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• NCAA extends recruiting dead period to July 31, college basketball academies at Utah and elsewhere cancelled

  13-05-2020 23:53
  
  COVID-19 has now made certain that the June and high-profile July evaluation periods for high school basketball will be barren this year.The NCAA announced Wednesday afternoon that it is extending the recruiting dead period through July 31. This is the second time the dead period has been extended. The initial announcement came on March 13, the day after the NCAA Tournament, the remainder of winter championships and all spring championships were cancelled. On April 1, the college sports governin
  
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• State lawmakers lay groundwork for steep COVID-19 budget cuts

  13-05-2020 23:48
  
  Economic shock waves from the COVID-19 pandemic could deliver a $1.3 billion hit to revenues in the coming budget year, state analysts report, and Utah lawmakers are preparing sizable spending cuts in anticipation.State legislators set in motion a budgetary review Wednesday that could wipe out funding increases approved earlier this year and result in reductions of up to 10% on top of that. They made no exception for education spending, which had received one of the biggest increases in years.Th
  
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• Wyoming planning commission grants permit to solar project

  13-05-2020 23:32
  
  Casper, Wyo. • A Wyoming planning commission approved a permit to build a utility-scale solar farm, but the project still requires county approval.The Natrona County Planning Commission approved a permit Tuesday for the proposed solar energy project by Dinosolar LLC, a subsidiary of Utah-based Enyo Renewable Energy, The Casper Star-Tribune reports.The company plans to construct a 240-megawatt, commercial solar photovoltaic system on 1.8 square miles of leased land west of Bar Nunn, a permit
  
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• NBA still grappling with possibility of coronavirus infection upon resuming games

  13-05-2020 23:30
  
  In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks at a news conference before an NBA preseason basketball game between the Houston Rockets and the Toronto Raptors in Saitama, Japan. | Jae C. Hong, APSALT LAKE CITY — On a Tuesday night conference call with the NBA board of governors, commissioner Adam Silver reportedly discussed a number of topics regarding a return to play and a timetable for making that decision.
  While momentum seems to be growing for the NBA to find
  
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• Homeless man shot dead while trying to rob a Utah County apartment

  13-05-2020 22:59
  
  Four homeless people have been arrested after a fifth member of their group was shot and killed while they reportedly tried to rob a home in Vineyard.According to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, the attempted robbery began Tuesday shortly after 6 p.m. when “a group of people” drove to Vineyard from Salt Lake City, intending to “rob and assault” a man who lived in an apartment near the intersection of Mill Road and Geneva Road.“There were several people who w
  
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• Some Utah areas with few new coronavirus cases may be allowed to open faster than others

  13-05-2020 22:48
  
  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. As health officials report two more coronavirus-related deaths Wednesday, Utah’s epidemiologist said it’s likely that Utah’s next steps to unwind restrictions will likely be uneven.Dr. Angela Dunn said some areas in Ut
  
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• COVID-19 may finally tap the brakes on Utah’s blazing fast population growth

  13-05-2020 22:47
  
  Doctors and demographers say the coronavirus pandemic may finally slow Utah’s rapid population growth — at least in the short term.“You will probably have less population growth,” said Mike Hollingshaus, senior demographer for the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. “You have more death. You have fewer births. You have less in-migration.”The prognosis for this triple impact came during an online discussion sponsored by the institute Wed
  
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• PGA Tour plans constant testing, limited access for golf’s return

  13-05-2020 22:44
  
  Players, caddies and key staff around them will be tested once a week for the new coronavirus, and everyone at the golf course will have their temperatures taken every day when the PGA Tour returns next month and tries to show it can resume its season with minimal risks.Testing was a big part of the process outlined Wednesday that revealed significant changes to how tournaments are conducted.No pro-ams. No spectators for at least a month, perhaps longer. No family members. No dry cleaning. And s
  
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• Jana Riess: When Latter-day Saint women can’t have the sacrament

  13-05-2020 22:40
  
  In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, not having access to the sacrament (our Sunday communion of bread and water) is generally a punishment. It means you’ve done something that is against the commandments. Your bishop may withhold access to the sacrament for a certain number of weeks or months so you can reflect on your sins and repent of them.If, after a period of denial, you have repented of what you did wrong, then your access is restored and you can once again partake.Th
  
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• MLS considers sending teams, including RSL, to Orlando in ‘bubble’ scenario

