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• How can the Utah Jazz slow Denver’s Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic down the stretch?

  18-08-2020 23:16
  
  As good as Donovan Mitchell’s 57-point performance was for the Utah Jazz, the Nuggets matched him shot for shot down the stretch of Game 1, eventually besting him down the stretch.That’s been a trend in the Jazz’s games against the Nuggets this season: close contests that the Jazz can’t seem to control late. The two-man game of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray just tore the Jazz to shreds again, as the two players combined for 32 points in the fourth quarter and overtime.Mur
  
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• Utah Jazz say ‘stopping Nikola Jokic’ isn’t simply about Rudy Gobert, but more so creating some uncertainty

  18-08-2020 23:15
  
  A fascinating subplot of the first-round playoff series between the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets is the positional matchup of centers Rudy Gobert and Nikola Jokic. The two-time Defensive Player of the Year being able to shut down his slick-passing, offense-initiating counterpart is they key to Utah being able to pull off the upset — or so the theory goes, anyway.Gobert, for one, wasn’t buying into the mano-a-mano component ahead of Monday’s Game 1.“He’s a very good
  
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• Latter-day Saints for Trump Coalition removes image of temple from its official site

  18-08-2020 23:01
  
  An image of the Salt Lake LDS Temple that originally appeared on the homepage of the Latter Day Saints for Trump website has been replaced after prompting an outcry from some church members on social media.The pro-Donald Trump coalition, which launched last week, removed the temple photo and in its stead posted a picture of Vice President Mike Pence during a visit to Arizona on Aug. 11. Neither of the two members of the advisory board reached by The Salt Lake Tribune could answer why the image w
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: The Old White, Blue and Red

  18-08-2020 22:34
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Postal Service in DistressLong National NightmareFire FighterVeepQuality vs. QanonBlowing Up the MessengerGoes to ElevenDr. Donald’s DevoteesCottonwood Heights LowsBusiness DocsWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• BYU Cougars will hold one more football scrimmage before shifting focus to Navy

  18-08-2020 22:19
  
  The dog days are are just about over.As BYU football continues fall camp, the focus is quickly going to change later this week as the Cougars hold a final preseason scrimmage on Thursday. Then, BYU will concentrate on Navy as the Labor Day season opener inches closer.BYU coach Kalani Sitake is going to be looking for a lot from his Cougars on Thursday, when the players get another look at some live action. With a similar setting to that of a game, there will be plenty of reps to evaluate players
  
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• Utah reports five new deaths as other COVID-19 trends continue to fall

  18-08-2020 22:13
  
  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. With 263 new coronavirus cases reported on Tuesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued a five-day decline, staying well under the governor’s target of less than 400 cases per day.For the past seven days, Utah has average
  
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• How can the Utah Jazz slow Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic down the stretch?

  18-08-2020 22:12
  
  As good as Donovan Mitchell’s 57-point performance was for the Utah Jazz, the Nuggets matched him shot for shot down the stretch of Game 1, eventually besting him down the stretch.That’s been a trend in the Jazz’s games against the Nuggets this season: close contests that the Jazz can’t seem to control late. The two-man game of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray just tore the Jazz to shreds again, as the two players combined for 32 points in the fourth quarter in overtime.Murr
  
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• Bret Stephens: On being a Biden conservative

  18-08-2020 22:00
  
  The other day I spotted a sticker that read, “Settle for Biden, 2020.” It spoke for me.To be a Biden conservative is to feel about as much enthusiasm for the presumptive Democratic nominee as a Sanders socialist might, albeit from the opposite direction. Everyone is aware of the former vice president’s foibles. Every conservative can point to his policy blunders and offenses.The most obvious recommendations for Joe Biden are a succession of “isn’ts.” He isn&rs
  
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• Gordon Hayward injured again, expected to miss approximately 4 weeks

