, California

  26-12-2018 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  Reno, Nev. • Off-road vehicle enthusiasts are suing the U.S. Forest Service over the bistate sage grouse in Nevada and California, arguing that a protection plan enacted this year could increase fire danger across rangeland habitat of the bird...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Deputies tow 38 illegally parked cars near Snowbasin Resort

  26-12-2018 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  Huntsville • Authorities on Christmas Eve towed nearly 40 cars from the Utah state road leading up to Snowbasin Resort.
  
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• Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert rocks Xmas; is he an All-Star?

  26-12-2018 21:00
  Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert was epic in his team’s big Christmas Day win over the Portland Trail Blazers. There were a lot of heroes in the Utah Jazz’s 16-point Christmas Day win over the Portland Trail Blazers. Led by Donovan Mitchell‘s 19 points, seven different players hit double figures for the home team. […]
  Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert rocks Xmas; is he an All-Star? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - USU football player accused of rape adds high-profile consultants to his defense team

  26-12-2018 21:00 via sportspyder.com
  Logan • A former Utah State football player accused of sexually assaulting seven women has added two high-profile consultants to his defense team.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2018

  26-12-2018 21:00 via sportspyder.com
  In a year filled with heightened political vitriol, two deaths brought the nation together to remember men who represented a seemingly bygone era of U.S. politics.
  
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• Trump makes unannounced visit to Iraq

  26-12-2018 20:56
  Al-Asad Airbase, Iraq • President Donald Trump made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Wednesday, leaving behind a partially shuttered U.S. government to greet American troops helping hold off extremists in a country where thousands of Americans died during the recent war.It comes a week after Trump stunned his national security advisers by announcing that he would withdraw U.S. troops from neighboring Syria where they have been fighting Islamic State militants. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis ab
  
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• Here are the 10 movies from 2018 our movie critic says you must see, and the 10 you should avoid at all costs

  26-12-2018 20:52
  It was a year when we sought heroes at the movies, but found even they couldn’t handle everything that was thrown at them.In 2018’s biggest hit, “Black Panther,” a king battled the rebellious exile of his country who argued — correctly, though with questionable methods — against isolationism. In the No. 2 movie, “Avengers: Infinity War,” Earth’s mightiest heroes were helpless in the face of a megalomaniac who sought, and achieved, ultimate po
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz’s Christmas Day game drew highest ratings in late window since 2015

  26-12-2018 20:45 via sportspyder.com
  ESPN says ratings for Jazz-Blazers Christmas Day game went up from last year.
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Christmas Day game drew highest ratings in late window since 2015

  26-12-2018 20:35
  SALT LAKE CITY — NBA basketball returned to Utah for the first time on Christmas Day in more than two decades and it didn't disappoint.Not only did the Utah Jazz's 117-96 victory against the Portland Trail Blazers produce a sellout crowd of 18,306 fans at Vivint Arena, the 8:30 p.m. MT telecast also did well in front of a national ESPN television audience.The Jazz-Blazers matchup was the highest-rated Christmas game in the late window across all networks since 2015, according to ESPN.Utah'
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, released from hospital after lung cancer surgery

  26-12-2018 20:32
  Washington • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from the hospital Tuesday, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg confirmed.The 85-year-old justice underwent a pulmonary lobectomy at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center last week to remove two malignant nodules in her left lung. Friday’s procedure went smoothly, doctors said, and there was “no evidence of any remaining disease elsewhere in the body.”Ginsburg, the oldest sitting member of the nation's high
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah’s senators and Delta Air Lines say cheating by far-away Qatar Airways is hurting U.S. carriers

  26-12-2018 20:31 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Sens. Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch and Delta Air Lines officials say the Persian Gulf country of Qatar is up to some old tricks that hurt U.S. carriers.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Utah’s Legislature shows nothing but contempt for its citizens

  26-12-2018 20:31 via sportspyder.com
  Just days after Utah’s Proposition 2 was approved, Republican lawmakers removed and replaced it with legislation approved by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: There is a gift in the garbage of this administration

  26-12-2018 20:31 via sportspyder.com
  My formative years were the late ’60s, so I care deeply about my country while feeling completely free to criticize it, protest its government and speak truth to power. These days I move between anger, anxiety and angst.
  
