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• Trump administration considers a drastic cut in refugees allowed to enter the U.S.

  06-09-2019 23:59
  Washington • The White House is considering a plan that would effectively bar refugees from most parts of the world from resettling in the United States by cutting back the decades-old program that admits tens of thousands of people each year who are fleeing war, persecution and famine, according to current and former administration officials.In meetings over the past several weeks, one top administration official has proposed zeroing out the program altogether, while leaving the president
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Derrick Rose had a feeling he was going to have a big game before dropping 50 points vs. Jazz

  06-09-2019 23:54 via sportspyder.com
  Last season with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Derrick Rose scored a career-high 50 points on Halloween against the Utah Jazz. It was a performance which captivated the NBA world since Rose has undergone four knee surgeries in his career. Rose had a...
  
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• Utah Legislature to consider $1M-plus payout to former AG Jon Swallow, who was acquitted of corruption charges

  06-09-2019 23:23
  Former Utah Attorney General John Swallow is poised to recoup the costs of his 2017 trial on corruption charges when state lawmakers convene in special session on Sept. 16.Richard Piatt, spokesman for Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, confirmed Friday that negotiations on a settlement are ongoing with Swallow’s legal team, but declined to comment further. Swallow — who resigned as attorney general in 2013 — just one year into his four-year term — was acquitted of corrupti
  
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• Rocky Anderson: Concerns about special interest domination misrepresented as religious ‘bigotry’

  06-09-2019 23:15
  Brigham Young, with the support of the Territorial Legislature, assumed autocratic control of Utah Territory under the guise of speaking on behalf of God.At that time, the Legislature was all-Mormon, juries were all-Mormon, the courts assigned by the Legislature to hear all civil and criminal matters were all-Mormon (the federal judges sent to set things right having been run out of town), and non-Mormons were denied the right to own property.When a “Gentile,” Dr. Robinson, sought to
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Dare we dream of the end of the GOP?

  06-09-2019 23:12
  Toward the end of his new book, “R.I.P. G.O.P.,” renowned Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg makes a thrilling prediction, delivered with the certainty of prophecy. “The year 2020 will produce a second blue wave on at least the scale of the first in 2018 and finally will crash and shatter the Republican Party that was consumed by the ill-begotten battle to stop the New America from governing,” he writes.It sounds almost messianic: the Republican Party, that foul agglom
  
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  06-09-2019 23:06 via twitter.com
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• Murder charges filed in beating death of 61-year-old man in central Utah

  06-09-2019 23:04
  Prosecutors in Emery County filed murder charges on Friday in a case of a body found in a ghost town in the San Rafael Swell.On May 2, deputies found the body of William Randy Jones, 61, in the Mohrland area, according to a news release from the Emery County Sheriff’s Office. It was later determined Jones died of blunt force trauma.“The investigation led to Brandon Michael Samples as the primary suspect,” according to the news release.Samples was was taken into custody shortly
  
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• Tribune Editorial: President’s wall only divides Republicans

  06-09-2019 23:00
  It may be the only way to get Republicans in Congress to disagree with the Republican in the White House. Have the president take away some spending that was earmarked for a military project in their state or district.That’s what happened the other day when the administration announced that it was taking $3.6 billion worth of cash that Congress had designated for a long list of Department of Defense construction projects across the nation and putting it toward the president’s offensi
  
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• At FanX, ‘Bionic’ stars Lindsay Wagner and Lee Majors recall their TV glory, and lots of running

  06-09-2019 22:48
  Lindsay Wagner knows the power of fans.“It’s because of you all that ‘The Bionic Woman’ came about. It was literally by public demand,” the star of the ‘70s action series told a crowd Friday at FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention.Wagner — alongside the star of “The Six Million Dollar Man,” Lee Majors — appeared together on the stage of the Salt Palace’s Grand Ballroom to take questions about their days playing the fastest and stronges
  
