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• Paul Mero: Romney’s faith should move him to a humane immigration policy

  09-04-2019 23:45
  Sen. Mitt Romney says America has become an “asylum magnet” for immigrants on our southern border. I say, good for us! If refugees cannot find asylum in the United States, we stop being Americans.As a congressional chief of staff in the late 1990s for a southern California congressman, I visited the border from Texas to Tijuana, met with border agents and witnessed firsthand the stress of it all near the height of illegal border crossings and arrests – around one and a half mil
  
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• Trump: Not looking to reinstate family separation policy

  09-04-2019 23:43
  Washington • Facing bipartisan pushback on his immigration shake-up, President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s not looking to revive the much-criticized practice of separating migrant children from their families at the southern border. At the same time, he suggested the policy had worked to deter migrants from coming into the U.S.Immigration experts say his policies and practices are contributing to the surge of migrants.Last summer the administration separated more than 2,500 childre
  
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• Red Rocks will be in a stacked session at the NCAA gymnastics championships

  09-04-2019 23:40
  Utah’s gymnastics team had better hope the saying ‘the third time is the charm,’ holds true for them, or else their effort in the NCAA Championships could end on the first day.The Utes are in the afternoon session along with UCLA, LSU and Michigan when the NCAA Championships begin April 19 in Ft. Worth.The evening session consists of Oklahoma, Denver, Georgia and Oregon State.Unlike in the past when six teams advanced to the finals, just two from each session will move on to Sa
  
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• Rep. Ilhan Omar called Stephen Miller a ‘white nationalist.’ GOP critics accused her of anti-Semitism.

  09-04-2019 23:24
  Washington • A familiar story line played out Monday night for Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who condemned one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted advisers only to end up being accused of anti-Semitism."Stephen Miller is a white nationalist," she tweeted on Monday afternoon. "The fact that he still has influence on policy and political appointments is an outrage." But because Miller, Trump's senior policy adviser, is Jewish, Omar's fervent detractors on the right saw her comments not
  
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• Students decry George Mason’s decision to hire Justice Brett Kavanaugh

  09-04-2019 23:10
  Oxford, England • Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will beat the Washington heat this summer and head for Runnymede, England, a bucolic borough 20 miles from London along the River Thames.At the site where the Magna Carta was sealed 804 years ago, laying the groundwork for constitutional democracy, the judge will teach a course on the origins of the U.S. Constitution to students at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School — 3,600 miles from the Arlington, Virgini
  
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• NYC orders mandatory vaccines for some amid measles outbreak

  09-04-2019 23:05
  New York • New York City declared a public health emergency Tuesday over a measles outbreak centered in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and ordered mandatory vaccinations in the neighborhood.Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the unusual order amid what he said was a measles crisis in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section, where more than 250 people have gotten measles since September. Officials blamed the outbreak on "anti-vaxxers" spreading false information.The order applies to anyone living, w
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - NBA Playoffs: Must-Have Utah Jazz Items

  09-04-2019 22:58 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are headed to the NBA Playoffs. Do you have the gear you need for a title run? Don't worry, we're here to help you out. The NBA season will c...
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: The Name Caller

  09-04-2019 22:57
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/08/bagley-cartoon-radical/" target=_blank><u>Radical Extremists </u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/05/bagley-cartoon-official/"><u>Official Mugging</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/04/bagl
  
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• Utahns hail passage of reforms to the Colorado River Compact, say it will help conserve water for the future

  09-04-2019 22:56
  Washington • Utah’s members of Congress are praising the passage of legislation that seeks to curtail water usage from the Colorado River in seven, drought-stricken Western states.The bill, which now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk, passed the House and Senate on a voice vote and is aimed at shrinking usage from the Colorado River, which provides drinking water, irrigation and hydropower for some 40 million Americans.The proposal comes after years of negotiation and in th
  
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• Real Salt Lake tired of being close, and not getting points

  09-04-2019 22:52
  Herriman • With six weeks gone in Real Salt Lake’s season, and only four points to show for it so far, frustration is brewing that the team hasn’t gotten more out of its games. Coach Mike Petke voiced some of that frustration after RSL’s road loss to Seattle.But after Petke addressed the team in the visitors locker room, the players stepped up and voiced their own frustrations, mirroring the coach’s message that it was time for RSL to start getting results out of gam
  
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• With 15 officers on leave, sheriff vows ‘to ensure their well-being’ while investigation of State Street shootout continues

