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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 11: One more Utahn died; new high-risk hotline created; grocery consumers are shopping less, spending more.

  11-05-2020 23:22
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---3:25 p.m.: Coronavirus has changed our shopping habits, survey showsShoppers are ma
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 11: One more Utahn died; new high-risk hotline created

  11-05-2020 22:46
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---235 p.m.: 10 cases at Salt Lake County’s homeless shelter for familiesSalt La
  
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• Hackers, COVID-19 and foreign disinformation create challenges for Utah elections this year

  11-05-2020 22:06
  
  Hackers likely will still try to infiltrate government voting data bases. Officials worry foreign countries may spread disinformation about elections. And the corornavirus is doing away with in-person voting in Utah’s Primary on June 30. So what could go wrong?Utah officials plan to discuss that in an online public workshop Tuesday. But Justin Lee — state elections director for Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox — says Utah is better prepared to deal with challenges than most states because
  
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• AP source: MLB owners approve plan to start baseball season in July

  11-05-2020 21:58
  
  New York • Major League Baseball owners gave the go-ahead Monday to making a proposal to the players’ union that could lead to the coronavirus-delayed season starting around the Fourth of July weekend in ballparks without fans, a plan that envisioned expanding the designated hitter to the National League for 2020.Spring training would start in early to mid-June, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details of
  
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• White House recommends tests for all nursing home residents

  11-05-2020 21:55
  
  Washington • With deaths mounting at the nation’s nursing homes, the White House strongly recommended to governors Monday that all residents and staff at such facilities be tested for the coronavirus in the next two weeks.Why the government is not ordering testing at the nation’s more than 15,000 nursing homes was unclear. Nor was it clear why it is being recommended now, more than two months after the nation’s first major outbreak at a nursing home outside of Seattle that
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 11: One more Utahn died; no plan to ease restrictions this week

  11-05-2020 21:52
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1:30 p.m.: One more Utahn dies, no plan to ease restrictions this weekAnother Utahn
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 11: Utah offers rental assistance, some LDS temples reopen

  11-05-2020 20:45
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---12:30 p.m.: Utah starts a rental assistance program The state of Utah launched a ne
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 11: Delta limits some California flights; LDS temples reopen in Utah

  11-05-2020 20:06
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---11:30 a.m.: Nearly a dozen Latter-day Saint temples reopen in UtahA number of templ
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 11: Delta suspends flight to some California airports; 12 LDS temples reopen in Utah

  11-05-2020 19:38
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---11:30 a.m.: A dozen Latter-day Saint temples reopen in UtahA number of temples of T
  
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• The Utah Jazz actually almost faced the Chicago Bulls in the NBA Finals 3 times. Here’s what happened

  11-05-2020 19:33
  
  Utah Jazz guard John Stockton, left, drives towards the basket during an NBA Western Conference Finals game against the Seattle SuperSonics on Thursday, May 30, 1996, in Salt Lake City. The Jazz won Game 6 that day to force a Game 7 in the series, which Seattle won to advance to the NBA Finals. | Douglas C. Pizac, Associated PressThe end of the eighth episode of the ESPN documentary “The Last Dance” on Sunday delved some into the 1996 NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and Seattle
  
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• BYU football names new recruiting coordinators

  11-05-2020 18:43
  
  BYU coach Kalani Sitake has added to his recruiting operation, shifting responsibilities to trusted assistants who will have the goal of helping to land high-quality athletes for the football team.Sitake named Jasen Ah You to direct the program’s recruiting efforts and manage player personnel duties as the executive coordinator of recruiting and player personnel, while Jack Damuni will coordinate day-to-day recruiting activities and oversee recruiting events on campus as the executive coor
  
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• Missing Utah man found dead

  11-05-2020 18:40
  
  The body of a missing Utah man has been found, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.John Brent Hunt, 59, had last been seen on May 4, when he told his wife he was going fishing. On Saturday evening, campers reported finding Hunt’s vehicle in southwest Washington county near the Beaver Dam wash. Authorities began to search the area that night, and Hunt’s body was found about 1.4 miles from his vehicle on Sunday morning.According to the Washington County Sheriff&rsquo
  