  18-08-2020 21:34
  
  Boston Celtics’ Gordon Hayward, center, looks to pass during game against Philadelphia on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Hayward suffered an ankle injury later in the game and will be sidelined up to four weeks. | APSALT LAKE CITY — The injury woes continue for former Utah Jazz All-Star Gordon Hayward.
  The Boston Celtics announced Tuesday that Hayward will miss approximately four weeks after suffering a grade III sprain of his right ankle late Monday in the Celtics
  
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• Bill would ease rules so person with little public health experience could lead Utah health department

  18-08-2020 21:33
  
  State lawmakers are looking at easing the public health credentials required for the state’s health department head, as they consider accommodating a new agency leader whose background is largely in business management.The move has elicited concern from Utah’s largest physicians organization and some state legislators, who say the middle of a pandemic is a time for more — not less — public health knowledge in positions of power.“We need expertise and experience now
  
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• Utah COVID-19 diagnoses, hospitalizations continue to drop

  18-08-2020 21:11
  
  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. With 263 new coronavirus cases reported on Tuesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued a five-day decline, staying well under the governor’s target of less than 400 cases per day.For the past seven days, Utah has average
  
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• Utah Jazz PG Mike Conley is back in the bubble, but assistant Johnnie Bryant is reportedly joining the Knicks

  18-08-2020 21:06
  
  Monday evening saw some good news for the Utah Jazz in terms of getting back a key component of the team. Tuesday afternoon, however, brought word of another impending significant loss.The good news: point guard Mike Conley returned to the NBA bubble on Monday night with an eye toward being able to play by Game 3 of the first-round series against the Nuggets on Friday. The bad news: highly-regarded assistant coach Johnnie Bryant, renowned for his player development acumen, is reportedly set to l
  
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• All the Republicans who have decided not to support Trump

  18-08-2020 21:00
  
  As November draws nearer, a few current and former Republican officials have begun to break ranks with the rest of their party, saying in public and private conversations that they will not support President Donald Trump in his reelection. Some have even said that they will be voting for his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden.As Trump’s political standing has slipped, fueled by his failures in handling the coronavirus pandemic and by the economic recession, some Republicans have found it easie
  
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• Utah teachers say they haven’t received much sanitizer or PPE — including masks promised by the governor

  18-08-2020 20:55
  
  Some Utah teachers say that all they’ve been given to disinfect their classrooms is one rag and a bottle of homemade sanitizing spray. Others say they haven’t even gotten a bottle yet.Staff at a school district in northern Utah have resorted to making their own barriers out of cardboard boxes and laminator paper. Some are also using PVC pipe and clear shower curtains. Their pleas for Plexiglas were denied, they say.One educator posted on social media a picture of the bag of protectiv
  
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• Utah Jazz assistant coach Johnnie Bryant leaving for New York Knicks

  18-08-2020 20:22
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) talks with Jazz assistant coach Johnnie Bryant as Utah practices at the Toyota Center for Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals in Houston on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz are losing arguably their most important assistant coach.
  The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported Tuesday that Johnnie Bryant will be hired by the New York Knicks to be associate head coach under new head coach Tom
  
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• Report: Utah Jazz assistant coach Johnnie Bryant leaving for New York Knicks

  18-08-2020 20:22
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) talks with Jazz assistant coach Johnnie Bryant as Utah practices at the Toyota Center for Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals in Houston on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz are reportedly losing arguably their most important assistant coach.
  The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported Tuesday that Johnnie Bryant will be hired by the New York Knicks to be associate head coach under new head
  
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• How mail-in voting works

  18-08-2020 20:00
  
  More Americans than ever before can vote by mail this year, as states prepare to hold an election under the conditions of a pandemic.But President Donald Trump’s false claims about the risks of mail voting, problems at the Postal Service and the sheer variety of rules around mail voting — many of them changed because of the global health crisis — have created confusion about the systems.But despite Trump’s claims about the dangers of mail voting, the practice has been a p
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: Salt Lake City’s ‘Old Coots’ offer free life advice