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• Oh how sweet it isn’t: Navajo president bans candy at parade

  06-09-2019 22:39
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Oh how sweet it isn’t.Thousands of people will line a highway on the Navajo Nation this Saturday for the largest Native American fair parade in the country. But children gripping grocery bags, pillow cases or empty flour sacks eager to scoop up candy might not get any.Rather than channel Willy Wonka, tribal President Jonathan Nez banned participants from handing out candy and other junk food — encouraging them instead to give out fruit, vegetables and bottled
  
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• Homeless man charged with shooting and killing a Utah woman

  06-09-2019 22:06
  A homeless man has been charged with shooting a Utah woman to death on a Salt Lake sidewalk on Aug. 15.Timothy Vaughn, 27, was charged in 3rd District Court with murder, a first-degree felony; and theft by receiving stolen property and possession of a firearm by a restricted person, second-degree felonies.On Aug. 15, Alicia Baxter, 33, was shot in the head on a sidewalk at 800 W. North Temple.; she later died at a hospital. According to police, a witness told them she “spoke to a guy named
  
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• [KSL] - The Jazz at the World Cup: Gobert helps France dominate, Ingles leads in assists and Mitchell's eye-popping stat | KSL.com

  06-09-2019 21:47 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell, Joe Ingles and Rudy Gobert all helped their respective national teams to perfect 3-0 records in the first round.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Utah’s Economic Engine

  06-09-2019 21:23
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/09/03/bagley-cartoon-scales/" target=_blank><u>Scales of Injustice</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/08/30/bagley-cartoon-grifting/"><u>Grifting for God</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/08/29/bagley-ca
  
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• Antonio Brown returns to Raiders, plans to play opener

  06-09-2019 21:23
  Alameda, Calif. • Oakland Raiders coach Jon Gruden said star receiver Antonio Brown is back with the team and is expected to play the season opener after a run-in with general manager Mike Mayock had put him in jeopardy of being suspended.Gruden spoke briefly at the beginning of practice Friday and said the plan is for Brown to play Monday night at home against Denver."Antonio is back today," Gruden said. "We're really excited about that and ready to move on. He's had a lot of, obviously, t
  
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• Raymond A. Hult: Romney tells false tales about health care in Great Britain

  06-09-2019 21:00
  Sen. Mitt Romney recently criticized Democrats for pursuing a “socialist agenda” when it comes to expanding health care coverage to something approaching “Medicare for All.” He implied similar health care systems in other countries have failed. Specifically, he pointed out Great Britain. For example, he claimed, “In Britain, it takes three months to get an MRI.”Before specifically responding to Romney, it’s foolish to hope that America will in the near f
  
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• Congrats, Eric! Thank you for all your coverage of the team. Best of luck!

  06-09-2019 20:59 via twitter.com
  Congrats, Eric! Thank you for all your coverage of the team. Best of luck!
  
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• U.S. health officials report 3rd vaping death, repeat warning

  06-09-2019 20:56
  New York • U.S. health officials on Friday again urged people to stop vaping until they figure out why some are coming down with serious breathing illnesses.Officials said they had identified 450 possible cases, including at least three deaths, in 33 states. The count includes a newly reported death in Indiana.No single vaping device, liquid or ingredient has been tied to all the illnesses, officials said. Many of the sickened — but not all — were people who said they had been h
  
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• Salt Lake County seeks input on plans for three proposed dog parks amid ‘skyrocketing’ demand

  06-09-2019 20:16
  Salt Lake County is accepting feedback on the site plans for three new, five-to-10 acre dog parks it hopes will fill a “skyrocketing” demand in the area.Plans on the county’s website imagine the future dog parks at Wardle Fields Regional Park in Bluffdale, Lodestone Regional Park in Kearns and the future Magna Regional Park with dog wash and waste stations as well as features designed for pets, as well as improved amenities for humans like shade structures and drinking fountain
  
