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• Utah lawmakers cheer as Senate confirms controversial Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, former oil and gas lobbyist

  11-04-2019 23:50
  Washington • The Senate on Thursday confirmed David Bernhardt as the new secretary of the Interior Department, handing him the top role in overseeing America’s public lands — including vast stretches in Utah — even as environmentalists charge that he is too beholden to the oil and gas industry he previously called a client.Bernhardt, who has been serving as acting secretary since the resignation of scandal-plagued Ryan Zinke, will officially take over the department that m
  
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• Trump alleges there was ‘illegal spying’ during his campaign

  11-04-2019 23:29
  Washington • President Donald Trump seemed gratified Thursday that his attorney general has endorsed a key talking point of the president’s supporters: that there was spying on Trump’s 2016 campaign. But Trump went a step beyond Attorney General William Barr, accusing the government of committing an illegal, unprecedented act.The president's comments came a day after Barr testified at a congressional hearing that he believes "spying did occur" on Trump's 2016 campaign, suggestin
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Take Me Out of the Barr Game

  11-04-2019 23:25
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, April 12, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/10/bagley-cartoon-fer-hecks/" target=_blank><u>Fer Heck’s Sake — Get Out!</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/09/bagley-cartoon-name/"><u>The Name Caller</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/20
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Current and former BYU students share their stories about the university’s Honor Code through an anonymous Instagram account

  11-04-2019 23:10
  An Instagram account sharing anonymous stories renews conversation about Brigham Young University’s Honor Code. U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. explores a return to Utah politics. And Utah sex-ed standards get an update, while preserving a focus on abstinence.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune government and politics editor Dan Harrie, reporter Courtney Tanner, and columnist Robert Gehrke join KCPW guest host Marcie Young Cancio to talk about the week’s top stories. Ev
  
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• New BYU basketball coach Mark Pope probably won’t look far for his assistants, and could name several soon

  11-04-2019 22:52
  Provo • Who will new BYU coach Mark Pope hire as his assistant coaches?That was the first question the former Utah Valley University coach was asked at his introductory news conference on Wednesday afternoon, and surprisingly Pope didn’t shrug off the pointed query as most coaches likely would have done.“I am already actually pretty far down the road with assistants,” Pope said, perhaps an indication that he was planning to take the BYU job all along, contrary to some medi
  
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• This remote corner of Nevada ranks among the world’s darkest spots

  11-04-2019 22:46
  Reno • Computer scientist Chris Schmandt doesn’t visit Nevada for the casinos, but he does appreciate the state’s nightlife.Schmandt of Boston prefers to go beyond the glowing reach of lights in Las Vegas and Reno to relax in the most remote corners of the state."I'm one of those people who thinks about what the world was like before electricity," said Schmandt, who noticed Nevada's dark night skies while poring over satellite images depicting the spread of light pollution acros
  
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• Intolerance toward religion is ‘insidious’ and ‘fashionable,’ says speaker at event hosted by Utah’s Orrin Hatch

  11-04-2019 22:31
  The man credited with sending conservative jurists to the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts paid tribute Thursday to former Sen. Orrin Hatch and the rise of conservative judges.Leonard Leo, executive vice president of The Federalist Society, said he couldn’t imagine a “successful conservative legal movement” without Hatch.“Senator Hatch, you've had an enormous impact on at least two generations of jurists and lawyers,” Leo said, “and we all owe you a
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Don’t be bummed about the Jazz facing the Rockets in the first round. Celebrate it. It’s an opportunity. It’s a clear path to the truth.

  11-04-2019 22:29 via sportspyder.com
  Everybody’s bummed.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz opening the playoffs vs. the Rockets isn’t ideal, but they’ve got no choice but to deal with it

  11-04-2019 22:29 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA’s final regular-season standings and playoff seedings may say the Houston Rockets are the fourth-best team in the Western Conference, but not many people seem to actually believe that.
  
