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• With no deal to curb drug costs, Trump tries his own changes

  24-07-2020 23:05
  
  Washington • Unable to land the big deal with Congress to curb drug costs, President Donald Trump is moving on his own to allow imports of prescription medicines, along with other limited steps that might have some election-year appeal.At a White House ceremony, Trump is set to sign four executive orders. One is about importation. The others would direct drugmaker rebates straight to patients, provide insulin and EpiPens at steep discounts to low-income people, and use lower international p
  
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• Katie Matheson: Parents should not face pandemic alone

  24-07-2020 23:00
  
  I’m a parent. And like many parents, I often struggle to know what is best for my kids. That comes with the territory of parenting regardless of global events, but is especially true during a pandemic.My latest challenge — knowing whether or not to send my kid to in-person school next month — is particularly confounding, and I know a lot of other parents are struggling with the same issue.My oldest child is 5. He’s been excited to attend school ever since he learned what
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 50 more COVID-19 cases, 1 more death

  24-07-2020 22:58
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation officials are reporting 50 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and one additional death as the tribe prepares for another weekend lockdown.The total of infected tribal members on the reservation stood at 8,734 with 432 known deaths as of Thursday.Health officials said 75,775 people have undergone testing and 6,481 have recovered from the virus.The weekend lockdown, which includes the closing of businesses, will begin at 8 p.m. Friday and last until 5 a.m. Mo
  
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• Players planning to kneel during anthem on opening night

  24-07-2020 22:06
  
  Brad Turner: Sources: NBA players plan to kneel during National Athem on opening nights of season, starting Thurs. Bucks, Lakers, Clippers, Raptors, Celtics, Nuggets, Jazz, Heat staying at same hotel had a meeting. “One of the 1st oncourt actions will be kneeling opening night,” player said.
  
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• Spencer Cox says it’s too early to debate Democrat Chris Peterson in Utah governor’s race

  24-07-2020 21:58
  
  Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Peterson is calling out his Republican rival, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, for ducking a debate that was being planned during the next two weeks.“This is a critical election,” Peterson said Friday. “We have serious issues to talk about, and the public deserves to have that conversation.”He pointed to such things as the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and public school funding.Cox campaign manager Austin Cox said it’s too early
  
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• Utah reports 863 more coronavirus cases, six new deaths, and breaks hospitalization record

  24-07-2020 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. Utah saw its biggest jump in COVID-19 cases Friday in more than a week, with 863 more people who have contracted the virus, and six more deaths, according to the Utah Department of Health.Meanwhile, there were 225 Utah patients hospital
  
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• Farhad Manjoo: How to fix America: Spend, spend, spend

  24-07-2020 20:57
  
  As a respite from a chaotic spring spent under quarantine, my family booked a weeklong vacation last month in a cozy, remote house in the California desert. While the kids cannonballed into the saltwater pool and my wife sped through several novels, I spent my time in the sun doing exactly the sort of thing you’d imagine an opinion columnist might do on summer vacation: I read two hot new books about macroeconomics.Wait, don’t leave! I promise this isn’t as dry as it sounds.The
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Jim Gaffigan mocks Canada — and it’s hilarious

  24-07-2020 19:45
  
  Coronavirus cases are spiking. There’s unrest in the streets, with no immediate solutions for systemic racism. Federal agents are being deployed to patrol American cities. Almost 70% of Americans think the country is going in the wrong direction.What to do? Let’s make fun of Canada!OK, it’s a coincidence that Jim Gaffigan’s latest comedy special, “The Pale Tourist,” starts streaming Friday on Amazon Prime. It was filmed in Ontario back in February, before the
  
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• ESPN analysts dismissive of Utah Jazz, this year and beyond: ‘They’re a treadmill team. I don’t see the upside.’

  24-07-2020 19:30
  
  On Thursday night, the Utah Jazz got back to action, unveiling a few new trial-and-error wrinkles in a 101-88 “scrimmage” loss against the Phoenix Suns.The Jazz broke out some different schemes and lineups along the way — to discover how best to replace the injured No. 2 scorer Bojan Bogdanovic, to try and give veteran point guard Mike Conley some extra responsibilities, to give a shot to literally anything that might bolster their effectiveness with eight “seeding games&
  
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• RSL trainer Theron Enns’ mother-in-law died from COVID-19; forward Justin Meram is honoring her memory

  24-07-2020 19:00
  
  Real Salt Lake head athletic trainer Theron Enns watched from the sideline as forward Justin Meram jogged onto the field. It was the 78th minute of RSL’s win over the Colorado Rapids to open the MLS is Back Tournament, and Enns was anticipating seeing a name written on the back of Meram’s jersey.As Enns waited for midfielder Albert Rusnák to come off, he caught a glimpse of what was written in black marker.“It was kind of cool just to look down and see that name,”
  
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• Jana Riess: What does an LDS Pioneer Day look like in the context of Black Lives Matter?

