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• The Utah Jazz are big winners in Royce O’Neale extension

  19-01-2020 23:43
  
  Today the Utah Jazz front office and Royce O’Neale agreed to a long term extension. This will be a major win for the Jazz both now and in the future. In case you haven’t heard, the Utah Jazz have extended Royce O’Neale. Previous to today O’Neale was set to be a restricted free agent at […]
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• Rep. Adam Schiff accuses NSA, CIA of withholding documents on Ukraine

  19-01-2020 23:14
  
  Washington • The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing U.S. intelligence agencies of withholding documents from Congress on Ukraine that could be significant to President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial."They appear to be succumbing to pressure from the administration," Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday on ABC's "This Week.'' Schiff was selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as the lead impeachment manager for Trump's Senate trial.Schiff, D-Calif., contended
  
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• Danielle Divis: Let’s drop the age-old pro-life jabs

  19-01-2020 23:00
  
  With the Utah March for Life coming up on Jan. 25, I feel compelled to respond to a recent column from the editor of the editorial page.George Pyle argues against conservatives’ use of the phrase “pro-life,” pointing out a hypocrisy in the conservative stance on a variety of life-related issues including environmental issues, health care, conversion therapy and vaccinations.First off, pro-life is a label originally put forth by the anti-abortion movement to accurately encapsula
  
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• Letter: The anti-tax petition is a futile gesture

  19-01-2020 22:00
  
  My goal for this week is to find a place to sign the petition against the state tax reform bill. However, I feel fairly certain this will be a futile gesture.I and thousands of other Utahns signed petitions for referendums on medical marijuana, Medicaid expansion and gerrymandering, as well as a petition to stop this most recent tax bill. And the result of all this political expression of democracy is to be told by the Republican state legislators that we are too ignorant to know what is good fo
  
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• How to survive Sundance Film Festival, from parking the car to choosing concessions

  19-01-2020 21:40
  
  Veterans of the Sundance Film Festival know which bus will get to the Eccles Theater the fastest. They know that Main Street is impassable on the first Friday night, but not so bad the second Saturday. They know the quickest route to the beer fridges at the back of the Park City Fresh Market. And they know that hand sanitizer is a gift from the gods.For those attending the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, the following tips and tricks can help make the experience of cramming tens of thousands of peo
  
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• Sundance Film Festival veterans praise John Cooper as he finishes his run as its director

  19-01-2020 21:39
  
  When Shari Frilot first joined the programming staff at the Sundance Film Festival, she felt she had to fit in.The guy who hired her, John Cooper, urged her to stand out.“There was no one like me, in every sense of the word,” said Frilot, a queer woman of color. “The first thing [Cooper] told me is, ‘You’re really different. We need you to be different. We need you to stay different.’”Cooper, who worked up the ranks of Robert Redford’s Sundance Ins
  
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• [NBA] - Q&A: The Utah Jazz front office discusses Royce O'Neale's development and contract extension

  19-01-2020 21:29 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz have locked up forward Royce O’Neale, one of the league’s best young 3-and-D wings, with a long-term extension. Jazz general manager Justin Zanik and executive vice president of
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz executive Dennis Lindsey says Utah rewarded Royce O’Neale’s ‘patience’ with extension

  19-01-2020 21:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz officially announced they had come to terms on a four-year, $36 million extension with forward Royce O’Neale on Sunday afternoon, due in part to O’Neale’s work ethic and determination. Jazz executive Dennis Lindsey said the team wanted...
  