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• Utah State feeling motivated against Stony Brook after suffering close loss in season opener

  06-09-2019 20:15
  Logan • The Utah State Aggies have made something of a habit of dropping their first game of a new football season. Since 2017, all of their season openers having gone that way, and they have all been on the road.But last season, even after a close loss to Michigan State, USU used the early adversity as a springboard to 11 straight victories and a bid to the New Mexico Bowl. Just a week ago, the Aggies suffered another close loss to open 2019, this time to a Wake Forest team that eked out a
  
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• What would signal progress for the Utes against Northern Illinois? A better start, for starters.

  06-09-2019 20:06
  In his first team meeting after a season-opening win, Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham told his players to stop talking about BYU.His first words in Monday’s news conference, looking ahead to Saturday’s contest with Northern Illinois? “The rivalry game’s over.”As someone began to frame a question Tuesday about the emotional challenge that follows an early season meeting with BYU, Whittingham interrupted, “We’re on to NIU. That game’s over with.
  
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• ‘The Pied Piper of English’: Utah’s new Teacher of the Year fills her class with lamps and laughs — and the students come running

  06-09-2019 19:50
  Lauren Merkley never turns on the buzzy, bright fluorescent lights in her classroom.Instead, the English teacher walks around the desks and chairs and shelves to where she’s placed 12 different lamps — a colorful assortment she’s picked up at her local thrift store — and slowly switches them on until there’s a warm glow. It feels like a living room. And that’s what she wants.“It’s a sanctuary,” Merkley said. “It’s a place where st
  
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• One struggling team will get well when BYU meets Tennessee in Knoxville

  06-09-2019 19:45
  Tennessee and BYU are so determined to keep the focus on themselves, they’ve done everything but deny they have a game to play Saturday.This is apparently what happens when you are coming off two milestone losses, as fixing deficiencies becomes more urgent than the other guys on the field.BYU is trying to overcome its ninth straight loss to Utah while the Vols hope to replace the embarrassing lowlights of its stunning defeat to Georgia State.So what could have been a storyline of East meet
  
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• Utah Jazz hodgepodge: Trevor Booker plays HORSE with random people

  06-09-2019 19:30
  A flashback to former Utah Jazz forward and cult hero Trevor Booker taking his game to the streets of NYC. Also — Royce O’Neale is all-in on NBA 2K20. So, it’s early September and NBA training camps are still a few weeks away. Thankfully, us Utah Jazz fans have Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert and Joe […]
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• ‘Trib Talk’: A Utah man is deemed factually innocent after serving time for child sexual abuse

  06-09-2019 19:19
  In 2006, David Hawkins was convicted of sexually abusing two of his sons. His name was added to the sex offender registry, and he went on to serve more than seven years in prison for a crime he said he did not commit.Now, after his children recanted their testimonies against him and worked for six years to clear his name, the state of Utah has deemed Hawkins to be factually innocent and has expunged his record.Click to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or on SoundCloud.On this week’s episo
  
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• Bon Iver introduced his Maverik Center audience to a new album and bigger, experimental sound — then helped out a Utah charity

  06-09-2019 19:10
  A casual follower of Bon Iver’s musical career probably best knows him as a guy with a willowy voice and a guitar playing sleepy, ambient folk music — think the hit “Skinny Love.”And if that’s the frame of reference, it’s reasonable to wonder: How in the world is he going to hold an audience in a hockey arena? I was somewhat in the same boat heading into Bon Iver’s Maverik Center show Wednesday night.
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• Utah man deemed innocent and state will pay him $350K after his sons lied about being sexually abused

  06-09-2019 18:55
  David Hawkins is all too familiar with hopelessness.He spent seven years in a prison cell, convicted of crimes he knew he didn’t commit. But what did that matter? A jury deemed him a sex offender, so even when he got out, he was crushed under parole officers and sex offender registries that affected everything from where he lived to the jobs he could get.And he had long since lost his family. That was stripped of him for the past 13 years, after two of his sons told police he sexually abus
  
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• Is there an "all three" option?

