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• Black people in Portland struggle to be heard amid protests

  09-08-2020 22:45
  
  Portland, Ore. • Chaotic and often violent protests against racial injustice have topped the headlines for days, but lost in the shouting are the voices of many Black Portland residents themselves — and their feelings about the unrest are nuanced and diverse.Some feel the overwhelmingly white crowds of protesters — and particularly those committing vandalism — are co-opting the Black Lives Matter movement. Others welcome white demonstrators because with their larger number
  
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• Native mascots still a sticking point in high school sports

  09-08-2020 22:27
  
  Bountiful • At a mostly white high school near Salt Lake City, the steps leading to the football field are covered in red handprints, arrows and drawings of Native American men in headdresses meant to represent the mascot, the Braves. “Welcome to the Dark Side” and “Fight like a Brave” are scrawled next to images of teepees, a tomahawk and a dream catcher.While advocates have made strides in getting Native American symbols and names changed in sports, they say there'
  
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• Fire near Fruitland damages two structures, threatens others

  09-08-2020 22:21
  
  A fire at a Duchesne County church damaged two structures Sunday and is threatening others.The Fruitland Church Fire is reported at 30 acres and spreading rapidly. Traffic in both directions was affected on U.S. 40 at mile marker 59, which is 2 miles west of Fruitland, per the Utah Department of Transportation.NEW START
  Resources responding to the #FruitlandChurchFire located in Duchesne County near Fruitland, south of Hwy 40. Fire is estimated at 30 acres growing rapidly. 2 Structures damaged a
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: Cases are on the decline here as U.S. hits 5 million

  09-08-2020 21:27
  
  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. Just a few days after Utah Gov. Gary Herbert set another coronavirus goal, the state on Sunday became close to already reaching it.Herbert said he wanted the rolling seven-day average of positive cases to dip below 400 by Sept. 1. The s
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: New case average drops, but hospitalizations rise

  09-08-2020 21:18
  
  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. Just a few days after Utah Gov. Gary Herbert set another coronavirus goal, the state on Sunday became close to already reaching it.Herbert said he wanted the rolling seven-day average of positive cases to dip below 400 by Sept. 1. The s
  
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• Gymnast MyKayla Skinner embarks on a long road back to Olympics

  09-08-2020 20:06
  
  MyKayla Skinner could see her destination on the horizon. The U.S. Olympic Gymnastic Trials loomed just ahead. And if she squinted, she could make out the skyscrapers of Tokyo, the site of the 2020 Summer Games. She giddily texted friend and fellow national team veteran Simone Biles in late March that in just a few months they could be there, taking their final bows on the elite stage.Then a giant wave of distress generated by the deadly and contagious coronavirus completely knocked Skinner off
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: Trump’s census shenanigans have a nefarious purpose

  09-08-2020 20:00
  
  Over the last few years, the Trump administration has fought to shape the 2020 census to its political benefit and the benefit of the Republican Party. In 2018, it sought to introduce a citizenship question on the census itself, to reduce response rates among immigrant communities. Then, after that was rebuffed by the Supreme Court, it tried to exclude unauthorized immigrants altogether, in direct conflict with the Constitution, which calls on Congress to count “the whole number of persons
  
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• A University of Utah lab is developing a video game to ease depression in older adults

  09-08-2020 19:55
  
  Laurie had survived cancer. But enduring chemotherapy left the Millcreek mother with post-traumatic stress disorder and a lag in her thinking that scared her.“If I were trying to come up with the word ‘basket,’ I could think of container, wicker, wood and other things around it, but I couldn’t come up with ‘basket,’” she said.She felt depressed and desperate to get her memory back so she could return to work to support her 34-year-old son, who is disable
  
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• Gymnast MyKayla Skinner embarks on long road back to Olympics

  09-08-2020 19:42
  
  MyKayla Skinner could see her destination on the horizon. The United States Olympic Gymnastic Trials loomed just ahead. And if she squinted, she could make out the skyscrapers of Tokyo, Japan, the site of the 2020 Summer Games. She giddly texted friend and fellow national team veteran Simone Biles in late March that in just a few months they could be there, taking their final bows on the elite stage.Then a giant wave of distress generated by the deadly and contagious COVID-19 virus completely kn
  
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• Maureen Dowd: No wrist corsages, please

  09-08-2020 18:45
  
  Washington • On the cusp of Joe Biden teaming up with a woman, I am casting back to my time covering the first woman who was a serious contender for veep.The feminist fairy tale — which began with women crying and popping Champagne on the convention floor in San Francisco in 1984 — had a sad ending. Cinderella with ashes in her mouth.It’s hard to fathom, but it took another 36 years for a man to choose to put a woman on the Democratic ticket with him. To use Geraldine Ferr
  
