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• White House: Trump not briefed on ‘unverified’ Russian bounties to kill U.S. soldiers

  29-06-2020 23:59
  
  Washington • The White House said Monday that President Donald Trump wasn't briefed on U.S. intelligence assessments earlier this year that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan because the information had not been verified.Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany added that Trump — even now — had not been briefed on the allegations because the intelligence “would not be elevated to the president until it was verifi
  
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• Judge rules Utah County must name businesses that created COVID hotspots

  29-06-2020 23:53
  
  Utah County will be required to release information to the public identifying two businesses that reportedly created hot spots of the coronavirus and infected at least 68 people following a judge’s ruling on Monday.The judgment, issued from the bench in 4th District Court, comes after KSL-TV sued Utah County earlier this month over its refusal to provide the names of those businesses, arguing that there was no legal merit for withholding them.Judge Christine Johnson agreed on Monday, order
  
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• Bridget Burgess is trying to crack the code on an auto racing career — right in her backyard

  29-06-2020 23:46
  
  Tooele • Her fingernails give Bridget Burgess away. They’re cut short and peppered with splotches of engine grease that stubbornly cling to the underside of the nail and the skin of her fingers.Burgess, 18, wears makeup and cute clothes and has long wavy brown locks that cascade out even from under her black trucker hat. But she has never had a manicure. She doesn’t have much use for them since they would be ruined the moment she popped the hood of one of the cars in the garage
  
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• Gerald Elias: Masks don’t limit freedom, they protect it

  29-06-2020 23:00
  
  Darin Bushman, a Piute County commissioner, likened Gov. Gary Herbert to Adolph Hitler. Why? Because the governor approved requests from two Utah counties for their residents to wear face masks indoors. I can’t imagine that an elected official like Bushman would be so ignorant of 20th century history as to truly believe that his Nazi comparison is anything more than rhetorical flourish.Accusing decision-makers of being a Nazi or Hitler is almost de rigueur these days. Those opprobria have
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 55 more COVID-19 cases, 1 more death

  29-06-2020 22:56
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Department of Health has reported 55 additional positive cases of coronavirus on the Navajo Nation with one more known death.That pushes the total of positive COVID-19 cases on the reservation to 7,469 as of Sunday night with the death toll now at 363.Preliminary reports from 12 health care facilities indicate about 5,082 people have recovered from COVID-19.Tribal health officials said 53,913 people have been tested for the coronavirus so far.The Navajo Nation st
  
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• Utah’s coronavirus hospitalizations continue to rise; one more death reported with 564 new cases

  29-06-2020 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 number of Utahns hospitalized with COVID-19 continues to rise, and another person has died.A Davis County man, between the ages of 65 to 84, died while being treated for coronavirus in a hospital, the Utah Department of Health repor
  
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• Swimmer drowns in Utah’s Deer Creek State Park

  29-06-2020 21:14
  
  A Salt Lake County man drowned Sunday in Deer Creek State Park, according to Utah State Parks.Jose Antonio Fuentes-Alvarez, 24, was swimming at about 2 p.m. Sunday in the Rainbow Bay area of the park, about 10 miles southwest of Heber City in Wasatch County, the parks department reported. Members of his group saw he was struggling to keep his head above the water.Three members of the group tried to swim out to assist Fuentes-Alvarez, but were unsuccessful. Others on shore called 911 for help. A
  
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• Utah woman charged with killing 18-month-old

  29-06-2020 21:12
  
  A Millcreek woman has been charged after she allegedly drove her van into a golf course pond, killing her young son, who was strapped in a car seat when the vehicle sank.Brittanie Mae Miloshesky, 28, was charged in 3rd District Court with child abuse homicide, a first-degree felony; and driving under the influence, a class A misdemeanor. She is being held in the Salt Lake County jail; her bail was set at $1 million.According to charging documents, Salt Lake City police officers found Miloshevsky
  
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• Utes land a junior college transfer, still have one open basketball scholarship

  29-06-2020 21:09
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball team is down to one available scholarship for the 2020 recruiting cycle.Jordan Kellier, a 6-foot-6 Jamaican-born wing out of Williston State College, a Division I junior college in North Dakota, committed to head coach Larry Krystkowiak and the Utes on Monday morning.Kellier, who has been riding out the COVID-19 pandemic in North Dakota, has three years to play after averaging 17.4 points and 8.6 rebounds last season for the Tetons.“I feel like
  
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• All evacuees can return to their homes in Saratoga Springs, but they may have to flee again as Knolls Fire continues

  29-06-2020 20:52
  
  Saratoga Springs • The evacuation is over — for now.Some 13,000 residents of Saratoga Springs got the word Monday at 12:30 p.m. that they could return to their homes, with their power restored.But all of them remain under a warning that they have have to evacuate again, the Utah County city announced.One home has been destroyed and a dozen more have been damaged in the Knolls Fire that continued to burn Monday around Saratoga Springs.It was just one one three wildfires that crept clos
  