  24-07-2020 18:18
  
  On Friday, Utah observes its annual Pioneer Day holiday, which commemorates the first Mormons who arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Having fled religious persecution in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois, these Latter-day Saints sought a homeland outside the borders of the United States in which they could practice their religion. Since Utah was at that time part of Mexico, it seemed a safe haven.This year, Pioneer Day is happening amid a global pandemic, which means there will be no parade
  
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• BYU’s O-line looking to improve from last season’s performance, building stronger chemistry through pandemic

  24-07-2020 18:00
  
  When thinking of BYU’s 2019 offensive line, it seemed like the group took two steps forward and one step back.The Cougars compiled 5,749 total offense yards in 2019 — more than 1,000 more yards than the 2018 season. BYU saw a slight improvement in 3rd-down conversions, but dropped in 4th-down conversions and struggled to get to the red zone.But, before the pandemic shut down spring practices, offensive line coach Eric Mateos believed he saw a growth in his group — a more unifie
  
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• Sarah Leetham: Medicaid is more important than ever for low-income families

  24-07-2020 17:00
  
  The Medicaid program will celebrate its 55th anniversary on July 30, the date that Congress authorized the Social Security Act in 1965.Medicaid serves as a crucial lifeline for many low-income families, individuals, people with disabilities and pregnant women, and is a critical safety net program in Utah, now more than ever as we face a pandemic. Utahns are suffering the economic effects of COVID-19 like the rest of our nation.A recent study showed between February and June of this year, 25,000
  
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• Leonard Pitts: John Lewis’ life was a master class in stubborn resolve

  24-07-2020 15:00
  
  I expected despair. I should have known better.The Voting Rights Act of 1965 had just been eviscerated by the Supreme Court. So I called Georgia Rep. John Lewis, for whom passage of the Act was the defining event of a heroic life, thinking his discouragement would mirror mine.Lewis started talking instead about how he would push Congress to "put teeth back in the Voting Rights Act." To say I was skeptical is to understate. Congress? Obstructionist, tea party-clogged and more dysfunctional than t
  
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• Robert Kirby: Making Utah your own ‘this is the place’

  24-07-2020 14:30
  
  The Mormon pioneers got their first look at the Great Salt Lake Valley 173 years ago. Reactions were mixed. I’ve collected some of the better ones from pioneer journals I’ve perused.“All those good places we passed and this is it?”“Hallelujah!”“Finally. Can we get out of the wagon now?”“Look! Sea gulls. We must be close to the beach.”“Are you #$&@! kidding me?”“It’s not so bad. … Wait, is that salt wat
  
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• Letter: Wearing a mask matters

  24-07-2020 14:01
  
  There were 63,201 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the U.S. on July 19. I was one of them.While working from home, the company I work for began offering weekly, voluntary testing for the virus. I signed up more out of curiosity, thinking that I, surely, would not be one of the unlucky ones who catches it. I never expected to get the frightening phone call that my test result was positive. I haven’t had any contact with anyone showing any symptoms, I wash my hands frequently, avoid crowds
  
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• Tyler Lefevor: Expert’s apology teaches us to listen to LGBT persons

  24-07-2020 14:00
  
  Recently, Allen Bergin released a statement apologizing for his part in marginalizing LGBT persons. Bergin is a former member of the LDS General Sunday School Presidency and emeritus professor of psychology at Brigham Young University. Both professionally and religiously, Bergin spent much of his life encouraging “homosexuals” to change through self-discipline or personal righteousness.Bergin recently apologized, saying that he regrets “being part of a professional, religious,
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Jim Gaffigan mocks Canada — and it’s hilarous

  24-07-2020 14:00
  
  Coronavirus cases are spiking. There’s unrest in the streets, with no immediate solutions for systemic racism. Federal agents are being deployed to patrol American cities. Almost 70% of Americans think the country is going in the wrong direction.What to do? Let’s make fun of Canada!OK, it’s a coincidence that Jim Gaffigan’s latest comedy special, “The Pale Tourist,” starts streaming Friday on Amazon Prime. It was filmed in Ontario back in February, before the
  
