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• Erik Wemple: HHS to media: Don’t call our youth shelters ‘detention centers’

  07-07-2019 23:30
  Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Mark Weber recalls how he briefed workers at a housing facility for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas, after the Associated Press wrote a short article about its opening. "I'm sorry to report that they called this a detention center," says Weber in an interview with The Washington Post, noting that the assembled professionals groaned. "But I am happy to say that at least they said we were providing educational services."The article in qu
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Mike Conley officially joins Jazz, arrives in Utah

  07-07-2019 23:06 via sportspyder.com
  "I can tell it’s going to be special place to play"
  
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• Tribune Editorial: There are hungry children in rural Utah, and they need help

  07-07-2019 23:00
  Who is going to step up for hungry kids in rural Utah?Summer lunch programs, aimed at children who get free school lunch during the school year, are well established along the Wasatch Front. The kids just have to show up, and they’ll be handed what may be the most nutritious food they get all day.But in Utah’s hinterlands, summer lunch programs are scarce.That’s unfortunate because rural Utah has a higher percentage of kids who need these programs. The “food insecurity ra
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz acquire two future second-round picks from New Orleans in exchange for Derrick Favors

  07-07-2019 23:00 via sportspyder.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (July 7, 2019) – The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has acquired two future second round draft picks from the New Orleans Pelicans in exchange for forward/center Derrick
  
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• FBI, ICE use driver license photos without owners’ knowledge or consent

  07-07-2019 22:37
  Washington • Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through hundreds of millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years, obtained through public-records requests by Georgetown University researchers and pro
  
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• VIDEO: Tony Bradley Tirelessly Working On Improving Body

  07-07-2019 21:21 via basketballinsiders.com
  Utah Jazz center Tony Bradley talks about getting an opportunity to showcase his skills at the 2019 NBA Summer League, providing rebounding and energy and the expectations the team has for him in Year 3.
  
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• Teenager Preston Summerhays is back to defend his title as the Utah State Amateur returns to Soldier Hollow

  07-07-2019 20:54
  Midway • After a four-year absence, the Utah State Amateur golf tournament returns to Soldier Hollow Golf Club this week with a whopping field of 288 golfers.The 121st edition of the annual event billed as the longest continuously held golf tournament in the world begins Monday at the state-owned facility that features 36 holes — the Silver and Gold courses — in the foothills above the Heber Valley.Who will survive six days and possibly 162 holes and be left standing Saturday af
  
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• [Deseret News] - Former Utah Jazz center Ekpe Udoh agrees to one-year deal with China's Beijing Ducks

  07-07-2019 20:33 via sportspyder.com
  Deseret News sources confirmed that Udoh has agreed to a one-year deal with the Beijing Ducks in Beijing, China as part of the Chinese Basketball Association.
  
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• Former Utah Jazz center Ekpe Udoh agrees to one-year deal with China's Beijing Ducks

  07-07-2019 20:26
  Utah Jazz center Ekpe Udoh (33) runs up court after scoring again the New York Knicks in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018.Jeffrey D. AllredEkpe Udoh is headed back overseas to pursue his professional basketball career.But this time, the former Utah Jazz center will play in China.On Sunday, Deseret News sources confirmed that Udoh has agreed to a one-year deal with the Beijing Ducks in Beijing, China as part of the Chinese Basketball Association.Varlas Nikos of Eurohoops.net was the firs
  
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• Can ‘The Simpsons’ help humankind survive the apocalypse?

  07-07-2019 20:15
  Taylor Jack Nelson has been thinking about the apocalypse, and what might happen after, when people have no electricity — and, without it, no television.“What would be left of our culture if we lost this form of mass communication?” asked Nelson, who is co-directing the first Utah production of Anne Washburn’s play, “Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play,” for Provo’s An Other Theater Company. The production opens Friday, July 12, and runs Fridays and Saturday
  
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• ‘We just have no quit in us’ — U.S. captures 4th Women’s World Cup title

  07-07-2019 20:14
  Lyon, France • The United States won its record fourth Women's World Cup title and second in a row, beating the Netherlands 2-0 Sunday night when Megan Rapinoe converted a penalty kick in the second half and Rose Lavelle added a goal.Rapinoe, the pink-haired U.S. captain who grabbed world-wide attention on and off the field, scored in the 61st minute after a video review determined Stefanie van der Gragt had fouled Alex Morgan with a kick to the shoulder in the penalty area.Two days past he
  
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• 3 takeaways from Real Salt Lake’s 1-0 loss to San Jose