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• U.S. COVID-19 cases top 5 million — the highest of any country in the world

  09-08-2020 18:40
  
  Rome • With confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. hitting 5 million Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the failure of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the scourge has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe.Perhaps nowhere outside the U.S. is America's bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe's epidemic. Italians were unprepared when the outbreak exploded in February, and the country still has one o
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 36 more COVID-19 cases, 2 more deaths

  09-08-2020 18:00
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 36 more cases of COVID-19 and two additional deaths.That brings the total number of people infected to 9,293 and the known death toll to 470 as of Saturday night.Navajo Department of Health officials said 84,537 people have been tested for the coronavirus and 6,810 have recovered. Tribal President Jonathan Nez said his administration partnered with Winslow Indian Health Care Center to distribute food and essential supplies Sa
  
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• TestUtah is on track for a new state contract — but it will have to use a different lab

  09-08-2020 17:30
  
  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 state is on track to renew its contract with the tech company behind TestUtah, but the details aren’t finalized — and it won’t be using the same Utah County lab, which has been cited by federal regulators for multi
  
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• Ross Douthat: What to do when COVID doesn’t go away

  09-08-2020 17:29
  
  Among the many things that nobody knows about the disease that has overturned our lives is how long its effects last. I don’t just mean the possibility of coronavirus damage lurking invisibly in the heart or lungs or brain. I mean the simpler question of what it takes, and how long, for some uncertain percentage of the sick to actually feel better.Two months ago Ed Yong of The Atlantic reported on COVID’s “long-haulers” — people who are sick for months rather than t
  
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• Jacob S. Rugh: An open letter to the BYU Committee on Race, Equity, and Belonging

  09-08-2020 16:23
  
  Dear Members of the Brigham Young University Committee on Race, Equity, and Belonging:My conscience compels me to compose this letter to you. As dear friends and esteemed colleagues, I write to support your work to eradicate racism and institute racial equity at BYU.I write out of profound respect for your agency and the struggles most of you face as Black, Indigenous, Pacific Islander and Latino people of color on this overwhelmingly white campus. I stand in solidarity with you— before, d
  
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• TestUtah is on track for new state contract — but it will have to use a different lab

  09-08-2020 16:13
  
  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 state is on track to renew its contract with the tech company behind TestUtah, but the details aren’t finalized — and it won’t be using the same Utah County lab, which has been cited by federal regulators for multi
  
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• Here’s how some of Utah’s biggest school districts plan to reopen

  09-08-2020 16:12
  
  When schools reopen this fall, it won’t look the same across the state.The Utah Health Department has issued guidelines on being cautious during the pandemic and rules on how many cases there needs to be to shut down again. And the governor has required masks for K-12 students and staff. But most decisions have been left to each district.Some will welcome students back like normal. A few will have kids alternate days in the classroom. Many have created a hybrid model that combines in-perso
  
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• LDS Church working to close ‘gender gap’ in telling of its history, scholar says

  09-08-2020 16:07
  
  As in every faith, women’s voices mostly have been missing or dramatically outnumbered by men in histories of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but now the Utah-based faith is working to correct that imbalance.So said Melissa Inouye, a historian in the church’s History Department, at this week’s virtual 2020 FairMormon Conference. “If there had been no women involved in the restoration [of Christ’s church], [founder] Joseph Smith’s movement woul
  
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• BYU linebackers, led by Isaiah Kaufusi, look to make more highlight reel performances in 2020

  09-08-2020 16:06
  
  Kalani Sitake has talked about it a lot. The BYU coach wants to create a culture in the locker rooms that translates beyond the field.The message seems to have left an impression on multiple players, but particularly on linebacker Isaiah Kaufusi.As a senior, Kaufusi wants to use his final season in Provo to help continue building that culture. Kaufusi has always considered himself the type of player to lead by example and hopes he is a good influence on his teammates.“It’s different
  
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• Utah prep teams reveling in on-time return to the fields, courts

  09-08-2020 15:25
  
  Timpview High’s volleyball players felt depressed sitting at home for the past few months without interacting with their friends and coaches. The coronavirus pandemic had not only canceled the spring high school sports season in Utah, but it was threatening fall sports as well.But once the got received approval to start summer training, Timpview coach Charmay Lee saw a significant mood shift in her players.“We went from Zoom meetings twice a week in their homes with sadness and frown
  
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• University of Utah lab is developing a video game to ease depression in older adults

  09-08-2020 14:00
  
  Laurie had survived cancer. But enduring chemotherapy left the Millcreek mother with post-traumatic stress disorder and a lag in her thinking that scared her.“If I were trying to come up with the word ‘basket,’ I could think of container, wicker, wood and other things around it, but I couldn’t come up with ‘basket,’” she said.She felt depressed and desperate to get her memory back so she could return to work to support her 34-year-old son, who is disable
  
