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• When protesters cry ‘defund the police,’ what does it mean?

  07-06-2020 23:29
  
  Washington • Protesters are pushing to “defund the police" over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by law enforcement. Their chant has become rallying cry — and a stick for President Donald Trump to use on Democrats as he portrays them as soft on crime.But what does “defund the police” mean? It’s not necessarily about gutting police department budgets.WHAT IS THE ‘DEFUND THE POLICE’ MOVEMENT?Supporters say it isn’t abou
  
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• Officials urge Floyd protesters to get coronavirus tests

  07-06-2020 22:53
  
  New York • With New York City poised to reopen after a more than two-month coronavirus shutdown, officials on Sunday lifted a curfew that was in place amid protests of police brutality and racial injustice. But they also urged that demonstrators be tested for COVID-19.“Get a test. Get a test,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told people who have been participating in rallies and marches in memory of George Floyd.He said the state would open 15 testing sites dedicated to protesters so
  
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• Utah health officials report 268 cases of COVID-19, a significant drop; no new deaths reported

  07-06-2020 22:15
  
  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. The Utah Department of Health on Sunday afternoon reported 268 new cases of COVID-19, an increase of 2.3% from Saturday, but no new deaths, leaving that total at 121.The 268 new cases represent a significant drop in new cases after five
  
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• Utah’s spike in positive COVID-19 cases ends; no new deaths reported

  07-06-2020 21:31
  
  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. The Utah Department of Health on Sunday afternoon reported 268 new cases of COVID-19, an increase of 2.3% from Saturday, but no new deaths, leaving that total at 121.The 268 new cases halts a statewide spike in new cases, which saw case
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: The police are rioting. We need to talk about it.

  07-06-2020 20:00
  
  If we’re going to speak of rioting protesters, then we need to speak of rioting police as well. No, they aren’t destroying property. But it is clear from news coverage, as well as countless videos taken by protesters and bystanders, that many police are using often indiscriminate violence against people — against anyone, including the peaceful majority of demonstrators, who happens to be in the streets.Rioting police have driven vehicles into crowds, reproducing the assault tha
  
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• Severe weather hits Salt Lake Valley, producing strong winds and hail

  07-06-2020 19:46
  
  Severe thunderstorms, complete with winds in excess up to 60 mph and reports of golf ball-sized hail in some places, rolled through the Salt Lake Valley on Sunday morning.The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City sent out a significant weather advisory at 8:28 a.m. Sunday for Box Elder and Cache counties, altering them to a storm with strong winds and hail up to a half-inch in diameter.The storms moved northeast throughout the morning, affecting parts of Weber County, Paradise, Avon and Wil
  
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• Severe weather hits Salt Lake Valley, advisories remain in effect

  07-06-2020 19:15
  
  Severe thunderstorms, complete with winds in excess up to 60 mph and reports of golf ball-sized hail in some places, rolled through the Salt Lake Valley on Sunday morning.The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City sent out a significant weather advisory at 8:28 a.m. Sunday for Box Elder and Cache Counties, altering them to a storm with strong winds and hail up to a half-inch in diameter.The storms moved northeast throughout the morning, affecting parts of Weber County, Paradise, Avon and Wil
  
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• Utah National Guard heading home after Trump orders troops to withdraw from nation’s capital

  07-06-2020 19:07
  
  Washington • After nearly a week deployed to the nation’s capital, Utah National Guard soldiers are headed home.President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday morning that he’d ordered troops from several states — which had been supporting local law enforcement in quelling protests in the nation’s capital — to withdraw from the District of Columbia now that the demonstrations have ebbed.“I have just given an order for our National Guard to start the process of wit
  
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• Salt Lake City Councilwoman Amy Fowler says Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was ‘unlawfully killed’ by police

  07-06-2020 18:25
  
  Salt Lake City Councilwoman Amy Fowler appears to be the first city official to call Bernardo Palacio-Carbajal’s death by police unlawful.Fowler, who serves District 7 in the southeast portion of Salt Lake City, took to Facebook late Saturday evening to make her feelings known.
  (Screenshot from Facebook) Salt Lake City Councilwoman Amy Fowler wrote Saturday, June 6, 2020, on Facebook that, “I believe Bernardo Palacio-Carbajal was unlawfully killed and I am outraged. I will do everyth
  
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• Salt Lake City Councilwoman Amy Fowler says Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was ‘unlawfully killed’