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• Senators to be quiet, unplugged for Trump impeachment trial

  19-01-2020 21:06
  
  Washington • No cellphones. No talking. No escape.That's the reality during the Senate's impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, which will begin each day with a proclamation: "All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment." After that, 100 senators will sit at their desks for hours on end to hear from House prosecutors, Trump's defense team and possibly a series of witnesses.The first time the proclamation was used, in the 1868 trial of President Andrew Johnson, l
  
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• Letter: Clergy should be required to report child abuse

  19-01-2020 20:33
  
  In Utah, everyone is required to report child abuse to the authorities, with one notable exception: Members of the clergy are not required. H.B. 90 is a simple modification to the law, making everyone responsible for reporting child abuse and neglect.Churches claim they take abuse seriously, require reporting of abuse, protect the children and hold their leadership accountable as representatives of God.If church leadership and members from any religion are serious about protecting their members
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz splurge on a Rolls Royce, O’Neale receives 4 year $36M extension

  19-01-2020 20:31 via sportspyder.com
  
  Royce O’Neale becomes the Jazz’s second diamond in the rough success story.
  
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• Marco Rubio: Investing in China is not a good deal for America

  19-01-2020 20:00
  
  It’s no secret that Wall Street hated President Trump’s aggressive trade tactics toward China. But its executives are very happy with the financial services section of the recently signed “phase one” deal that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin negotiated with China.Instead of holding China accountable for exploiting American capital markets, “phase one” of the deal will make sure American capital continues to directly fund China’s state-run economy. Amer
  
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• Wolves’ return to Yellowstone recalled on 25th anniversary

  19-01-2020 19:58
  
  Bozeman, Mont. • The day the wolves arrived in Yellowstone National Park was busy. At least that’s how Norm Bishop remembers it.The wolves came in aluminum crates on horse trailers Jan. 12, 1995. Passing through the gates, the Canadian-born carnivores were the first of their kind in the park in decades, other than the occasional rumor or random sighting.Bishop, who was Yellowstone’s resource interpreter, had spent years giving public presentations about the science of wolf reint
  
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• Jana Riess: LDS Church changes temple clothes to make them easier to ‘put on, care for and afford’

  19-01-2020 19:56
  
  Last year, I apparently screwed up something about the veil I wear whenever I go to a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I don’t know what I did wrong, but it seems to have been obvious enough to other people that a sister behind me and a temple worker in the hallway both commented on it. The temple worker even fretted aloud that my incorrect veil placement may have actually invalidated the endowment ordinance.Perhaps my veil troubles will soon be over. On Friday, t
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Royce O'Neale thankful for contract extension

  19-01-2020 19:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  Jazz forward Royce O'Neale signed a contract extension to stay on with the Utah Jazz for four more years. » https://on.nba.com/37dm4yA
  
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• After beating up on San Diego and losing at Gonzaga, BYU is in a familiar basketball pattern

  19-01-2020 19:44
  
  Spokane, Wash. • After suffering their worst loss of the season, BYU coach Mark Pope said he was going to struggle to find a positive to take out of Saturday's 92-69 beating by No. 1 Gonzaga.He did like how the team managed the transition defense in the first half, but that was also when the Cougars struggled off the glass the most.Then BYU just got ripped apart in the second half to finish another week with mixed results – the Cougars had beaten San Diego by 23 points two days earlie
  
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• [NBA] - 'Something I wanted to be a part of'—Royce O'Neale signs long-term extension with the Utah Jazz

  19-01-2020 19:32 via sportspyder.com
  
  Royce O’Neale wanted to be in a Utah Jazz uniform so badly that he got his tooth knocked out.Twice.The first time it happened, O’Neale was an undrafted forward trying to make an impression at a free
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz sign Royce O’Neale to contract extension

  19-01-2020 19:32 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has signed forward Royce O’Neale to a contract extension. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released. 
  
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• Feds overrule nomination of Moab-area rock art sites to National Register

  19-01-2020 19:31
  
  Pam and Quentin Baker were so drawn to the rock art around Moab that they built their retirement home there in the late 1990s and relocated to the southeastern Utah tourist town in 2001 after long careers as Colorado educators.Since that time, they have led volunteer efforts to document dozens of panels carved into the sandstone walls along the Colorado River corridor, going through the painstaking process of recording numerous data points on each site and replicating hundreds of petroglyphs and
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Royce O'Neale contract: Jazz agree to four-year, $36 million extension - Sports Illustrated

