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• [Oregon Live] - Portland Trail Blazers vs. Los Angeles Lakers: Game preview, TV channel, how to watch live stream online - oregonlive.com

  05-12-2019 23:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Blazers play LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the Lakers for the first time this season.
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Jaywalking, the Utah Theater, a Pac-12 championship and more

  05-12-2019 23:29
  
  Data on jaywalking citations in Salt Lake City shows an apparent targeting of the city’s homeless population. The historic Utah Theater is ‘sold’ and slated for demolition. And the University of Utah football team heads to the PAC-12 championship and beyond.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune senior managing editor Matt Canham, and reporters Kurt Kragthorpe, Tony Semerad, and Taylor Stevens join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Every F
  
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• Logan becomes third Utah city to adopt single-use plastic bag ban

  05-12-2019 23:19
  
  After they “wrestled and stewed and strategized” over the last few months, members of the Logan City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday to approve a ban on single-use plastic bags — becoming the third municipality in the state to do so.The prohibition, spearheaded by Councilman Herm Olsen, will take effect on Earth Day next April as part of an effort to “protect the environment, public health and the economy” by diminishing waste, litter and impacts on recycling equipment, w
  
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• BYU’s NCAA tourney has added meaning for senior McKenna Miller, who had to sit out the Cougars’ last postseason run

  05-12-2019 23:18
  
  Provo • When BYU begins its postseason on Friday, it also marks the start of McKenna Miller’s last run as a Cougar. And this NCAA Tournament has added meaning.Miller suffered a season-ending ACL injury three weeks before the Cougars started the opened NCAA play last year. For the outside hitter, it was excruciating.But she also almost immediately began focusing on her her recovery so she could come back even stronger for her senior season. And it has worked.Miller, who was recently na
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz are currently unrecognizable. What’s gone wrong? And how do they fix it?

  05-12-2019 23:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  Thirty minutes after the Jazz lost for the fifth time in six games, in a third consecutive blowout, Donovan Mitchell sat in front of his locker, staring straight ahead.
  
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• The Jazz are currently unrecognizable. What’s gone wrong? And how do they fix it?

  05-12-2019 23:03
  
  Thirty minutes after the Jazz lost for the fifth time in six games, in a third consecutive blowout, Donovan Mitchell sat in front of his locker, staring straight ahead.Veteran Jeff Green, in a nearby locker, tried to talk him through the frustration.“We’re low, to be honest with you. I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. We’re not where we want to be,” Green said afterwards. “The last six games, we kind of took a couple steps back from the progress that we had going int
  
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• [USA Today] - LeBron James responds to Jazz announcers' rant about his sideline celebration

  05-12-2019 22:45 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron James was seen celebrating on the sideline with his shoes off on Wednesday night against the Jazz, and Utah's announcers did not like it.
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Dunks of the Week - 12.5.19

  05-12-2019 22:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  Dunks of the Week presented by Wasatch Front Ford Dealers
  
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• Will a weekend storm be enough to break up the inversion?

  05-12-2019 21:59
  
  Thursday morning’s rainstorm improved the air quality in some parts of Utah a bit, but the effects won’t last. The National Weather Services warns of “degraded air quality and reduced visibility through at least the remainder of the week.”And, while there's hope that a weekend snowstorm could break up the inversion, that's not a sure thing.
  (Courtesy of the National Weather Service) A rainstorm made driving tricky on Thursday morning.Rain made roads in the Salt Lake area
  
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• Experts split sharply over experimental Alzheimer’s drug

  05-12-2019 21:49
  
  SAN DIEGO • A company that claims to have the first drug to slow mental decline from Alzheimer’s disease made its case to scientists Thursday but left them sharply divided over whether there’s enough evidence of effectiveness for the medicine to warrant federal approval.Excitement and skepticism have surrounded aducanumab since its developers stopped two studies earlier this year because it didn't seem to be working, then did a stunning about-face in October and said new results
  
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• [USA Today] - LeBron James responds to Jazz announcers' 'disrespect' rant for sidelines celebration

  05-12-2019 21:44 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron James responds to criticism made by the Jazz announcers when he was seen celebrating for his teammates on the sidelines with his shoes off.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Eternal and Unchanging

  05-12-2019 21:36
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/12/05/bagley-cartoon-port-storm/" target=_blank><u>A Port in the Storm</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/12/03/bagley-cartoon-peanuts/"><u>The Peanuts Character You’ve Never Heard Of</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/
  
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• [Uproxx] - LeBron James Responds To The Jazz Announcers Accusations Of Him Being ‘Disrespectful’

  05-12-2019 21:33 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron James was called disrespectful by the Jazz broadcast for having his shoes off and he responded to those comments on his Instagram.
  