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• TestUtah on track for new state contract — but will have to use a different lab

  09-08-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. The state is on track to renew its contract with the tech company behind TestUtah, but the details aren’t finalized — and it won’t be using the same Utah County lab, which has been cited by federal regulators for multi
  
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• Survivors tell their stories of abuse and assault by Jeffrey Epstein — and Ghislaine Maxwell

  09-08-2020 14:00
  
  Airing exactly one year after he was found dead in his jail cell, “Surviving Jeffrey Epstein” is as current as today’s headlines — because it’s not just about Epstein, but about Ghislaine Maxwell, too.Generally described as “Epstein’s former girlfriend,” Maxwell is sitting in a jail cell, facing charges related to her role in “sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein” as early as 1994, according to court
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: BYUtv is still getting questions about the LDS Church’s ‘anti-gay stance'

  09-08-2020 14:00
  
  Will BYUtv ever stop getting questions about its owners’ stance on the LGBTQ community?I doubt it. Not as long as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to oppose same-sex marriage and teach that it’s a sin to “engage in any homosexual behavior.”So, no, it wasn’t exactly a surprise when the question came up not once but twice during an online press conference for one of BYUtv’s series:• “How does BYU justify being pro-family if it
  
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• Letter: We must consider reparations for Native Americans

  09-08-2020 14:00
  
  I, too, have had white privilege on my mind, thinking about things I took for granted until recently. One of my favorite Wood Guthrie songs is “This Land is Your Land.” Recently I was playing it on my ukulele, singing along, when it all of a sudden hit me. This land is not my land. We stole this land violently. This land was not made for you and me.It was a profound awakening. We owe Native Americans. I don't know what can be done, but we have placed and held them under conditions th
  
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• Letter: A letter to my family

  09-08-2020 14:00
  
  I recently joined many concerned citizens on the steps of the Cottonwood Heights Police Department to protest the excessive use of force by CHPD (and by police officers around the country) in a peaceful show of solidarity for black lives across America. As I arrived to exercise my First Amendment right I was met by an angry mob of white men wielding guns in an effort to intimidate and harass those of us who were in attendance to call for police reform and accountability.What broke my heart the m
  
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• Here’s a breakdown of how some of the biggest school districts in Utah plan to reopen

  09-08-2020 14:00
  
  When schools reopen this fall, it won’t look the same across the state.The Utah Health Department has issued guidelines on being cautious during the pandemic and rules on how many cases there needs to be to shut down again. And the governor has required masks for K-12 students and staff. But most decisions have been left to each district.Some will welcome students back like normal. A few will have kids alternate days in the classroom. Many have created a hybrid model that combines in-perso
  
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• Coronavirus testing: How it works, why Utah’s tests are down, and what’s coming next?

  09-08-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. Testing has taken on a gigantic role in the story of this pandemic. It’s the subject of genuine confusion and grandstanding claims, and because it provides the basis of our knowledge about the virus, it’s legitimately import
  
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• Letter: We’re in the dog days of summer

  09-08-2020 06:00
  
  Hot weather has arrived in Utah and with the high temperatures comes deadly outcomes for innocent pets at the hands of uneducated owners. In these triple digit temperatures, I have seen crowded dog parks with no shade to be found, and people walking their dogs on hot roads and pavement. Please don’t take your dog to a dog park or exercise in the heat of the day. Early morning or late evening are the only acceptable times.Following are warnings about heat and pet safety issued by the Humane
  
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• Rookies Miye Oni and Jarrell Brantley emerge as options for Utah Jazz to extend their rotation

  09-08-2020 05:20
  
  Denver Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr. drives against Utah Jazz’ Miye Oni (81) of the Utah Jazz in an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz have played just seven games this season without Bojan Bogdanovic in the lineup. Six of those games have been in the bubble.
  Despite the fact that the Jazz learned in May that they would be without their Croatian sharpshooter when the season resumed
  
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• Dustin Johnson has lead, Tony Finau 3 shots back at PGA Championship

  09-08-2020 04:36
  
  San Francisco • Dustin Johnson lost his yardage book and still found his way through an enormous crowd of contenders Saturday, making eight birdies at Harding Park for a 5-under 65 and a one-shot lead in the PGA Championship.Nothing ever comes easily for Johnson in the majors. In this case, his brother had a spare yardage book. Even that might not have stopped Johnson from making his most birdies in any round of a major.And he needed them all.Johnson was among eight players who had at least
  
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• Letter: Utah deserves better than Mike Lee

  09-08-2020 04:25
  
  I wrote to Sen. Mike Lee, asking him not to let the president delay November’s election. In response I got a form letter that said: “Election processes are an issue best handled at the state and local level by the people who are most affected by them, not by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington D.C.”Which sounds good, but makes me think the senator (or at least the person writing his form letter) doesn’t know that the date of the election is mandated by fede
  