  09-04-2019 22:45
  Fifteen peace officers from three police forces were on leave Tuesday as investigators continued examining a crime spree and shootout in Salt Lake City a day earlier.The suspect, Harold Vincent Robinson, 37, of West Valley City, died in the shootout on State Street near 3300 South. The paid administrative leave is standard procedure after an officer participates or is believed to have participated in a shooting. Ten Salt Lake City police officers are on leave; three from the Utah Highway Patrol
  
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• [NBA] - NBA stars respond with gratitude and support for Kyle Korver's essay on white privilege and racism

  09-04-2019 22:42 via sportspyder.com
  Kyle Korver had been thinking about it for a while.Even before a fan was banned from Vivint Smart Home Arena for making degrading comments, the NBA veteran had been considering his role and
  
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• NBA Playoffs: Must-Have Utah Jazz Items

  09-04-2019 22:32
  The Utah Jazz are headed to the NBA Playoffs. Do you have the gear you need for a title run? Don’t worry, we’re here to help you out. The NBA season will come to a close in just a couple of days and the playoff picture is nearly set. With the Utah Jazz eyeing a […]
  NBA Playoffs: Must-Have Utah Jazz Items - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz teammates support Kyle Korver's essay on white privilege

  09-04-2019 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  “It’s usually people of color that talk about it so having a white guy that doesn’t experience the same things but has experienced some things as well differently,
  
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• Utah high school girls fly drones and operate robots at event to get them more interested in tech jobs

  09-04-2019 22:08
  More than 2,000 high school girls in Utah spent Tuesday flying drones, operating robots and testing virtual reality headsets.Beyond having some fun — and there was plenty of that — there was a bigger purpose behind the event: Introduce these students to possible careers in math, science and engineering with the hope of getting more of them to pursue jobs in the field.The annual hands-on day of technology, called “SheTech Explorer Day,” was held by Women Tech Council, whic
  
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• Despite Dave Rose’s retirement, BYU’s basketball recruits who signed in November remain committed to the Cougars

  09-04-2019 22:01
  Provo • In the tiny central Utah town of Mount Pleasant, Bernardo Da Silva checks daily, if not hourly, to see if BYU has picked a head men’s basketball coach to replace Dave Rose, who retired back on March 26.“I’m nervous and excited,” said Da Silva, a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who has played for national powerhouse Wasatch Academy, a private boarding school in Mount Pleasant, the past few seasons.Da Silva signed with BYU last November, along with Timpview H
  
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• Normally a Republican idea, Utah’s Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams proposes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution

  09-04-2019 21:39
  Washington • Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, has introduced legislation to propose a Balanced Budget Amendment, jumping on an issue that has traditionally been a rallying cry for conservatives but one that is finding a new home among moderate Democrats worried about burgeoning national debt.McAdams, the first Democrat to pitch such an amendment this congressional session, quickly found support from 26 fellow party members who are part of the Blue Dog Coalition.“At a time when we face $1 tri
  
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• Two Utah companies are criticized for a lack of diversity in their ads, and experts say businesses need to be more inclusive

  09-04-2019 21:20
  A new marketing campaign from a Provo-based swimsuit company looks to celebrate each day’s “little victories” in 12 video interviews with Utah women “from all walks of life.”The problem? Nine of the women are blonde and all appear to be white.“‘All walks of life’ should include different ethnicities, races, and backgrounds,” a commenter wrote on the blog post on the website of business Kortni Jeane. “This feels shortsighted to me.&rdquo
  
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• Rudy Gobert’s jersey appears in Basketball Hall of Fame; Jazz near full-season sell-out at Vivint Arena

  09-04-2019 20:54
  Rudy Gobert always wanted to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame. He just didn’t think it would be so soon.But the Basketball Hall of Fame acquired Gobert’s jersey from the Phoenix Suns game two weeks ago — the game in which he broke the NBA’s all-time dunk record, flushing down his 270th dunk of the NBA season. The old record was held by Dwight Howard, who had 269 dunks in the 2007-08 season.We want to thank the @utahjazz for allowing us to display @rudygobert27 jersey fro
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Rudy Gobert’s jersey appears in Basketball Hall of Fame; Jazz near full-season sell-out at Vivint Arena

  09-04-2019 20:45 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert always wanted to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame. He just didn’t think it would be so soon.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Kyle Korver’s essay on white privilege draws positive reaction from Utah Jazz teammates and organization

  09-04-2019 20:30 via sportspyder.com
  “It was great having that input from him and having a different perspective on it,” Jazz center Rudy Gobert said. “It’s usually people of color that talk about it."
  