  13-05-2020 22:30
  
  Less than two weeks after Major League Soccer allowed its teams to hold voluntary individual workouts for its players, a scenario detailing how the league can start playing games again has surfaced.MLS has proposed a scenario under which all 26 teams would convene in Orlando by June 1 and start games a few weeks afterward, per multiple reports that were confirmed by The Salt Lake Tribune. The Washington Post first reported the proposal, which would have practices and games without fans played at
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 13: Two more die; Utah plans to ease restrictions by local area, not statewide

  13-05-2020 22:12
  
  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 Wednesday, May 13. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---2 p.m.: Some areas of Utah will have less restrictions than othersUtah’s n
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: College administrator examines BYU’s Honor Code reversal on LGBTQ issues

  13-05-2020 22:11
  
  Back in mid-February, Brigham Young University set off shock waves when it quietly removed from its Honor Code the section forbidding “homosexual behavior.”Many students believed — and had been told by school officials — that the shift meant the prohibition against such actions as same-sex hand-holding, kissing and dating was no longer in place. The LGBTQ community and its allies celebrated.Two weeks later, however, the Church Educational System, which oversees all BYU ca
  
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• Michelle Quist: Pandemic pulls the economy into a ‘shecession’

  13-05-2020 22:00
  
  I took the kids on an adventure this weekend. We drove south to the red rocks and endless vistas of Capitol Reef, over Boulder Mountain and through Escalante on Scenic Byway 12. We drove down dirt roads and went searching for waterfalls and examined caterpillar nests in cottonwood trees.We didn’t answer emails or join Zoom calls or fight about school assignments that somehow didn’t get submitted online. Mommy needed a break.It’s no big surprise that a pandemic, where work and s
  
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• Before his virtual concert, Utah violinist shares 5 wine and music pairings to match your mood

  13-05-2020 21:49
  
  David Park, the assistant concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, is a classical music expert, a connoisseur of wine and — because of those twin passions— a world traveler.With classical music performances canceled during the coronavirus, Park, who is also an adjunct professor of music at the University of Utah, has been passing the time by listening to his favorite composers and, of course, sipping from his personal cellar.“What I eat and drink at home,” he said, “ mak
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 13: Two more die, Utah adds 188 new cases

  13-05-2020 21:04
  
  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 Wednesday, May 13. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1 p.m.: Utah’s death toll reaches 75Two more Utahns have died from COVID-1
  
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• Commentary: Let’s be certain about one thing: Mental health remains a key priority for Utah

  13-05-2020 20:16
  
  This is a time of profound uncertainty. When will schools and businesses reopen? Who in our families could be “high risk” for severe illness? How will we keep bills paid and food on the table? What does the future hold?Our brains are wired to crave predictability. In its absence, we experience stress. With COVID-19, this stress is heightened because the very physical distancing measures that are crucial to slowing viral transmission also separate us from our usual sources of social,
  
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• Utah Foster Care back in the running for state contract after initial bid decision thrown out

  13-05-2020 20:05
  
  After loud protests from foster families and some legislators, Utah officials have ruled that flawed bidding led to an initial decision to replace Utah Foster Care — a nonprofit created 21 years ago by the Legislature that supporters credit with fixing big problems in the system.So, the Utah Division of Child and Family Services now will reopen bidding for a five-year contract for the state’s foster care recruitment, training and retention services, agency director Diane Moore wrote
  
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• Looking At The NBA Draft: The No. 3 Picks

  13-05-2020 19:18 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Matt John continues Basketball Insiders' "Looking Back" series by looking at who among the third overall picks since 2009 have been hits, misses and in-between.
  
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• RSL defender Nedum Onuoha spearheads effort to help those in organization affected by furloughs, layoffs

  13-05-2020 19:00
  
  A Real Salt Lake player has taken it upon himself to help those in the organization affected by the layoffs and furloughs announced last month.Nedum Onuoha, a defender who has been with the club since September 2018, led an effort supporting RSL employees who found themselves without jobs after the Major League Soccer season was suspended due to COVID-19.“It’s a tough time,” Onuoha told The Salt Lake Tribune. “A lot were caught off guard with the furloughs and some weren&
  
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• Utah quarterback Jake Bentley trades spring what-ifs for preparation amid COVID-19 pandemic

  13-05-2020 18:53
  
  With the University of Utah’s pandemic-shortened three-session spring practice no longer even visible in his rearview mirror, Jake Bentley believes it isn’t worth it to dabble in what-ifs.The Utes’ new graduate-transfer quarterback is willing to do so anyway.A 33-game starter across parts of four seasons at the University of South Carolina, Bentley committed to the Utes on Dec. 9, then arrived in Salt Lake City on Jan. 3, three days before the start of the spring semester. Bent
  
