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• He saved the Utah Republican Party from bankruptcy. But he isn’t done pushing the issue that has split it apart.

  25-03-2019 23:47
  Dave Bateman, who likely saved the Utah Republican Party from bankruptcy, wants to continue the fight that has been splitting it apart.That battle is aimed at quashing the state election law that allows candidates to qualify for the primary election ballot by collecting signatures and/or through the caucus-convention system.“I don’t think the fight is over,” Bateman said Monday, even though the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month rejected the party’s legal appeal. It wa
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - The Jimmer Mini-Reunion Tour continues in Utah

  25-03-2019 23:44 via sportspyder.com
  "It's always good to be back in Salt Lake City."
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Supreme court won’t referee dispute over Michael Jordan logo, images

  25-03-2019 23:42 via sportspyder.com
  The photographer took the photo that was the inspiration for the Jumpman logo.
  
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• Utah, BYU both headed to Baton Rouge for NCAA Gymnastics Regionals

  25-03-2019 23:12
  Both the Utah and Brigham Young gymnastics teams are headed to Baton Rouge, La., for their regional competition, it was announced Monday afternoon.Both teams compete in the afternoon session on April 5, against Minnesota and Arkansas.The sixth-ranked Utes will start their competition on the vault since they are the high seed in their session.The regional format is expanding this year to nine teams at four sites instead of six teams at six sites. The two lower seeds will compete in a play-in with
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Report: Ball family has discussed shutting down Big Baller Brand

  25-03-2019 23:11 via sportspyder.com
  The company could be re-formed under a new name, although what Lonzo’s role is would be a question.
  
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• Rolled joints for aching joints: More seniors are using marijuana

  25-03-2019 23:02
  Laguna Woods, Calif. • The group of white-haired folks — some pushing walkers, others using canes — arrive right on time at the gates of Laguna Woods Village, an upscale retirement community in the picturesque hills that frame this Southern California suburb a few miles from Disneyland.There they board a bus for a quick trip to a building that, save for the green Red Cross-style sign in the window, resembles a trendy coffee bar. The people, mostly in their 70s and 80s, pass the
  
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• Anne Applebaum: Mueller probe shows that laws need to be fixed

  25-03-2019 22:47
  The Russian government made extensive efforts, through hacking of email as well as information warfare, to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election. Multiple members of the Trump campaign knew of these efforts in advance. Trump himself publicly called on the Russian government to release information that would hurt Hillary Clinton and benefit him. During the course of the election, Trump's campaign chairman exchanged polling data with someone who the FBI has said has ties to Russian intelligence;
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Threes of the Week - 3.25.19

  25-03-2019 22:38 via sportspyder.com
  "Nothing but NETO!" ? #ThreesoftheWeek
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Salt City Seven: Week of Domination (Almost), Five Painful Ls, Playoff Push & More

  25-03-2019 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  Check in every Monday for the quotes, stats, plays and performances that tell the stories from the last 168 hours in the world of the Jazz. That said, wake-up call is apt. Oof.
  
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• He was convicted and sent to prison under his brother’s name. Utah wants ‘a do-over’ so it can try the right guy.

  25-03-2019 22:19
  He said his name was Bela Fritz. He pleaded guilty to drug and weapons charges in a Salt Lake City courtroom and was sentenced to up to five years in prison.But he wasn’t who he said he was. He was Fritz’s brother Aaron. Utah’s justice system had the right man, but the wrong name.On Friday, the Utah Supreme Court tried to untangle the mess. In a ruling, the justices sent the case back to the trial court with instructions to consider prosecutors’ motion to vacate the convi
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Report: Lakers not actually interested in Jason Kidd

  25-03-2019 21:59 via sportspyder.com
  Should be sigh of relief for Lakers fans
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Giannis Antetokounmpo drives through all Cavaliers for dunk (video)

  25-03-2019 21:30 via sportspyder.com
  Bucks beat Cavaliers
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: No Collusion