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• [Uproxx: Dime Magazine] - LeBron James Responds To The Jazz Announcers Accusations Of Him Being ‘Disrespectful’

  05-12-2019 21:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron James was called disrespectful by the Jazz broadcast for having his shoes off and he responded to those comments on his Instagram.
  
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• Red All Over: Utah-Oregon football games have been unpredictable. What will happen Friday?

  05-12-2019 21:11
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here.In advance of Friday's Pac-12 football championship game, nobody should want a Utah-Oregon prediction from me.I’ve been dead wrong about the teams’ last four meetings, although I have good excuses. Practically nobody could have seen Utah’s 62-20 win coming in 2015, the Utes were heavy favorites in 2016, Oregon was missing quarterback Justin Herbert in 2017 and Utah was missing quarterback
  
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• Eye on the Y: Cougars start to gear up for the Hawaii Bowl

  05-12-2019 20:56
  
  Eye on the Y is a weekly newsletter covering BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Provo • After taking a few days off following their disappointing 13-3 regular season finale, the Cougars had their first of 15 team practices this week in preparation of the upcoming Hawaii Bowl game Dec. 24.BYU has yet to learn its opponent, but should get all those details Sunday.Kalani Sitake did provide some tidbits of info about the team. BYU backup quarterbacks Jaren Hall and Baylor Romney weren’t availa
  
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• [The Score] - LeBron defends shoeless celebration after Jazz commentator's criticism

  05-12-2019 20:40 via sportspyder.com
  
  While LeBron James was embarrassed by his egregious, uncalled travel, he has no regrets about his behavior in the closing stages of the Los Angeles Lakers' 121-96 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night.One of the Jazz's television announcers said...
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jazz Bring Road Struggles Home in Loss to Lakers, 121-96

  05-12-2019 20:28 via sportspyder.com
  
  Unfortunately, the Jazz didnt play much better on their arrival home than they had during the past two weeks on the road. He joined the SCH staff ahead of the 2019-20 Jazz season.
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - LeBron claps back at Jazz announcers on Instagram - Sports Illustrated

  05-12-2019 20:16 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah announce team took issue with James' behavior late in Tuesday's game
  
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• Utes wanted another shot at a Pac-12 football title, and they got it. What will do they with it?

  05-12-2019 20:04
  
  Oregon helped make all of this possible for Utah. If not for the Ducks’ victory over USC in early November, the Utes’ own remarkable season wouldn’t have taken them into another Pac-12 football championship game.Just to remind the No. 5 Utes (11-1) of the favor that gave them another Pac-12 South title, No. 13 Oregon (10-2) will appear as their opponent Friday night at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., the last checkpoint in Utah’s path to a College Football Pl
  
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• Ute volleyball team meets Illinois in an NCAA match at BYU

  05-12-2019 20:03
  
  The Utah women’s volleyball team’s best conference season in the program’s Pac-12 era could have been even better. The Utes finished third with a 14-6 record, and five of those losses came in five-set matches.One or two more wins may have been enough to give Utah a host’s berth in the NCAA Tournament, instead of playing in Provo with a likely second-round contest vs. BYU. That’s why coach Beth Launiere and her players experienced “a lot of emotions” Sund
  
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• Utah Democrats pitch alternate tax reform: progressive income tax and business receipts levy

  05-12-2019 19:58
  
  Wealthy Utahns would pay a higher income tax rate and the state’s sales tax would be replaced with a tax on businesses’ gross receipts under a tax plan released Thursday by members of the House Democratic Caucus.The proposal is unlikely to gain traction in Utah’s Republican-dominated Legislature, but is intended as an alternative to controversial reforms backed by legislative leaders and currently under consideration by a legislative task force.“Under this progressive tax
  
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• Church-state lawyer Melissa Rogers envisions a better way forward for faith in the public square

  05-12-2019 19:55
  
  Cambridge, Mass. • Melissa Rogers knows the laws governing the relationship between the U.S. government and religion are far from perfect.But she’s fond of a certain quote by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: “Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?”Prompted by what Rogers sees as a ne
  
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• Commentary: Will the world end with a bang, a whimper — or Christ?

  05-12-2019 19:36
  
  St. Ignatius of Loyola in his “Spiritual Exercises” asks his readers — traditionally those on retreat — to imagine themselves on their deathbeds. He hopes this meditation will help the retreatants to look at their lives and see what is really important and what is not, to see what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong.The emotions we experience while thinking about our death tell us a lot about who we are and how much we trust God. Do we face death with hope
  
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• [CBS Sports] - LeBron James responds to Jazz announcers who called him disrespectful for shoeless celebration - CBSSports.com

  05-12-2019 19:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron did give away his shoes for a good reason, though
  
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• Wyoming’s Catholic bishop attacks plan for new Evanston jail to hold Utah immigration detainees