  18-08-2020 19:42
  
  Watch live at noon here.For the past few years, a group of Utah retirees who call themselves the “Old Coots” have been meeting every Saturday morning at the Salt Lake City Farmer’s Market to dispense free advice to the public.“We were sitting outside, bored stiff from talking to each other, and I said, ‘You know what? I’m going to get us a booth across the street at the farmers market, where we can give advice,’ ” Tony Caputo, founder of his namesa
  
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• Mike Conley rejoins Utah Jazz in NBA bubble, to proceed with four-day quarantine

  18-08-2020 19:14
  
  Utah Jazz’ Mike Conley celebrates a 3-point basket against the Denver Nuggets during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kevin C. Cox/Pool photo via The Associated PressSALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz announced Tuesday that guard Mike Conley has returned to the NBA bubble. He is required to quarantine for four days, which will end sometime on Friday.
  On Sunday morning, Conley rushed home to Columbus, Ohio, where his wife gav
  
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• Guard Mike Conley rejoins Utah Jazz in NBA bubble

  18-08-2020 19:14
  
  FILE: Mike Conley of the Utah Jazz dribbles the ball against the Memphis Grizzlies during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz announced on Tuesday that Jazz guard Mike Conley has returned to the NBA bubble.
  On Sunday morning Conley rushed home to Columbus, Ohio when his wife gave birth to the couple’s third son. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Conley a
  
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• Dixie State football was forced to postpone 2020 season. What comes next?

  18-08-2020 19:09
  
  Dixie State is not a member of the Big Sky Conference, but the Trailblazers’ now-failed hopes of playing football this fall were directly tied to the intermountain-based league.A first-year FCS independent transitioning up from Division II, the Trailblazers put together an 11-game 2020 schedule, composed entirely of FCS and Division II programs. Games against Division IIs Western New Mexico, Azusa Pacific and Western Colorado, plus another transitioning FCS independent, Tarleton State, wer
  
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• Dixie State football was forced to postpone 2020 season. What comes up next?

  18-08-2020 19:01
  
  Dixie State is not a member of the Big Sky Conference, but the Trailblazers’ now-failed hopes of playing football this fall were directly tied to the intermountain-based league.A first-year FCS independent transitioning up from Division II, the Trailblazers put together an 11-game 2020 schedule, composed entirely of FCS and Division II programs. Games against Division IIs Western New Mexico, Azusa Pacific and Western Colorado, plus another transitioning FCS independent, Tarleton State, wer
  
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• Mike Conley returns to the bubble

  18-08-2020 18:36
  
  Ohm Youngmisuk: Mike Conley Jr. has returned to the NBA campus according to the Jazz.
  
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• Navajo death row inmate seeks Supreme Court review of case

  18-08-2020 18:29
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Attorneys for the only Native American on federal death row are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision regarding potential racial bias in the case.Lezmond Mitchell is scheduled to be put to death Aug. 26 at a federal prison in Indiana where he’s being held. He lost a bid in the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to interview jurors.The appeals court said Mitchell, who is Navajo, failed to show any discrimination occurred among the jury and pointed out sev
  
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• Report: BYU to meet Army for the first time in September

  18-08-2020 17:28
  
  While neither team has revealed the addition to their schedule, it looks like BYU has added another game with a service academy.According to the Times Herald-Record, BYU will play at Army Sept. 19. Army, a fellow independent, has never played BYU before, but this agreement could possibly be part of a home-and-home series.The Salt Lake Tribune is attempting to confirm the story.The Cougars are set to kick off the season Sept. 7 at Navy.Like BYU, Army has been trying to piece back their schedule a
  
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• Gordon Monson: Donovan Mitchell’s star is rising, and the timing for the Utah Jazz could not be better

  18-08-2020 17:03
  
  The Jazz’s 10-point overtime loss in Game 1 of their playoff series against the Nuggets seemed like a kick to the onions, but … there’s an extraordinary development that emerged in that defeat. It was plain for everyone to see. It might not make much of a difference in the outcome in this particular postseason, what with the Jazz missing two of their best players — Bojan Bogdanovic and Mike Conley.No matter.That which is extraordinary is this: The Emergence of Donovan Mi
  