  07-06-2020 18:01
  
  Salt Lake City Councilwoman Amy Fowler appears to be the first city official to call Bernardo Palacio-Carbajal’s death unlawful.Fowler, who serves District 7 in the southeast portion of Salt Lake City, took to Facebook late Saturday evening to make her feelings known.
  (Screenshot from Facebook) Salt Lake City Councilwoman Amy Fowler wrote Saturday, June 6, 2020, on Facebook that, “I believe Bernardo Palacio-Carbajal was unlawfully killed and I am outraged. I will do everything in my
  
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• Utah National Guard heading home after President Trump orders troops to withdraw from the nation’s capital

  07-06-2020 17:42
  
  Washington • After nearly a week deployed to the nation’s capital, Utah National Guard soldiers are headed home.President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday morning that he’d ordered troops from several states — which had been supporting local law enforcement in quelling protests in the nation’s capital — to withdraw from the District of Columbia now that the demonstrations have ebbed.“I have just given an order for our National Guard to start the process of wit
  
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• The BYU Cougars are thrilled to be working out and training again, even if there are restrictions

  07-06-2020 17:21
  
  The NCAA announced on May 20 it would allow student-athletes back on campuses for voluntary workouts beginning June 1.Not bound by conference mandates or restrictions, BYU wasted no time as it began welcoming back football, and men’s and women’s basketball players to athletic facilities on the Provo campus on June 1. Of course, it was not a free-for-all as certain medical and safety protocols had to be followed before anyone could enter a facility.Upon arrival, a series of questions,
  
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• Thad Box: Moving to metric would boost the American economy

  07-06-2020 17:00
  
  More Americans are out of work than ever before. J.C. Penney, the go-to store of my youth, filed for bankruptcy. Many temporary closed businesses will never open again. Our government showers companies with funds not backed by gold hoping that newly created money will help keep people employed. Good people, out of a job and with car and house payments due, get their groceries at food banks.Our country is in a mess, but I’ve danced to this tune before.Herbert Hoover was president the year I
  
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• Jazz mailbag: Answering your questions about what to expect when the NBA season resumes 

  07-06-2020 17:00
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) and Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) celebrate after a Conley 3-point shot as the Utah Jazz play the Sacramento Kings on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. Howfirst-year Jazz man Conley performs will be a storyline to follow when the season resumes in Orlando. “I prefer to look at the coming resumption of the season as the perfect time for Conley to prove his mettle with the Jazz,” Sarah Todd wrote. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY —
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: What if there were no George Floyd video?

  07-06-2020 16:20
  
  Imagine that no one had shot video of George Floyd being killed by police in Minneapolis. There would have been a bland statement that he had died resisting arrest, and none of us would have heard of him.Instead, the horror of that video has ignited protests around the world. Racism in that video is as visceral as a lynching.Yet there is no viral video to galvanize us about other racial inequities:— There is no video to show that a black boy born today in Washington, D.C.; Missouri; Alabam
  
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• Utahns who had COVID-19 share what it was like

  07-06-2020 16:08
  
  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 feels like the worst cold ever — times 10. Like one cough might make your head explode. Like a baseball stuck in your chest. Like a group of people learning to tap dance on your rib cage.There’s fatigue, too, so extreme t
  
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• Washington protesters express optimism after week on edge

  07-06-2020 15:00
  
  Washington • On Monday, they were forcibly removed from the street by law enforcement. On Saturday, they danced.The tens of thousands of racially diverse demonstrators who flooded Washington to protest injustice and police brutality reshaped the mood of a city that has been on edge this week. Bursts of looting and violence early in the week prompted a dramatic clampdown by law enforcement that gave the nation's capital the feeling of an occupied city, complete with military vehicles, helico
  
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• Utah’s cannabis pharmacies say testing logjam, software glitches are slowing sales

  07-06-2020 15:00
  
  Most medical cannabis programs experience a few growing pains when they’re ramping up, struggling with delays, supply chain hitches and the occasional lawsuit.On top of those typical snags, Utah’s medicinal marijuana industry is in the unenviable position of putting down roots as a pandemic rages around it.It’s been three months since patients who rely on the once-illicit substance could finally apply for a state-issued card demonstrating their medical need for it. March also m
  
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• Trying to better understand racism? Here’s what four black Utahns suggest you read.