  05-12-2019 19:29
  
  Wyoming’s Catholic bishop says a proposed detention center in Evanston, Wyo., to hold people awaiting immigration court appearances 83 miles away in West Valley City, Utah, would expand a system that is “inhumane and destructive to families.”Bishop Steven Biegler of the Diocese of Cheyenne, which encompasses the entire state, posted an online letter attacking the jail, and had it read to the Uinta County Commission before it voted to endorse the proposed facility because it wou
  
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• ‘Battle-tested’ Ute volleyball team meets Illinois in an NCAA match at BYU

  05-12-2019 19:25
  
  The Utah women’s volleyball team’s best conference season in the program’s Pac-12 era could have been even better. The Utes finished third with a 14-6 record, and five of those losses came in five-set matches.One or two more wins may have been enough to give Utah a host’s berth in the NCAA Tournament, instead of playing in Provo with a likely second-round contest vs. BYU. That’s why coach Beth Launiere and her players experienced “a lot of emotions” Sund
  
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• [The Spun] - LeBron James Fires Back At Utah Jazz Broadcast Comments

  05-12-2019 19:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron James has fired back at the broadcast team for the Utah Jazz for calling him disrespectful during yesterday's game.
  
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• [Fox Sports] - LeBron James' Lakers might just be unstoppable

  05-12-2019 19:06 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron James and Anthony Davis’ Lake Show has lived up to every possible expectation. What does it take to combat this juggernaut?
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - LeBron James fires back at Jazz announcers who criticized him for taking shoes off

  05-12-2019 19:02 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Los Angeles Lakers cruised to such a comfortable victory on Wednesday night that LeBron James was able to remove his shoes and enjoy the end of the game, and the TV broadcast team for the Utah Jazz thought the gesture was classless. Not...
  
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• Gordon Monson: These Utes knew they had something special in August. Their goal now? Best Utah team. Ever.

  05-12-2019 18:56
  
  Santa Clara, Calif. • As the Utes left the field after their last win, having clinched a second-straight Pac-12 South title and qualified for the league championship game against Oregon, one of them yelled to himself, to his teammates, to anyone within shouting distance, to the world, “Ain’t nothing new here. No, no, no. Ain’t nothing new. Nothing new. No.”On account of the fact that Utah suffered a loss back in September, and has been so good for so long since, the
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Yes to suffrage, no to ERA, and a measles outbreak disrupts church services

  05-12-2019 18:53
  
  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 free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Saluting sister suffragists
  (Rick Egan|The Salt Lake Tribune) "Sisters for Suffrage: How Utah Women Won the Vote" exhibit at the Church History Museum, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019.(Rick Egan/)A new exhibit at the Church His
  
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• [USA Today: For The Win] - LeBron James responds to Jazz commentators who criticized him

  05-12-2019 18:47 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron James isn’t wasting his energy worrying about what the Jazz commentary crew thinks.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - LeBron James responds to Jazz broadcasters criticizing him for being shoeless on the court late in 4th quarter of Lakers win

  05-12-2019 18:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron James barked back after a video clip of him rooting on his Los Angeles Lakers while shoeless in the fourth quarter went viral, as Utah Jazz broadcasters fumed about it. “Look at LeBron, he’s on the court,” said play-by-play commentator Craig...
  
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• Students at Westminster College upset over 8.5% tuition hike

  05-12-2019 18:25
  
  With a combination of scholarship money from running on the track team, a student loan, some financial aid and the bit of cash he earns from working 30 hours a week at his part-time job, Nate Martin has been able to — though just barely — cover his tuition and expenses at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.Though he knew it would be expensive, the freshman athlete was recruited to run and excited to study business at the private school. But last month, the college announced a mass
  
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• House will draft Trump impeachment articles, Nancy Pelosi says

  05-12-2019 17:21
  
  Washington • The U.S. House is pressing forward to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday.''Our democracy is what is at stake," Pelosi said somberly. "The president leaves us no choice but to act."Pelosi delivered the historic announcement as Democrats push toward a vote, possibly before Christmas. In solemn tones, drawing on the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, Pelosi stood at the speaker's office at the Capitol and said
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Jazz announcers call LeBron James disrespectful for celebrating on court with no shoes - CBSSports.com

  05-12-2019 17:04 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron did give away his shoes for a good reason, though
  
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• Judy Magid, Tribune reporter who chronicled Utah’s famous and her family life, dies at 81

  05-12-2019 16:35
  
  Judy Magid, who wrote about Utah’s high society and her own family’s foibles in her 31 years at The Salt Lake Tribune, died Thursday at the age of 81.Magid started at The Tribune in 1976, writing for what was then called the Lifestyle section. One of her earliest bylines, on Dec. 24, 1976, was about the growing popularity of squash and racquetball. That was followed days later by a story about a man who played a musical saw, and an observational story about carpooling to take kids to
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - LeBron James gives game shoes to young Jazz fans

  05-12-2019 16:00 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron James had time to give a pair of his Nike LeBron 17s away to a couple of young Utah Jazz fans clamoring for them, swiftly signing them and giving them to the kids who made the trip down to courtside to ask for them. LeBron gave his game shoes...
  
