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• Coronavirus in Utah: A staggering week culminates in 472 new cases, 31 new hospitalizations

  28-06-2020 22:28 via sltrib.com
  
  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. Sunday’s coronavirus-related numbers in Utah were not as egregious as those from the previous few days.Which might be the only silver lining to what was an otherwise disastrous week in the fight against COVID-19.The state’s
  
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• Despite virus disruption, NYC celebrates the 50th anniversary of Pride

  28-06-2020 22:03 via sltrib.com
  
  New York • There were protests, rainbow flags and performances — it was LGBTQ Pride, after all.But what was normally an outpouring on the streets of New York City looked a little different this year, thanks to social distancing rules required by the coronavirus.With the city’s massive Pride parade canceled, Sunday’s performances were virtual, the flags flew in emptier than normal spaces and the protesters were masked.The disruption caused by the virus would be an aggravati
  
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• Three-star running back Ricky Parks commits to Utah football

  28-06-2020 21:20 via sltrib.com
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped the University of Utah coaching staff from hauling in a quality class of 2021 recruits.The most recent example came Sunday afternoon when Ricky Parks, a three-star running back from Tampa, offered a verbal commitment to the Utes.According to the 247sports composite, Parks, who ran for 1,251 yards and 14 touchdowns as a junior at Jesuit High School, is the second-highest-rated running back recruit in Utah history, behind only sophomore Jordan Wilmore.Parks is
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: 472 new cases, 31 new hospitalizations, but no new deaths

  28-06-2020 20:56 via sltrib.com
  
  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. Utah’s recent spike in COVID-19 cases continued Sunday, with 472 new cases and 31 new hospitalizations announced.There were no new deaths in the latest figures released by the Utah Department of Health.There have now been 21,100 t
  
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• Utah Royals head into Challenge Cup with new faces, younger roster and plenty of questions

  28-06-2020 20:19 via sltrib.com
  
  It’s a whole new world for the Utah Royals FC.The Royals started the 2020 preseason raring to go. Players came in fit. The new coach named a new captain. And there were plenty of new faces.Just two days into camp, however, the COVID-19 pandemic halted any momentum that had been built. The Royals would have to wait to see whether all their offseason work and a fresh start of sorts would translate to the field.But with the Royals starting their slate of games for the National Women’s S
  
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• Fire caused by fireworks still poses threat, keeping Draper, Lehi residents from their homes

  28-06-2020 20:12 via sltrib.com
  
  Residents evacuated early Sunday morning in Lehi and Draper as a wildfire on Traverse Mountain started by fireworks grew perilously close to their homes, though in a 7 a.m. news briefing, Lehi’s fire chief noted that, “My level of concern is much lower now.”Draper issued an evacuation order for the Maple Hollow neighborhood at 3:14 a.m., according to the city’s Facebook page. The city subsequently sent evacuation notices to Brookside and Deer Ridge neighborhood residents.
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 12 COVID-19 deaths, 94 positive cases

  28-06-2020 20:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Department of Health has reported 94 additional positive cases of coronavirus on the Navajo Nation with 12 more known deaths.That pushes the total of positive COVID-19 cases on the reservation to 7,414 as of Saturday night with the death toll now at 362.Preliminary reports from 12 health care facilities indicate about 5,068 people have recovered from COVID-19. Tribal health officials said 53,913 people have been tested for the coronavirus so far.The Navajo Na
  
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• Diane Coyle: Why did it take a pandemic to show how much unpaid work women do?

  28-06-2020 20:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Women’s shift into paid employment in the 20th century was one of the great economic transformations in recent history. Families began buying goods such as convenience foods, vacuum cleaners and microwaves to substitute for women’s unpaid labor at home. That shift in what households buy was a primary reason for the post-World War II boom in economic growth in the United States and other rich countries.In the United States, this transition started in the early 1960s, when just over fo
  
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• Trump tweets video with ‘white power’ chant, then deletes it

  28-06-2020 19:53 via sltrib.com
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power,” a racist slogan associated with white supremacists. He later deleted the tweet and the White House said the president had not heard “the one statement” on the video.The video appeared to have been taken at The Villages, a Florida retirement community, and showed dueling demonstrations between Trump supporters and opponents. “Thank y
  
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• 1 person fatally shot at Breonna Taylor protest in Kentucky park

  28-06-2020 19:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Louisville, Ky. • Authorities were investigating a fatal shooting Saturday night at a park in downtown Louisville, Ky., where demonstrators had gathered to protest the death of Breonna Taylor.Reports of shots fired at Jefferson Square Park came in around 9 p.m., Louisville Metro police said in a statement, followed by calls that the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department was performing life-saving measures on a male who died at the scene. Shortly after, police were told of a shooting v
  
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• Questions surround 13 COVID-19 deaths at Utah veterans home, but family members believe staffers ‘did their best’

  28-06-2020 18:41 via sltrib.com
  
  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. Bluffdale • Dallas Lynn Stevens’ casket had small U.S. flag decals on its sides. The color guard from Hill Air Force Base carried his remains and the coffin to their final resting place here Wednesday at the Utah Veterans Cem
  
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• Confirmed coronavirus cases hit 10 million worldwide

  28-06-2020 18:36 via sltrib.com
  
  Rome • Worldwide confirmed coronavirus infections hit the 10 million mark Sunday as voters in Poland and France went to the polls for virus-delayed elections.New clusters of cases at a Swiss nightclub and in the central English city of Leicester showed that the virus was still circulating widely in Europe, though not with the rapidly growing infection rate seen in parts of the U.S., Latin America and India.Wearing mandatory masks, social distancing in lines and carrying their own pens to si
  
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• Don Gale: Will today’s protesters make lives better tomorrow?