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• Tracking coronavirus cases proves difficult amid new surge

  29-06-2020 19:45
  
  Houston • Health departments around the U.S. that are using contact tracers to contain coronavirus outbreaks are scrambling to bolster their ranks amid a surge of cases and resistance to cooperation from those infected or exposed.With too few trained contact tracers to handle soaring caseloads, one hard-hit Arizona county is relying on National Guard members to pitch in. In Louisiana, people who have tested positive typically wait more than two days to respond to health officials — gi
  
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• NBA Daily: The Return – 6 Situations – Northwest Division

  29-06-2020 19:30 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Matt John starts off Basketball Insiders' new "6 Situations" series by looking at which scenarios are worth looking into division by division, starting with the Northwest.
  
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• Man shot to death in West Valley City park

  29-06-2020 18:21
  
  West Valley City police are investigating after a man was found shot to death in a park on Sunday night.Officers arrived at Peachwood Park, at 3525 W. 3965 South, at about 7:15 p.m. and found the body of a man who, they said, had been shot. The man has not yet been identified, and police said they have no suspect description and do not know a motive for the shooting.“We are in the process of gathering evidence and canvassing for witnesses,” the West Valley Police Department tweeted.T
  
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• China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress Muslim population, investigation reveals

  29-06-2020 18:21
  
  The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birthrates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children.While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an Associated Press investigation based on government statistics, state documents and
  
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• Rudy Gobert still dealing with loss of smell 3 months after coronavirus diagnosis

  29-06-2020 17:11
  
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) drives the ball up the court during a Jazz-Sacramento Kings NBA preseason game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. | Steve Griffin, Deseret NewsAs the NBA gears up for its return to the hardwoods — the Utah Jazz are scheduled to play their first game against Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans on July 30 — Jazz center Rudy Gobert, whose positive COVID-19 test was the first domino that led the NBA to suspend its seaso
  
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• Sundance Film Festival’s director outlines 2021’s event: Screenings in Utah and beyond, and lots of films online

  29-06-2020 17:10
  
  There’s a lot we don’t know about the 2021 Sundance Film Festival because of the coronavirus pandemic, the festival’s new director says, but there are two things she knows for sure: A lot of the festival will take place online, and the festival that happens in person won’t just happen in Utah.Festival director Tabitha Jackson lays out her thinking about the 2021 festival in a memo the Sundance Institute released Monday. The memo, she wrote, “is not an announcement,
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion clinic law

  29-06-2020 16:57
  
  Washington • The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.Chief Justice John Roberts joined with his four more liberal colleagues in ruling that the law requiring doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals violates the abortion right the court first announced in the la
  
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• 1 home destroyed, 12 damaged as Knolls Fire grows to 10,000 acres; thousands still under evacuation in Saratoga Springs

  29-06-2020 16:53
  
  Saratoga Springs • One home has been destroyed and a dozen more have been damaged in the Knolls Fire that continues to threaten Saratoga Springs.It was just one one three wildfires that threatened structures and forced evacuations Sunday, including more than 3,000 homes and some 13,000 residents in Saratoga Springs.The home that burned was outside the city limits, according to Saratoga Springs spokesman Dave Johnson, and 12 houses in the city sustained “some damage.” Another 18
  
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• Mississippi surrenders Confederate symbol from state flag

  29-06-2020 16:17
  Jackson, Miss. • Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.A broad coalition of lawmakers — Black and white, Democrat and Republican — voted Sunday for change as the state faced increasing pressure amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.Mississippi has a 38% Black population, and critics have said
  
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• Trump denies briefing about reported bounties on U.S. troops

  29-06-2020 15:23
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump has denied he was made aware of U.S. intelligence officials’ conclusions Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan. The Trump administration was set to brief select members of Congress on the matter Monday.The intelligence assessments came amid Trump's push to withdraw the U.S. from Afghanistan and suggested Russia was making overtures to militants as the U.S. and the Taliban held talks t
  
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• Prep basketball star Caleb Lohner slipped away from Utah and into the arms of rival BYU. Here’s how it happened.