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• Kyle Korver’s essay on white privilege draws positive reaction from Utah Jazz teammates and organization

  09-04-2019 20:23
  SALT LAKE CITY — Kyle Korver was ruled out of Tuesday's regular season finale against the Denver Nuggets with right knee soreness but was still spotted at the Utah Jazz's practice facility during shootaround.Just 24 hours after releasing a candid essay on white privilege for The Players' Tribune, the NBA community continued to react to his powerful message where he denounced racism — including his teammates.Rookie guard Grayson Allen was one of the guys who could certainly relate to
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Are the Jazz really better now than they were a year ago? We’re about to find out.

  09-04-2019 20:17 via sportspyder.com
  You would have thought somebody had asked Donovan Mitchell if golden retrievers are loyal, if tin roof pie is tasty, if a Lamborghini Veneno Roadster is pricey, if Shakespeare knew an action verb from a concrete noun, if the Earth rotates eastward...
  
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• Monson: Are the Jazz really better now than they were a year ago? We’re about to find out.

  09-04-2019 20:13
  You would have thought somebody had asked Donovan Mitchell if golden retrievers are loyal, if tin roof pie is tasty, if a Lamborghini Veneno Roadster is pricey, if Shakespeare knew an action verb from a concrete noun, if the Earth rotates eastward in prograde motion, if Columbus sailed the ocean blue, if Daniel Boone was a man, if Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet.He was quick and definitive in his response to what was, in Mitchell’s view, fairly obvious.Are the Jazz better now than they
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Book excerpt: '100 Things Jazz Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die,' The Jazz Nickname

  09-04-2019 20:09 via sportspyder.com
  This topic has come up several times over the years — and while there might not have been some jazz in Utah back in the 1970s, but there certainly is now.
  
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• [NBA] - Rudy Gobert donates a piece of slam dunk history to the Hall of Fame

  09-04-2019 20:08 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert made basketball history.Then he donated a piece of it.The Utah Jazz center set a new NBA record for most dunks in a single season last month, with a two-handed alley-oop slam against the
  
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• Book excerpt: '100 Things Jazz Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die,' The Jazz Nickname

  09-04-2019 19:48
  Writer's note: Being the Utah Jazz beat writer for the Deseret News was my identity for almost a decade from 2008 to 2017. It was a source of deep pride on personal and professional levels — for me and for others, especially my mom. This franchise has had a lot of colorful characters and interesting moments, and I had the honor to tell and retell stories about a team that means so much to the people and a state I love so much. The following excerpt from my book, 100 Things Jazz Fans Should
  
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• 15 officers on leave as Utah police piece together a chase and deadly shootout on State Street

  09-04-2019 19:47
  Fifteen peace officers from three police forces were on leave Tuesday as investigators continued examining a crime spree and shootout in Salt Lake City a day earlier.The suspect, Harold Vincent Robinson, 37, of West Valley City, died in the shootout on State Street near 3300 South. The administrative leave is standard procedure after an officer participates or is believed to have participated in a shooting. Ten Salt Lake City police officers are on leave; three from the Utah Highway Patrol and t
  
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• U.S. Congress approves Colorado River drought plan

  09-04-2019 19:37
  Phoenix • A plan to address a shrinking supply of water on a river that serves 40 million people in the U.S. West is headed to President Donald Trump.The U.S. House and Senate approved the Colorado River drought contingency plan on Monday.Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming spent years negotiating the drought plan. They aim to keep two key reservoirs from falling so low they cannot deliver water or produce hydropower.Mexico has promised to store water in Lake
  
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• Ute center Jayce Johnson is in the NCAA transfer portal, with one season left to play

  09-04-2019 19:36
  Utah starting center Jayce Johnson is in the NCAA transfer portal, ESPN and other outlets reported Tuesday.The move doesn’t necessarily mean the 7-footer will depart from Utah’s basketball program with one year of eligibility remaining, but enables other schools to contact him as he considers his options.Johnson’s departure would leave the Utes with three freshman post players in 2019-20: Lahat Thioune, who redshirted after breaking his foot in preseason practice; Branden Carls
  
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• Ogden city, officer dropped from jail death lawsuit