  07-07-2019 18:16
  Here are three takeaways from Real Salt Lake’s 1-0 loss Saturday to the San Jose Earthquakes.1. Not playing through the whistleWhen the RSL coaches and players sit down and watch the film of the loss to San Jose, they’re not going to be happy.They weren’t happy after the loss, of course. Giving up a goal in the third of four minutes of stoppage time is going to eat at them. But it was the way it happened that hurts most.The ball rolled out of bounds and the referee signaled for
  
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• California fugitive killed by a Utah police officer

  07-07-2019 17:06
  A man who fled arrest in California was shot and killed by a West Jordan police officer after an hours-long standoff Friday evening.Jose Martinez, 34, was killed after police tracked him to a family member’s condominium near Prairie Dunes Drive in West Jordan, police Sgt. J.C. Holt said.An officer in a unit tasked with finding Martinez contacted West Jordan police around 6:30 p.m. Friday asking for help capturing the fugitive, wanted for an active kidnapping warrant out of Sacramento Count
  
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• Commentary: The psychiatric secret of Trump’s success

  07-07-2019 17:02
  When Donald Trump won in 2016, my young daughter wept.She had worked hard with campus groups trying to prevent sexual violence. She felt like 56 million Americans had decided sexual assault was not a big thing.Imagine that four years ago someone had said that we would elect such a man. A man who dodged the draft while bragging that his Vietnam War years were spent bagging women and avoiding venereal disease. A man who belittled the sacrifices of an American hero who did serve in Vietnam and suff
  
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• Here’s how San Juan County reached this historic moment and why the tension in southeast Utah won’t end anytime soon

  07-07-2019 16:49
  Monticello • Willie Grayeyes was 9 years old when Utah granted American Indians living on reservations the right to vote. It was the last state to do so.The year was 1957 and the state Legislature expanded the vote to Native Americans in the face of a pending U.S. Supreme Court case on the issue. Just a year earlier, the Utah Supreme Court upheld the view that American Indians on reservations were not residents of the state and therefore couldn’t vote in state elections.Justices argue
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: The only woman in Mission Control brushed off rampant sexism during NASA’s first moon missions

  07-07-2019 16:44
  With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon just days away, PBS’ “American Experience” does a magnificent job capturing what led up to that momentous event in its three-part documentary “Chasing the Moon.” It also captures the era in which Americans raced to achieve their goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth,” as President John F. Kennedy put it.And you'll note that he said “man.”In the m
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I’m a rock during a crisis, but afterward I fall apart

  07-07-2019 16:42
  Dear Ann Cannon • Our family was recently engulfed by a full-blown crisis. Without going into detail, let me just say I was the one that everybody leaned on to manage things, from making arrangements to offering pep talks. And I did. Not to sound arrogant or anything, but I didn’t fall apart and I was able to meet the needs and requests of various family members in ways that were truly helpful.Now that things have settled down and everybody’s lives have more or less gone back to
  
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• Hugh Jackman’s coffee company will be serving Thursday at the Gallivan Center. Will Jackman be there himself?

  07-07-2019 16:38
  Hugh Jackman’s Laughing Man Coffee company will serve up free cups of joe Thursday morning in Salt Lake City. And if you go, pay careful attention to who your server is — it just might be Jackman himself.The star of everything from “X-Men” to “Les Miserables” to “The Greatest Showman” is bringing his “The Man. The Music. The Show.” tour to Vivint Smart Home Arena on Thursday and Friday evenings. And as he’s done in other cities, h
  
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• Commentary: Utah’s senators should vote no on Ron Mortensen

  07-07-2019 16:22
  As lifelong Republicans with deep roots in Utah and with immigrant forebears, conscience compels us to speak out against President Trump’s recent re-nomination of Utah’s radical Ronald Mortensen to serve as the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) — despite the objections of multiple conservative lawmakers to his prior nomination.If confirmed to this position, Mortensen would oversee the U.S. government’s efforts to assis
  
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• Brett Hastings: Tax reform town halls reveal legislative group think and propaganda

  07-07-2019 16:20
  Last week the Utah Tax Reform and Equalization Task Force held its first series of eight planned public town halls to discuss whether Utah tax policy is in need of reform. I attended two of the meetings and came away quite disappointed, because both meetings were more a propaganda campaign than a listening tour.Upon arriving at the meetings, attendees were presented with a glossy “Fact Sheet,” banners and slick, professionally produced videos asserting that Utah’s current tax s
  
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• Kirby: It’s well past time for churches to let their hair down — as LDS temple dreadlocks case shows

  07-07-2019 16:18
  Tekulve Jackson-Vann, an ordinance worker at the Payson Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was recently “uncalled” from his position because of his haircut.Actually, it was more because of his hairstyle than his haircut. Jackson-Vann, who is black, had his hair done into some excellent dreadlocks.Knowing of his church’s obsessive past — not only with grooming standards but also race — he sent a picture of his new dreads to his boss at the temp
  
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• Short-term rentals are popping up all over Utah. Many cities don’t know how to handle them.