  25-03-2019 21:22
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, March 26, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/22/bagley-cartoon-mueller/" target=_blank><u>The Mueller Report</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/21/bagley-cartoon/"><u>Legislative Wrap Up</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/20/bagley-cartoo
  
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• Mueller report gives Russia an ‘I told you so’ moment

  25-03-2019 21:14
  Moscow • Russia is reacting with an “I told you so” on Monday in state media after the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Moscow’s involvement in the U.S. presidential election didn’t find evidence of collusion.Wrapping up the 22-month investigation, Mueller’s report found no evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russian officials to influence the 2016 election.Mueller said in a passage from th
  
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• [KSL] - Jimmer Fredette hopeful latest stint in NBA will be 'a different story'

  25-03-2019 21:12 via sportspyder.com
  The former BYU phenom is hopeful he can stick in the NBA this time around.
  
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• [NBC Sports] - DeMarcus Cousins: Fans have called me n-word a few times

  25-03-2019 20:55 via sportspyder.com
  Once was reportedly in Sacramento
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Does playing great in March translate to success in the NBA Playoffs?

  25-03-2019 20:51 via sportspyder.com
  Is it a good sign that Utah is playing great in March ... again?
  
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• Apple announces its long-awaited streaming TV service

  25-03-2019 20:40
  Cupertino, Calif. • Apple announced a new streaming service, Apple TV Plus, which will house its original shows and movies and could compete with Netflix, Amazon and cable TV itself.Apple is making the announcements at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, in a Monday event studded with celebrities including Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Anniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell. The iPhone has long been Apple’s marquee product and main money maker, but sales are starting to decline. T
  
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• Utah is shopping for an electronic system to verify patients and track plants under the new medical marijuana law

  25-03-2019 20:27
  The state has started its search for multimillion-dollar software that will form the spine of its medical cannabis program, serving as the repository for sensitive patient information and logging the movements of each marijuana plant.The choice of one or more vendors for the task will be among the biggest decisions confronting officials as they ramp up the marijuana program created by Utah lawmakers in December. Glitchy systems in some other cannabis states have slowed and occasionally stalled m
  
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• A U.S. pope? Rare, leaked report from Pope Francis’ election reveals who got votes

  25-03-2019 20:17
  A rare, leaked report about a papal election revealed great uncertainty in the 2013 picking of Pope Francis, with a huge number of cardinals getting votes — and for the first time top spots for an American and a Canadian.A piece published Friday by America, a Catholic news site, gives what experts say is unprecedented public detail about a conclave — the normally top-secret event in which cardinals select popes. Participants take an oath not to share what goes on inside the rounds of
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Guest commentary: How to describe Utah Jazz's Joe Ingles? Wondrous, Versatile, Jinglin? Maybe all of the above?

  25-03-2019 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  As a glue guy, role play, ultimate teammate — whatever you want to label him — he plays ball the right way and does what is asked of him.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz bring it home against the Phoenix Suns

  25-03-2019 20:13 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz had a pretty good east coast trip against the worst of the east. Can they keep it up against the worst of the west?
  
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• Jimmer is back in town after getting another shot at the NBA with the Phoenix Suns. “I always hoped for it” he says.

  25-03-2019 20:13
  As a guard at BYU, Jimmer Fredette led the Cougars to national prominence by leading the nation in scoring. As a senior, he wound up winning National Player of the Year honors, and eventually became an NBA lottery pick, and one of the most celebrated basketball figures ever to grace the state of Utah.His NBA career never quite reached the same heights, however. Less than three years after being a draft-night acquisition of the Sacramento Kings, he was waived. Over the next few seasons, he got a
  
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• Guest commentary: How to describe Utah Jazz's Joe Ingles? Wondrous, Versatile, Jinglin? Maybe all of the above?

