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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Gobert SWATS Harden!

  04-03-2020 23:06 via sportspyder.com
  
  We blocked 34 shots this past month! Totaling $11,800 towards charity this season.
  
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• A lawmaker wants to change Utah’s insanity defense so more mentally ill people can use it

  04-03-2020 22:50
  
  One Utahn kills someone because they believe that person is an evil robot. Another Utahn, overcome by a paranoid delusion, kills someone they understand is a person.There’s no dispute that both people are mentally ill. Yet, under Utah law, only the first person qualifies to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. It’s a defense so restrictive that between 2012 and 2018, it’s been used successfully about once a year, on average — while an average of 33 people a year are fo
  
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• George Pyle: Do we have to be like Cuba to have what Cuba has?

  04-03-2020 22:30
  
  So Bernie Sanders admires the high literacy rate in Cuba. And there is no reason why he shouldn’t. The World Bank says the literacy rate for adults in that small, poor country is effectively 100 percent.The same figure for the United States: 86%. Rated 125th in the world.But Bernie heard some pushback, because American politicians aren’t allowed to admire anything about Cuba. It was run with an iron hand by the Castro family for more than half a century and remains a dictatorial one-
  
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• U.S. coronavirus death toll rises to 11 with California victim

  04-03-2020 22:29
  
  Seattle • The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed to 11 on Wednesday with a victim succumbing in California — the nation’s first reported fatality outside Washington state — as officials, schools and businesses came under pressure to respond more aggressively to the outbreak.Officials in Placer County, near Sacramento, said an elderly person who tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday after returning from a San Francisco-to-Mexico cruise had died. The victim had unde
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Jazz vs. Knicks odds, line, spread: 2020 NBA picks, March 4 predictions from proven projection model - CBSSports.com

  04-03-2020 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  The SportsLine projection model has a pick for the clash between the Jazz and Knicks.
  
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• Supreme Court divided in 1st big abortion case of Trump era

  04-03-2020 22:19
  
  Washington • A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with its first major abortion case of the Trump era, leaving Chief Justice John Roberts as the likely deciding vote.Roberts did not say enough to tip his hand in an hour of spirited arguments at the high court.The court's election-year look at a Louisiana dispute could reveal how willing the more conservative court is to roll back abortion rights. A decision should come by late June.The outcome could have huge consequences a
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Three players to watch as Utah Jazz face the New York Knicks

  04-03-2020 21:51 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz will take on the New York Knicks in the famous Madison Square Garden tonight. Here are some names to keep an eye on for this game. Tonight th...
  
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• New homeless resource centers facing ‘emergency’ $3 million shortfall

  04-03-2020 21:48
  
  The Salt Lake City area’s three new homeless resource centers are proving substantially more expensive to operate than originally thought and are now facing an expected $3 million budget shortfall that some in the homeless services network hope state leaders will step in to fill.Otherwise, the operators may have to reassess or cut their services in a system that’s already stretched to capacity.It’s a reality Josh Romney, a board member of Shelter the Homeless, the nonprofit tha
  
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• Three players to watch as Utah Jazz face the New York Knicks

  04-03-2020 21:43
  
  The Utah Jazz will take on the New York Knicks in the famous Madison Square Garden tonight. Here are some names to keep an eye on for this game. Tonight the Utah Jazz will make their annual trip to the Madison Square Garden and face a less than stellar team in the New York Knicks. […]
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• [CBS Sports] - Jazz vs. Knicks odds, line, spread: 2020 NBA picks, March 4 predictions from advanced computer model - CBSSports.com

  04-03-2020 21:43 via sportspyder.com
  
  The SportsLine projection model has a pick for the clash between the Jazz and Knicks. Here are the results:
  
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• Utah cannabis patients may be able to use physician letters at pot pharmacies

  04-03-2020 21:33
  
  Utah patients could use their cannabis recommendation letters to buy from marijuana pharmacies through the year’s end, under an anticipated legislative proposal meant to alleviate problems that have surfaced in the state’s new pot program.While the state celebrated the grand opening of its first cannabis pharmacy in Salt Lake City earlier this week, the new business has had one major challenge — a dearth of customers. Connor Boyack, a cannabis advocate, said that’s due in
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run newsletter: The Utah Jazz know who they are; they just need to play like it more consistently

  04-03-2020 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  
  New York • Point No. 4 of Zach Lowe’s latest “Ten things I like and don’t like” analysis piece for ESPN last Friday was, “The Jazz, short on oomph and time.”
  