  07-07-2019 16:16
  Dale Carlile sees himself as an honest man. But sometimes, honesty doesn’t pay.After moving to Utah from Oregon two years ago, Carlile decided he wanted to enter the short-term rental business. Others advised him to run his operation under the radar, because obtaining a license would be too difficult.But Carlile was determined to follow the law.He made a deal with South Salt Lake’s new Ritz Classic Apartment Homes to lease a few units and applied for a license. The first time Carlile
  
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• Harry Reid: We all must face the threat of climate change

  07-07-2019 16:16
  I was born and raised in the tiny town of Searchlight, Nevada, where we were surrounded by one of nature’s masterpieces: the desert. It was there I learned of the tenuous connection between humankind and the environment. Clean water is a precious resource in the desert. As a youngster, I learned to respect my surroundings. As an adult, my religion gave me a spiritual connection with nature. I learned of a divine mandate to care for creation and that there is a link between spiritual and ha
  
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• Worried about truck traffic and losing valuable water, southern Utah residents fight plan to mine frack sand

  07-07-2019 16:13
  Northwest of Kanab, an undulating sea of red sand rises for several miles spanning the divide between Kanab Creek and the East Fork of the Virgin River.On that southern Utah divide sits a parcel of state trust land that mineral developers hope will be the start of a massive sand-mining operation, yielding millions of tons of silica granules to be used for fracking wells in the West’s oil and gas fields.But first Southern Red Sands, a new company behind the proposal, must secure water, 1,20
  
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• Commentary: Urban and rural Utah will both benefit if we Clean The Darn Air

  07-07-2019 16:00
  Much of urban Utah suffers from poor air quality. Much of rural Utah struggles economically. It may be possible to address both problems with the same piece of legislation: the Clean The Darn Air measure that is gathering signatures to qualify for the 2020 ballot.In the heavily populated Wasatch Front and Cache Valley areas, air quality is often far below national standards. Poor air quality is a significant health threat to Utah residents, especially children and the elderly. And air pollution
  
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• Commentary: Salt Lake schools in a fight over insufficient funds

  07-07-2019 16:00
  Imagine we work for a company and we’re offered two different contracts:Option A = $45,001 to start, increasing by more than $1,500 each year ($45,001 … $46,766 … $48,573 …)Option B = $50,100 to start, increasing by $900 each year ($50,100 … $51,000 … $51,900 …)Which option should we choose?Well, if we choose Option B, we will make more money upfront. However, thanks to its larger annual increments, it’s not long before we are making more mon
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jae Crowder wants to stay in Memphis

  07-07-2019 14:54 via sportspyder.com
  Memphis Grizzlies newcomer and seven-year NBA veteran forward Jae Crowder wants to “stay” in Memphis and help develop the organization’s young players, per Grizzlies.com’s Mike Wallace. The Grizzlies acquired Crowder in the Mike Conley trade with...
  
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• Letter: I was naive about gerrymandering. Now I’m cynical.

  07-07-2019 14:00
  Two years ago I wrote to this forum trying to briefly explain the recent history of gerrymandering and its negative effects both locally and nationally.Distorted representation, increased political division and lack of compromise were just a few of the problems resulting from partisan drawing of congressional districts. This is another form of voter suppression favored by the GOP.I ended that letter by optimistically stating that the Supreme Court would be addressing gerrymandering and that sure
  
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• Letter: Don’t tell us about the killers

  07-07-2019 14:00
  I know the investigation has not been completed into the death of Mackenzie Lueck, but I think it is about time that the United States had a law similar to one in New Zealand. It prohibits the publication of the name of criminal defendants before trial.I am tired of seeing constant photos of killers and their names splashed all over the TV and in the newspapers. I want to see the victim.The perpetrators in some cases are looking for news coverage. They do not deserve it. The victims should have
  
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• Letter: Americans have forgotten democracy

