• Letter: Tell the whole story of Westminster

    Letter: Tell the whole story of Westminster
    Westminster College is an important contributor to our community and a respected educational institution. Your coverage of their tuition hike (“Students at Westminster upset over tuition hike,” Dec. 5) could do more to highlight the college’s aid to its students.Compared to other private colleges, Westminster’s students enjoy low tuition and excellent training. The real story here is Westminster’s commitment to affordable education for a diverse group of youngsters.
  • Tribune Editorial: Utah tax ‘reform’ package should be rejected

    Tribune Editorial: Utah tax ‘reform’ package should be rejected
    After the creation of a task force that didn’t understand its task, a listening tour where no one listened and the drafting of a tax reform package that doesn’t meet any reasonable definition of reform, the Utah Legislature has been called into an unwise special session Thursday to consider a measure that almost no one who isn’t a lawmaker supports.No one, apparently, but Gov. Gary Herbert, who apparently wants to begin the last year of his long public service by signing a bill
  • Fed leaves low rates alone and foresees no moves in 2020

    Fed leaves low rates alone and foresees no moves in 2020
    Washington • The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate alone Wednesday and signaled that it expects to keep low rates unchanged through next year.The Fed's decision follows three rate cuts earlier this year and reflects its view that the U.S. economy has so far withstood the U.S.-China trade war and a global slump and remains generally healthy. Its benchmark rate —which influences many consumer and business loans — will remain in a low range of 1.5% to 1.75%.In a sign
  • Bagley Cartoon: Hearing Test

    Bagley Cartoon: Hearing Test
    This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/12/10/bagley-cartoon-tax-reform/" target=_blank><u>Tax Reform</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/12/06/bagley-cartoon-trump/"><u>The Trump Throne</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/12/05/bagley-cartoon-
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  • The new South Salt Lake homeless shelter has empty beds, but is too far away for some

    The new South Salt Lake homeless shelter has empty beds, but is too far away for some
    Despite ongoing concerns about space constraints within the three new homeless resource centers, officials say there are a handful of beds each night available at the 300-bed men’s shelter in South Salt Lake to take people off the streets and out of the cold.The problem is persuading people who need a place to sleep to use them, says Patrice Dickson, chief operating officer of social services for Utah Community Action, which is responsible for intake at the new resource centers.“Ther
  • Letter: Let them eat cake?

    Letter: Let them eat cake?
    Seth Jarvis states it well in his Dec. 11 letter to The Public Forum. Utah never had a budget surplus, but instead a shortfall of funding for much-needed services to Utah’s most vulnerable citizens.What about funding for Medicaid expansion that Utah legislators have continued to reject even though Proposition 3 was voted on and passed in the 2018 election? What is currently being proposed is not a tax cut for the underserved but instead a tax increase for those who can least afford it.Woul
  • Nebraska man arrested for killing Utah woman in 1982, when he was 17

    Nebraska man arrested for killing Utah woman in 1982, when he was 17
    A Nebraska man has been arrested in connection with a homicide 37 years ago in Salt Lake City.Bryan Harry Reed, now 55, confessed he killed 72-year-old Wilhelmina Reid, whose body was found Aug. 18, 1982, in her Salt Lake apartment, according to the Salt Lake City Police Department.“These are cases that we want to get solved," said SLCPD Chief Mike Brown in a news release. “Cold cases are just as important to our detectives as are current cases and we are constantly reviewing them. I
  • Rich Lowry: An election too important to be left to the voters

    Rich Lowry: An election too important to be left to the voters
    The Democrats believe that the 2020 election is too important to be left to the voters.It's obvious that President Donald Trump withheld defense aid to Ukraine to pressure its president to commit to the investigations that he wanted, an improper use of his power that should rightly be the focus of congressional investigation and hearings.Where the Democrats have gotten tangled up is trying to find a justification that supports the enormous weight of impeaching and removing a president for the fi
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  • Letter: Democrats are making a critical mistake

    Letter: Democrats are making a critical mistake
    Two critical arguments are not being made in the impeachment hearings. Republicans assert that President Trump is genuinely concerned about corruption in Ukraine. What nonsense! Donald Trump is perhaps the most corrupt individual ever to hold public office in the U.S. His entire career has been a case study in corruption and deceit.Secondly, withholding military support from Ukraine benefitted only two parties: Trump and Vladimir Putin.And here is where the Democratic Party is making a critical
  • There are empty beds at Utah’s newest homeless shelter, but some men don’t want to go to South Salt Lake