  19-01-2020 19:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  Royce O'Neale is averaging 6.2 points per game and shooting 44.3% on three-pointers.
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Jazz forward Royce O'Neale agrees to four-year, $36 million contract extension - CBSSports.com

  19-01-2020 19:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  O'Neale has been averaging career highs across the board for the Jazz this season
  
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• [KSL] - 'It's not a good thing, it's a great thing': Mike Conley fits right back in with Jazz | KSL.com

  19-01-2020 19:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  Mike Conely didn't want to mess up the Jazz. He didn't — and he's only going to help them moving forward.
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Jazz forward Royce O'Neale agrees to four-year, $36 million contract extension, per report - CBSSports.com

  19-01-2020 18:51 via sportspyder.com
  
  O'Neale has been averaging career highs across the board for the Jazz this season
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Royce O’Neale agrees to four-year extension

  19-01-2020 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz have come to terms on a four-year, $36 million extension with forward Royce O’Neale, according to ESPN NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski: Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale has agreed to a four-year, $36 million contract extension, agents Ty...
  
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• The Triple Team: Utah Jazz beat Sacramento Kings easily in Mike Conley’s return — though many Jazz fans couldn’t watch

  19-01-2020 18:44
  
  Three thoughts on the Jazz’s 123-101 win over the Sacramento Kings from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz destroy Kings’ awful defenseThe Jazz scored on their first 10 possessions, so they started the game up 24-10. The game was pretty much won at that point.There are so many examples of Kings incompetence to show you, both from that stretch and from this game, so choosing was hard. But here’s one Gobert alley-oop:The Kings somehow mess up so that both Nema
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Royce O’Neale To Sign Four-Year Extension With Jazz

  19-01-2020 18:44 via sportspyder.com
  
  Royce O'Neale has agreed to a four-year, $36MM extension with the Jazz, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. More to …
  
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• Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg says he can turn Utah blue

  19-01-2020 18:43
  
  The last time Utah chose the Democratic nominee for president it was 1964, and that man was Lyndon B. Johnson.Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City and current Democratic presidential candidate, thinks he could be the next one. The way to do it, he told an audience of several hundred people Saturday in Salt Lake City, is to not discount Utah’s capability to turn blue.
  (Trent Nelson|The Salt Lake Tribune) Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg speaks in Salt Lake City
  
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• Utah gymnastics teams says they’re eager to forge their own identity

  19-01-2020 18:41
  
  MyKayla Skinner, Georgia Dabritz, Ashley Postell, Theresa Kulikowski, Missy Marlowe, Kristen Kenoyer — Utah gymnastics’ record book reads like a who’s who in a history of collegiate superstars.Every year it seems there are at least one or two gymnasts who produce huge scores for the Utes and assert themselves as among the elite gymnasts in the country.But this year’s team is a little different. There isn’t, at least presently, that superstar who would be the logical
  
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• [Deseret News] - Report: Utah Jazz, Royce O’Neale agree to multiyear contract extension

  19-01-2020 18:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  Royce O’Neale will reportedly be staying with the Utah Jazz for the next four years. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported on Sunday morning that O’Neale and the Jazz have agreed to a four-year,...
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles lends support to firefighting efforts back home in Australia

  19-01-2020 18:40
  
  Joe Ingles feels like he’s a long way away from his homeland of Australia, which is currently experiencing fires that have burned an area the size of West Virginia since September. It’s estimated that about a billion animals have died, 3,000 homes have been destroyed and the economic cost could be $3.5 billion, according to the New York Times.So Ingles is doing something to help. He’ll contribute $500 for every made 3-point shot made from the beginning of the season until the A
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz agree to 4-year, $36 million extension with Royce O’Neale

  19-01-2020 18:37 via sportspyder.com
  
  Another member of the Utah Jazz is now locked up for the long term.
  
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• [The Score] - Jazz, O'Neale agree to 4-year, $36M extension

  19-01-2020 18:34 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz have agreed to a four-year, $36-million extension with forward Royce O'Neale, his agents told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.More to come.
  