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• Jazz opening the playoffs vs. the Rockets isn’t ideal, but they’ve got no choice but to deal with it

  11-04-2019 22:18
  The NBA’s final regular-season standings and playoff seedings may say the Houston Rockets are the fourth-best team in the Western Conference, but not many people seem to actually believe that.Sure, the Rockets’ 53-29 final record was a 14-game drop-off from a season ago, but there were myriad factors that played into that.First off, there was a brutally lethargic 11-14 start over the first two months, born out of not yet having gotten over last season’s conference finals meltdo
  
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• Monson: Don’t be bummed about the Jazz facing the Rockets in the first round. Celebrate it. It’s an opportunity. It’s a clear path to the truth.

  11-04-2019 22:07
  Everybody’s bummed.Don’t be.Through a remarkable set of circumstances that were somehow realized on the last night of the regular season, the Jazz were shoved into facing the Rockets in the first round of the playoffs, starting Sunday night in Houston.It’s a good thing, a great thing, a useful thing, something to celebrate, and nothing to dread.Jazz fans — and probably the Jazz themselves — wanted Portland, on account of the fact they thought that would be easier. T
  
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• Utahns in the Masters: Opening-round 71 for Tony Finau, 72 for Mike Weir.

  11-04-2019 22:06
  Lehi resident Tony Finau made a late bogey, but shot under par Thursday in the first round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.Finau’s 1-under-par 71 almost was matched by 48-year Mike Weir of Sandy. Making his 20th consecutive Masters appearance, Weir rallied with three birdies and eight pars over the last 11 holes to post a 72. Weir, who regularly plays the Web.com Tour in preparation for a PGA Tour Champions career when he turns 50 in May 2020, is in excellent position to make
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell to debut Adidas signature sneaker on court during 2019 playoffs

  11-04-2019 22:03 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell has been practicing in his Adidas D.O.N. Issue #1 signature sneakers for months now but will officially break them out on-court during the playoffs, according to a Deseret News...
  
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• Utah gets a look at an automated shuttle that may signal a coming era of driverless travel

  11-04-2019 22:01
  Utahns will soon have the ability to take a test ride in the state’s first fully autonomous vehicle as part of a pilot program featuring an automated street shuttle. Brought to the state by the Utah Department of Transportation in partnership with the Utah Transit Authority, the shuttle had its first public test run Thursday.The vehicle is now legally able to operate on Utah roads after state lawmakers passed a bill allowing testing of the shuttle to move from a closed track to sidewalks a
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell to debut Adidas signature sneaker on court during 2019 playoffs

  11-04-2019 22:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — After months of minor tweaks, wear testing and practicing in them, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell is set to debut his signature Adidas sneakers during the 2019 playoffs, according to a Deseret News source.Utah will face the Houston Rockets during the first round as the fifth seed. Game 1 is set for Sunday in Houston at 7:30 p.m. MT on TNT.Mitchell's D.O.N. Issue #1 won't release until July 5 for $100, but the rising star has often teased numerous colorways via social med
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Regional inequality is an issue Democrats should jump on

  11-04-2019 21:40
  We have written about the serious and widening gap between rural and urban America. The red/blue divide is largely a rural/urban divide — even within states. As urban areas prosper, rural areas are depopulating, coping with an aging population and suffering from more health problems (including opioid addiction). If rural America was as rich, healthy and vital as the urban centers and their thriving suburbs, President Donald Trump might not have been able to exploit this population with fea
  
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• Trump used to say 'I love WikiLeaks,’ but after Assange’s arrest he said ‘I know nothing about WikiLeaks’

  11-04-2019 21:37
  Washington • President Donald Trump, who repeatedly praised WikiLeaks for releasing damaging material on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race, on Thursday sought to disavow his past enthusiasm following the arrest of the organization’s founder, Julian Assange."I know nothing about WikiLeaks," Trump told reporters. "It's not my thing. I know there is something to do with Julian Assange. I've been seeing what's happened with Assange. And that will be a determination, I imag
  
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• [KSL] - Will this year be different? Things to watch as the Jazz get set to face the Rockets in playoffs

  11-04-2019 21:36 via sportspyder.com
  The Rockets made quick work of the Jazz last season in the second round of the playoffs. Have enough things changed in a year to provide a different outcome?
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - 3 key things to watch in Rockets-Jazz

  11-04-2019 21:32 via sportspyder.com
  The Houston Rockets and Utah Jazz will meet in the first round of the 2019 NBA playoffs with the series beginning Sunday at Toyota Center at 9:30 p.m. ET. The Rockets finished the 2018-19 season with a 53-29 record, good enough for the No. 4 seed in...
  