    There are empty beds at Utah’s newest homeless shelter, but some men don’t want to go to South Salt Lake
    Despite ongoing concerns about space constraints within the three new homeless resource centers, officials say there are a handful of beds each night available at the 300-bed men’s shelter in South Salt Lake to take people off the streets and out of the cold.The problem is persuading people who need a place to sleep to use them, says Patrice Dickson, chief operating officer of social services for Utah Community Action, which is responsible for intake at the new resource centers.“Ther
  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run newsletter: Joe Ingles preaches patience, saying, ‘I have no doubt that we’ll pull it all together’

    [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run newsletter: Joe Ingles preaches patience, saying, ‘I have no doubt that we’ll pull it all together’
    Joe Ingles clearly didn’t want to speak to the media after the Jazz were boatraced by the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. But he did. He eschewed the new practice of coming over to stand in front of a Jazz-themed backdrop set up in the locker...
  • [Uproxx: Dime Magazine] - What’s Wrong With The Utah Jazz?

    [Uproxx: Dime Magazine] - What’s Wrong With The Utah Jazz?
    The defense has slipped a bit, which was expected, but an offense that was supposed to improve has somehow taken a step back too.
  • [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Once seen as a strawman, the Utah Jazz now are Tin Men with no heart

    [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Once seen as a strawman, the Utah Jazz now are Tin Men with no heart
    There’s no All-Powerful Oz to give the Jazz what they lack. They must find it within themselves.
  • Arizona State running back Eno Benjamin declares for NFL draft

    Arizona State running back Eno Benjamin declares for NFL draft
    Tempe, Ariz. • Arizona State junior running back Eno Benjamin declared Wednesday for the 2020 NFL draft. Benjamin announced his decision on Instagram.Benjamin is top 10 on Arizona State's career list in rushing yards, touchdowns, attempts and 100-yard games. He also set the school single-game record with 312 yards rushing against Oregon State in 2018."I've worked my entire life for this and today it has finally paid off," he said. "I've dedicated countless hours to my education and sacrific
  • Weekly Run newsletter: Joe Ingles preaches patience, saying, ‘I have no doubt that we’ll pull it all together’

    Weekly Run newsletter: Joe Ingles preaches patience, saying, ‘I have no doubt that we’ll pull it all together’
    Joe Ingles clearly didn’t want to speak to the media after the Jazz were boatraced by the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. But he did. He eschewed the new practice of coming over to stand in front of a Jazz-themed backdrop set up in the locker room postgame and instead instructed the few remaining media members lingering at that point to come talk to him at his locker.And, as usual, once he got past his schtick of aggrieved annoyance at having to do a postmortem on what had just occu
  • UNLV tabs Oregon offensive coordinator Marcus Arroyo as next coach

    UNLV tabs Oregon offensive coordinator Marcus Arroyo as next coach
    Las Vegas • UNLV has hired Oregon offensive coordinator Marcus Arroyo as its next head football coach. Athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois announced Wednesday that Arroyo will succeed Tony Sanchez, who was fired Nov. 25 after going 19-40 in five seasons.The 39-year-old Arroyo led an Oregon offense that was 15th nationally in scoring this season and he helped the Ducks land the Pac-12's top-ranked recruiting class the past two seasons.UNLV is looking to raise the profile of its football
  • National Film Registry announces diverse Class of 2019

    National Film Registry announces diverse Class of 2019
    Washington • More films directed or co-directed by women than ever before have been added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.Among the 25 selected are Patricia Cardoso's 2002 "Real Women Have Curves," Gunvor Nelson's 1969 "My Name is Oona" and the 1971 "A New Leaf," which Elaine May wrote, directed and starred in. Also included are the 1984 documentary "Before Stonewall," co-directed by Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg, and Madeline Anderson's 1970 "I Am Somebody,"
  • ‘Mormon Land’: Are recent changes taking Latter-day Saints away from their communitarian roots?