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• Weber County Sheriff’s Office completes investigation into potential electioneering by San Juan County clerk

  05-12-2019 15:28
  
  An investigation into potential electioneering by San Juan County Clerk John David Nielson has been completed by the Weber County Sheriff’s Office and the report is heading back to the San Juan County Attorney for review.The investigation was initiated in October after poll monitors with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah discovered copies of an opinion piece published in the San Juan Record newspaper supporting Proposition 10 were being distributed at early voting locations on the
  
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• [Sporting News] - LeBron James explains what he was doing during ridiculous travel that wasn't called

  05-12-2019 15:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  LeBron James knows he got away with a travel, and says he feels bad that some referee is going to get written up for missing it.
  
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• Pelosi OKs drafting of impeachment articles against Trump

  05-12-2019 15:20
  
  Washington • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that the House is moving forward to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.‘’Our democracy is what is at stake," Pelosi said. “The president leaves us no choice but to act.”Pelosi delivered the historic announcement as Democrats push toward a vote, possibly by Christmas.Trump tweeted that if Democrats “are going to impeach me, do it now, fast." He said he wants to get on to a &ldqu
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Who won the Kyle Korver trade a year ago?

  05-12-2019 15:16 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz traded for Kyle Korver about a year ago to aide their playoff run of 2019. Looking back, how did this trade turn out for both teams? The Utah...
  
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• Pelosi delivers statement on Trump impeachment status

  05-12-2019 15:10
  
  Washington • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she would deliver an unusual public statement on the status of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.Pelosi is scheduled to make the morning announcement from the speaker's offices at the Capitol, the same location where she declared the formal launch of the House investigation into Trump's actions toward Ukraine.Trump tweeted that if Democrats “are going to impeach me, do it now, fast." He said he wants to
  
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• 13 Utah peace officers disciplined for lying, drunken driving, assault and more

  05-12-2019 15:01
  
  Sandy • Jared Palmer credits his job as a jailer at the Grand County Sheriff’s Office to the years he spent abusing opioids.“From my addiction,” Palmer said, “that’s what drove me into law enforcement, especially corrections, because I’d been down that road.”But Palmer didn’t disclose that addiction when he applied to work in law enforcement in 2013 and, for that, Palmer on Wednesday had his peace officer certification suspended for two years.
  
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• Tracy Stone-Manning: The administration’s relentless assault on America’s public lands

  05-12-2019 15:00
  
  This week marks the two year anniversary of the Trump administration’s decision to decimate two national monuments located in Utah.With the stroke of a pen, the president removed protections on 85% of the Bears Ears National Monument and 50% of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The president’s action was the single largest reduction of protected public lands in the history of the United States.It put more than 2 million acres of land at risk for oil, gas and uranium de
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Robocalls unite a divided Washington

  05-12-2019 15:00
  
  Finally, something almost everyone in Washington can get behind: ending Robocalls. With a 417-3 House vote Wednesday, Congress is poised to adopt legislation aimed at decreasing the number of unwanted phone calls Americans receive each month. Lawmakers hope the Senate can send the measure to President Donald Trump by Christmas. [Politico]Happy Thursday!Topping the news: The Richmond City Council in California’s Bay Area has pushed back its vote on a proposed ban that would choke off a key
  
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• Danzig and O’Keefe: Trump does not share the military’s values

  05-12-2019 15:00
  
  “Get back to business!” With this tweet, President Trump directed his secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer, to stop the naval officers charged with oversight of the SEALs from disciplining one of their own. That order was confirmed the next Monday by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and over the following weekend, Mr. Spencer was fired.There are three problems with Mr. Trump’s action. The first is that it is very much the Navy’s business — and every military’s
  
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• Measles outbreak leads to shutdown of public services in Samoa

  05-12-2019 14:59
  
  The government of Samoa is shutting down all public services for two days to fight a measles outbreak that has killed more than 55 people and infected thousands of others in the South Pacific island nation over the past two months.Nearly 3,900 cases of measles have been reported in the country, whose population is just 200,000. Schools have been shuttered since the government declared the outbreak a national emergency last month.The shutdown, which will take place Thursday and Friday, comes amid
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My friend keeps buying spendy gifts, even when we tell her not to

  05-12-2019 14:59
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • One of my friends goes crazy with gift-giving during the holiday season. She spends a lot of money and gives a lot of “stuff” to all of her friends. I heard she does it at work, too. I love to honor the season and my friendships, as well, but I do not want to spend the kind of money this friend spends or buy people something they may not need or want.When one of our friends suggested that we make a contribution to a mutually agreed upon charity, she said great
  
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