  29-06-2020 15:06
  
  The road to Caleb Lohner committing to BYU on Friday evening began several weeks back when he placed a phone call to Larry Krystkowiak.Krystkowiak, vacationing with his family in his native Montana, did not find good news on the other end from his future combo forward.A three-star recruit according to the 247sports composite and a central figure in Krystkowiak’s 2020 recruiting class, Lohner called the University of Utah coach, asking to be let out of his national letter of intent.Multiple
  
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• Commentary: An easy-to-fix immigration reform

  29-06-2020 15:04
  
  In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling about DACA, many eyes are now fixed again on our nation’s deeply flawed immigration system.Did you know there is one small change that Congress could make right now that would make it possible for millions of undocumented immigrants to legally fix their status? This would be eliminating the three- and 10-year bars to reentry put in place by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996.It’s beyond time to
  
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• What to expect out of Tuesday’s all-mail primary election

  29-06-2020 15:00
  
  Add Utah’s primary election to the list of events that will look different this year, in another side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic that has seeped into nearly every aspect of day-to-day life.Poll locations will be closed on election day Tuesday to keep groups of people from gathering in close lines and breathing on the same voting equipment, and all voting will be conducted by mail instead. Ballots will be quarantined for 24 hours out of “an abundance of caution.” And electi
  
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• Utah’s Pacific Islanders take culturally focused approach in reducing high number of COVID-19 infections

  29-06-2020 15:00
  
  Haviar Tuitama Hafoka didn’t want people to know he was hospitalized with COVID-19. He was physically and emotionally drained. He thought he might die. And he worried about what his community would think and say because of the stigma surrounding the coronavirus.Tuitama Hafoka, 33, is now back at his Salt Lake City home, still recovering from the virus and using oxygen. But he’s not afraid anymore to share his experience. He wants fellow Pacific Islanders, and all Utahns, to take the
  
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• Letter: Put on a mask

  29-06-2020 14:06
  
  I have a scenario for all the never-masker, petri dish patriots (as Robert Gehrke refers to them). Suppose I filled a spray bottle full of water laced with COVID-19 virus and sprayed it at you every time you came near me with no mask on. Think about it. This is exactly what you and all the other COVID doubters are doing to the rest of us. Get smart and put on a mask.Wayne Belka, MidvaleSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Utah squandered its COVID momentum

  29-06-2020 14:04
  
  Dear Gov. Herbert:With the exploding number of COVID-19 cases since you started signing “opening up” executive orders is frightening. It really appears that you have squandered the momentum we had controlling the virus because of greed favoring business over public health.Now, to regain anything like the control we looked like we had, it's going to cost many more lives and a whole lot more on the economy than two more weeks of patients before "opening" could have provided.I praised y
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Trump looms over Utah’s Republican primary, but how would the candidates handle a President Biden?

  29-06-2020 14:00
  
  If you’ve followed Utah’s Republican primary, you can’t help but notice the degree to which the governor’s race has been defined by allegiance to President Donald Trump.It is a litmus test for the candidates.Former House Speaker Greg Hughes has wrapped himself in the Trump brand. Heck, he’s probably lived off nothing but Trump steaks for the past eight months.As my colleague Taylor Stevens highlighted over the weekend, Hughes has created a page on his website highli
  
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• Letter: We can’t erase history by toppling statues

  29-06-2020 14:00
  
  Over the past few weeks, mobs and rioters have attacked, vandalized and destroyed numerous monuments and statues across our country and here in Utah. Allegedly to the mob, these monuments represent something in our history that they oppose. History is there for us to learn from. You may like it, you may hate it, but trying to erase it does nothing to further our understanding of it and to evolve accordingly to live better in the future. We can't apply the lens of today's standards on people who
  
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• Letter: Spending $7.5 million for Allen Park is absurd

  29-06-2020 14:00
  
  To protect the privately owned Allen Park from development, Salt Lake City is slated to “save” it by purchasing it for $7.5 million and transforming it into a public “art park.” Spending $7.5 million of impact fees to prevent private development in an affluent neighborhood to appease eastside NIMBYs is absurd.Proponents of this purchase are likely much more concerned with preventing intensive development than “preserving” property that has not been publicly ac
  
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• Letter: Mask-wearing is just public decency

  29-06-2020 14:00
  
  I have heard some complain about proposed laws that would require citizens to wear masks during COVID. I have not heard a single person complain about so-called public indecency laws, which prohibit the exposure of certain body parts in public — even though these laws infringe on our freedom to dress (or undress) in public as we see fit. It seems to me that laws about masks and clothing both serve to protect our citizens. In the case of public indecency laws, you're protected from seeing p
  
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• Letter: Let’s clean up Herbert’s mess

  29-06-2020 14:00
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert’s pandemic management is a failure — a litany of poor and divisive judgments from the start. No other reading of the numbers is possible. Not much we can do about that now. But with the next emergency in mind, at least the voters can reject the other governor candidates who align with him. Vote as if your lives depended on it, because they do.Tom Horton, Park CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: I am part of the problem, and part of the solution

  29-06-2020 14:00
  
  I have looked at many definitions of racism. According to those definitions, I am not a racist. But my experience indicates that I have been part of the problem.Fifty years ago, I was lost on the south side of Chicago on a warm summer evening, pushing my dead motorbike through a Black neighborhood, walking past gathered groups of men and teenage boys. And feeling fear. None of those I passed said or did anything threatening, but what I felt was fear. Fear of people who were different from me. I
  