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• Commentary: Josh Dickson’s road from Republican evangelical to Biden’s faith outreach director

  18-08-2020 16:23
  
  Growing up in Rochester, N.Y., attending an evangelical church on Sundays and Bible study on Wednesdays, Josh Dickson never expected he would one day support a Democrat for president.Today, Dickson is not only a Democratic voter but also the Biden for President campaign’s national faith engagement director. Saying he still cherishes the values his parents instilled in him, Dickson was converted by his experience as a community organizer in Chicago’s South Side.  I spoke wit
  
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• Utah man charged after he argued with his wife and threw her in the Provo River

  18-08-2020 16:17
  
  A Pleasant Grove man, who is accused of throwing his wife in the Provo River after the two argued, is facing a felony kidnapping charge. According to police, the suspect said he grabbed his wife and forced her into the water “after she refused to do what he asked.”The 61-year-old man and his wife were at the Provo River Resort just below Deer Creek Dam on Sunday when they began arguing over “dinner arrangements,” the woman told police. The man “became angry and thre
  
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• Utah’s state parks experience both famine and feast during COVID-19

  18-08-2020 15:20
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has taken Utah’s state parks for a roller-coaster ride, an agency representative said Monday.The situation looked grim early in the pandemic, Jeff Rasmussen, the state’s head of parks and recreation told Utah lawmakers. Amid public health restrictions, overall park attendance dropped by nearly 40% in April compared to the same month in 2019. The hardest-hit park — Edge Of The Cedars State Park Museum in Blanding — saw its visitation nosedive by 98
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Salt Lake City’s ‘Old Coots’ offer free life advice

  18-08-2020 15:19
  
  For the past few years, a group of Utah retirees who call themselves the “Old Coots” have been meeting every Saturday morning at the Salt Lake City Farmer’s Market to dispense free advice to the public.“We were sitting outside, bored stiff from talking to each other, and I said, ‘You know what? I’m going to get us a booth across the street at the farmers market, where we can give advice,’ ” Tony Caputo, founder of his namesake deli where the group
  
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• Utah courts facing logjams as coronavirus pandemic wears on

  18-08-2020 15:15
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has had sweeping impacts on Utah’s court system and has led to a backlog in cases, Judge Mary T. Noonan, the state court administrator, told a state legislative committee on Monday.The district courts currently face a logjam of 147 jury trials, 122 of which are criminal, Noonan said — a number that is increasing at a rate of about 29 each month. There are also 93 criminal bench trials in the queue and 273 civil bench trials waiting in line. Those are expected
  
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• Utah grandmas ‘lovingly peer pressure’ grandkids to register to vote during 19th Amendment anniversary

  18-08-2020 14:00
  
  While Jill Lesh has always had the right to vote, her female ancestors didn’t. Lesh’s grandmother was 42 years old when the 19th Amendment was ratified. And her great-grandmother, born in 1858, never had the chance to cast a ballot.So, when Lesh, who lives in Park City, goes to the voting booth today, she sees it as “a responsibility.”“I wouldn’t be a part of democracy if I didn’t vote,” the 76-year-old said.Lesh and other women are sharing their f
  
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• Robert Kirby: Give me news I can use. Coronavirus? Nah. Bison attacks? Yep.