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• Refugees in Utah struggle to find their footing during the coronavirus pandemic

  13-05-2020 18:49
  
  Salt Lake City • Afghan refugee Mahmood Amiri arrived in the United States more than a month ago, but his children are still waiting for their first day at school. They have yet to go to a mosque to meet other Muslim families. And Amiri is itching to get a job, but nobody knows how long that will take in a crashing economy.Starting a new life in America is never easy for refugees, but doing it during a pandemic has created more struggles, especially after the federal government cut off fund
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 13: New projections show food insecurity in Utah will increase

  13-05-2020 18:42
  
  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 Wednesday, May 13. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---10:40 a.m.: New projections show food insecurity in Utah will increaseThe Utah F
  
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• Utah Jazz 2020 NBA Draft: Paul Reed is one of the better fits

  13-05-2020 18:33
  
  DePaul junior and draft riser Paul Reed could be an ideal fit for the Utah Jazz in the late stages of the first round in the 2020 NBA Draft. It has been over two months since the NBA suspended the 2019-20 season. We were supposed to be watching our Utah Jazz in the playoffs right […]
  Utah Jazz 2020 NBA Draft: Paul Reed is one of the better fits - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• From the start, team of Utah business execs planned how to screen, test and distribute malaria drug for COVID-19

  13-05-2020 18:23
  
  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. As TestUtah.com and related efforts to distribute a controversial drug have come under scrutiny, Utah tech leaders have insisted that the screening website — from its questions to which patients are referred for COVID-19 testing &
  
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• Auditors urge overhaul of grant/loan program for rural Utah communities

  13-05-2020 18:16
  
  Utah set up a fund several years ago to distribute federal mineral royalties to rural communities to support projects that address the impacts of mineral extraction on untaxable public land.But over the past several years, the Permanent Community Impact Fund’s mission has strayed and its system for approving grants and loans lacks consistency and its oversight of that financial aid lacks accountability, according to a legislative audit released Wednesday.Speaking before lawmakers Wednesday
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 13: Thanksgiving Point to reopen Butterfly Biosphere, Harvest Restaurant

  13-05-2020 18:09
  
  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 Wednesday, May 13. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---10:10 a.m.: Thanksgiving Point to reopen Butterfly Biosphere, Harvest Restaurant
  
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• Utah’s Jake Bentley trades spring what-ifs for preparation amid COVID-19 pandemic

  13-05-2020 18:05
  
  With the University of Utah’s pandemic-shortened three-session spring practice no longer even visible in his rearview mirror, Jake Bentley believes it isn’t worth it to dabble in what-ifs.The Utes’ new graduate-transfer quarterback is willing to do so anyway.A 33-game starter across parts of four seasons at the University of South Carolina, Bentley committed to the Utes on Dec. 9, then arrived in Salt Lake City on Jan. 3, three days before the start of the spring semester. Bent
  
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• Former Jazzman Mo Williams hired as head coach of Alabama State

  13-05-2020 16:40
  
  Jazz guard Mo Williams takes off downcourt after making the game winning 3-pointer during the second half of the NBA basketball game between the Utah Jazz and the San Antonio Spurs at Energy Solutions Arena, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. | Ben Brewer, Deseret News Former Jazzman Mo Williams is making his head coaching debut.
  Williams was hired as head coach of Alabama State, which plays in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
  He will try and turn around a program that hasn’t had a winning se
  
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• Elon Musk becomes champion of defying virus stay-home orders

  13-05-2020 15:51
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk has emerged as a champion of defying stay-home orders intended to stop the coronavirus from spreading, picking up support — as well as critics — on social media.Among the supporters was President Donald Trump, who on Tuesday morning tweeted that Tesla's San Francisco Bay Area factory should be allowed to open despite local health department orders that it stay closed except for minimum basic operations.“It can be done fast & safely,” the president
  
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• Bodies of 7-year-old and 3-year-old Utah girls found after they died in Emery County flash flood

  13-05-2020 15:51
  
  An afternoon hike in one of Utah’s most popular slot canyons turned into a tragic nightmare for one Utah family that lost two little girls when floodwaters flashed through Little Wildhorse Canyon on Monday.Authorities have identified the victims as two sisters, ages 7 and 3, but have not released their names or where they are from. The body of the younger girl was recovered late Tuesday, about 30 miles away from where the family was swept up in the flood, FOX 13 reported.Gov. Gary Herbert
  