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• [NBA] - Key Matchup: RJ Barrett vs. Donovan Mitchell

  04-03-2020 21:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  NEW YORK — Donovan Mitchell saves his best for last.The Utah Jazz’s All-Star guard always seems to find another level after the All-Star break. During his rookie season, Mitchell went from scoring
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: The Utah Jazz know who they are; they just need to play like it more consistently

  04-03-2020 21:16
  
  New York • Point No. 4 of Zach Lowe’s latest “Ten things I like and don’t like” analysis piece for ESPN last Friday was, “The Jazz, short on oomph and time.”In this piece, which the Trib’s Andy Larsen partially covered in a roundup of recent national media perspective on the Utah Jazz, Lowe wrote that “Identity in the NBA is ethereal and fragile,” and that, “The Jazz don’t have it right now.” Among his complaints (none
  
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• In Utah’s Democratic primary, moderates backing Biden and Bloomberg had a surprisingly strong showing

  04-03-2020 20:53
  
  While liberal Bernie Sanders won the Utah Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, a bigger story may be the Lazarus-like comeback from the dead here of former Vice President Joe Biden — and the moderate wing of the party flexing some heretofore dormant muscle.“The big story is that the moderate wing of the party that supports people like Mike Bloomberg and Joe Biden really turned out for this election relative to 2016,” said David Magleby, emeritus political science profess
  
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• John Leshy: Free-market plan to protect Utah’s landscape was working. Until Trump ended it.

  04-03-2020 20:39
  
  The Trump administration has struck another blow to common-sense management of public lands in the West. Virtually all the spectacular country neighboring the Escalante River in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah will be reopened to cattle grazing, thanks to a new plan for managing the monument released by the Interior Department last month.The move manages to be both anti-rancher and anti-environment.Without justification, the Interior Department’s decision upends a l
  
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• Pac-12 could get record-tying seven teams to NCAA Tournament, but hurdles remain

  04-03-2020 20:23
  
  There is a notion in college basketball that in any given year, the success of a league is directly tied to how many teams it sends to the NCAA Tournament.If you subscribe to that, then you should believe that the Pac-12 has not been very good lately. The league sent three teams to the NCAA Tournament last year, and it would have been two had Oregon not gone on a late-season run and won the Pac-12 Tournament. Three teams went in 2018 and four in 2017. The fact the Pac-12 sent a league-record sev
  
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• Utah fetal remains burial bill now squarely targets abortion

  04-03-2020 20:09
  
  A fetus aborted early in a pregnancy would have to be buried or cremated, while a miscarriage occurring weeks later could be discarded as medical waste under the latest version of a bill that earned the approval of the Utah House on Wednesday.The bill, SB67, originally mandated burial or cremation for both abortions and miscarriages, with the sponsors arguing that it would ensure fetal remains are treated with dignity and respect.But after an amendment was proposed by Rep. Ray Ward, R-Bountiful,
  
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• Unified Police Department unveils fleet of hybrid police cruisers

  04-03-2020 19:55
  
  Salt Lake County and Unified Police Department leaders unveiled a fleet of hybrid police interceptor vehicles on Wednesday at the same time they announced plans to better enforce anti-idling laws — their newest initiatives aimed at curbing air pollution.The vehicles are gas and electric hybrids that are specifically designed to be used in law enforcement because they meet the required specifications previously only available to gas vehicles.“[The vehicles] idle only about 20 percent
  
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• After BYU Honor Code change, LDS Church now says same-sex relationships are ‘not compatible’ with the faith’s rules

  04-03-2020 19:42
  
  The LDS Church has released a statement on what it meant when Brigham Young University removed from its Honor Code the section on “homosexual behavior” — clarifying for the first time that same-sex romantic behavior is “not compatible” with the school’s rules.The surprising letter, released Wednesday morning on Twitter, comes after weeks of questions about the change.Paul V. Johnson, the commissioner of the Church Education System that oversees BYU, said the H
  
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• RSL newcomer Justin Meram is wearing Jason Kreis’s old number. Now he’s hoping for a Kreis-like season