  07-07-2019 14:00
  “Government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Abraham Lincoln first spoke these words at Gettysburg and they are widely considered the definition of democracy. Many Americans seem to have forgotten about this — to our detriment.In 2018, 96% of the candidates for representative or senator who spent the most money were elected. Do big donors get favors in return? For example the lowest individual and corporate tax rates of any major country? Or, three times the expen
  
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• Letter: Act now to prevent population chaos

  07-07-2019 14:00
  Friends would be aghast that I might agree with conservative Utah legislator Dan McCay on anything. After hearing that he’s preparing a bill to prohibit all elective abortions, with no exceptions, I can agree with his standard on how to determine what is “the right thing to do.”That is, he would look back from 25 years in the future and muse that, “He couldn’t believe that ‘we’ actually did (or didn’t do) ‘some action’ when we had the c
  
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• Leonard Pitts: This story might not have had such a happy ending

  07-07-2019 14:00
  I had no intention of telling this story here.I thought I might talk about the meaning of freedom in the age of Trump. Refugees are imprisoned in squalor on our southern border, the government balking at providing them toothpaste and soap, and I thought I might talk about the diminution of compassion in the age of Trump.But the story of how I ended up in handcuffs on my front lawn in the dark hours of last Sunday morning had, I felt, been well and truly told by multiple media outlets and needed
  
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• Real Salt Lake concedes stoppage-time goal, loses to San Jose 1-0

  07-07-2019 07:36
  In the history of the matchup between San Jose and Salt Lake, the two teams could not have been more even.In 31 games between them coming into Saturday’s game at Avaya Stadium, each team had won 10 and they tied the other 11. With only one point separating them in the Western Conference standings, both needed a win.But it was San Jose that broke the deadlock, in stoppage no less. Earthquakes midfielder Danny Hoesen found the back of the net in the 93rd minute, not only providing San Jose a
  
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• Biden says he was wrong in comments about segregationists

  07-07-2019 07:30
  Sumter, S.C. • Former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday apologized for recent comments about working with segregationist senators in his early days in the U.S. Senate, saying he understands now his remarks could have been offensive to some."Was I wrong a few weeks ago?" Biden asked a mostly black audience of several hundred in Sumter during the first day of a weekend visit to South Carolina. "Yes, I was. I regret it, and I'm sorry for any of the pain of misconception that caused anybody.
  
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• Utah’s community gives Donovan Mitchell a slice of normal life, even as his celebrity grows

  07-07-2019 07:22
  One pair of size 19 shoes.At time of publication, that’s all that’s left on Adidas’ website of Donovan Mitchell’s first signature shoe, the D.O.N. Issue #1. Every other size has been sold out for days, since Mitchell’s shoe first went up for sale a week ago. Adidas hasn’t released sales numbers, and more colors are coming later in the month, but it’s fair to say that demand has outweighed supply.Come to think of it, that point might stand for Mitchell hi
  
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• Summer can be challenging for Loveland medical chopper crews

  07-07-2019 05:58
  Loveland, Colo. • This is one helicopter Kris Schott won’t be jumping out of — that’s a good thing, given that the people aboard are often in need of life-saving measures.Schott gave up piloting and jumping out of military helicopters full time to become a flight paramedic for UCHealth's LifeLine medical helicopter based out of Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland."Flying is still exhilarating," he said. "It can be incredibly stressful, but I thrive on the challenge."
  
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• Western Stampede Rodeo wraps up in West Jordan

  07-07-2019 05:44
  The Western Stampede Rodeo in West Jordan has been a tradition since 1954, according to its website. Activities included a parade, carnival and fireworks show.
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Mike Conley gets his first look at Salt Lake City

  07-07-2019 05:37 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz point guard Mike Conley touched down in Utah and got a tour of scenic Salt Lake City. He expressed his excitement to play for the Jazz, likening the exp...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah’s community gives Donovan Mitchell a slice of normal life, even as his celebrity grows

  07-07-2019 04:52 via sportspyder.com
  One pair of size 19 shoes.
  
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• [Deseret News] - Utah Jazz share video thanking Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver, Grayson Allen with trade for Mike Conley Jr. becoming official

  07-07-2019 03:56 via sportspyder.com
  Once the Jazz's trade with Memphis to acquire veteran point guard Mike Conley became official Saturday — the Jazz traded Crowder, Korver, Allen and future draft picks for Conley — the...
  