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• Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is working on five areas of police reform

  24-07-2020 14:00
  
  Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s Commission on Racial Equity and Policing has yet to announce its full membership or hold its first meeting, but the mayor is already working on law enforcement reform.Both the mayor and City Council are in the early stages of examining and reconsidering how policing works in the city, weeks after protests and a deluge of public complaints about officer violence called out systemic racism and demanded the police department be defunded. City officials c
  
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• Popular Rico bean and tortilla plant could close, a victim of Salt Lake City district’s revival

  24-07-2020 14:00
  
  Jorge Fierro was one of the few business owners in 2002 brave enough to move into an old warehouse in an industrial neighborhood southwest of downtown Salt Lake City.With its vacant buildings, run-down flour mills and abandoned rail lines, the area — now known as the Granary District — was gritty, for sure.But the red-brick warehouse at 545 W. 700 South was affordable and offered plenty of square footage to manufacture and sell pinto beans, tortillas and other Rico Brand Mexican prod
  
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• Letter: Police and protesters must listen to each other

  24-07-2020 14:00
  
  District Attorney Sim Gill has proposed policy reform ideas for law enforcement’s use of deadly force. This is good, right?I was alarmed witnessing the murder of George Floyd. I have been living in a bubble. I want to support Black Lives Matter. I also support the police, however, and I’m finding that the two are not compatible.The vandalism the protesters engaged in over Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal’s death was out of line and illegal. Bernardo was armed and not complying when p
  
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• LDS Native American teacher envisions a Pioneer Day that celebrates all Utahns

  24-07-2020 14:00
  
  As Utahns observe a paradeless Pioneer Day this year, James Singer is thinking about origins and identities — his own, his people, his church.Every year on July 24, Salt Lake City stages a big show that commemorates — and reveres — the arrival of a beleaguered band of Mormon pioneers, who made an arduous journey from their homes in Illinois to build a Zion in the West for themselves and their posterity.Singer is both a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a
  
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• Before COVID-19, world wars brought Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Day parade to a halt

  24-07-2020 14:00
  
  On July 24, 1917, the employees of Hancock Brothers, a Salt Lake City produce dealer, left “by automobile conveyance” for Pioneer Day picnics and entertainment from local musicians at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon.Among the other events on that holiday, the 70th anniversary of Brigham Young and the first Mormon pioneers arriving in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, were a doubleheader between the Salt Lake Bees and the visiting Vernon Tigers (which they split), and the “Whoop
  
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• Letter: Wake up to the threat of COVID-19

  24-07-2020 13:59
  
  The CDC estimated that, during the 2017–2018 flu season, there were 48.8 million people getting sick with the flu and 79,400 deaths. That is a death rate of .16% — basically a little more than a tenth of one percent.The latest COVID-19 counts are 3.9 million infected with 143,000 deaths. That works out to a death rate of 3.7%. So, COVID-19 is 23 times more likely to kill you than the common flu — and this was with yearly flu vaccines. Apply this percentage (3.7%) to the 2017-20
  
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• Letter: Buck stops with the mayor

  24-07-2020 13:58
  
  The mayor of Salt Lake City can make change happen in just one meeting — without any public input — when it comes to her own self-interests, as she did when she was chair of the City Council and council members raised their part-time salary almost 40%, from $26,000 to nearly $36,000 a year.Recently, she said change takes time.The mayor campaigned that she could best lead the city because of her time on the council. Hopefully, she listened during those six years and really heard the c
  
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• Letter: EITC would help deal with pandemic

  24-07-2020 13:57
  
  Even before COVID-19, the U.S. economy was weakening as automation, globalization and the gig economy tossed workers out of good-paying jobs. Unable to find work that supports a family, many had grown depressed, with some turning to opioids to numb the pain, or suicide to end the despair. This is one reason why U.S. life expectancy is now declining for the first time in our history.Now COVID is straining the economy to a breaking point and Congress will soon consider further measures to help str
  
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• Letter: No masks, no school

  24-07-2020 13:56
  
  Has there been any discussion on pushing back the start of school this year until after a statewide mask mandate has had a chance to lessen the number of active COVID cases? Teachers should strike until this happens.I realize this is late, but it seems a better option than stubbornly keeping opening dates when if we mandated masks and gave it time to work statewide there would be much less risk to students and faculty.Lindsay Zeigler, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• China tells U.S. to close consulate in Chengdu in growing spat