  06-09-2019 18:34 via twitter.com
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• Catherine Rampell: We’re in the midst of Trump’s War on Children

  06-09-2019 18:25
  You’ve heard of the Wars on Drugs, Terror, Poverty, even Women. Well, welcome to the War on Children.It's being waged by the Trump administration and other right-wing public officials, regardless of any claimed "family values."For evidence, look no further than the report released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services' own inspector general. It details the trauma suffered by immigrant children separated from their parents under the Trump administration's evil "zero toler
  
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• U.S. added a modest 130,000 jobs in August amid trade war

  06-09-2019 17:56
  Washington • U.S. employers added a modest 130,000 jobs in August, a sign that hiring in the United States has slowed but remains durable in the face of global economic weakness and President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.The job gain was boosted by the temporary hiring of 25,000 government workers for the 2020 Census. Excluding all government hiring, the economy added just 96,000 jobs in August, the fewest since May.Still, the Labor Department reported Friday in its monthly job
  
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• Paul Krugman: Under Trump it’s springtime for grifters

  06-09-2019 17:07
  With each passing week it becomes ever clearer that President Donald Trump’s trade war, far from being “good, and easy to win,” is damaging large parts of the U.S. economy. Farmers are facing financial disaster; manufacturing, which Trump’s policies were supposed to revive, is contracting; consumer confidence is plunging, largely because the public (rightly) fears that tariffs will raise prices.But Trump has an answer to his critics: It’s not me, it’s you. Las
  
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• Utah critics oppose do-it-yourself rape evidence kits

  06-09-2019 17:01
  These new at-home sexual assault evidence kits cost money. They don’t tell victims about nearby support services that can help with trauma. And they don’t connect survivors with health care they may need, from injuries to screening for infections.The founders of the PRESERVEkit and the MeToo Kit say they do provide an option for those who don’t want to go to law enforcement or a hospital after an assault. “We believe this product has the potential to empower survivors and
  
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• Intermountain Healthcare’s new center will help more dialysis patients give themselves treatment at home

  06-09-2019 16:59
  Kearns • Raul Gutierrez chatted casually as he polished and connected a series of color-coded tubes so complex that he looked as though he could be arming a bomb.“When you do, a thousand times, one thing, you are the master,” Gutierrez said, pushing the green, kidney-shaped “go” button on his dialysis machine.But mastery, to him, is not just about operating the array of medical devices in the TV room of his Kearns home. It’s mastery over his own body, Gutierrez
  
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• George Pyle: Sorry, comrades, Ben McAdams is not a socialist

  06-09-2019 16:34
  To: All Salt Lake City Sleeper CellsFrom: Commissar PyleRe: Counter-PropagandaComrades:As the election of 2020 approaches, you must be wary of the wave of propaganda that is sure to be unleashed by the Utah bourgeoisie and their financiers.The party of greed and wealth will, through every means of communication and publication available to them, blanket society with the message that Ben McAdams, member of Congress from the 4th District of Utah, is a socialist. A fellow traveler. A Marxist. A pin
  
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• One nurse for 3,000 students? That’s the ratio in Utah schools, according to new health report.

  06-09-2019 16:17
  Some school nurses in Utah are assigned to six or seven different elementaries. Others are instructing office staff how to give insulin shots because they don’t have enough time to administer them. In one district, the only nurse there is responsible for 34 times the recommended number of students she should have under her care.The shortage is serious.“These are just not good numbers,” said BettySue Hinkson, school nurse consultant for the state. “We are nowhere near wher
  
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• Ogden police investigate after body found in a storage unit