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• Senate confirms former oil and gas lobbyist David Bernhardt as interior secretary

  11-04-2019 21:11
  Washington • Former oil and gas lobbyist David Bernhardt was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to lead the Interior Department, an agency that controls nearly half a billion acres of public land and the vast amount of oil and gas mineral resources resting beneath it.The 56-41 vote Thursday promoted Bernhardt from the department's acting secretary, a job he assumed after his predecessor Ryan Zinke resigned amid numerous investigations into his behavior and management of the agency. Bernhar
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - How to watch the Utah Jazz-Houston Rockets online

  11-04-2019 21:10 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz take on the Houston Rockets starting Sunday.
  
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• Reports: Utah is losing longtime assistant basketball coach DeMarlo Slocum to UNLV

  11-04-2019 20:42
  Utah basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak will have a full-time coaching staff vacancy for the first time since taking the job and hiring his three assistants in 2011.DeMarlo Slocum is moving from Utah to UNLV as an assistant to newly hired coach T.J. Otzelberger, according to multiple reports.Slocum, 41, is a Las Vegas native and a former coach of an AAU team in his hometown. He spent four years on the Colorado State staff before coming to Utah.Slocum is known to have played an important role in
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz to host NBA playoff games on April 20, 22

  11-04-2019 20:34 via sportspyder.com
  The 2019 Utah Jazz Playoffs presented by Zions Bank will deliver First Round home games against Houston on Saturday, April 20, at 8:30 p.m. (MT) and Monday, April 22, at 8:30 p.m. (MT) with special
  
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• Eye on the Y: Mark Pope won his news conference, but winning basketball games will be much more difficult for Cougars’ new coach

  11-04-2019 20:20
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.It was part news conference, part pep rally.BYU’s newest men’s basketball coach, Mark Pope, was introduced to the media and everyone else Wednesday afternoon at a made-for-BYUtv event at the BYU Broadcasting Building, and the former Utah Valley coach made a lot of lofty promises and received a lot of applause.Whether the exuberant and ever-enthusiastic 6-foot-10 Pope can deliver more than
  
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• A Salt Lake City apartment manager missed the lengthy criminal history of a live-in maintenance worker — until police made an arrest

  11-04-2019 20:16
  Some residents of the Ball Park Apartments in Salt Lake City are on edge after a maintenance worker with access to their homes was discovered to have a long criminal history, including convictions for identity fraud and theft.Property managers say a criminal background check conducted by an outside company on April Ann Swenson-Shaw, 37, came back clean before she was hired last fall as a live-in maintenance technician at the residential complex at 1380 S. West Temple.It shouldn’t have.Swen
  
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• WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused of conspiring to break DOD password

  11-04-2019 20:14
  (Allie Caren | The Washington Post) British police arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange April 11 in London. Assange had been living in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London since seeking asylum in 2012.Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday unsealed a conspiracy to commit computer intrusion charge against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who had been arrested by British police at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London.Assange is accused of agreeing to help former Army intelligence
  
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• The best way to fight religious intolerance? Support Trump’s judicial picks, Federalist Society leader tells Utah crowd.

  11-04-2019 20:07
  The man credited with sending conservative jurists to the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts paid tribute Thursday to former Sen. Orrin Hatch and the rise of conservative judges.Leonard Leo, the executive vice president of the Federalist Society, said he couldn’t imagine a “successful conservative legal movement” without Hatch.“Senator Hatch, you've had an enormous impact on at least two generations of jurists and lawyers,” Leo said, “and we all owe y
  
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• Red All Over: Kyle Whittingham, Britain Covey and Tyler Huntley receive Governor’s Awards