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• Serena voted AP Female Athlete of the Year for 5th time

  26-12-2018 20:26
  She showed up in Paris wearing a black catsuit, a reminder that nobody can command the Grand Slam stage quite like Serena Williams.She reached the finals at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, proving again how well she can play no matter how little she practices.Williams didn't win those or any other tournaments, which in every other situation might have made for a forgettable year.In 2018, it was a remarkable one.Her rapid return to tennis after a health scare following childbirth was a victory in it
  
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• USU football player accused of rape adds high-profile consultants to his defense team

  26-12-2018 20:17
  Logan • A former Utah State football player accused of sexually assaulting seven women has added two high-profile consultants to his defense team.The Herald Journal reports investigators F. Lee Bailey and Pat McKenna will help defend 25-year-old ex-linebaker Torrey Green.Bailey was on the OJ Simpson "dream team" when he was acquitted on murder charges in 1994, though he was later disbarred in two states. McKenna is a private detective who worked on the Simpson case as well as that of Casey
  
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• Deputies tow 38 illegally parked cars near Snowbasin Resort

  26-12-2018 20:13
  Huntsville • Authorities on Christmas Eve towed nearly 40 cars from the Utah state road leading up to Snowbasin Resort.The Standard-Examiner reports a release Monday from the Weber County sheriff's office says deputies began towing vehicles parked illegally along State Road 226 to help "facilitate safe travel for motorists and the efficient and effective removal of snow by the plows" after an overnight snow storm.The sheriff's office says a total of 38 vehicles were towed, all of which were
  
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• Sierra off-roaders sue US over grouse in Nevada, California

  26-12-2018 20:09
  Reno, Nev. • Off-road vehicle enthusiasts are suing the U.S. Forest Service over the bistate sage grouse in Nevada and California, arguing that a protection plan enacted this year could increase fire danger across rangeland habitat of the bird already proposed for threatened status.The California Four Wheel Drive Association and off-road groups in the Sierra and Nevada's Pine Nut Mountains say the protection measures in Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest weren't included among the alternative
  
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• Letter: The work of the Utah Avalanche Center saves lives

  26-12-2018 20:01
  On Dec. 11, a friend and I attended a slide show and lecture by Craig Gordon about the state of the Utah snowpack. His talk was about the evolution of our snowpack and how crusts can create weak layers that can fail and avalanche.Throughout the lecture, Craig’s passion for skiing and snow safety was evident.What I was most taken by was the dedication that Craig and his fellow forecasters at the Utah Avalanche Center have for keeping us backcountry users safe. They work every day to update
  
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• Letter: Did anyone watch the Infamous Potato Bowl? Me, neither

  26-12-2018 20:01
  Did anyone watch the Infamous Idaho Potato Bowl?Na, me neither. I won’t waste my time on a game featuring two teams that barely won 50 percent of their games during the regular season.Maybe they should just give everyone a cheap plastic “Participation Trophy,” keep them home and call it good. Maybe give the money each team might get to a worthy military veterans or fallen officer/firefighter charity.Steve Bartlett, Cottonwood HeightsSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• The Weekly Run: Donovan Mitchell’s alley-oop was ‘a Christmas gift from god’ — and also Jae Crowder

  26-12-2018 19:59
  The Weekly Run is a Salt Lake Tribune newsletter on the Utah Jazz. Subscribe here.Yesterday was Christmas. The Jazz played a game. There’s a fair amount of stuff big and small to unwrap from it, such as:• Rudy Gobert’s latest stellar defensive effort carrying the team to a 117-96 win;• An efficient performance from the Aussies, and a heartfelt pregame speech from Kyle Korver;• Analysis of Quin Snyder’s X’s and O’s acumen, plus assorted holiday nonsens
  