    ‘Mormon Land’: Are recent changes taking Latter-day Saints away from their communitarian roots?
    From its earliest days, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has emphasized community. But the global faith of 16.3 million members may be shifting somewhat from that collective approach.Sunday services have been trimmed from three hours to two with a new emphasis on home-centered, church-supported gospel study. Scouting is on the way out, replaced by a more individualized program for young children and teens.By most accounts, members are excited about and eager for the new direction,
  • Jersey city shooting suspect linked to black Hebrew Israelite group

    Jersey city shooting suspect linked to black Hebrew Israelite group
    An assailant involved in a prolonged firefight in Jersey City, New Jersey, that left six people dead, including one police officer, had published anti-Semitic and anti-police posts online and investigators believe the attack was motivated by those sentiments, a law enforcement official familiar with the case said Wednesday.The official said the names of the two suspects were David Anderson and Francine Graham. Anderson appeared to have a connection to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, which i
  • There’s empty beds at Utah’s new homeless shelters, but some men don’t want to go to South Salt Lake

    There’s empty beds at Utah’s new homeless shelters, but some men don’t want to go to South Salt Lake
    Despite ongoing concerns about space constraints within the three new homeless resource centers, officials say there are a handful of beds each night available at the 300-bed men’s shelter in South Salt Lake to take people off the streets and out of the cold.The problem is persuading people who need a place to sleep to use them, says Patrice Dickson, chief operating officer of social services for Utah Community Action, which is responsible for intake at the new resource centers.“Ther
  • Utah gymnastics ranked No. 5 in preseason poll

    Utah gymnastics ranked No. 5 in preseason poll
    Utah gymnastics coach Tom Farden has earned a good reputation amongst his peers in recent seasons. Now, his fellow coaches are showing him just how much respect they have for his coaching talents by voting the Utes fifth in the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association preseason poll.This is the third year in a row the Utes have been ranked fifth in the preseason poll, but it is the first season in the program’s history that there isn’t a Marsden on the coaching staff, since Me
  • Frank Bruni: The perverse servility of Bill Barr

    Frank Bruni: The perverse servility of Bill Barr
    Donald Trump famously said that he could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not “lose any voters.” I don’t know about that. But I’m confident that he wouldn’t lose Bill Barr.Execution privilege, Barr would probably call it. He’d release a statement or hold a news conference to say that Trump had a spastic trigger finger or was triggered by Adam Schiff or was set up by those dastardly Ukrainians, who are never up to any good. Such is the magnitude
  • Winter storm is coming to northern Utah Thursday through Saturday, and it should clear out the inversion

    Winter storm is coming to northern Utah Thursday through Saturday, and it should clear out the inversion
    A major winter storm will arrive in northern Utah on Thursday and continue into Saturday, but the good news is that it’s expected to improve air quality.According to the National Weather Service, a “weakening weather disturbance” will reach the area on Wednesday, with light precipitation in far northern Utah. The storm is not expected to “entirely clear out the urban haze as it passes through.”PM 2.5 pollution — fine particulates — rose to yellow (or mod
  • Utes ranked No. 5 in preseason gymnastics poll

    Utes ranked No. 5 in preseason gymnastics poll
    Utah gymnastics coach Tom Farden has earned a good reputation amongst his peers in recent seasons. Now, his fellow coaches are showing him just how much respect they have for his coaching talents by voting the Utes fifth in the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association preseason poll.This is the third year in a row the Utes have been ranked fifth in the preseason poll, but it is the first season in the program’s history that there isn’t a Marsden on the coaching staff, since Me
  • Utah Sen. Mitt Romney objects to big fee increase for federal genealogy records

    Utah Sen. Mitt Romney objects to big fee increase for federal genealogy records
    Sen. Mitt Romney is asking the Department of Homeland Security to explain proposed changes that would significantly increase the cost of searching and requesting copies of federal genealogical records.In a letter dated Tuesday to Chad Wolf, the acting Homeland Security secretary, and Kenneth Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Romney asks for additional information on the budgets and expenses of the USCIS’s Genealogy Program and questions the ratio
  • Facebook’s massive Utah data center will be even bigger than originally planned

    Facebook’s massive Utah data center will be even bigger than originally planned
    Facebook’s massive Eagle Mountain Data Center hasn’t opened, but the company has already announced plans to expand it by 50%. On Wednesday, the social media giant said it’s adding more than 500,000 square feet to the project.The original plan called for an H-shaped, 970,000-square-foot building. With the addition of a second building, the project will now encompass almost 1.5 million square feet.“We anticipate with this expansion, this data center will represent an invest
  • Interior official broke ethics rules, government watchdog concludes