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• Jazz extend Royce O'Neale

  19-01-2020 18:27
  
  Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale has agreed to a four-year, $36 million contract extension, agents Ty Sullivan and Steven Heumann of CAA Sports told ESPN. O’Neale plans to sign the deal on Sunday, the agents said. Although he could’ve become a restricted free agent this summer, O’Neale and his reps negotiated a long-term deal that keeps him with the franchise that signed him out of Europe in 2017.
  
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• Utah Jazz agree to 4-year, $36 million extension with Royce O’Neale

  19-01-2020 18:25
  
  Another member of the Utah Jazz is now locked up for the long term.The Jazz have agreed to a contract extension with Jazz wing Royce O’Neale to the tune of 4 years and $36 million dollars, as first reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.O’Neale, a 26-year-old undrafted third-year player from Baylor University has started 39 of the Jazz’s 42 games this season, thanks to his defensive ability and his 3-point shooting. This season, he’s made 44.3% of his threes, albeit
  
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• [ESPN] - Jazz, O'Neale agree on 4-year, $36M extension

  19-01-2020 18:15 via sportspyder.com
  
  Forward Royce O'Neale has agreed to a four-year, $36 million extension to remain with the Jazz, his agents told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Royce O'Neale, Jazz Agree to 4-Year, $36M Contract Extension

  19-01-2020 18:15 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz and veteran forward Royce O'Neale agreed to a four-year, $36 million contract, his agents confirmed to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski . O'Neale is averaging 6.2 points and 5...
  
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• What is Utah men’s basketball’s offensive identity as struggles continue?

  19-01-2020 17:50
  
  Tempe, Ariz. • Outside the visiting locker room at the McKale Center on Thursday night, Riley Battin began talking about the University of Utah’s offensive identity.More specifically, the sophomore forward referenced this team’s lack of one at the moment, and with good reason. Since shooting a gaudy 54.8% in upsetting then-No. 6 Kentucky on Dec. 18, the Utes have not shot better than 43.9% in any of the six games since. Utah is 1-5 in those six games, including 39.3% shooting on
  
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• [Deseret News] - Utah Jazz mailbag: What options the Jazz have with the trade deadline approaching

  19-01-2020 17:31 via sportspyder.com
  
  Sarah Todd poses for a photo at the Deseret News in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. ...
  
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• [Fansided: Sir Charles In Charge] - NBA Sunday Social: The Jazz, Grizzlies climbing up the standings

  19-01-2020 16:15 via sportspyder.com
  
  NBA Sunday Social: The Memphis Grizzlies and Utah Jazz are climbing up the standings in the West, but the reason for their success is coming via two differ...
  
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• Frank Bruni: Senate Republicans are bathed in shame

  19-01-2020 16:09
  
  The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump began Thursday when John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court, directed all of the senators to stand and raise their right hands. Ever since, I can’t get two questions out of my head.The first: How in God’s name — and it was in God’s name — can the Republicans who have already decided to acquit Trump take a solemn oath to administer “impartial justice”? They’re partial to the core, unabashedly
  
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• Maureen Dowd: Trump’s choice of defenders another way to lose the women’s vote

  19-01-2020 16:08
  
  Washington • Can a woman be president of the United States?Hell, yes.I’ve covered the men who run the world my whole life. And there have been a lot of screw-ups, from Vietnam to Watergate to Afghanistan to Iraq to pushing the economy off a cliff. There has also been plenty of creepy behavior, culminating in the news that Donald Trump, Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz have joined together in a pervy, hypocritical cabal to argue that Trump did not smirch the Constitution.So please, Elizab
  
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• Sundance veterans praise John Cooper as he finishes his run as the festival’s director

  19-01-2020 16:06
  
  When Shari Frilot first joined the programming staff at the Sundance Film Festival, she felt she had to fit in.The guy who hired her, John Cooper, urged her to stand out.“There was no one like me, in every sense of the word,” said Frilot, a queer woman of color. “The first thing [Cooper] told me is, ‘You’re really different. We need you to be different. We need you to stay different.’”Cooper, who worked up the ranks of Robert Redford’s Sundance Ins
  