  07-06-2020 15:00
  
  James Jackson III was on vacation when Black Lives Matter protests began to sweep the nation last week. He was grateful that so many people reached out to him with uplifting messages and questions, but at the same time, he found it frustrating.“It took riots in several states, and I don’t agree with rioting, but it woke up a lot of people,” said Jackson, founder of the Utah Black Chamber. “When people started reaching out, it was like, ‘Well, where have you guys bee
  
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• ‘Like a baseball under my chest’: What it was like for these Utahns to have COVID-19

  07-06-2020 15:00
  
  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. It feels like the worst cold ever — times 10. Like one cough might make your head explode. Like a baseball stuck in your chest. Like a group of people learning to tap dance on your rib cage.There’s fatigue, too, so extreme t
  
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• Deaths at the Salt Lake County jail: Families of inmates say poor care, callous staff must change

  07-06-2020 15:00
  
  A woman died at the Salt Lake County jail after her pleas for help went ignored.Another lost her baby while pregnant and incarcerated there after complaining for weeks that she was bleeding.A man died by suicide after asking for help — and receiving nothing more than a handout.A stroke killed another woman after she pleaded for medical treatment for two weeks.Four families are mourning the loss of their loved ones, and now they’re looking for change.They want Salt Lake County inmates
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Has your favorite TV show been canceled? Here’s a list of what’s not coming back.

  07-06-2020 14:00
  
  At this point, there’s a whole lot we don’t know about what we’re going to be able to watch on TV in the coming months. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, broadcast and cable networks have announced new schedules and new shows, and they’ve renewed old shows — but, almost without exception, they have no idea when production will be able to resume.The one sure thing in TV right now is what won’t be coming back. There’s a long list, including one show with a
  
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• Letter: Trump is a bully, not a leader

  07-06-2020 14:00
  
  “Well I got a Bible in my home“I got a Bible in my home“If I don't read it my soul be lost“And it’s nobody’s fault but mine”— Traditional American folk songThese lyrics came into my head when I saw Donald Trump’s photo-op on the news. Now I read that a large number of peaceful protesters, including members of the clergy, were teargassed to make way for him to stop briefly in front of a church that he does not attend, holding up a Bible that I
  
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• Letter: To form a more representative Legislature

  07-06-2020 14:00
  
  There has been outrage from Republicans over previously unaffiliated or registered Democrats registering as Republicans in order to vote in the closed Utah Republican primary. Before, Republicans were outraged by the Count My Vote initiative to allow candidates to bypass the caucuses by collecting signatures.Party affiliation can be a stronger affiliation than race, religion or ethnicity. These efforts could be seen as interference with the internal workings of a private organization core to a p
  
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• Letter: Republicans just parrot Trump’s talking points

  07-06-2020 14:00
  
  After reading the comments of the four Republicans hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams, I was struck by how almost all Republicans are following the Donald Trump/Fox News playbook.The talking points? Trump is doing a good job. (He isn’t.) Democrats hate our country. (They don’t.) The Affordable Care Act is a disaster. (It’s not.) “Outsiders” were responsible for Salt Lake City’s recent civil unrest. (They weren’t.)Anyone who believes these four talkin
  
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• Letter: No support for Trump supporters

  07-06-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Spencer Cox,You would make a good governor — much better than the other Republican candidates. I planned to put your sign on my lawn, vote for you and encourage my family and friends to do the same.Then you declared your allegiance to Donald Trump, knowing who he is and the damage he and his enablers have done and are doing to our country (and our world). He is a man with no integrity.How can I support you now that support for you means support for him?Carol Coombs, BountifulSubmit a
  
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• Leonard Pitts: First Amendment has no meaning ... unless

  07-06-2020 14:00
  
  “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”— The First Amendment to the U.S. ConstitutionThose words have no meaning.Not until or unless you and I agree they do. After all, neither the parchment on which the promises are written nor the Supreme Court that
  
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• Brodi Ashton: In this strange world, this is what I can write about

  07-06-2020 14:00
  
  The boy’s name is Alex.Let me start from the beginning. June is a tough month for me. It is the month of Father’s Day and the month of my dad’s birthday. And my dad is dead. It’s even stranger this year, when there are coronavirus restrictions and riots.I’m not sure when it’s supposed to be OK for your dad to have died, but it feels like that day hasn’t passed yet.My dad was a pediatrician for a good portion of his life. One day, he held a tiny newborn i
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: When a good fence isn’t enough to make a good neighbor

  07-06-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • My neighbors don’t like our bushes or trees hanging over the fence into their “airspace.” They regularly trim them straight up, hacking off branches with lilacs and limbs with lovely leaves. Mind you, the trees and shrubs are nowhere near their home or other buildings. They overhang a field and a cement driveway. I understand they have the right to do this, but it looks like crap, especially on their side of the fence. It’s not good for our trees, e
  
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• Hundreds come out in the rain to protest police brutality in Salt Lake City on Saturday