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• Leonard Pitts: America can still kill itself

  13-05-2020 15:07
  
  Eighteen-year-old Dameon Shepard was playing video games when the mob came to his door. Some were carrying guns.It must've felt like one of those old westerns where the sheriff faces down angry townsfolk demanding the blood of the desperado inside his jail. Or, given that Shepard is black and the more than 15 people at his door were white, it might have recalled one of the thousands of times white mobs came for African-American lives.But this wasn't "Gunsmoke," and it wasn't history. No, this wa
  
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• Legislative audits paint picture of Utah’s early handling of COVID-19 pandemic

  13-05-2020 15:07
  
  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. A series of reports from the Utah Legislature’s in-house auditor casts some light on the state of Utah’s early handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the amount of testing for the coronavirus was affected by unclear messagi
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah towns near national parks want tourists to visit, but hope they do so responsibly

  13-05-2020 15:00
  
  By the time you read this, Zion National Park will have reopened, welcoming visitors for the first time in a little more than a month.It is the latest step in this tight-rope act health officials and elected leaders are taking toward reviving Utah’s tourism economy which had essentially been placed into a medically induced coma thanks to COVID-19.Operations will be limited: Zion will only be open during the day, shuttles will not run, the visitors center will be closed, portions of popular
  
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• Proposed name change exposes divisions in Mormons Building Bridges, spurs creation of new LGBTQ support group

  13-05-2020 15:00
  
  It was intended as a simple nod to LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson’s vow to vanquish the term “Mormon.”Instead, the short-lived move to change the name of Mormons Building Bridges, an LGBTQ support group, to “Saints Building Bridges” signaled subtle but serious differences for the prominent group and prompted some notable departures.At its core, the conflict is about how, when or whether to approach gay rights issues in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da
  
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• Bluff will stay at ‘red’ alert as some Utah counties are denied request to ease into ‘yellow’ coronavirus status

  13-05-2020 14:55
  
  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.Bluff • As new coronavirus cases plateau in Utah and the state begins to reopen, some counties and municipalities have asked Gov. Gary Herbert to deviate from the statewide level of restrictions, requesting to be classified at highe
  
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• Letter: Shame on us for warehousing the elderly

  13-05-2020 14:00
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune recently ran a story (May 2) on health violations in dozens of nursing homes. The story was specifically about a nursing assistant, Nigel Kooyman, who resigned from a particular nursing home due to the substandard character of the facility. Investigations of numerous other homes showed the same pattern of neglect and mismanagement.Kooyman is to be commended for exposing one of the true disgraces in our society: the way in which we "warehouse" (a word I've heard from other c
  
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• Letter: Let’s compare callous mask avoidance with callous smoking

  13-05-2020 14:00
  
  Regarding the growing controversy of wearing facemasks in public, it is my understanding that wearing a non-medical mask does little or nothing to protect the wearer. What it does do is protect, to a large degree, people the wearer interacts with.We should harken back to the mid-1990s when public smoking was being outlawed. At the time, smokers loudly protested, saying that their constitutional rights to smoke when and where they saw fit were being violated.It seems to me that unmasked presence
  
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• Letter: I won’t vote for a sexual predator

  13-05-2020 14:00
  
  I am disappointed and angry. I am not a partisan hack, neither am I an ideologue. I did vote for Bernie Sanders this year, and it’s true that I’m not excited about Joe Biden’s politics.At the same time, my standards for president are pretty low right now. I can sum them up as follows. The candidate whom I will vote for must: have a pulse; not have committed any high crimes, including treason; and not be a sexual predator or assailant.A candidate who can pass this test will unkn
  
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• Letter: COVID-19 in the Third World

  13-05-2020 14:00
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the industrialized nations of the world, with significant illness and a global economic depression. It hit industrialized nations first, because business in today’s world requires global interaction. Each nation then reacts to close borders, hunker down and weather the storm, anxious to return to normalcy as soon as possible.The impoverished countries of Africa, parts of Asia and South America will also get hit, but do not have the resources to hunker down
  
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• Letter: Celebrate essential workers

  13-05-2020 14:00
  
  Eventually, the COVID pandemic will end and life can go back to normal, when everyone can eat in restaurants and have parties in their homes.I think that when the pandemic is over we should have a day of celebration, a holiday, to celebrate everyone who was essential. Essential workers have carried all of us and allowed us to live as normal as possible during quarantine.Now medical workers are very essential to fighting COVID, but they are not the only group of essential workers. People who work
  