  24-07-2020 06:56
  
  Beijing • China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades.The move was a response to the Trump administration's order this week for Beijing to close its consulate in Houston after Washington accused Chinese agents of trying to steal medical and other research in Texas.The Chinese foreign ministry appealed to Washington to reverse its &ldquo
  
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• Denny Hamlin races to his fifth NASCAR Cup victory of season

  24-07-2020 05:56
  
  Denny Hamlin does a burnout after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., Thursday, July 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (Charlie Riedel/)Kansas City, Kan. • Denny Hamlin raced to his his series-leading fifth NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season Thursday night, passing Kevin Harvick in the closing laps and holding off Brad Keselowski to make it back-to-back victories at Kansas Speedway.Hamlin had struggled the past three weeks, failing to finis
  
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• Utah Jazz experiment with small and very big lineups in scrimmage vs. Phoenix Suns

  24-07-2020 05:29
  
  File: Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) dribbles around Phoenix Suns forward Elie Okobo (2) during an NBA game at the Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. The Jazz’s scrimmage after a four-month layoff came against the Suns, with the team getting those first-game jitters out of the way and shaking off some of the rust. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The result of the Utah Jazz’s first scrimmage after a four-month layoff
  
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• Utah Jazz adjust to the weirdness of new basketball in 101-88 scrimmage loss to Suns

  24-07-2020 04:55
  
  There certainly will be some contingent of Utah Jazz fans out there disproportionately concerned by the team’s 101-88 loss to the Phoenix Suns in a scrimmage played on the HP Fieldhouse court in Orlando, Fla., on Thursday night.Perhaps most will look at the Ed Davis-Georges Niang-Miye Oni-Rayjon Tucker-Emmanuel Mudiay lineup that graced the floor early in the fourth quarter with the game still in the balance and recognize that the coaching staff was not sweating the end result, though.Jazz
  
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• Trump calls off Florida segment of GOP National Convention

  24-07-2020 04:20
  
  Washington • Bowing to the coronavirus threat, President Donald Trump on Thursday scrapped plans for a four-night Republican National Convention celebration in Florida that had been set to draw more than 10,000 people to a pandemic hot spot to mark his renomination.Trump had already moved the convention’s public events out of North Carolina because of virus concerns. But the spiking virus shifted south, too, and the planned gathering in Jacksonville increasingly appeared to be both a
  
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• Portland standoff with U.S. agents ongoing after mayor tear-gassed

  24-07-2020 04:11
  
  Portland, Ore. • The tense standoff between demonstrators and federal police dispatched to Portland, Oregon, dragged on Thursday after the city’s mayor was tear-gassed by U.S. government agents as he made an appearance outside a federal courthouse during raucous protests.Mayor Ted Wheeler and hundreds of others Wednesday night were objecting to the presence of federal police sent by President Donald Trump, who labeled the demonstrators as “agitators & anarchists” after
  
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• 3 takeaways from the Utah Jazz’s 101-88 loss to the Phoenix Suns in their first action since March

  24-07-2020 04:09
  
  In this file photo, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) guards Phoenix Suns center Deandre Ayton (22) during an NBA game at the Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. The Jazz lost to the Suns 101-88 Thursday night in its first scrimmage inside the Disney World Bubble. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz basketball was back Thursday night for the first time in over four months, as the team played its first scrimmage game in the Disney World bubble aga
  
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• Commentary: Teachers are not ready for a return to in-person school

  24-07-2020 04:00
  
  At first, we weren’t sure anyone would come out for a “teacher parade.” But our students assured us they really did want to see us, even if it was only for a moment, even if it was just from the curb, and even if we never stepped out of our cars.So we decorated our cars and drove up and down the streets in our school’s neighborhood, honking horns, screaming out names and waving until our arms were numb. Sure enough, the kids came out, and their parents came out, and their
  
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• David Op’t Hof: Support America, not either political party

  24-07-2020 03:48
  
  I’m seeing a lot of hate going back and forth, left versus right, Democrat versus Republican. It’s an election year, of course, and emotions always run high. But I’m wondering if it’s gotten out of hand.There are some really hateful statements being made about killing each other, even civil war. Really?I thought the crowning glory of our democratic system was that we transition from one leader to another without a bloodbath. Have we become a banana republic or military di
  
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• David Op’t Hof: Support American, not either political party

  24-07-2020 02:00
  
  I’m seeing a lot of hate going back and forth, left versus right, Democrat versus Republican. It’s an election year, of course, and emotions always run high. But I’m wondering if it’s gotten out of hand.There are some really hateful statements being made about killing each other, even civil war. Really?I thought the crowning glory of our democratic system was that we transition from one leader to another without a bloodbath. Have we become a banana republic or military di
  