    Interior official broke ethics rules, government watchdog concludes
    Washington • A top Interior Department official broke a federal ethics rule by improperly meeting with his former employer, a conservative research organization, to discuss the rollback of endangered species protections that the group had been pushing, the department’s internal watchdog said in a report published Tuesday.The watchdog, the Interior Department’s inspector general, concluded that the official, Douglas W. Domenech, an assistant secretary for the office with stewards
  • Temporary bridge to carry Interstate 80 traffic over tracks

    Temporary bridge to carry Interstate 80 traffic over tracks
    The Utah Department of Transportation is installing a new temporary bridge to carry Interstate 80 traffic over Union Pacific railroad tracks in western Salt Lake County during a construction project.The temporary bridge that crews are assembling alongside eastbound I-80 at the junction with State Route 201 will be used during demolition and reconstructions of the existing bridges, the state Department of Transportation said.The department said it’s using a construction method called &ldquo
  • [CBS Sports] - Jazz vs. Timberwolves odds, spread: 2019 NBA picks, Dec. 11 predictions from advanced computer - CBSSports.com

    [CBS Sports] - Jazz vs. Timberwolves odds, spread: 2019 NBA picks, Dec. 11 predictions from advanced computer - CBSSports.com
    The SportsLine projection model has a pick for the clash between the Jazz and Timberwolves. Here are the results:
  • Winter storm is coming Thursday through Saturday, and it should clear out the inversion

    Winter storm is coming Thursday through Saturday, and it should clear out the inversion
    A major winter storm will arrive in northern Utah on Thursday and continue into Saturday, but the good news is that it’s expected to improve air quality.According to the National Weather Service, a “weakening weather disturbance” will reach the area on Wednesday, with light precipitation in far northern Utah. The storm is not expected to “entirely clear out the urban haze as it passes through.”PM 2.5 pollution — fine particulates — rose to yellow (or mod
  • Why Utah quarterback Tyler Huntley couldn’t crack the Heisman Trophy finalists

    Why Utah quarterback Tyler Huntley couldn’t crack the Heisman Trophy finalists
    The approximately 900 media members with Heisman Trophy votes were sent their ballots on Dec. 2.At the time, Utah senior quarterback Tyler Huntley was completing 75.5 percent of his passes, had 16 touchdowns against just two interceptions, and had a firm case as the best quarterback in the Pac-12, not to mention one of the best in the country.By the time votes were due on Sunday, Utah had lost to Oregon in the Pac-12 championship game. Huntley emerged from the 37-15 loss with a still-gaudy compl
  • How a Utah family is trying to heal after a murder-suicide

    How a Utah family is trying to heal after a murder-suicide
    In a New Mexico impound lot, Shelbie Madsen picked up the last pieces of two lives that never seemed to stop shattering.Her mother’s belongings — or what was left after three years of moving between friends’ and relatives’ homes — needed to be moved out of her dad’s truck and taken back to Utah. The truck would have to stay in New Mexico. Shelbie didn’t have the legal documents to show she had been Steve and Deanna Madsen’s daughter.It’s just
  • [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Stoppable Force to meet Movable Object in Minnesota as Jazz take on TWolves

    [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Stoppable Force to meet Movable Object in Minnesota as Jazz take on TWolves
    Will the slumping Wolves cure what ails the slumping Jazz?
  • BYU study links shrinking Great Salt Lake, other vanishing water bodies to 90% of northern Utah’s dust

    BYU study links shrinking Great Salt Lake, other vanishing water bodies to 90% of northern Utah’s dust
    Upwind from northern Utah’s urban centers is a network of lakebeds, dried-up remnants of a vast prehistoric inland sea that dominated the region when the climate was much wetter and cooler that it is today.Now, as western Utah becomes even drier — from drought, water diversions and climate change — these playas have become a major source of dust settling on Wasatch Front cities and their mountain water sources, according to new research conducted by Brigham Young University geo
  • Sites chosen for new Latter-day Saint temples in Orem and Taylorsville