  25-03-2019 20:12
  SALT LAKE CITY — Late Saturday evening, the Utah Jazz Twitter account asked followers: "What adjective best describes Joe Ingles' game?"The answers piled in: Saucy. Wondrous. Crafty. Silky. Deceiving. Wholesome.How about surprising? Specifically, as of late, his surprising ability as ball-handler and distributor.During last week's 3-1 record, Ingles — my Jazz MVP of the week — got his shot back as he averaged 16 points while shooting 60 percent from three, but he also kept on d
  
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• Can ‘amend’ mean ‘repeal’? Utah Supreme Court weighs the scope of legislative tinkering on medical marijuana initiative

  25-03-2019 20:05
  Justices of the Utah Supreme Court acknowledged Monday that the state Legislature’s decision to replace two voter-approved initiatives in the last year, and alter the initiative process going forward, could raise questions of constitutionality.But those same justices expressed skepticism that the case before them — filed by a group of Utah voters called The People’s Right in response to lawmakers’ overhaul of medical marijuana legalization — was the proper vehicle t
  
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• Mueller report reprieve becomes Trump’s re-election weapon

  25-03-2019 20:02
  Washington • For President Donald Trump, the fight over the “witch hunt” is only just beginning.Now that special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation into Trump’s campaign is over, it’s being transformed into a rallying cry and a weapon for the president’s re-election campaign.The pall of the two-year probe lifted Sunday, when Attorney General William Barr released a summary of Mueller’s findings that said the wide-ranging investigation f
  
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• George F. Will: Mueller’s report makes a normal election possible in 2020

  25-03-2019 19:40
  Washington • Robert Mueller’s report is a gift to the nation, which now knows what was already a reasonable surmise: that its chief executive’s unlovely admiration for a repulsive foreign regime, Vladimir Putin’s, is more a dereliction of taste and judgment than evidence that he is under that regime’s sway. The report is an even larger gift to the nation because it might help stabilize the Democratic Party — if the party reacts more reasonably to it than most o
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jimmer is back in the NBA, this time with the Phoenix Suns. Can he stick this time?

  25-03-2019 19:23 via sportspyder.com
  Jimmer Fredette remains a beloved basketball figure within the state of Utah, and why not? As a guard at BYU, he led the Cougars to national prominence en route to winning Player of the Year honors, and eventually becoming an NBA lottery pick.
  
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• Healthy tight ends are in short supply at BYU spring football practices this month. Where have they gone, and what are coaches doing about it?

  25-03-2019 19:09
  Provo • Steve Clark likes to say that his golf game, particularly his short game, is really improving at BYU’s spring football practices.“I’ve been chipping a lot, hitting a few 9-irons,” said BYU’s tight ends coach.Of course, he’s joking. Clark is actually working really hard this month, trying to get the few healthy tight ends who are participating — most of them fairly inexperienced — up to speed.With top returning tight ends Matt Bushman,
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - A more 'mature' Jimmer Fredette continues his 'mini-reunion tour' Monday night against the Jazz

  25-03-2019 19:08 via sportspyder.com
  "It's always good to be back in Salt Lake City."
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Jimmermania returns to SLC, preview and comment stream

  25-03-2019 19:02 via sportspyder.com
  Former BYU star Jimmer Fredette will make his return to 801 when the Utah Jazz play host to the Phoenix Suns on Monday. Make no mistake about it -- Salt La...
  
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• The Jimmer Mini-Reunion Tour makes a 'crazy' stop in Utah

  25-03-2019 18:55
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Jimmer Fredette "Mini-Reunion Tour," as he called his first two games with Phoenix, continued Monday night in Utah after a Saturday night stop in Sacramento.Judging the standing ovation upon his introduction at Vivint Arena, the raucous cheers every time he entered the game and touched the ball, the loud gasps after each missed shot (and there were plenty) and the thunderous celebration when he finally hit free throws and then again when he hit a floater against the Ja
  
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• The Jimmer Mini-Reunion Tour continues in Utah

  25-03-2019 18:55
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Jimmer Fredette "Mini-Reunion Tour," as he's calling his first two games with Phoenix, continues tonight in Utah after a Saturday night stop in Sacramento.Thanks to a fun scheduling twist, the former BYU star gets the chance to visit two places he used to call home upon his return to the NBA after signing a two-year deal with the Suns."It's always good to be back in Salt Lake City. I haven't played here in a while," Fredette said. "It's fun to get back and see some fri
  