  18-08-2020 14:00
  
  I don’t recall when I stopped paying close attention to the news. It was somewhere around the 1.7 billionth story on either Washington politics or the coronavirus.With my wandering attention span, even the approaching end of the world can get tedious after a while. If it’s bound to happen, then hurry it up already.This hardly means I’m not interested in the news at all. My wife, who watches and reads all the news she can, knows when to yell, “Hon, you’re going to wa
  
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• Jennifer Molidor and Erik Molvar: Magical cows and the colonization of Western public lands

  18-08-2020 14:00
  
  In the debate over grazing in the West, there’s a trend toward magical thinking. In their Aug. 12 commentary, “If you like fish and birds, hug a cow” ranchers Pat and Sharon O’Toole indulge in unscientific flights of fantasy, claiming that irrigation and livestock are beneficial for native fish and wildlife.Unlike cows, native wildlife in the West don’t need arid lands flooded with water to be productive. Prior to the agricultural colonization of the West (and its d
  
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• Letter: ‘Trickle up’ makes more economic sense

  18-08-2020 13:30
  
  I always felt that the “trickle down” economic theory supported by the Reagan administration was 180 degrees off.While some of the resources dumped at the top may reach the lower levels of society, much goes into savings, real estate and foreign investment. To broadly affect the economic picture of the general society, consider a “trickle up” approach instead.A benefit of $600 to the family of an unemployed worker goes directly to local grocers, shop keepers, childcare wo
  
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• Letter: Veterans fought for freedom of speech

  18-08-2020 13:00
  
  In response to Clement A. Kester’s letter (“I can’t respect a team that doesn’t respect the flag,” Aug. 8), I want to thank him for his service to our country.I am grateful for the sacrifices that he and other veterans have made so that people like members of the Utah Jazz and the NBA can use their freedom of speech to call out injustices happening in our country.As Mr. Kester states, “Many men have died for that flag and the freedoms it stands for.” And
  
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• Letter: Cattle make climate change worse

  18-08-2020 12:57
  
  Pat and Sharon O’Toole, the ranchers extolling cattle in the Aug. 11 Salt Lake Tribune, (“If you like birds and fish, hug a cow”) got it wrong.While they claim multiple benefits for wildlife from ranching and irrigated agriculture, cattle decimate riparian areas that wildlife depend on in the arid west. Further, beef production is a major contributor to water pollution.Most importantly, meat production is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. Animal agriculture pro
  
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• Letter: UTA riders depend on transit service

  18-08-2020 07:00
  
  The Utah Transit Authority recently announced plans to restore service back to 91% of pre-pandemic offerings on Aug. 23. This change is sorely needed.Ridership is currently about 70% below normal, but there is still a sizable segment of the community — in particular low-income residents — who depend on public transit to perform essential activities like getting to work.Slashing service may have been a cost-effective move, but it came with some staggering consequences for riders &mdas
  
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• Dems put divides aside, rally behind Biden at convention

  18-08-2020 06:49
  
  New York • Michelle Obama delivered a passionate condemnation of President Donald Trump during Monday’s opening night of the Democratic National Convention, declaring him “in over his head” and warning that the nation’s mounting crises would only get worse if he’s reelected over Joe Biden.“Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country,” she said. “He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us.”The for
  
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• Michelle Obama assails Trump during virtual Democratic convention

  18-08-2020 06:04
  
  New York • Michelle Obama delivered a passionate broadside against President Donald Trump during Monday’s opening night of the Democratic National Convention, assailing the Republican president as unfit for the job and warning that the nation’s mounting crises would only get worse if he’s reelected.The former first lady issued an emotional call to the coalition that sent her husband to the White House, declaring that strong feelings must be translated into votes.“Don
  
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• Letter: The Tribune let a good one get away

  18-08-2020 06:00
  
  Reflecting on the announcement that The Salt Lake Tribune Board has accepted the resignation of Editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce, something is eating away at me.Is it the almost lame explanation referencing a conflict with the publisher — sorry, chairman of the board, in nonprofit parlance — who, despite creating the impression that he’d leave newspaper work to newspaper people, isn’t?Is it that we’ve all come to expect much more from this paper and largely it has deli
  
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• Michelle Obama assails Trump at Democratic convention

  18-08-2020 05:30
  
  New York • Michelle Obama delivered a passionate broadside against President Donald Trump during Monday’s opening night of the Democratic National Convention, assailing the Republican president as unfit for the job and warning that the nation’s mounting crises would only get worse if he’s reelected.The former first lady issued an emotional call to the coalition that sent her husband to the White House, declaring that strong feelings must be translated into votes.“Don
  