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• AP Photos: Volunteers flood Navajo Nation in coronavirus outbreak

  11-05-2020 18:28
  
  Under the watchful eye of Agathla Peak and just south of Monument Valley on the Navajo reservation, the Kayenta Health Center struggled under an onslaught of COVID-19.The center’s only ventilator was in use on a patient in late April and, suddenly, the oxygen valve failed. Dennis Grooms of St. Louis spent the next three hours hand-pumping oxygen into the patient’s lungs until he could be flown to a larger medical facility.[Read more: In close-knit Navajo Nation communities, the coron
  
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• Tell The Tribune: How has the coronavirus and unemployment affected you?

  11-05-2020 18:19
  
  In the past seven weeks, more than 33 million Americans have filed for unemployment, the Department of Labor reported Thursday. At least 148,000 Utahns have sought traditional assistance for layoffs, furloughs or pay cuts, and an additional 18,000 self-employed workers, independent contractors and those in the gig economy filed under a new program.The coronavirus pandemic is resulting in “the greatest single-year job loss for Utah since the Great Depression,” and The Salt Lake Tribun
  
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• In close-knit Navajo Nation communities, the coronavirus takes hold

  11-05-2020 18:18
  
  Tuba City, Arizona • The virus arrived on the reservation in early March, carried in from Tucson, doctors say, by a man who had been to a basketball tournament and then made the long drive back to a small town in the Navajo highlands.There, believers were preparing to gather in a small, metal-walled church with a battered white bell and crucifixes on the window.From that church in Chilchinbeto, COVID-19 took hold on the Navajo Nation, hopscotching across families and clans and churches and
  
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• NBA tells players there are only ‘bad options’ as it explores resuming play

  11-05-2020 18:02
  
  UFC 249 was staged Saturday with no fans present in a Jacksonville, Fla. arena. There have been reports that the German soccer league will start to play again in the coming weeks.The NFL just released its schedule, with the expectation that football will start on time this fall. And there’s been increasing rumblings of late that Major League Baseball may get underway soon. Some of these developments are real, while others remain merely theoretical. Either way, such news inevitably has bask
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 11: Macy’s reopens; Delta suspends flight to some California airports

  11-05-2020 17:03
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---9 a.m.: Delta suspends service to three California airportsAs another sign of stres
  
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• Pioneer Theatre plans short season for spring 2021, rescheduling ‘Something Rotten!’ and ‘A**,’ adding ‘Legally Blonde’

  11-05-2020 16:31
  
  Pioneer Theatre Company will present a shortened, laugh-filled, three-production season for 2021, including two shows that had been set for this spring before the coronavirus pandemic disrupted everybody’s plans.“After being away from the stage and from our patrons,” PTC’s artistic director, Karen Azenberg, said in a statement, “it is important that we come back with a season that appeals to our entire audience base — a season that will make us laugh and forge
  
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• Greg Hughes and Spencer Cox, facing off in governor’s race, at odds over who deserves credit for Operation Rio Grande

  11-05-2020 16:14
  
  In the summer of 2017, then-House Speaker Greg Hughes wondered aloud if the state should consider summoning the National Guard to Salt Lake City’s troubled Rio Grande neighborhood.In his estimation, there was no hyperbole in the comment. He’d come to believe the crime and mayhem in the Pioneer Park area was really that bad. An assault on a minor league baseball player had made national headlines. A car had jumped a curb and plowed into a group of people, killing one. A bludgeoning de
  
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• Fire sweeps through 3 mobile homes in Salt Lake City

  11-05-2020 16:13
  
  A fire heavily damaged or destroyed three mobile homes in Salt Lake City early Monday, but firefighters believe there were no injuries.The fire, at 1366 S. Major Street, was reported shortly after 5:30 a.m. Firefighters arrived to find one mobile home engulfed in flames and believe the fire spread to the homes on either side. According to the Salt Lake City Fire Department, there were reports that one person may have in the mobile home at the center of the fire, but they believe that the residen
  