  09-04-2019 19:36
  Ogden • The city of Ogden has been dropped from a federal lawsuit over a man’s death in the Weber County Jail.The Standard-Examiner reported Monday that court papers filed last week indicate the city and an Ogden police officer were dismissed as defendants.Litigation against Weber County will continue.Michelle Shafer filed a lawsuit in Salt Lake City last year against the county, Ogden and several officers.Ogden police arrested her son, Ashley Jessop, in February 2016 after a disturba
  
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• Nevada couple shot, stabbed in Elko County domestic dispute

  09-04-2019 19:01
  Elko, Nev. • A northeast Nevada couple involved in an apparent domestic dispute has been hospitalized after Elko County sheriff’s deputies say the woman was shot in the chest and her husband stabbed in the neck.The Elko Daily Free Press reports Brian and Courtney Rowley were air-lifted to a Salt Lake City hospital Sunday following the dispute at a Spring Creek residence.Their conditions were unknown on Monday.Detectives are still investigating but they believe Brian Rowley shot his wi
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Should the Jazz tank to dictate their playoff matchup?

  09-04-2019 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  NBA teams are trying to lose games to dictate their playoff matchup, should the Jazz do the same over the final two games of the season?
  
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• Greeted with hugs and tears, nearly 100 Utah National Guard members return home after a Middle East deployment

  09-04-2019 18:46
  Nearly 100 soldiers from Utah’s National Guard returned home Tuesday morning almost a year after deploying — and they were greeted by smiles, hugs and a few tears.The state’s “Big Red” battalion served a 10-month mission to the Middle East, providing security support and conducting artillery missions. They deployed last June. Capt. Jared Sorensen, commander of the group, said the job was “an opportunity to become better trained, better educated and stronger bo
  
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• Lukas Nelson, Thievery Corporation, Squeeze and X added to Deer Valley summer concert lineup

  09-04-2019 18:06
  UPDATE (April 9): Three more shows added to lineup: Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Thievery Corporation, and Squeeze/X.—Would it really be summer in Utah if Michael Franti or Ben Harper weren’t performing a concert somewhere?Those popular musicians are part of the lineup of the second season of the Deer Valley Concert Series, unveiled Tuesday. Four concerts were announced in March, and three more announced in April, Deer Valley and The State Room Presents said.Here are the s
  
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• Dana Milbank: Kirstjen Nielsen’s attempt to suck up to Trump ended badly. It always does.

  09-04-2019 18:03
  Video: The Washington Post’s Editorial Board warns that President Trump will pursue cruel and legally questionable immigration policies even without his inept Homeland Security secretary. (The Washington Post)
  Washington • “I have determined,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen wrote in her resignation letter Sunday night, “that it is the right time for me to step aside.”And how did she come to this determination?Well, maybe it was that her boss, the
  
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• Letter: Tribune commentaries tell it like it is

  09-04-2019 17:57
  It isn’t often that a person reads two commentaries in one edition of The Salt Lake Tribune that say clearly and indisputably what needs to be said. I had that experience April 5.The commentary by Ron Molen, a retired architect, headlined, “How do reasonable people become gun zealots?” describes the "choke-hold" (my terminology) the NRA has on our Legislature.And the commentary by Dr. Doug Douville, headlined “No good reasons for rejection of Medicaid,” clearly and
  
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• Utah boutiques come under fire for a lack of diversity in their advertising

  09-04-2019 17:50
  A new marketing campaign from a Provo-based swimsuit company looks to celebrate each day’s “little victories” in 12 video interviews with Utah women “from all walks of life.”The problem? Nine of the women are blonde and all appear to be white.“‘All walks of life’ should include different ethnicities, races, and backgrounds,” a commenter wrote on the blog post on the website of business Kortni Jeane. “This feels shortsighted to me.&rdquo
  
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• Salt Lake City is No. 24 on U.S. News list of best places to live because it’s not as ‘Mormon’ as it used to be

  09-04-2019 17:49
  Salt Lake City is the 24th-best place to live in America, according to U.S. News & World Report, in part because it’s not just a “religious community” anymore.Utah’s capital — home to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — has fallen off in the rankings over the past two years. It was 10th in 2017 and 15th in 2018.That has less to do with any changes happening in Salt Lake City and more to do with changes to the list.“O
  
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• Utah teen survives Montana bear attack with minor injuries