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• A more 'mature' Jimmer Fredette continues his 'mini-reunion tour' Monday night against the Jazz

  25-03-2019 18:55
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Jimmer Fredette "Mini-Reunion Tour," as he's calling his first two games with Phoenix, continues tonight in Utah after a Saturday night stop in Sacramento.Thanks to a fun scheduling twist, the former BYU star gets the chance to visit two places he used to call home upon his return to the NBA after signing a two-year deal with the Suns."It's always good to be back in Salt Lake City. I haven't played here in a while," Fredette said. "It's fun to get back and see some fri
  
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• Attorney Michael Avenatti charged with trying to extort Nike by federal prosecutors in New York

  25-03-2019 18:48
  Michael Avenatti, the high profile critic of President Donald Trump, was charged Monday by federal prosecutors with trying to extort Nike by threatening to issue damaging allegations against the company unless it paid his client millions.The charges mark the latest and most remarkable chapter in the strange public saga of the California lawyer who has represented Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress who was paid to keep quiet during the 2016 presidential campaign about her alleged sexual tryst
  
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• Utah Jazz: Jimmermania returns to SLC, preview and comment stream

  25-03-2019 18:43
  Former BYU star Jimmer Fredette will make his return to 801 when the Utah Jazz play host to the Phoenix Suns on Monday. Make no mistake about it — Salt Lake City belongs to Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell these days. With a winning personality and hardwood skills to match, the high-scoring guard and 2018 […]
  Utah Jazz: Jimmermania returns to SLC, preview and comment stream - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• ‘Damning revelations’ result in a new hearing for a Utah death row inmate

  25-03-2019 18:40
  A Utah inmate who has spent 33 years on death row will get a new hearing after he raised questions about what perks and benefits two witnesses received from police.In a Friday opinion, the Utah Supreme Court found that the new "damning revelations" could have affected the outcome of Douglas Stewart Carter's case.In 1985, a jury convicted Carter of murder based on a written confession Carter gave to police, which Carter later argued was coerced. But prosecutors presented two witnesses at trial to
  
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• Split San Juan County three ways? A Utah lawmaker says it will boost representation, a commissioner calls it racist.

  25-03-2019 18:34
  A state lawmaker from Blanding is gauging support for carving San Juan County into three pieces — the southernmost encompassing communities on the Navajo reservation — while dismissing accusations that the push has racist undertones.Divvying up Utah’s largest county would bring local government closer to the people and restore representation for San Juan’s conservative central region, which recently lost control over a county seat, Rep. Phil Lyman said. And in a Facebook
  
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• Letter: Utah should have a lottery. We could call it the ‘gentile tax’

  25-03-2019 18:33
  The major tax shift in Utah has stalled, as so many businesses are against the service tax. What to do?The easiest solution would be to implement a lottery. I find it hard to believe that Utah doesn’t care that Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado and our other neighbors make so much money off our Utah residents who play the lottery in their states. If it was brought into Utah, that money would stay here and help us. The people who would play the lottery here would be the same people who trave
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Serious reporters should be proud of - not bullied for - reporting on Russia probe

  25-03-2019 17:20
  Video: Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian election interference is over. Here’s what we know. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
  It should be no surprise to anyone that President Donald Trump’s reaction to the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is to attack reporters for doing their jobs.That’s exactly what he has been doing for years. It’s a predictable political strategy — an ugly, undemocratic one — that works a
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Six takeaways from Barr’s letter about Mueller’s probe

  25-03-2019 17:12
  Washington • That special counsel Robert Mueller has not resolved all the issues surrounding President Trump is disappointing many of the president’s foes, but it’s not surprising. Mueller is an honorable man. He is not a bomb thrower. He always defined his role narrowly. All of Trump’s attacks on Mueller (and he continued assailing the probe on Sunday night) distracted from the fact that Mueller was not nearly as aggressive as he might have been — for example, by su
  