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• Letter: An experiment in human sacrifice

  13-05-2020 14:00
  
  Gov. Herbert, your action to go from red to orange before the trend in new cases of COVID is down, before there is adequate testing, before there is adequate contact tracing in place, all point me to conclude that you are willing to run an experiment in human sacrifice that impacts our health workers and other essential workers.Many of these workers have no choice about working and did not bargain for a low wage in exchange for their health and possibly their life, or the lives of others in the
  
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• George Pyle: Selfishness is not the same as liberty

  13-05-2020 14:00
  
  “I have always found it quaint, and rather touching, that there is a movement in the U.S. that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”— Christopher HitchensA troop of college students I was once part of, many years ago, visited The National Archives for a few hours of introduction on how to use its vast trove of information. Proud that the federal stash included more than musty old books and papers, our guide brought us to a small theater to show us some of the historic f
  
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• From the start, team of Utah execs planned how to screen, test and distribute malaria drug for COVID-19

  13-05-2020 14:00
  
  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. As TestUtah.com and related efforts to distribute a controversial drug have come under scrutiny, Utah tech leaders have insisted that the screening website — from its questions to which patients are referred for COVID-19 testing &
  
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• Coronavirus and immunity — what the latest research says about people who already beat the disease

  13-05-2020 14:00
  
  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. Nuance can be difficult to communicate in the best of times. In a pandemic? Even harder.So when the World Health Organization issued a release at the end of April that said “there is currently no evidence” that people who re
  
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• Navajo Nation extends emergency declaration until June 7

  13-05-2020 07:50
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation has extended an executive order declaring a state of emergency and government closures to June 7 in an attempt to minimize the spread of the coronavirus.A stay-at-home order for residents on the vast reservation also remains in place.Tribal President Jonathan Nez announced the third extension of the executive order during an online town hall Tuesday.The current emergency declaration that closes government offices and non-essential programs was set to e
  
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• Are we just a few weeks away from a decision on NBA’s return this season?

  13-05-2020 05:53
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) guards Toronto Raptors guard Terence Davis (0) during an NBA game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. The Jazz lost 92-101. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News There seems to be momentum toward at least a decision coming soon on whether or not the NBA will return to finish the 2019-2020 season.
  According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the league’s board of governors met on Tuesday, and Cha
  
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• Golf notes: TV special on ‘Tiger Slam’ to air after Woods’ charity match

  13-05-2020 05:03
  
  Golf Channel was going to wait until a few hours after the Masters was over to show the latest project from its Golf Films unit called “Tiger Slam.” But it wasn’t going to wait until November.The timing turned out to be even better.The one-hour special, which chronicles Woods winning all four majors in a span of 294 days, will be shown two hours after Woods is seen in live competition for the first time in three months.“Tiger Slam” is scheduled to air on May 24 at 6
  
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• Man shot dead in Vineyard home invasion

  13-05-2020 04:18
  
  One person was killed Tuesday evening in an apparent home invasion in Vineyard, according to the Utah County Sheriff's Office.A call came in around 6:20 p.m. of a shooting in an apartment near the intersection of Mill and Geneva roads, according to Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Spencer Cannon."There were several people who were attempting a home invasion," Cannon said. "There was a shooting and one adult male is deceased."He could not say whether the shooter was an occupant of the apartment or one
  
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• Ross Douthat: The coronavirus quagmire

  13-05-2020 04:00
  
  “Americans play to win all the time,” George Patton told the Third Army in the spring of 1944. “That’s why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. The very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.”That was in another time, another country. When Patton spoke the United States was still ascending, a superpower in the making. But once our ascent was complete, our war making became managerial, lumbering, oriented toward stalemate. From Vietnam to Iraq to
  
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• Juvenile arrested for allegedly starting Saddle Fire near Midway

  13-05-2020 04:00
  
  A juvenile is in custody Tuesday, suspected of setting a string of fires outside Midway, including Tuesday’s Saddle Fire, which grew from just a few acres to more than 200 thanks to gusty winds.The Saddle Fire was possibly the fourth suspicious fire started near the Interlaken and Pine Canyon neighborhoods north of the Provo River in recent days, according to a Facebook post by the Wasatch County Sheriff's Office. It was also the most dangerous, prompting the evacuation of nearby homes as
  
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