    Sites chosen for new Latter-day Saint temples in Orem and Taylorsville
    New temples for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Orem and Taylorsville will have some things in common: They both will be three stories tall, 70,000 square feet and close to freeways.Church officials unveiled locations Wednesday for temples in those Utah cities, the planning for which was announced in October by church President Russell M. Nelson.The single-spire Orem Temple will be built on a 16-acre site near 1471 S. Geneva Road, just west of Interstate 15 from Utah Valley Un
  • Downtown Salt Lake City to get a $15 million parking garage

    Downtown Salt Lake City to get a $15 million parking garage
    Salt Lake City has approved a way to pump $15 million into building a huge parking garage for Block 67, an ambitious residential and hotel project on the western edge of the city’s downtown.The agreement, backed Tuesday by the City Council in its role overseeing the city’s Redevelopment Agency (RDA), clears a major hurdle for what is to be known as The West Quarter, a 6.45-acre development bounded by 100 South and 200 South from 200 West to 300 West.Developers with Salt Lake City-bas
  • [CBS Sports] - NBA DFS: Spencer Dinwiddie and top FanDuel, DraftKings daily Fantasy basketball picks for Wednesday, Dec. 11 - CBSSports.com

    [CBS Sports] - NBA DFS: Spencer Dinwiddie and top FanDuel, DraftKings daily Fantasy basketball picks for Wednesday, Dec. 11 - CBSSports.com
    Mike McClure, a DFS pro with almost $2 million in career earnings, gives optimal lineup advice
  • Gunmen in Tuesday’s N.J. killings appeared to target Jewish community, official says

    Gunmen in Tuesday’s N.J. killings appeared to target Jewish community, official says
    An assailant involved in a prolonged firefight in Jersey City, New Jersey, that left six people dead, including one police officer, had published anti-Semitic and anti-police posts online and investigators believe the attack was motivated by those sentiments, a law enforcement official familiar with the case said Wednesday.Investigators also found a manifesto-style note inside the assailants’ van, the law enforcement official and another official familiar with the case said.The document, w
  • Thomas L. Friedman: Trump must be impeached if our democracy is to survive

    Thomas L. Friedman: Trump must be impeached if our democracy is to survive
    Impeaching a president is the most consequential thing our Congress can do — other than declaring war. So, after great consideration, I say: President Donald Trump not only should be impeached, he must be impeached if America’s democracy is to remain intact.Why? Because the facts here are not in doubt — indeed Trump’s allies in the media and Congress have largely given up disputing them: Trump held up congressionally directed taxpayer funding to strengthen Ukraine’s
  • Jamelle Bouie: Two articles of impeachment for Trump are nowhere near enough

    Jamelle Bouie: Two articles of impeachment for Trump are nowhere near enough
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was essentially forced into impeachment. Now, after a little less than two months of investigation, she hopes to bring the process to a close. On Tuesday, House Democrats revealed their articles of impeachment against the president. One focuses on abuse of power, the other on obstruction of Congress.“Our president holds the ultimate public trust,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said. “When he betrays that trust and
  • Utah woman charged after she crashed her car — which was filled with drugs, cash and her young child

    Utah woman charged after she crashed her car — which was filled with drugs, cash and her young child
    A Utah woman is facing almost a dozen charges after she was involved in a traffic accident and police discovered she didn’t have a driver license — but she did have a variety of drugs and almost $3,000 in cash in the car with her 16-month-old child.According to a probable cause statement, Salt Lake City police were called to a traffic accident at 800 East 2100 South on Sept. 17 and discovered the 21-year-old woman had “swerved around a bus” and “rear ended” an
  • Why Utah QB Tyler Huntley couldn’t crack the Heisman Trophy finalists

    Why Utah QB Tyler Huntley couldn’t crack the Heisman Trophy finalists
    The approximately 900 media members with Heisman Trophy votes were sent their ballots on Dec. 2.At the time, Utah senior quarterback Tyler Huntley was completing 75.5 percent of his passes, had 16 touchdowns against just two interceptions, and had a firm case as the best quarterback in the Pac-12, not to mention one of the best in the country.By the time votes were due on Sunday, Utah had lost to Oregon in the Pac-12 championship game. Huntley emerged from the 37-15 loss with a still-gaudy compl
  • Utah women work part time at highest rate in U.S.