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• Jerry Stiller, a comedian with enduring appeal, is dead at 92

  11-05-2020 16:04
  
  Jerry Stiller, a classically trained actor who became a comedy star twice — in the 1960s in partnership with his wife, Anne Meara, and in the 1990s with a memorable recurring role on “Seinfeld” — has died. He was 92.His death was confirmed on Monday by his son, actor Ben Stiller, in a tweet, who said his father had died of natural causes.Stiller’s accomplishments as an actor were considerable. He appeared on Broadway in Terrence McNally’s frantic farce “
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 11: Macy’s reopens as malls start to come back to life

  11-05-2020 15:59
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 11. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---7:50 a.m.: Macy’s reopens in UtahMacy’s is reopening in the Salt Lake C
  
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• Cedar City police say suspect killed man and then shot himself

  11-05-2020 15:52
  
  Cedar City police are investigating after one man was shot to death and another man reportedly shot and wounded himself Sunday night.According to a news release, officers responding to a report of gunshots near 100 W. Sunset Drive about 10:38 p.m. found the body of Jeremy Hunter, 47, who had been shot “multiple” times. Witnesses reported that a 26-year-old man shot Hunter and fled.The suspect — who was carrying two rifles — was located several blocks away, according to po
  
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• Letter: Utahns show little respect for the law

  11-05-2020 15:12
  
  So state Rep. Phil Lyman's raison d'etre is defiance.I guess that should come as no surprise from a person who intentionally committed (and was convicted of) a federal crime for defying a valid regulation.Knowing this, the people of his district elected him to the Legislature, where he is voting for laws that presumably he wants people to obey.Additionally, Lyman wanted Sen. Mitt Romney censured for voting his conscience in trying to uphold the law. After Romney’s courageous vote, billboar
  
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• Letter: When it is not worth it?

  11-05-2020 15:11
  
  With the state easing up on its restrictions you’ve got to think, at what point does it not become “worth it”?How much plexiglass and personal protective equipment is needed in order to enjoy yourself at a movie or a restaurant? Sure, this could become the new norm and we as people can adapt to this with time, but is that a good thing?How uncomfortable do we have to get to be comfortable once more? Implementing these restrictions means we as a state shouldn’t be ready to
  
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• Letter: Don’t let high school end this way

  11-05-2020 15:11
  
  As far as most of Utah virtual graduations are being held, us seniors don’t want that. We’ve already had our senior experience taken from us, our sports taken, our senior dances and, most of all, our last goodbyes.As the smaller businesses are slowly opening up, we should be able to have our 12-plus years of hard work recognized.In my opinion, the schools should host smaller graduations outside in their football stadiums. Instead of one large graduation, have three smaller ones. No p
  
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• Letter: Blather in the shadow of Lincoln

  11-05-2020 15:10
  
  I was sickened by Mr. Trump’s ridiculous blather in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial.Thank you, Mr. Rees and Mr. Jolley for expressing my own feelings so eloquently. (“One great president and one not,” May 7). You are so right. Trump comparing the abuse he suffers with the suffering of Lincoln is "grotesque."This latest "stunt" is one more example of Trump's clownish, pathetic, and now disgraceful reach toward a totally undeserved preeminence.Fox News ought to be ashamed.Lynn
  
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• Letter: When ‘exceptionalism’ ends

  11-05-2020 15:09
  
  “American exceptionalism” is the general idea that the United States is different from other countries, endowed with special traits, better, superior. It goes back well, actually, people debate how far it goes back.But there’s no debating when it ends. It ends this month, in May 2020, under Donald Trump, who in prematurely sending people back to work (and to gyms) so they can die needlessly is destroying not just thousands of human lives but also any idea of America as a specia
  
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• Letter: Will you drink bleach?