  28-06-2020 17:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Black Lives Matter!Of course they do. We thank the mostly young Americans who reminded us of that fact by organizing peaceful protests over the past few weeks. Their efforts will bring needed improvements in policing. No doubt, we’ll also see welcome changes in the justice system, in health care and, perhaps, in economic fairness.But the real test will come five, 10, 20 years from now. By then, the young marchers and millions of young Americans who support them will have started families,
  
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• Robert Kirby: Segregating the Sabbath — and it’s not what you think

  28-06-2020 16:07 via sltrib.com
  
  COVID-19 has changed us. Some effects from social distancing and everyone walking around looking like bank robbers will be temporary. But there’s no doubt that the pandemic has left indelible marks.It’s been months since I attended church at all. At some point, we’ll start up again, but will we notice the changes? A Provo Latter-day Saint ward recently announced a plan to begin segregated sacrament meetings.Before losing control of your mind and bowels over my use of the S-word
  
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• Questions surround the 13 deaths at Utah veterans home, but family members believe staffers ‘did their best’

  28-06-2020 16:07 via sltrib.com
  
  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. Bluffdale • Dallas Lynn Stevens’ casket had small U.S. flag decals on its sides. The color guard from Hill Air Force Base carried his remains and the coffin to their final resting place here Wednesday at the Utah Veterans Cem
  
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• Draper, Lehi residents evacuated as fire caused by fireworks threatens homes

  28-06-2020 15:38 via sltrib.com
  
  Residents evacuated early Sunday morning in Lehi and Draper as a wildfire on Traverse Mountain started by fireworks grew perilously close to their homes, though in a 7 a.m. news briefing, Lehi’s fire chief noted that, “My level of concern is much lower now.”Draper issued an evacuation order for the Maple Hollow neighborhood at 3:14 a.m., according to the city’s Facebook page. The city subsequently sent evacuation notices to Brookside and Deer Ridge neighborhood residents.
  
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• Only 3 Utah cops faced charges for shooting at people in the past decade. None was convicted. Here’s why.

  28-06-2020 15:08 via sltrib.com
  
  Black and white pictures cover a large poster board that’s coated with red paint and handprints, as if illustrated in blood. It’s so big that two protesters have to hold it. On a recent Saturday, they’re standing outside the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office, demonstrating against police brutality and chanting for accountability from cops.On the sign, there’s a photo of Diamonte Riviore, Dillon Taylor, Patrick Harmon, Zane James, Elijah Smith and Cody Belg
  
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• Draper, Lehi residents evacuated as fire threatens homes

  28-06-2020 14:28 via sltrib.com
  
  Residents evacuated early Sunday morning in Lehi and Draper as a wildfire on Traverse Mountain grew perilously close to their homes.Draper issued the evacuation order for the Maple Hollow neighborhood at 3:14 a.m., according to the city’s Facebook page. Some 90 minutes later, 40 residents had taken shelter at Draper Park Middle School, where the Red Cross was offering assistance.“Please note we are checking for COVID-19 symptoms,” the city noted. “”If you have sympt
  
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• ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ postponed twice and suddenly more timely, is coming to The Grand Theatre

  28-06-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  After a copyright battle and a pandemic, it looked like The Grand Theatre’s production of “To Kill a Mockingbird” would never come.“If anybody who’s bought tickets before to ‘Mockingbird’ is waiting until the last minute, I do not blame them whatsoever,” said Mark Fossen, the play’s director, who now also is portraying American literature’s best-known white savior, Alabama attorney Atticus Finch.And with protests in the streets of Ameri
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Here’s a rundown of new shows for next season — whenever that might be

  28-06-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I don’t have to tell you that TV is unsettled at the moment, due to the coronavirus pandemic. You can tell every time you turn your television on and see the paucity of original scripted programming and the near total lack of live sports.And we don’t know when Hollywood will get back to work and start producing new shows. But the networks, nonetheless, have announced new shows they plan to air during the 2020-21 season … eventually.Here’s a rundown, along with a few edit
  
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• Letter: What type of racist do I choose to be?