    Utah women work part time at highest rate in U.S.
    Nile Checketts had reached “the final straw.” More than half of her salary was going to the nanny, and her job wasn’t flexible enough for her to be home with her two kids on days the nanny didn’t show up.So, Checketts quit her daytime office position and got a part-time gig at night at an ice cream shop. “I just felt such a sense of relief not trying to work on child care anymore,” she said.Checketts, 29, of Salt Lake City, is like many of the women across Uta
  • Utah State QB Jordan Love to skip final season, declare for NFL draft

    Utah State QB Jordan Love to skip final season, declare for NFL draft
    Utah State Aggies quarterback Jordan Love will declare for the NFL draft and forgo his final year of eligibility, the university announced Tuesday evening.Love, a junior who will graduate this month with a degree in exercise science, will still play in the Frisco Bowl against Kent State on Dec. 20.“Ever since I was a kid, I have always dreamed of playing in the National Football League,” Love said in a news release. “After spending the past four years at Utah State University,
  • Utah’s Nathan Ikon Crumpton wins first winter sports gold medal for American Samoa

    Utah’s Nathan Ikon Crumpton wins first winter sports gold medal for American Samoa
    Utah Olympic Park • The Samoan ie lavalava — a sarong-like cloth worn for ceremonial purposes — tied around Nathan Ikon Crumpton’s waist set him apart from the other sliders bundled up in puffy jackets and snow pants at the awards ceremony for the North America’s Cup skeleton races held here this week. Bright orange and floral, it was eye-catching — but not nearly as much so as his results.Three times the notes of the little-known American Samoa national anthem
  • Man arrested in Iowa in connection with the homicide of a Utah woman 37 years ago

    Man arrested in Iowa in connection with the homicide of a Utah woman 37 years ago
    An Iowa man was arrested in connection with a homicide 37 years ago in Salt Lake City.The man, 55, confessed he was involved in the death of 72-year-old Wilhelmina Reid, whose body was found Aug. 18, 1982, in her Salt Lake City apartment, according to a news statement from the South Sioux City Police Department in Iowa. Reid died of blunt force trauma, police wrote.Salt Lake City investigators first interviewed the man a year ago and obtained his DNA, which matched evidence at the scene of Reid&
  • Utah QB Tyler Huntley had a huge season, but couldn’t crack the Heisman Trophy finalists. Here’s why.

    Utah QB Tyler Huntley had a huge season, but couldn’t crack the Heisman Trophy finalists. Here’s why.
    The approximately 900 media members with Heisman Trophy votes were sent their ballots on Dec. 2.At the time, Utah senior quarterback Tyler Huntley was completing 75.5 percent of his passes, had 16 touchdowns against just two interceptions, and had a firm case as the best quarterback in the Pac-12, not to mention one of the best in the country.By the time votes were due on Sunday, Utah had lost to Oregon in the Pac-12 championship game. Huntley emerged from the 37-15 loss with a still-gaudy compl
  • ‘I still love him:’ How a Utah family is trying to heal after a murder-suicide

    ‘I still love him:’ How a Utah family is trying to heal after a murder-suicide
    In a New Mexico impound lot, Shelbie Madsen picked up the last pieces of two lives that never seemed to stop shattering.Her mother’s belongings — or what was left after three years of moving between friends’ and relatives’ homes — needed to be moved out of her dad’s truck and taken back to Utah. The truck would have to stay in New Mexico. Shelbie didn’t have the legal documents to show she had been Steve and Deanna Madsen’s daughter.It’s just
  • What did the U.S. get for $2 trillion in Afghanistan?

    What did the U.S. get for $2 trillion in Afghanistan?
    All told, the cost of nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan will amount to more than $2 trillion. Was the money well spent?There is little to show for it. The Taliban control much of the country. Afghanistan remains one of the world’s largest sources of refugees and migrants. More than 2,400 U.S. soldiers and more than 38,000 Afghan civilians have died.Still, life has improved, particularly in the country’s cities, where opportunities for education have grown. Many more girls are now
  • Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time’s ‘person of the year’

    Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time’s ‘person of the year’
    New York • Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time’s youngest “person of the year” on Wednesday.Thunberg, 16, has become the face of the youth climate movement, drawing large crowds with her appearances at protests and conferences over the past year and a half. Some have welcomed her activism, including her speeches challenging world leaders to do more to stop global warming. But others have criticized her sometimes combative tone."For sounding the a

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