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• Trump says he wasn’t briefed on reported bounties against U.S. troops

  29-06-2020 06:20
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump has denied that he was made aware of U.S. intelligence officials’ conclusions that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan. The Trump administration was set to brief select members of Congress on the matter on Monday.The intelligence assessments came amid Trump’s push to withdraw the U.S. from Afghanistan, and suggested that Russia was making overtures to militants as the U.S. and
  
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• Daniel Summerhays loses in a three-way playoff as Kyle Jones wins the Utah Championship

  29-06-2020 04:33
  
  FARMINGTON, UTAH - JUNE 28: Kyle Jones poses with the winner's trophy after the final round during the Utah Championship at Oakridge Country Club on June 28, 2020 in Farmington, Utah. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) (Matthew Stockman/)Farmington • Suddenly, all those questions about what hometown golfer Daniel Summerhays would do if he won the Utah Championship in his last scheduled appearance as a touring pro seemed a lot less silly.It almost happened, shockingly enough. Skipping
  
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• 3,100 homes evacuated in Saratoga Springs as three fires wreak havoc amid high winds

  29-06-2020 03:48
  
  Saratoga Springs • Thousands of Utahns were forced from their homes Sunday, officials say, because of three wildfires, thrashing winds and, in one instance, illegal fireworks.West of Utah Lake, gusts up to nearly 60 mph pushed the Knolls Fire to the south end of Saratoga Springs, forcing the evacuation of 3,100 homes, equating to 13,000 residents, or more than a third of the Utah County city’s populace, said city spokesman David Johnson.Jason Curry, with the Utah Division of Forestry,
  
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• Major League Soccer says 18 players have tested positive for COVID-19

  29-06-2020 03:41
  
  Major League Soccer announced Sunday that 18 players and six staff members tested positive for COVID-19.The number of positives came after the league started testing since teams began full team training on June 4. A total of 668 players from 25 teams have been tested since that time. Only one of the league’s teams was not able to commence training fully.A few teams have already arrived to Orlando, Fla., prior to the MLS is Back Tournament that starts July 8. Two players from a group of 329
  
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• Suspect in killing at Louisville protest in custody

  29-06-2020 03:28
  
  Louisville, Ky. • The suspect arrested in the shooting death of a man during a Louisville protest over the police killing of Breonna Taylor had taken part in demonstrations but was disruptive and had been asked by other protesters to leave, authorities and protesters said Sunday.The man, identified by an arrest citation as Steven Nelson Lopez, was hospitalized and being interviewed by homicide investigators about the shooting that happened late Saturday, interim Louisville Police Chief Robe
  
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• Artists paint two new faces on Salt Lake City mural series dedicated to victims of police violence

  29-06-2020 02:59
  
  A series of murals at 800 South and 300 West in Salt Lake City depicting men killed by police has been expanding since the first painting of George Floyd appeared soon after police killed him in May. On Sunday, artists added the faces of Cody Belgard — who was shot in the back and killed by police in Rose Park in 2018 — and Allen Nelson, who died in 2012 while officers attempted to arrest him.The site has become a shrine and memorial, where people come to leave signs, flowers and oth
  
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• New knotholes: Good MLB views are available, if fans know where to look

  29-06-2020 02:11
  
  Boston • Tucked under the center field seats at Fenway Park, down some stairs from Lansdowne Street in an area previously used as the visiting team’s batting cage, is a sports bar that is preparing to reopen from the coronavirus shutdown.Largely windowless and decorated with sepia photographs hung on dark wooden walls, the main source of light is the sunshine streaming in through a thick metal screen that reveals the true treasure of the location: a view of the Boston Red Sox field, f
  
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• More flames, more evacuations, more warnings about fireworks as three blazes force Utahns to flee their homes

  29-06-2020 01:07
  
  Officials providing updates about the wildfire on Traverse Mountain that sparked home evacuations Sunday of neighborhoods in Lehi and Draper all expressed some mixture of exhilarated praise for the efforts of first responders and weary frustration at the fact the blaze was sparked by illegal fireworks.“This definitely was a preventable fire,” Lehi Fire Chief Jeremy Craft said in a 3 p.m. briefing. “Just a few seconds lit this fire off. … Fireworks were never allowed up h
  
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• Jazz mailbag: Seedings, jerseys and what about Bogdanovic?

  29-06-2020 01:00
  
  Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul, left, passes the ball as Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) defends in the first half during an NBA basketball game Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in Salt Lake City. | APSALT LAKE CITY — The NBA released a schedule for the remainder of the regular season, Utah Jazz players are back in the Salt Lake area, and preparations are underway for the league to descend on Walt Disney World in Orlando.
  There’s a lot of ground to cover over the next few weeks, from
  
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