  07-06-2020 06:15
  
  They stood and cheered as the rain soaked their protest signs, ink running down their arms.They lit and re-lit candles that the storm blew out.They brought in bright red roses by the armfuls, handing them out among the 600 or so protesters who stood in the rain for hours Saturday evening outside the Utah Capitol demanding justice for Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, a 22-year-old man who was shot and killed by Salt Lake City police two weeks ago.It was the eighth day of protests in Salt Lake City, or
  
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• Woman who peed on police car during protest arrested

  07-06-2020 05:44
  
  Salt Lake City police have arrested a woman accused of peeing on a police car during protests against police brutality last week.The 35-year-old woman was photographed climbing on top of an overturned police car May 30, dropping her bikini bottoms and urinating. Other people that day climbed on the car to dance and raise their fists.The woman was booked into jail Saturday on suspicion of third-degree felony rioting and a misdemeanor count of lewdness, in addition to drug and paraphernalia posses
  
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• American Fork, Timpanogos claim Last Chance tourney titles

  07-06-2020 04:48
  
  Two Utah high school baseball teams were crowned champions at the inaugural Last Chance Tournament on Saturday.American Fork took the 6A championship, beating Riverton 8-7. The Cavemen had to come form behind to win the title game.Timpanogos narrowly beat Salem Hills 9-8 for the 5A championship later in the evening, also having to stage a comeback late in the game.The two-week tournament was put on after the Utah High School Activities Association canceled spring sports in the state due to the C
  
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• NBA still has a number of decisions to make in regards to resuming season, many that would impact the Utah Jazz

  07-06-2020 04:23
  
  A sign at the entrance to ESPN’s Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World is seen Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in Kissimmee, Fla. The NBA is planning on resuming its 22-team season at Disney. | John Raoux, APSALT LAKE CITY — As the NBA continues to work through the details of resuming the 2019-20 season, there are still many questions that remain, many of which the answers will directly impact the Utah Jazz.
  While the broad strokes of the 22-team format set to take place in Orlando hav
  
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• Copper Hills’ Makaiya Gomez is Utah’s Gatorade Softball Player of the Year

  07-06-2020 03:14
  
  Makaiya Gomez only got to play one game with her Copper Hills High teammates on the Grizzlies’ home field. The rest were in California, Arizona and New Mexico.So when she woke up to a text message with the news she had won the Gatorade Utah Softball Player of the Year award, Gomez was shocked. Not only was she unaware her coach nominated her, but it came as a surprise also because her senior season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.“It’s kind of crazy because I wasn&rsq
  
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• Protests continue in Salt Lake City on Saturday

  07-06-2020 01:45
  
  People were gathering in front of the Utah Capitol Saturday evening, in an eighth straight day of protests in Salt Lake City. About 200 people held signs that read “Don’t Shoot” and “Black Lives Matter,” and cheered as passing cars honked and waved in support. A vigil is scheduled for Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal — a 22-year-old man who was shot and killed by Salt Lake City police two weeks ago.“Justice for Bernardo!” some yelled as Utah Highway Patr
  
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• As Utah cases spike, advocate dies of COVID-19 in the veterans’ home that bears his name

  07-06-2020 00:49
  
  William Christoffersen, a tireless advocate for Utah’s veterans who served more than 70 years with the American Legion, has died from complications of COVID-19, in the Salt Lake City veterans home named for him.Christoffersen died Sunday, May 31 — six days before his 94th birthday, which would have been Saturday, the anniversary of D-Day.“No one in my lifetime has done more for veterans in Utah than Bill Christoffersen,” said Terry Schow, former executive director of the
  
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• Over 1,000 mourners salute slain Ogden police officer during funeral ceremony

  07-06-2020 00:20
  
  Ogden • When Ogden police Officer Nathan Lyday was a fifth-grader, he wrote a poem about what the world would look like if he were in charge of it.Recess would last longer, if he had his way. He wouldn't have to take his vitamins. Broccoli wouldn't exist anymore. Neither would bullies."He hated bullies," Lyday's mother, Nancy Lyday, recalled Saturday during her son's funeral. "He was and always is the ultimate defender in life, in sports, in anything he did."It was while sticking up for oth
  
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• Copper Hills’ Makayia Gomez is Utah’s Gatorade Softball Player of the Year

  07-06-2020 00:15
  
  Makayia Gomez only got to play one game with her Copper Hills High teammates on the Grizzlies’ home field. The rest were in California, Arizona and New Mexico.So when she woke up to a text message with the news she had won the Gatorade Utah Softball Player of the Year award, Gomez was shocked. Not only was she unaware her coach nominated her, but it came as a surprise also because her senior season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.“It’s kind of crazy because I wasn&rsq
  
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