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• Third man federally charged with arson for allegedly lighting police car on fire during protests

  24-07-2020 01:40
  
  Federal officers charged and arrested a third man for allegedly helping set fire to an overturned Salt Lake City police car in the protests that happened downtown on May 30.Christopher Isidro Rojas, 28, was arrested Friday on one charge of arson for his alleged role in the police car fire. Rojas was apprehended shortly after he left his apartment, when officers pulled him over to complete the arrest.Rojas was also the man featured in a Washington Post story on Utah police officers’ support
  
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• Even with few travelers, 3 firearms found at Salt Lake airport checkpoints this week

  24-07-2020 00:58
  
  Travel may be light at Salt Lake City International Airport because of COVID-19 restrictions, but it’s been a banner week for discovering firearms at security checkpoints.The Transportation Security Administration found three guns during X-ray screeing of carry-on baggage this week, bringing the total found there so far this year to 40. These include:• On Thursday afternoon, an officer found a loaded .45-caliber handgun in the luggage of a passenger headed for Las Vegas.• On Wedn
  
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• Review fast tracked for Nevada vanadium mine, 1st in the U.S.

  24-07-2020 00:50
  
  Reno, Nev. • Invoking President Trump’s executive order streamlining environmental reviews of projects critical to U.S. security, federal land managers have launched an expedited permitting process for the first U.S. vanadium mine at a high-desert site in Nevada.The rare metal has been used as an alloy to strengthen steel, aluminum and titanium in the construction, auto, aerospace and computer industries but must currently be imported — primarily from Austria, Canada and Russia.
  
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• COVID-19 hospitalizations tie record as Utah’s lowest-risk counties show warning signs

  24-07-2020 00:46
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. As coronavirus cases continue to rise in Utah’s “green” counties, where COVID-19 restrictions have been loosened, a study of sewage in one rural area shows the numbers there may be even higher than reported.COVID-19 wa
  
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• ‘What are we waiting for?’: Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell calls on Kentucky AG to arrest cops involved in Breonna Taylor’s death

  24-07-2020 00:33
  
  A basketball court is shown at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Kissimmee, Fla., Tuesday, July 21, 2020. The NBA’s marketing motto for the restart of the season at Walt Disney World is “Whole New Game,” and in many respects, that’s very true.| AP Photo, Tim ReynoldsSALT LAKE CITY — “We need justice for Breonna Taylor.”
  On Wednesday night, before talking about what it would be like to play basketball again, to compete, to do what he loves, All-St
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: What Women Don’t Want

  24-07-2020 00:25
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, July 24, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Antifa Super SoldierSocial Distance StudiesTaking a Knee to Voting RightsTrump’s Secret PoliceEyes on The BeehiveSecond WaveAll in the FamilyGame Name ChangeHeard ImmunityHelp WantedWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• More than 150 teachers rally at the Utah Capitol, saying the state hasn’t done enough to keep them safe

  24-07-2020 00:23
  
  Wendy Moss feels like she would be safer working in an ICU than returning to her elementary school classroom this fall.At least doctors, she said, are given adequate protective equipment, such as masks and suits, and see one patient at a time. She’ll be standing in front of 30 kids in a room where the windows don’t open, with only a foot of space between the desks and no way of knowing if one of her students is sick from the coronavirus.“We are less than 30 days before school s
  
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• Celebrating Utah’s July 24, Donald Trump Jr. says his dad is a pioneer, too

  24-07-2020 00:22
  
  Donald Trump Jr. — the president’s son — on Thursday wished Utahns and Latter-day Saints a happy Pioneer Day while trumpeting that is father is a pioneer, too.“While in Washington, D.C., they may call people like my father and myself outsiders, here in the West they actually call them pioneers,” he said in a call to regional reporters. “Pioneers are people who embody the innovative spirit, curiosity and optimism that is uniquely American.”While he honore
  
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• Benny Cardullo: Just what did Jesus mean by ‘your neighbor'?

  24-07-2020 00:00
  
  Who do you envision when you hear the word, “neighbor?”Growing up in Provo, Utah, my neighbors looked like one another, they spoke like one another, they worshiped like one another, and they came from similar economic and social backgrounds as one another. They were like one another, and in reality, a lot like me.Thus, when the Bible taught, “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” I thought I knew who Christ was referring to, I didn’t even question it. I assumed to understa
  
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