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• Utah Jazz share video thanking Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver, Grayson Allen with trade for Mike Conley Jr. becoming official

  07-07-2019 03:44
  The Utah Jazz shared a thank you video for former Jazzmen Jae Crowder, Grayson Allen and Kyle Korver, who were traded to Memphis.Twitter pic, via @utahjazzSALT LAKE CITY — Former Jazzmen Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver and Grayson Allen are gone but their contributions in Utah won't soon be forgotten.Once the Utah Jazz's trade with the Memphis Grizzlies to acquire veteran point guard Mike Conley Jr. became official Saturday — the Jazz traded Crowder, Korver, Allen and future draft picks for
  
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• Megan McArdle: Dear Democrats: I’ll vote for any of you. But please nominate someone who can actually win.

  07-07-2019 03:40
  Dear Democrats:Well, this is certainly an exciting time for America, isn't it? There was so much to celebrate on the Fourth of July. "Stranger Things" is streaming all-new episodes, the U.S. women's soccer team is in the World Cup final, and Häagen-Dazs recently launched a new line of booze-flavored ice cream.However, a few things could be better. Starting with the belligerent, impulsive and vulgar bully who's sitting in the Oval Office. And the Democratic plans to evict him come November 2
  
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• Utah residents and out-of-towners spend a Saturday improving Alta’s trails

  07-07-2019 03:03
  While many Utans were hiking, biking or sleeping in early Saturday, a group of 20 volunteers met at the base of Alta Ski Area to repair trails and pull invasive weeds.It was part of the annual Town of Alta Restoration Day hosted by the ski resort’s Alta Environmental Center, the Town of Alta, the Friends of Alta and the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation.This year, the group focused on the Lower Albion Meadows Trail, which connects hikers from the base to the Albion Meadows, an area known for i
  
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• Summer league or not, Jazz are looking for high-quality defense

  07-07-2019 02:31
  Las Vegas • After all the literally earth-shaking happenings that took place in the NBA world Friday night, the Jazz’s opening game of the Las Vegas Summer League on Saturday represented a return to normalcy.Well, as “normal” as things ever are in a place like Sin City, anyway.Along those lines, it should come as no surprise to any observer of the Jazz that getting the team’s defense in order — yes, even in summer league play — has been a priority.After a
  
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• Seized North Korean ship sought for American student’s death

  07-07-2019 02:30
  New York • The parents of Otto Warmbier have filed a claim for a seized North Korean cargo ship, seeking to collect on a multimillion-dollar judgment awarded in the American college student’s death.The Warmbiers filed court papers Wednesday in New York federal court saying they have a right to the assets after North Korea failed to respond to a wrongful death claim that accused it of abducting Warmbier, who had traveled there for a guided tour ahead of a study abroad program in Hong K
  
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• Dave Rose opens up on why he retired from BYU basketball, Nick Emery’s missteps and his father’s recent death

  07-07-2019 02:22
  Provo • It has been a little more than three months since Dave Rose announced he was stepping away from his pressure-filled position as BYU’s men’s basketball coach and into retirement.In a half-hour interview with The Salt Lake Tribune last week, Rose reminisced about his 22 years in Provo, the past 14 as the leader of one of BYU’s most successful athletic programs.Rose said he has “no regrets whatsoever” about that late-March decision to call it a career, a m
  
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• George F. Will: How can presidential candidates be so silly?

  07-07-2019 02:00
  Washington • If California Sen. Kamala Harris is elected president in 2020 and reelected in 2024, by the time she leaves office 114 months from now she might have a coherent answer to the question of whether Americans should be forbidden to have what 217 million of them currently have: private health insurance. Her 22 weeks of contradictory statements, and her Trumpian meretriciousness about her contradictions, reveal a frivolity about upending health care’s complex 18% of America&rsq
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Summer league or not, Jazz are looking for high-quality defense

  07-07-2019 01:43 via sportspyder.com
  Las Vegas • After all the literally earth-shaking happenings that took place in the NBA world Friday night, the Jazz’s opening game of the Las Vegas Summer League on Saturday represented a return to normalcy.
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 195: Reactions to the NBA Free Agency Frenzy

  07-07-2019 01:40 via sportspyder.com
  Big moves as NBA Free Agency gets under way. The Jazz are early contender picks while the rest of the NBA Landscape sees some overhaul. Movie reviews - Yesterday and I Am Mother.
  
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• [Deseret News] - Quin Snyder's assistant coaches embed Utah Jazz DNA in new guys during NBA Summer League action

  07-07-2019 01:36 via sportspyder.com
  Lamar Skeeter, Utah’s assistant/player development coach, led the team to a 2-1 record at Vivint Arena July 1-3 before it took off for the 2019 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, where Johnnie...
  
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