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• Margaret Renkl: The final battleground in the fight for suffrage

  18-08-2020 05:30
  
  Nashville • Tuesday marks 100 years since the Tennessee General Assembly voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave American women the right to vote and shifted the national political landscape as thoroughly as any earthquake, tornado, and tidal wave combined.By Aug. 18, 1920, more than a year had passed since the United States Congress voted to approve the amendment. Thirty-five of the necessary 36 states had already voted for ratification, but there the women’s suffrage effort h
  
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• Jana Riess: Changing Mormon beliefs about — and preparations for — the end of the world

  18-08-2020 05:18
  
  Christopher Blythe is a faculty research associate at the Neal A Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. His new book, “Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse,” has just been published by Oxford University Press, tracing Latter-day Saint beliefs in the end of the world from the religion’s beginnings to the present.This interview is in two parts. Unless the world ends today, the second part will be posted tomorrow, foc
  
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• Jamal Murray’s shooting confidence and energy contagious for Denver Nuggets

  18-08-2020 05:04
  
  Denver Nuggets’ Jamal Murray, left, shoots against Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles during the first half of an NBA basketball first round playoff game, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — Denver Nuggets head coach Mike Malone called Monday’s fourth quarter and overtime periods “the Jamal Murray show.”
  Scoreless through the majority of the fourth quarter, Murray heated up at exactly the right time for th
  
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• Left and not-so-left unite against Trump at Democratic convention

  18-08-2020 04:33
  
  New York • Joe Biden introduced the breadth of his political coalition to a nation in crisis Monday night at the Democratic National Convention, giving voice to victims of the coronavirus pandemic, the related economic downturn and police violence and featuring both progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans united against President Donald Trump’s reelection.In taped excerpts released before the convention opening, former first lady Michelle Obama, wife of the nation’s f
  
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• Family of George Floyd leads moment of silence at Democratic convention

  18-08-2020 04:03
  
  New York • The family of George Floyd, the Minnesota man whose death in police custody sparked a national awakening on racial injustice, led a moment of silence Monday night in the early moments of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.One of Floyd's brothers, Philonise, stood alongside another brother, Rodney, and praised the sweeping protests that followed their brother's death.“People of all races, all ages, all genders, all backgrounds, peacefully protesting in the name of love
  
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• Sarah Vowell: Biden and a new leadership of public college graduates

  18-08-2020 03:30
  
  Since the Harvard-Yale game that was the 1988 general election, all U.S. presidents, including the Wharton School graduate currently occupying the White House, have been Ivy League alumni. President Gerald Ford (University of Michigan, ’35) often ditched “Hail to the Chief” as his walk-on music and replaced it with his college fight song, but he never won the Electoral College, having assumed the Oval Office after Richard Nixon resigned.So if Joe Biden (University of Delaware,
  
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• Postmaster general will testify before the House on Postal Service’s struggles

  18-08-2020 03:30
  
  Washington • Facing a public backlash over mail disruptions, the Trump administration scrambled to respond Monday as the House prepared an emergency vote to halt delivery delays and service changes that Democrats warned could imperil the November election.The Postal Service said it has stopped removing mailboxes and mail-sorting machines amid an outcry from lawmakers. President Donald Trump flatly denied he was asking for the mail to be delayed even as he leveled fresh criticism on universa
  
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• Legislature calls special session for Thursday to address COVID-19 needs and much more

  18-08-2020 02:48
  
  Leaders of the Utah Legislature called Monday for a special session on Thursday to consider such things as more COVID-19 relief, issues relating to reopening schools during the pandemic, and tweaking how to hold the Nov. 3 general election.Senate President Stuart Adams and House Speaker Brad Wilson said the Legislature will convene Thursday at 10 a.m. for the sixth special session this year.Their proclamation includes possible consideration of 22 items, and not all of them relate to COVID-19.For
  
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