  04-03-2020 19:17
  
  Herriman • Justin Meram has won the No. 9 for practically his entire career. With the exception of a short six-month stint with Atlanta United last year, the Michigan native and newest attacker for Real Salt Lake had the number that corresponded to his position: goal scorer.When RSL signed Meram earlier this month and began training sessions, the No. 9 wasn’t yet claimed by any of the other players on the roster. The number was retired in 2011 when former striker and coach Jason Kreis
  
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• Moderates showed up in big numbers in Utah’s Democratic primary

  04-03-2020 19:05
  
  While liberal Bernie Sanders won the Utah Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, a bigger story may be the Lazarus-like comeback from the dead here of former Vice President Joe Biden — and the moderate wing of the party flexing some heretofore dormant muscle.“The big story is that the moderate wing of the party that supports people like Mike Bloomberg and Joe Biden really turned out for this election relative to 2016,” said David Magleby, emeritus political science profess
  
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• Utah women’s basketball team could benefit at Pac-12 Tournament from extended late-season road trip

  04-03-2020 18:55
  
  There is a scheduling quirk that pertains to the University of Utah women’s basketball team that has not escaped the attention of Utes coach Lynne Roberts.Roberts, who is in her fifth season at the helm, is very aware that in her first four seasons, the Utes have never finished the regular season at home. That, in turn, leads to a lot of travel, and a short turnaround with the Pac-12 Tournament being contested later that same week.For example, last season, the Utes finished the regular sea
  
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• ‘We are not ready for this’: Native American tribes struggle to deal with coronavirus

  04-03-2020 18:51
  
  Washington • Dean Seneca didn’t mince words after the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s recent “damaging news” about the spread of the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide, including nine in Washington state.“I want to make sure that I stated that tribes are not prepared for the coronavirus,” he texted Indian Country Today a day after an interview in which he was more cautious.“I don’t think that we are
  
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• 5 takeaways from a Super Tuesday that changed the Democratic race

  04-03-2020 18:50
  
  Joe Biden won in states where he didn’t campaign. He won in states where he didn’t have offices. He won in states where he was overwhelmingly outspent in advertising. He won in states where rivals had a better organization.“They don’t call it Super Tuesday for nothing!” the former vice president roared in an energetic Los Angeles speech that capped the most consequential day yet in the 2020 primary.The results, from Maine to California, clarified the reality of the
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Why Donovan Mitchell’s aggressiveness matters so much to the Utah Jazz

  04-03-2020 18:30 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz offense thrives when Donovan Mitchell gets to the rim and draws fouls. The All-Star has a special talent to score in bunches when he's super ...
  
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• ‘We are not ready for this’: Native American tribes struggle to deal with COVID-19

  04-03-2020 18:28
  
  Washington • Dean Seneca didn’t mince words after the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s recent “damaging news” about the spread of the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide, including nine in Washington state.“I want to make sure that I stated that tribes are not prepared for the coronavirus,” he texted Indian Country Today a day after an interview in which he was more cautious.“I don’t think that we are
  
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• Why Donovan Mitchell’s aggressiveness matters so much to the Utah Jazz

  04-03-2020 18:24
  
  The Utah Jazz offense thrives when Donovan Mitchell gets to the rim and draws fouls. The All-Star has a special talent to score in bunches when he’s super aggressive. Although the Utah Jazz are just 2-3 in their last five games, guard Donovan Mitchell has been excellent offensively, averaging 31 points a game on 48.6 […]
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• Utah driver faces Nebraska trial in Wisconsin woman’s death

  04-03-2020 17:32
  
  Grand Island, Neb. • A trial has been scheduled for a Utah truck driver accused in the Nebraska crash death of a Wisconsin woman.Hall County District Court records say Peterson Black, 37, of Taylorsville, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to vehicular homicide while under the influence alcohol, refusal to take a breath test and to making in improper U-turn. Jury selection is set to begin June 15 for a trial in Grand Island.Court records say Black was under the influence of alcohol on Jan. 5 while
  
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• ‘We are not ready for this’: Tribes struggle to deal with COVID-19

  04-03-2020 17:27
  
  Washington • Dean Seneca didn’t mince words after the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s recent “damaging news” about the spread of the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide, including nine in Washington state.“I want to make sure that I stated that tribes are not prepared for the coronavirus,” he texted Indian Country Today a day after an interview in which he was more cautious.“I don’t think that we are
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Watch Knicks vs. Jazz: TV channel, live stream info, start time - CBSSports.com

  04-03-2020 16:29 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch Knicks vs. Jazz basketball game
  