  06-09-2019 16:13
  A body was found Thursday inside a storage unit in Ogden, and police say the “circumstances surrounding the discovery are suspicious."The remains were found in a unit at Stock-n-Lock Self Storage at 2868 Grant Ave. According to police, workers hired to clean out the unit smelled something bad and discovered the body — which, according to police, was too badly decomposed to determine the cause of death or if it was a man or a woman.The investigation is ongoing. An autopsy is scheduled
  
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• Yoram Bauman: After RomneyCare, it’s time for RomneyAir

  06-09-2019 16:00
  Dear Mitt Romney:Last month at the Sutherland Institute you called yourself a renegade Republican, which underscores just how unlikely it is that you will have another chance to lead our party, or our country.You nonetheless have an opportunity to demonstrate forward progress on two of America’s most important and most intractable challenges — health care and climate change — and in doing so you can create a political legacy that will reverberate through this century and beyond
  
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• Utah’s newest fine-dining restaurant is called Yuta

  06-09-2019 15:39
  Hey, Utah, have you been to Yuta?It’s a new fine-dining restaurant — pronounced just like the state’s name — that opened about 20 miles east of Park City.It has an award-winning chef, an organic farm and is located inside of The Lodge at Blue Sky — a new luxury resort in Wanship. Utah diners might be familiar with the place. It’s on the 3,500-acres Blue Sky Ranch, which has been home to High West Distillery and restaurant since 2014. The new restaurant’s
  
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• Salt Lake City air pollution effort focused on big buildings off to a slow start

  06-09-2019 15:38
  Salt Lake City has put new rules in place requiring owners of large commercial buildings to report their energy use.Passed with little fanfare in 2017, the new reporting requirements are being phased in as part of a larger city effort to lower emissions from buildings, which officials say account for nearly 40% of the air pollution hanging over the Salt Lake Valley during its winter inversions.Mayor Jackie Biskupski on Thursday praised building managers with Unico Properties, City Creek Reserve
  
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• Utah chef to compete on episode of ‘Guy’s Grocery Games’ on the Food Network

  06-09-2019 15:31
  Utah chef Jen Gilroy will compete for shopping supremacy and $20,000 on an upcoming episode of “Guy’s Grocery Games."This is the first time that Gilroy — who owns and operates Meditrina, in Salt Lake City’s Central 9th neighborhood, and Porch, in South Jordan’s Daybreak development — has been on a Food Network culinary competition.“A couple of years ago, I got a phone call from one of the producers asking me to apply,” she said. “They didn&rs
  
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• Feds to sell oil and gas leases in San Juan County cultural areas, ignoring pleas from tribal officials and others

  06-09-2019 15:28
  For the third time since last year, the Bureau of Land Management is auctioning oil and gas leases on archaeologically rich canyons and mesas in San Juan County, but this time in the face of opposition from local elected and business leaders, tribal officials, the National Park Service and the federal government’s own Advisory Council on Historic Preservation — all saying the BLM has not adequately reviewed the potential for future energy development to tear the region’s histor
  
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• Robert Kirby: Revisiting the bad old days of law enforcement in rural Utah

  06-09-2019 15:25
  I drove past Beaver the other day. I always look toward the old highway that entered the town from the north before the freeway came through.On a Sunday evening in April 1968, Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Joe Benson noticed four “hippies” loitering on the highway that passed through Beaver. He pulled over to investigate. When the hippies claimed to be just passing through, he let them go.A few minutes later, Beaver City Marshal Gerald Nowers was called to a service station to check ou
  
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• Utah officials want to let minority defendants raise issues of race and bias at their sentencing

  06-09-2019 15:21
  A sweeping criminal justice reform passed by Utah legislators in 2015 was intended to reduce a bloated prison population and emphasize rehabilitation.Since it went into effect, it has helped some offenders — mostly white people.State data shows that since the reforms, the percentage of racial minorities among new prisoners is on the rise. In the year before the reform, 34% of new prisoners were ethnic minorities. Three years later, that jumped to just over 43%.It dipped down slightly last
  
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