  09-04-2019 17:48
  Ennis, Mont. • Wildlife officials say a teen survived a bear attack with relatively minor injuries in southwestern Montana.Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks say it was likely a grizzly bear that attacked the 17-year-old south of Ennis Sunday. Morgan Jacobsen of FWP says the teen was visiting Montana from Utah.The agency says he was out looking for shed antlers when he heard a "thump" behind him and saw the bear charge.The agency says he didn't have time to use his bear spray and the bear pus
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Recognizing the privilege the majority of us Utah Jazz fans have

  09-04-2019 17:44 via sportspyder.com
  Kyle Korver was able to share this and be praised at an unprecedented level. That’s a very good thing. But that is also privilege.
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Herman Cain and Stephen Moore follow Trump’s lazy conspiracy theorizing

  09-04-2019 17:41
  Washington • The problem with putting Stephen Moore and Herman Cain on the Federal Reserve Board — as President Trump aims to do — isn’t merely that these lackeys have been wrong about nearly every economic claim they’ve ever made.They're also rabid conspiracy theorists, at least when such theorizing has proved convenient to their partisan agenda.That Trump would choose candidates with such proclivities should be no surprise. After all, in addition to the alternative
  
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• Utah’s Megan Huff is projected as a third-round pick in Wednesday’s WNBA draft

  09-04-2019 17:21
  Megan Huff never played in the NCAA Tournament during her Utah women’s basketball career and her team was too depleted to participate in the WNIT this season.Even so, WNBA scouts have plenty of material to use in judging Huff against good competition. She’s expected to become the sixth former Ute drafted into the league in 14 seasons, with the three-round event scheduled Wednesday night.Huff thrived in a conference that sent five teams into the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 and pr
  
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• Attorney General Barr anticipates Mueller report will be released within a week

  09-04-2019 17:02
  Washington • Attorney General William Barr testified Tuesday that he believes he will be able to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s report “within a week,” and he will color-code the information that is redacted so the public knows why various material is being veiled.The assertion came during Barr’s appearance before members of the House Appropriations Committee, where questions on his handling of the report are expected speckle what otherwise would have been
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Rudy Gobert in Hall of Fame; USU Nos. 18 and 19 in preseason basketball polls

  09-04-2019 16:46 via sportspyder.com
  Gobert's jersey is already in the Hall of Fame, thanks to his newly set record of dunks in a single season. Also, Utah State picked to be a Top-25 team heading into 2019-20 college basketball season.
  
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• Morning links: Rudy Gobert in Hall of Fame; USU Nos. 18 and 19 in preseason basketball polls

  09-04-2019 16:37
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert is in the Hall of Fame.Well, at least his jersey is.On Monday, @BasketballHOF, the official Twitter account of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, announced that Gobert's jersey is on display in the hall.Specifically, it is the jersey he wore when he broke the all-time record for dunks in a season.That historic performance came on March 25, 2019, against the Phoenix Suns, when Gobert flushed his 271st dunk of the year.We want to thank the @utahjazz for all
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz’s Kyle Korver speaks to the power of being ‘Privileged’

  09-04-2019 16:33 via sportspyder.com
  Kyle Korver’s emotional and informative article
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - The zany path to the ideal playoff seeding situation for the Utah Jazz

  09-04-2019 15:28 via sportspyder.com
  Several seeding possibilities still exist as the NBA regular season draws to a close but one particular path could prove highly advantageous for the Utah J...
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump is ‘always thinking optics’ as his high-ranking staffers head out the door, former aide says

  09-04-2019 15:22
  President Donald Trump rarely sends staff members packing without a parting jab. On occasion, as with Linda McMahon, the former Small Business Administration chief, he praises them as they’re headed out the door. But either way, Trump seems keenly aware of the public’s perception of the constant departures from his administration. “He’s always thinking optics,” said former White House staffer Cliff Sims, who wrote a book about the Trump White House. This week, Trump
  
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• Utah’s sex education standards will be updated for the first time in 20 years. But teachers will still be ‘stressing abstinence.’

  09-04-2019 15:20
  Before giving final approval to a new set of guidelines for what Utah students should learn about sex, the state school board made a few last-minute changes Thursday to ensure the focus in classrooms will remain on chastity.Members approved an added line asking teachers to “discuss the risks of indiscriminate sexual behavior on overall health.” They debated whether the updated standards said too little to encourage getting married before having children — what one called &ldquo
  
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