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• University of Utah law school names its first female dean

  25-03-2019 17:03
  For the first time since it was founded more than a century ago, the University of Utah law school has named a woman as its dean.Elizabeth Kronk Warner has accepted an offer to be the next dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law, which opened its doors 106 years ago.“I am impressed with the S.J. Quinney College of Law’s strong reputation for scholarly excellence, commitment to students and record of community engagement,” said Kronk Warner, who is currently associate dean of ac
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - The Deseret News' Utah Jazz reporter has written a book about his favorite basketball player — his son

  25-03-2019 16:55 via sportspyder.com
  Eric Woodyard and Sharonda Jones collaborated on a children’s book with characters that “looked like” their son, Woodyard said — their goal was to accurately portray Flint’s...
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: A look at Donovan Mitchell’s career-best second half

  25-03-2019 16:45 via sportspyder.com
  With Donovan Mitchell experiencing an early season sophomore slump to begin the year, he's turned things around and is putting together a career-best stret...
  
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• The Deseret News' Utah Jazz reporter has written a book about his favorite basketball player — his son

  25-03-2019 16:30
  SALT LAKE CITY— During basketball season, Deseret News sports writer Eric Woodyard is constantly on the road for his job covering the Utah Jazz. One night he'll be in New York; the next, Atlanta. And when he's not traveling, he's working in the Deseret News offices in Salt Lake — all of which keeps him busy, and largely away from his Flint, Michigan, hometown. But he still manages to make time — and this month, a book — for his son."I'm a father. My son Ethan Woodyard is
  
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• Commentary: It’s time to redefine what it means to be a good parent

  25-03-2019 16:18
  As a parent, I worry about many things. Some are concerns I imagine to be universal and shared by parents from time immemorial: Are the children healthy, are the children safe? Yet there's also a suite of uniquely modern anxieties that can be summed up as "How is my kid stacking up?": Should they know their letters by now? If she switches extracurricular activities too often, will it look bad on a college application? These stresses about our children's development can be consuming, suffocating.
  
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• Yeah, the Pac-12 needed this: Oregon is in the Sweet 16, with the same defense that stymied Utah.

  25-03-2019 15:47
  Changing the perception of the Pac-12 will take more than having one men's basketball team reach the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, but this is a good start.Oregon's two dominant performances this past weekend extended the Ducks' surge that began at the end of the regular season and continued through the Pac-12 tournament. A team that once stood 6-8 in conference play and finished in a tie for fourth place, one game behind Utah, is salvaging the basketball season for a league that needs some c
  
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• Mueller report gives Russia a ‘I told you so’ moment

  25-03-2019 15:29
  Moscow • Russia is reacting with an “I told you so” on Monday in state media after the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Moscow’s involvement in the U.S. presidential election didn’t find evidence of collusion.Wrapping up the 22-month investigation, Mueller’s report found no evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russian officials to influence the 2016 election.Mueller said in a passage from th
  
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• There’s no snow in the Utah forecast – until, maybe, Friday

  25-03-2019 14:52
  After the first weekend of spring brought still more snow to northern Utah’s mountains, and a bit of a chill of Monday morning, temperatures are expected to rise.And there’s no snow in the forecast — until maybe, Friday.According to the National Weather Service, a high pressure system will generate a “substantial warming trend” during the first half of the week. Temperatures in the Salt Lake City area are expected to reach about 60 on Monday afternoon and about 70 o
  
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• Political Cornflakes: In the aftermath of the Mueller report’s release, Trump launches a fierce counterattack against Democrats, the media

  25-03-2019 14:46
  The end of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe allows President Donald Trump to relaunch his beleaguered presidency with new swagger ahead of the 2020 election. Trump’s supporters called it a turning point, saying he’ll have a fresh chance to connect with Americans now that questions about election-rigging are out of the way. But after the nearly two-year investigation found no collusion or clear obstruction of justice, Trump and his aides showed little interest in healing or nationa
  
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