  11-05-2020 15:08
  
  At the “Let’s All Get COVID” rally last Saturday in Utah County, Rep. Phil Lyman apparently said, “If the governor wants me to wear a face mask, all he has to do is say, ‘No more face masks. You can’t wear a face mask.’ I’ll wear one every dang day.”Hey, Phil, the governor has also said, "Do not drink bleach." I'll leave it to you to take the appropriate contrary action, you rebellious 8-year-old, you.Donald H. Feener Jr., Salt Lake CitySubmi
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: Anti-lockdown protesters have warped view of liberty

  11-05-2020 15:07
  
  Most Americans support the lockdowns and want the government to bring the coronavirus under control before opening up the economy. But “most” is not “all,” and a small minority is eager to end all the restrictions now, even as the virus spreads and COVID-19 caseloads continue to grow.A small faction of that minority has taken to the streets in vocal opposition to stay-at-home measures and the politicians responsible for them. They carry guns and wave Confederate flags and
  
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• Landfill near the Great Salt Lake is underwater financially

  11-05-2020 14:30
  
  A controversial but still-empty landfill on the tip of Great Salt Lake’s Promontory Peninsula appears to be drowning in financial trouble.Last month, Box Elder County received notice that Promontory Point Resources had failed to make a March 25 payment on its $16.3 million bond. The Salt Lake Tribune has confirmed PPR missed its April payment as well. One of PPR’s contractors, Whitaker Construction, filed a $119,362 lien against the landfill earlier this year. The company is also mon
  
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• Utah was once lauded for solving homelessness — the reality was far more complicated

  11-05-2020 14:15
  
  Five years ago, Utah officials proclaimed that they were closing in on a “functional zero” for chronic homelessness.The San Francisco Chronicle held up Salt Lake City as an example to follow, declaring that “panhandlers and homeless camps are virtually nonexistent." "The Daily Show” ran a segment in which a correspondent wandered Salt Lake City’s streets in a mock search for signs of homelessness. The Washington Post and The New Yorker wrote glowingly about the stat
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah’s disease detectives will be vital in keeping the coronavirus in check

  11-05-2020 14:10
  
  The phone rings. It’s a number you don’t know, but you answer it. The person says you may have the coronavirus because someone you were around tested positive.And then your mind goes blank for a minute while you process the news. What you are not likely to think at that moment is, who is this county employee who called me?That was a detective of disease, following the telltale trail of an invisible elusive and deadly adversary. That was a person doing the hard, detail-oriented work t
  
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• Utah cancer patients face costly barrier to preserving fertility

  11-05-2020 14:00
  
  The box reminded Ruby Barnes each time she returned to her Bountiful home. As she climbed the steps through the garage, she saw the label, “Ruby’s baby clothes.”Barnes, 38, had collected the outfits while working retail jobs since she was 16. All she’d ever wanted to be was a mother. But after she was diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer in October 2018, doctors quickly put her on a course of chemotherapy and radiation, which would likely affect her fertility.“Findi
  
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• Letter: With Trump, you get what you pay for

  11-05-2020 14:00
  
  What a noble gesture! Each year President Trump returns his $400,000 salary to the federal coffers.Trump, however, frequently and predictably eludes the duties of his office.He tweets. He reportedly spends seven to eight hours per day watching a multitude of TVs tuned to cable news. At day’s end Trump phones unofficial advisers, conversing with them well into the wee hours.Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Trump was an avid golfer. In 2019 alone, according to a Fox News report, Trump spen
  
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• Letter: The crisis puts a nail in the trickle-down coffin

  11-05-2020 14:00
  
  For many years, we have been told that our economic and tax policies must favor large corporations and the rich because they are the job creators and sustain our economy. Our current crisis has exposed this trickle-down theory as the fallacy we always knew it was. Our economy is not a pyramid trying to balance on its point. Rather, its very broad and stable base is ordinary people making their everyday purchases. Just like the food chain, if you wipe out the very small creatures at the bottom, t
  
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• Letter: Pelosi’s House is just idling away