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• Mike Bloomberg drops out of presidential race, endorses Joe Biden

  04-03-2020 16:28
  
  New York • Billionaire Mike Bloomberg ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. It was a stunning collapse for the former New York City mayor, who had his 2020 hopes on the Super Tuesday states and pumped more than $500 million of his own fortune into the campaign.Bloomberg announced his departure from the race after a disappointing finish on Super Tuesday in the slate of states that account for almost one-third of th
  
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• Chicago State cancels WAC men’s and women’s basketball games with Utah Valley, Seattle U., due to coronavirus

  04-03-2020 16:28
  
  Chicago • The Chicago State University men’s basketball team will not travel for two regularly scheduled Western Athletic Conference games this week — including a stop in Orem against Utah Valley — and its women’s team will not host two games, the school said late Tuesday, citing the spread of the coronavirus.The school said in a statement that it was making the move with the "health and well-being of the campus community in mind."The cancellations are believed to be
  
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• Lawmaker wants to change Utah’s insanity defense so more mentally ill people can use it

  04-03-2020 16:13
  
  One Utahn kills someone because they believe that person is an evil robot. Another Utahn, overcome by a paranoid delusion, kills someone they understand is a person.There’s no dispute that both people are mentally ill. Yet, under Utah law, only the first person qualifies to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. It’s a defense so restrictive that between 2012 and 2018, it’s been used successfully about once a year, on average — while an average of 33 people a year are fo
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - The Utah Jazz need Bojan Bogdanović to consistently catch fire

  04-03-2020 16:02 via sportspyder.com
  
  While most view Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell as the leaders of this Utah Jazz squad, Bojan Bogdanović’s shooting heavily determines the team’s suc...
  
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• Letter: I’d like to get home alive

  04-03-2020 15:13
  
  Dear Salt Lake City drivers,I have lived here for two months, and in that time I've spent lots of time walking or waiting for buses by intersections in the downtown area. Every day I've had drivers almost hit me in a crosswalk. Each time my walk sign has been on and it has been daylight. I've noticed habits drivers have that are potentially fatal to pedestrians:If you’re about to turn left, look first before deciding to beat that car going straight. There just might be a pedestrian in that
  
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• Letter: An attack on women’s freedom

  04-03-2020 15:12
  
  Legislation proposed by Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, SB174 Abortion Prohibition Amendments, is a bald-faced attack on abortion rights and completely beyond the pale.Under the bill, elective abortions would be prohibited with the exceptions of rape and incest, potential death of a woman or life-threatening injury, or a lethal defect for the fetus (as determined by two physicians). If passed, SB174 wouldn’t take effect until Roe v Wade is overturned.Abortion should be safe and exceedingly rar
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: A deeper look at the new handbook — from transgender rules to church discipline and sacrament etiquette

  04-03-2020 15:11
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a major shift recently when it published online, in full, its updated General Handbook, which spells out policies, practices and procedures in the worldwide faith.Previous handbooks were for leaders only. Now rank-and-file members and even outsiders can be on the same page when it comes to church governance. The guidelines include, for instance, new nomenclature for church discipline and a new section on transgender individuals. It even urges
  
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• [Forbes] - The Utah Jazz Need Joe Ingles To Rediscover His Spark

  04-03-2020 15:10 via sportspyder.com
  
  Joe Ingles has long been a confidence-based player, and it's been waning for him recently. The Utah Jazz need the optimal version of him to hit their ceiling.
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah Republicans running for governor find that gathering signatures is daunting — and for some insurmountable

  04-03-2020 15:00
  
  About three weeks ago, Spencer Cox’s gubernatorial campaign was the first to submit about 29,000 signatures — piled six feet high in his trademark green and yellow boxes — touting his status as the first in the state to submit signatures in a bid to make the primary ballot.It was even reported in some quarters that he was the first to qualify for the ballot, which, it turns out, he wasn’t and he may not be.A little over a quarter of the signatures submitted were invalid,
  
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• Bernie Sanders wins Utah’s Democratic primary, Biden’s second

  04-03-2020 14:37
  
  Despite late efforts by moderates to combine forces against him, liberal Vermont senator and self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders won Tuesday’s Utah’s Democratic presidential primary.As early results showed Sanders with a lead of 34.6% of the vote after polls closed, a group of more than a dozen supporters at an election watch party at the Teamsters & Chauffeurs Union in West Valley City erupted in cheers.“Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!” they chanted.The Assoc
  
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• Utah County residents hope explosive growth will come with more transit, town centers

  04-03-2020 14:05
  
  The prospect of adding up to a million new residents by 2065 has Utah County exploring ways to grow rapidly while maintaining its quality of life.In-depth polling shows county residents envision a future where people tend to live nearer to town centers and rely more on mass transit to get to jobs that are relatively close to their apartment or house on a smaller lot.They see future construction on both sides of Utah Lake that would reduce commutes, allow new generations to live closer to their f
  
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• Letter: What are we thinking?