  28-06-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Solving any problem is a three-step process: awareness, acceptance and action. Addicts can’t address their addiction unless they are aware of it, accept it and take action.So it is with racism. Many think racism is someone else’s problem, not accepting that we may be the problem. We have difficulty being aware that we are racist, let alone accepting it. But as Leonard Pitts stated recently, it is not so much a character defect as the “water in which we swim.” Like a fish,
  
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• Letter: We need open land, not oil rigs

  28-06-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  The current administration is bent on opening oil and gas leases that would directly impact southern Utah’s national parks and monuments. The lease amount has even been reduced to incentivise exploration companies. That makes no sense. It is just a blow to public places, quiet places where we need to have open space, not oil rigs. The money to the agency might not be enough to make a difference, but it might ruin Moab.Please take a moment to call your representatives and tell them not to a
  
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• Letter: The LDS Church must face its racist past

  28-06-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  The petition for requiring a class on race and ethnicity at Brigham Young University addresses only part of a larger problem.BYU culture does not exist in a vacuum. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a history of racist doctrine based on Book of Mormon claims of Lamanites being cursed with a dark skin and of denial of priesthood and temple ordinances to African American members based on the biblical curse of Cain.The racism of BYU students originates with the teachings and often
  
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• Letter: Racism is baked into our social environment

  28-06-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  There is no evidence that humans are “genetically programmed to fear difference” as stated by Gail C. Hilton in the June 14 Public Forum.Instead, racism is pervasive because it’s baked into the social environment, and we’re really good learners. Hilton and other readers who think racism evolved should study the excellent op-eds by Leonard Pitts and Gregory Clark that appeared in the same Opinion section.These explain very clearly how that learning process works.Jon Seger,
  
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• Letter: It is time to ‘cut the commute’

  28-06-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Coronavirus has not erased the need to reduce carbon emissions and address climate disruption.During the coronavirus, we’ve learned that reducing commuting and business travel has lowered carbon emissions and cleaned up our air.Working from home part of the time results in reduced particulate pollution from vehicle emissions. Having the flexibility to work from home part-time is a benefit to many workers, especially those with young children. Employers benefit from decreasing the need to i
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Donald Trump or America?

  28-06-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  This is an emergency.Election Day is little more than four months off, voters facing their most important choice since 1860: Donald Trump or America? It's a decision that will define the future.And millions of us wonder if we'll get to have our say.Such is the state of things seven years almost to the day since the Supreme Court disemboweled The Voting Rights Act of 1965, specifically the section requiring states and municipalities with histories of voting discrimination to obtain federal approv
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: We’re trying to social distance, but my in-laws want to visit

  28-06-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • I love my in-laws, and we ordinarily have a good relationship. The COVID-19 virus has thrown us for a loop. They want to come over, they don’t seem to understand social distancing, and thus make us frantic. How can we talk to them about this without ruining our relationship or hurting their feelings?— Not Sure What to DoDear Not Sure • Gah! This is a tricky one. As hard as it is, I do think you need to be kindly frank with your in-laws — tell them th
  
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• North Carolina Courage defeat Portland Thorns 2-1 to open NWSL tournament in Utah, but presence of a crowd is missed

  28-06-2020 06:04 via sltrib.com
  
  Herriman • Two North Carolina Courage players found themselves in a 2-on-1 with a Portland Thorns defender. But as they got closer to the goal, the palpable feeling of anticipation was mostly absent.A Courage goal appeared imminent, but there was no noise from the stands of fans gasping, “oooohing” or cheering. The moment came and went, without the stadium adrenaline that usually accompanies it.The National Women’s Soccer League kicked off its season Saturday with the Chal
  
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• Paul Haley II hopes to complete a big comeback in the Utah Championship

  28-06-2020 04:20 via sltrib.com
  
  Farmington • Paul Haley II looked forward to spending Saturday night as a co-leader of the Utah Championship, embracing everything that another potential Korn Ferry Tour victory would bring to a golfer who is said to have been “as lost as a pro gets.”That’s a compliment, considering how Haley has found his game.His rediscovery process is unearthing big-time results at Oakridge Country Club, where Haley has shot 67-62-67 and is tied with Kyle Jones at 17 under par. They&rsq
  
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• ‘Too much blood’ — Salt Lake City protesters paint street red in front of District Attorney’s Office

  28-06-2020 03:12 via sltrib.com
  
  With temperatures soaring into the mid-90s, hundreds of protesters again took to Salt Lake City’s streets Saturday to keep the heat on law enforcement and prosecutors in demanding justice for people gunned down by police.In the evening, protesters — to chants of “too much blood” — painted the street red in front of the downtown building housing the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office.Crowd is chanting "Too much blood" as people use rollers to paint the
  
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• Fighting for racial justice starts at home for Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder

  28-06-2020 00:46
  
  Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder gestures to his team during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Chicago Bulls on Saturday, March 23, 2019, in Chicago.| David Banks, APSALT LAKE CITY — Quin Snyder is an NBA coach. Being the Utah Jazz coach is a large part of his identity, but it’s not the only thing that defines him.Snyder is a husband, a father of five including four small children ages 9, 7, 5 and 3, a native of Washington state, and a graduate of Duke with a law degr
  
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• Actual coronavirus infections vastly undercounted, CDC data shows

  28-06-2020 00:10 via sltrib.com
  
  The number of coronavirus infections in many parts of the United States is more than 10 times higher than the reported rate, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The analysis is part of a wide-ranging set of surveys started by the CDC to estimate how widely the virus has spread. Similar studies, sponsored by universities, national governments and the World Health Organization, are continuing all over the world.The CDC study found, for instance, that
  
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