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• Volunteers, BLM worked for years to list 199 Moab-area rock art sites on the National Register, but park service overruled nomination

  19-01-2020 16:04
  
  Pam and Quentin Baker were so drawn to the rock art around Moab that they built their retirement home there in the late 1990s and relocated to the southeastern Utah tourist town in 2001 after long careers as Colorado educators.Since that time, they have led volunteer efforts to document dozens of panels carved into the sandstone walls along the Colorado River corridor, going through the painstaking process of recording numerous data points on each site and replicating hundreds of petroglyphs and
  
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• Impeachment 101: Your guide to the Senate trial of President Trump

  19-01-2020 16:03
  
  Washington • Senators are sworn in. Chief Justice John Roberts has the gavel. And the impeachment trial of President Donald John Trump is set to start.The Senate will begin to hear arguments Tuesday about why Trump should be removed from office for high crimes and misdemeanors and a defense of why he’s innocent of the charges, sprinkled with questions of whether witnesses should be called or new evidence considered.Brace yourself.For a somber and historic moment, it’s going to b
  
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• Bret Stephens: Can anyone save the Republicans from Trumpism?

  19-01-2020 16:01
  
  Bill Weld, the former Massachusetts governor and current long-shot — make that, loooooooong-shot — candidate for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, is a keen student of New Hampshire politics. In an interview with me this week, he noted the following fact: Every time an incumbent president of either party faced a significant primary challenge in the Granite State, he failed in his bid for reelection.It happened to George H.W. Bush in 1992 after Patrick Buchanan too
  
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• Robert Kirby: And it came to pass that Nephi did slay a defenseless drunk because God said to — really?

  19-01-2020 16:00
  
  My earliest recollection of reading the Book of Mormon comes from early-morning seminary in California. Since I was 15, and it was very early morning, little of the lessons made much of an impression.I vaguely recall one morning thinking that Nephi — the guy who started the BoM saga — was a jerk. He stole property that wasn’t his, murdered an unconscious drunk in an alley and then kidnapped someone.That’s one way of describing what happened. It’s the way I put it to
  
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• Leonard Pitts: You create diversity by creating diversity

  19-01-2020 15:59
  
  Dear Stephen King:I hope you’ll indulge me as I try to explain something I suspect you still don’t quite understand. Namely: why so many of us were so disappointed with your take on the lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominations. As the white-dominated and male-centric list of contenders was announced and women and people of color expressed their frustration, you took to Twitter.“As a writer,” you wrote, “I am allowed to nominate in just 3 categories:
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell speak on Mike Conley’s return — ‘We need him’

  19-01-2020 15:25 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley returned from a 14-game absence on Saturday night in their 123-101 win over the Sacramento Kings. Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert expressed their happiness on having their veteran point guard back, who has been out the...
  
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• David Burns: The fierce urgency of MLK’s message in the age of Trump

  19-01-2020 15:00
  
  Of the 10 federal holidays, only two bear the names of Americans. George Washington, the indispensable Founding Father, is an obvious choice to honor with a holiday marking his birthday. But a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr., who never held any public office and died young, may be less obvious.Calls for a federal holiday honoring MLK began only a few days after his assassination on April 4, 1968. This was followed by more than a decade of filibustering by the usual suspects, including Se
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: ‘Avenue 5’ goes into outer space to satirize ... something. Everything?

  19-01-2020 14:00
  
  For seven seasons, HBO’s “Veep” brilliantly skewered politics and politicians. It was, arguably, one of the greatest TV satires ever.And its creator, Armando Iannucci, has returned to HBO to create more satire. “Avenue 5” (Sunday, 8 p.m.) is an outlandish, over-the-top, voyage-gone-wrong aboard an outer-space luxury liner several decades in the future. It takes aim at … well, I’m not altogether sure what it’s aiming at.The show is set 40 years fro
  
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