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• Donovan Mitchell’s clutch heroics keep Utah Jazz coming back in loss to Denver

  09-08-2020 03:50
  
  Donovan Mitchell’s stat line from Saturday’s double-overtime loss to the Denver Nuggets would appear to be something of a mixed bag: Yes, he had 35 points, but he also shot just 12 of 33 overall and 5 of 16 from deep; and yeah, he aded eight assists and six rebounds, but he also committed five turnovers.Thing is, a cursory glance at a stat sheet doesn’t really do justice to what Mitchell accomplished out on the AdventHealth Arena court Saturday.If not for his heroics in the clu
  
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• Donovan Mitchell dazzles again and again in Utah’s double-overtime loss to Denver Nuggets

  09-08-2020 03:40
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell (45) celebrates his basket with teammate Royce O’Neale during overtime of an NBA basketball gam against the Denver Nuggets, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP Mitchell’s heroics came to life at the end of regulation when he singlehandedly brought the Jazz back from a 6-point deficit in the span of 10.8 seconds. SALT LAKE CITY — After a game-high 35-points in a double-overtime performance, Donova
  
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• Utah police shootings surpass 2019 total, with two on Saturday

  09-08-2020 02:53
  
  Utah police on Saturday shot two more people, bringing the total number of people shot by police this year to 16 — one more than in all of 2019.Those two shootings mark the fourth in Utah this month, just eight days into August.The first shooting Saturday happened in Roy, where police say officers were shot at as they approached a car in a field around 2 a.m. Those officers returned fire and killed a suspect. Another man has been arrested. And a police dog, shot in the face, was treated an
  
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• Trump allows some unemployment pay, defers payroll tax

  09-08-2020 02:07
  
  Bedminster, N.J. • Seizing the power of his podium and his pen, President Donald Trump on Saturday bypassed the nation’s lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and replace an expired unemployment benefit with a lower amount after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed. At his private country club in Bedminster, N.J., Trump signed executive orders to act where Congress hasn’t. Not only has the pandemic undermined the economy
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz go to 2 OTs with Nuggets before faltering, in a game that had nearly everything

  09-08-2020 02:05
  
  Three thoughts on the Jazz’s 136-134 double-overtime loss to the Denver Nuggets from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Donovan Mitchell’s shotmakingThat game was the most exciting Rorschach test of all time. A Rorschach test is one of those ink blot pictures that psychologists use to determine a person’s mental and emotional characteristics.Rorschach blot #1.You see a moth, it might mean that your brain works in a certain way. If you see a mask or an imposing face, i
  
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• Letter: The difference between a million and a trillion

  09-08-2020 02:00
  
  In her letter to the editor on Aug. 4, Mary Burkett argues that, since the United States debt is approaching $30 trillion, we should seriously question remaining in the World Health Association at an assessment of nearly $58 million. Clearly she does not know the ratio of trillion to million. As an analog: The father of a household with an annual income of $500,000 tells his son Jimmy that he should seriously consider spending one dollar on a pen.Hugo Rossi, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the
  
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• Utah Jazz waste near-perfect first half, drop 2OT thriller to Nuggets, 134-132

  09-08-2020 01:10
  
  If the Utah Jazz are, indeed, targeting the Denver Nuggets for a potential playoff matchup, it may not ultimately produce the result they want. But it should — if nothing else — make for a scintillating series.The Jazz played about as perfect a first half as they’re capable of in Saturday’s matchup. They then wasted the effort by unraveling throughout the second half and falling apart down the stretch, got rescued in the final seconds of regulation by Donovan Mitchell, we
  
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• Utah Jazz waste near-perfect first half, drop 2 OT thriller to Nuggets, 134-132

  09-08-2020 00:57
  
  If the Utah Jazz are, indeed, targeting the Denver Nuggets for a potential playoff matchup, it may not ultimately produce the result they want. But it should — if nothing else — make for a scintillating series.The Jazz played about as perfect a first half as they’re capable of in Saturday’s matchup. They then wasted the effort by unraveling throughout the second half and falling apart down the stretch, got rescued in the final seconds of regulation by Donovan Mitchell, we
  
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• Brazil makes grim milestone — 100,000 deaths from COVID-19

  09-08-2020 00:13
  
  Rio de Janeiro • Brazil surpassed a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday night, and five months after the first reported case the country has not shown signs of crushing the disease.The nation of 210 million people has been reporting an average of more than 1,000 daily deaths from the pandemic since late May and reported 905 for the latest 24-hour period.The Health Ministry said there had been a total of 3,012,412 confirmed infections with the new coronavirus — d
  
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