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• Letter: There is a gift in the garbage of this administration

  26-12-2018 19:43
  My formative years were the late ’60s, so I care deeply about my country while feeling completely free to criticize it, protest its government and speak truth to power. These days I move between anger, anxiety and angst.The bright spot in the deeply disturbing morass of corruption and chaos of the Trump era is the civic engagement of ordinary Americans.I am particularly proud of 25 friends — a group, like others, that has met over the past two years at my home. Cumulatively, we have
  
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• Letter: When voting actually matters, people will do it

  26-12-2018 19:42
  Utah’s recent voter turnout was impressive. It seems many were motivated by a rare sense that one person’s vote might make a difference in the outcome for an important proposition or elected office.And they were right! Such is the power of “one person one vote” in any election where there is a fair political contest.Sadly, in states with overriding dominance by one party, candidates may run unopposed, districts may be gerrymandered and “winner take all” Electo
  
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• Letter: Utah’s Legislature shows nothing but contempt for its citizens

  26-12-2018 19:42
  Just days after Utah’s Proposition 2 was approved, Republican lawmakers removed and replaced it with legislation approved by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Rushed thru with remarkable speed, it became law. There was not a single embarrassed, ashamed, guilty, uncomfortable look by Utah’s Republicans for the contempt shown to Utah’s voters.Their contempt continues with the:1) Unnecessary move of the Utah State Prison (developers and real estate agents in the Legi
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: When voting actually matters, people will do it

  26-12-2018 19:40 via sportspyder.com
  Utah’s recent voter turnout was impressive. It seems many were motivated by a rare sense that one person’s vote might make a difference in the outcome for an important proposition or elected office.
  
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• Utah’s senators and Delta Air Lines say cheating by far-away Qatar Airways is hurting U.S. carriers

  26-12-2018 19:39
  Utah Sens. Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch and Delta Air Lines officials say the Persian Gulf country of Qatar is up to some old tricks that hurt U.S. carriers.That comes a year after Utah politicians from Gov. Gary Herbert to Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski protested that Qatar’s subsidies of its national airline had forced Delta and others to drop service to some routes to the Middle East and India — a move they said hurt Delta’s Salt Lake City hub and employees.Lee and Hatch,
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Troy Taylor will be calling his last game for the Utes in the Holiday Bowl. He wants to go out like previous Utah play-callers — with a win.

  26-12-2018 19:39 via sportspyder.com
  Dan Mullen, Andy Ludwig and Norm Chow each looked brilliant, upon exiting the Utah football program. Troy Taylor can only hope his farewell is as memorable as those of other Ute play-callers who knew they were headed to different schools.
  
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• Troy Taylor will be calling his last game for the Utes in the Holiday Bowl. He wants to go out like previous Utah play-callers — with a win.

  26-12-2018 19:25
  Dan Mullen, Andy Ludwig and Norm Chow each looked brilliant, upon exiting the Utah football program. Troy Taylor can only hope his farewell is as memorable as those of other Ute play-callers who knew they were headed to different schools.Taylor chose to complete his two-year Utah tenure in Monday’s Holiday Bowl vs. Northwestern, two weeks after being named Sacramento State’s head coach. He’s departing after having improved Utah’s offense enough to help win the school&rsqu
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert have hilarious exchange over blocks

  26-12-2018 19:21 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz teammates Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell had a playful exchange after Tuesday night’s 117-96 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. Gobert, now in his sixth year of NBA service, had a monster game against the Trail Blazers, especially...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Man charged in sex assault at fire camp agrees to plea deal

  26-12-2018 18:53 via sportspyder.com
  An Idaho inmate accused of sexually assaulting a woman after he was sent to work at a wildfire base camp in Utah has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump: ‘I can’t tell you when’ government will reopen

  26-12-2018 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Tuesday that parts of the federal government will stay closed until Democrats agree to put up more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border to deter criminal elements. He said he’s open to calling the wall...
  
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