  04-03-2020 14:00
  
  I’m totally confused at how the Republican Party can turn a blind eye to Russia meddling in our election in 2016.This has never occurred with any other president of the United States to my knowledge, until Donald Trump.Come on people, what are we thinking? Do we want to reelect Trump again after all the accusations against him and all the blatant lies he keeps telling us?Daniel L. Weed, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Tree-huggers meet gun-toters

  04-03-2020 14:00
  
  A couple of weeks ago there was the most joyful occurrence outside the chambers of the Utah House of Representatives.The Capitol rotunda was bustling with singing kids and hard-working lobbyists. On the balcony was a batch of Stop the Polluting Port activists seeking conversations with lawmakers. Then a large cadre of gents wearing Guns Save Lives T-shirts came off of a bus to join in the citizen activism. At first glance, the left-of-aisle port repealers may have nothing in common with the righ
  
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• Letter: Look at the facts about coronavirus

  04-03-2020 14:00
  
  Before our society comes completely off the rails, let’s take a deep breath and look at the facts about the coronavirus.In the 2018-19 flu season, in the United States alone, there were an estimated 16.5 million reported cases of influenza resulting in more than 34,000 deaths. In the previous year, the death toll was 61,000. All in the U.S. only.By comparison, since December 2019, the coronavirus has infected an estimated 80,000 people worldwide resulting in 2,600 deaths, the vast majority
  
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• Letter: A virus strikes Washington, D.C.

  04-03-2020 14:00
  
  For three years, a virus has been spreading across the United States and around the world. The epicenter is Washington, D.C., where rabid exposure has been seen in the Senate. However, the House of Representatives appears less affected. The germ is having an unexplained effect on the judicial system as well as on some prominent attorneys.The contagion characteristically affects people with these symptoms observed: a severe tilt to the right, fear, anger, lowered moral standards, narcissism, brut
  
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• Biden claims 9 Super Tuesday victories, including Texas

  04-03-2020 09:13
  
  Washington • A resurgent Joe Biden scored victories from Texas to Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, revitalizing a presidential bid that was teetering on the edge of disaster just days earlier. But his rival, Bernie Sanders, seized the biggest prize with a win in California that ensured he — and his embrace of democratic socialism — would drive the Democrats’ nomination fight for the foreseeable future.And suddenly, the Democratic Party's presidential field, which featured m
  
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• Biden wins 8 Super Tuesday states; Sanders takes California

  04-03-2020 06:43
  
  Washington • The two Democrats, lifelong politicians with starkly different visions for America’s future, were battling for delegates as 14 states and one U.S. territory held a series of high-stakes elections that marked the most significant day of voting in the party’s 2020 presidential nomination fight. The winner will take on President Donald Trump in the November general election.The other two high-profile candidates still in the shrinking Democratic field, New York billiona
  
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• Bernie Sanders wins Utah’s Democratic primary

  04-03-2020 06:43
  
  Despite late efforts by moderates to combine forces against him, liberal Vermont senator and self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders won Tuesday’s Utah’s Democratic presidential primary.As early results showed Sanders with a lead of 34% of the vote after polls closed, a group of more than a dozen supporters at an election watch party at the Teamsters & Chauffeurs Union in West Valley City erupted in cheers.“Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!” they chanted.The Associa
  
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• The Latest: How the AP called California for Sanders

  04-03-2020 05:52
  
  Washington • The latest on the Democratic presidential primary and Super Tuesday (all times local):11:40 p.m.As soon as polls closed in California at 8 p.m. Pacific Time, The Associated Press called Bernie Sanders the winner of the biggest prize on Super Tuesday.The AP called the state's Democratic presidential primary for the Vermont senator even though no votes from Tuesday had yet been counted. The news agency did so based on results from AP VoteCast, its wide-ranging survey of the Ameri
  
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