  11-04-2019 20:05
  SLTrib.com sale!There’s no better source for Utah Jazz news than The Salt Lake Tribune and we don’t want our readers to miss anything during this playoff run. That’s why we are dropping the cost of an annual digital subscription to just $1 per week or $52 for the year. This flash sale ends Sunday night. Go to www.sltrib.com/subscribe and click on digital unlimited.
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here.Utah football coach Kyle
  
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• Cold beer and chicken wings return to historic streetcar at Trolley Square

  11-04-2019 20:05
  Salt Lake City’s Trolley Wing Co. will once again serve cold beer and chicken wings from its namesake streetcar at Trolley Square.“I never stopped hoping this would happen,” owner Jess Wilkerson said. “I’m so excited to bring it back.”The original Trolley Wing Co. was evicted in 2010 by the mall’s previous owners. And the historic rail car was moved to the nearby parking lot on 600 South and wrapped in plastic, all to to make way for a multimillion-dolla
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Look: Clippers’ Beverley appears to give Jazz advice on defending Harden

  11-04-2019 20:02 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have drawn a very tough first-round playoff matchup against the Houston Rockets, and it goes without saying that their biggest challenge will be defending James Harden. Patrick Beverley may or may not be trying to help them handle that.
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz to host NBA playoff hames on April 20, 22

  11-04-2019 20:00 via sportspyder.com
  The 2019 Utah Jazz Playoffs presented by Zions Bank will deliver First Round home games against Houston on Saturday, April 20, at 8:30 p.m. (MT) and Monday, April 22, at 8:30 p.m. (MT) with special
  
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• Fans want ‘a rightful seat in history’ for Katie Bouman, who created an algorithm to assemble that black hole photo

  11-04-2019 20:00
  (Adriana Usero | The Washington Post) Katie Bouman was a MIT postdoctoral student when she led a team that designed one of the algorithms that led to capturing the first images of a black hole.First came the breathtaking image, the first one to ever show a black hole, in a galaxy about 55 million light-years from Earth.Then came the giddy realization that the remarkable, years-in-the-making moment would not have been possible without the work of a 29-year-old female scientist, who has now claime
  
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• Fans arrive for rapper Nipsey Hussle’s Los Angeles memorial

  11-04-2019 19:05
  Los Angeles • Fans poured into the Staples Center on Thursday to pay tribute to Nipsey Hussle, the rapper and community activist slain last month in front of a store that he tried to use to empower his South Central neighborhood.Most who filed in for the public memorial were young adults but ages ranged from small children to the elderly."We're not just here to get off work, we're not just here to take selfies outside Staples, we can do that anytime," said Wutup Levy, 27, of Long Beach, Cal
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - A New D.O.N.: Donovan Mitchell to wear signature shoes in Playoffs

  11-04-2019 18:45 via sportspyder.com
  The D.O.N. of a new age. The D.O.N. Issue #1 will make his long awaited debut.
  
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• Photo-worthy ice cream, unexpected burgers and more bars coming to Salt Lake City’s Gateway

  11-04-2019 18:42
  Photo-worthy ice cream, hamburgers with unexpected flavors and more bars are expected to open this spring and summer at The Gateway in Salt Lake City.“We are definitely evolving into a dining and entertainment destination,” said Jenny Cushing, vice president of leasing for Vestar, owner of the shopping-mall-turned-urban-entertainment-hub. Among the new offerings:
  (Photo courtesy of Sweet Rolled Tacos) Sweet Rolled Tacos, which serves rolled ice cream in a colorful taco-shaped waffle
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Fate brought the Jazz and Rockets together

  11-04-2019 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  Against all odds, Jazz will battle Rockets in first round
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Netanyahu’s ominous victory

  11-04-2019 18:17
  Washington • The last decade has been trying for liberals who support the existence of a democratic Jewish state and believe that Palestinians have a right to self-determination within a state of their own. Tuesday’s election in Israel made the liberal path even rockier, both inside the country and in the United States.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's victory was not overwhelming, but it was decisive. The country is split in two, but not in equal halves.Netanyahu's right-wing Likud
  
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• Dana Milbank: On the border, Trump alone couldn’t fix it. In fact, he broke it.