  11-05-2020 14:00
  
  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has made the decision not to allow the House Representatives return to work due to her supposed concern about COVID-19. Why can others work through the entire pandemic without whining or crying about their jobs and duties to the country? All medical workers have worked nonstop. All employees that work in grocery stores stocking shelves to feed us have worked the entire time. Postal workers have worked the entire time to serve the country in their mail service. T
  
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• Letter: Give me FDR over our current president

  11-05-2020 14:00
  
  My husband and I have been rewatching Ken Burns’ documentary on the Roosevelts. The stark contrast in how presidents behave in times of crisis is both illuminating and discouraging.In my opinion, anyone who runs for president must have a healthy ego, strong self-confidence and not fear the limelight. These traits were clearly present in Franklin D. Roosevelt, as he saw the country through the Great Depression and most of World War II. These traits should not be confused with narcissism and
  
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• Trump adviser cites need to stop ‘permanent economic damage’

  11-05-2020 05:56
  
  Washington • Some of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers emphasized on Sunday the importance of states getting more businesses and offices open even as the pandemic makes its way to the White House complex, forcing three members of the administration’s coronavirus task force into self-quarantine.The president and governors who will decide when to reopen their states are facing competing pressures. More economic activity and travel will likely lead to more people contr
  
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• Pence spends weekend at home after exposure to infected aide, but plans to be back to work on Monday

  11-05-2020 05:53
  
  Washington • Vice President Mike Pence was self-isolating Sunday after an aide tested positive for the coronavirus last week, but he planned to return to the White House on Monday. An administration official said Pence was voluntarily keeping his distance from other people in line with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has repeatedly tested negative for COVID-19 since his exposure but was following the advice of medical officials. His action came after three o
  
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• ‘Would’ve loved to watch MJ practice and play baseball!,’ Donovan Mitchell says during ‘The Last Dance’

  11-05-2020 04:13
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) lays the ball up as Sacramento Kings guard Frank Mason III, right, watches during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, March 17, 2018, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) | AP Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell wasn’t even born for another two years after Michael Jordan played minor league baseball in 1994, but he’s long said the reason he wears No. 45 on the hardwood is because that’s the number Jordan wore on the field
  
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• Column: Will the new coronavirus kill spitting in sports?

  11-05-2020 03:31
  
  We come not to praise the loogie, but to bury it.Already banned on sidewalks, outlawed indoors and pooh-poohed by polite society, that gob of saliva and Lord-knows-what-else is done mucking up sports. In the wake of the new coronavirus, teams are revoking the germ-landing privileges that turned dugouts, benches, boxing rings and even grass fields into potential biohazard sites.No sharing towels, hats, bats, gloves or water bottles. Which could mean the golden era of spitting, slobbering, gleakin
  
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• Shutdown of tribal casinos deals blow to Indian Country

  11-05-2020 03:09
  
  Spokane, Wash. • When the Kalispel Tribe of Indians closed its casino as the coronavirus took hold in Washington state, it essentially shut down its economy.That difficult choice has played out nationwide as some 500 Native American casinos have voluntarily closed during the pandemic, often taking away tribes' main source of income in an effort to protect people's health in communities with limited medical resources.The U.S. government authorized $8 billion for tribes in a coronavirus relie
  
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• Leaders balance optimism with threat of second coronavirus wave

  11-05-2020 03:01
  
  Houston • Trump administration officials spoke optimistically about a relatively quick rebound from the coronavirus Sunday as life within the White House reflected the stark challenges still posed by the pandemic, with Vice President Mike Pence “self-isolating” after one of his aides tested positive.A balancing act was playing out the world over, with leaders starting to loosen lockdowns that have left millions unemployed while also warning of the threat of a second wave of infe
  
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• Pence self-isolating after exposure to aide with virus

  11-05-2020 02:42
  
  Washington • Vice President Mike Pence was self-isolating Sunday after an aide tested positive for the coronavirus last week, joining three of the nation’s top scientists in taking protective steps after possible exposure.An administration official said Pence was voluntarily keeping his distance from other people in line with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has repeatedly tested negative for COVID-19 since his exposure but was following the advice of m
  
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