  11-04-2019 18:13
  Washington • I’ll admit it: President Trump is right. There’s a crisis on the southern border.The existence of the crisis is as obvious as its cause: Trump. He didn't single-handedly create this mess, but he definitely made it worse.He pursued not a policy but an instinct, following emotion rather than empiricism. Now, an immigration policy of toughness and fear has backfired in tangible ways.Customs and Border Protection reported on Tuesday that 103,492 migrants were either app
  
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• Rush-hour traffic snarled after a shot was fired outside Trolley Square Thursday morning

  11-04-2019 17:30
  Thursday morning traffic was a mess in the Trolley Square area after police closed off streets to investigate reports of a shot fired shortly before 8 a.m.According to Salt Lake City police, there was no shooting at the mall itself, which is located at 600 South and 700 East. There was “an altercation” between two men in the street on 600 East, just west of Trolley Square, “and a shot was fired,” said Det. Michael Ruff of the Salt Lake City Police Department. “It ma
  
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• Police are investigating after a shootout in Salt Lake City leaves one man wounded

  11-04-2019 17:01
  One man was hospitalized and police are looking for other suspects after a shootout outside a Salt Lake City home on Wednesday evening.The incident began shortly after 10 p.m. when a woman who lives at a home near 100 W. Paxton Ave. heard her dogs barking outside and went to investigate. She discovered several men in her yard, and there was a “confrontation,” according to police.“At that time, a male at the residence came outside. He was armed, and shots were exchanged,”
  
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• Assange accused of conspiring with Chelsea Manning in 2010 WikiLeaks release, says unsealed U.S. indictment

  11-04-2019 17:00
  Paris • British authorities arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday in response to a U.S. extradition request, and a U.S. federal court unsealed an indictment charging him with a single count of conspiracy to disclose classified information that could be used to injure the United States.Assange was taken into custody by British police after Ecuador rescinded his asylum at its embassy in London, ending a standoff that lasted nearly seven years.London's Metropolitan Police said
  
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• Jazz fall to Clippers 143-137 in overtime in regular-season finale, will open playoffs at Houston on Sunday

  11-04-2019 16:57
  Los Angeles • A short list of things that that mattered more to the Jazz on Wednesday than the outcome of their own game against the Clippers:Whether or not the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Milwaukee Bucks. (They did.)Whether or not the Denver Nuggets beat the Minnesota Timberwolves. (They did.)Whether or not the Portland Trail Blazers got the win over the Sacramento Kings. (They did.)For about nine-tenths of those latter two games, the Jazz looked to be getting the results they wante
  
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• Cash-strapped Utah Democratic Party elects to stop paying its top leader

  11-04-2019 16:56
  The Utah Democratic Party is so strapped for cash that its executive committee decided Tuesday to stop paying Chairwoman Daisy Thomas for the rest of her term.The vote came after the committee received a financial update from its new treasurer and learned that Executive Director Alex Cragun, one of three people on the party’s payroll, had not received several recent paychecks.“Changes just have to be made to make sure the organization remains viable,” Sheila Srivastava, the par
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: A deeper look at policy reversal; conference recap; Flake threatened; more verses on Heavenly Mother

  11-04-2019 16:45
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: Goodbye, policy; hello, inclusion?
  (Chris Detrick|The Salt Lake Tribune)
  Sandy Newcomb, of Springville, holds a rainbow flag during a Mass resignation from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rockets’ James Harden, Gerald Green not worried about landing 4th seed, Jazz matchup in playoffs

  11-04-2019 16:43 via sportspyder.com
  The Houston Rockets could only muster the fourth seed in the Western Conference after a one-point loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder put their fate in the hands of their opponents on Wednesday. The Denver Nuggets and Portland Trail Blazers kept their...
  
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• Police investigating after teen is shot in the arm

  11-04-2019 16:09
  A teenager who was slightly wounded in the arm told police he was shot at Jordan Landing, but police say they have been unable to confirm that story.The 16-year-old was driven to a local hospital by friends, where he received treatment for a minor gunshot wound. Hospital personnel reported the incident to police.According to West Jordan police, the victim said he and his friends pulled behind a store at the Jordan Landing shopping complex and let his dog out to relieve itself. The boy said someo
  
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