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• Romney questions reveals that even if COVID vaccine comes before election, few may get it for months

  23-09-2020 23:59
  
  President Donald Trump has repeatedly predicted that a vaccine for COVID-19 will be available before the Nov. 3 election. But questions from Sen. Mitt Romney on Wednesday revealed that even if that happens, relatively few Americans would receive shots by the end of the year.And doses still likely would not be available for all Americans until March or April, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.Fauci outlined the reasons why during questio
  
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• Rich Lowry: The left wants a regime change

  23-09-2020 23:55
  
  Constitutional revolution is going mainstream.After delivering lectures about political norms for the entirety of the Trump era — often with good cause — much of the left is now threatening to kneecap an important institution of American government on a partisan vote in an act of ideological vengeance.If the Republican Senate confirms a Trump appointee to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat right before or after the election, progressives say Democrats, if the
  
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• Police officers not charged for killing Breonna Taylor

  23-09-2020 23:28
  
  Louisville, Ky. • A Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for the killing of Breonna Taylor during a drug raid gone wrong, with prosecutors saying Wednesday that two officers who fired their weapons at the Black woman were justified in using force to protect themselves.The only charges brought by the grand jury were three counts of wanton endangerment against fired Officer Brett Hankison for shooting into Taylor’s neighbors' homes during the raid on the nigh
  
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• Utah County, long resistant to mask mandates, reacts with resignation and frustration to new requirements

  23-09-2020 23:03
  
  Orem • Edna Clarkson, 79, is up on her popular culture and how Utah County has begun requiring people to wear masks in public.“I am not a fan of Lady Gaga," Clarkson said, "but I think Lady Gaga said it best. It’s a sign of being kind to others.”Not everyone is doing a happy dance about the county mask mandate that went into effect Tuesday. Rachelle Pay, a 50-year-old Orem resident called it “a bunch of crap.”“I’m a huge conspiracy theory person,&rd
  
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• BYU’s defense stood tall against the option. Now the Cougars must face the spread, air attack of Troy.

  23-09-2020 22:59
  
  Throughout fall camp and preseason practices, the BYU defense focus was set to figuring out how to defend the triple option. After all, both Navy and Army – the first two opponents on the schedule — run the option, something BYU hadn’t faced in years.But then, due to a series of positive COVID-19 cases among the Cougars, the Army game was postponed. The hiccup allowed BYU’s defense to switch over to a more traditional scheme earlier than planned as the Cougars prepared to
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: How media refer to the church, and why heeding the faith’s style isn’t always easy

  23-09-2020 22:45
  
  In August 2018, President Russell M. Nelson urged the media to use the faith’s full name, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and to stop employing the terms “Mormon church” or “LDS Church” — indeed to cease using “Mormon” altogether, even when referring to members.A year later, Public Square Magazine, published from the perspective of Latter-day Saints, decided to survey whether various national news outlets — including The New
  
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• Insanity defense planned in Appalachian Trail killing

  23-09-2020 22:00
  
  Richmond, Va. • A Massachusetts man charged with killing an Appalachian Trail hiker and attacking another with a hunting knife in Virginia plans to use an insanity defense at his trial.James Jordan of West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, is scheduled to go on trial in January in the 2019 killing of Ronald Sanchez Jr., 43, of Oklahoma City, and the wounding of a female hiker.Jordan’s attorneys filed a notice in federal court this week saying they intend to use an insanity defense.Jordan, 31,
  
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• Two more Utah high schools — Granger and Olympus — close because of COVID-19 outbreaks

  23-09-2020 21:59
  
  Two more high schools in Salt Lake County will temporarily stop in-person classes because of COVID-19 outbreaks among students and staff.Both Granger High and Olympus High reported having 15 active cases of the coronavirus as of Wednesday. In response, Granite School District announced it would follow guidance from the Utah Department of Health to shut down for two weeks and shuffle students to online learning.“Our board of education is committed to abiding by the state and local health de
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Trump’s Supreme Court pick may need to denounce Roe. Good.

  23-09-2020 21:54
  
  In a floor speech in July, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., issued an ultimatum on future Supreme Court fights.“I will vote only for those Supreme Court nominees who have explicitly acknowledged that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided,” Hawley said. He would require on-the-record evidence that the next Republican nominee “understands Roe to be the travesty that it is.” Absent that, he said, “I will not support the nomination.”The day after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Hawle
  
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• Another Salt Lake County high school closes for ‘deep cleaning' after surpassing 15 COVID-19 cases; 2 Canyons district high schools go to online classes for 14 days

  23-09-2020 21:48
  
  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.A West Jordan high school is suspending classes on Tuesday after health officials Monday confirmed more than 15 coronavirus cases at the school.Copper Hills High School was to undergo a “deep cleaning and thorough disinfecting&rdqu
  
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• Utah reports 877 new coronavirus cases Wednesday

  23-09-2020 21:10
  
  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 877 new coronavirus cases reported on Wednesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise. And yet another new record for the percentage of tests that are positive suggests that an increasing number of infections are goi
  
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• Election and Supreme Court fight will decide Trump’s environmental legacy

  23-09-2020 21:00
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump has initiated the most aggressive environmental deregulation agenda in modern history, but as his first term drives to a close, many of his policies are being cut down by the courts — even by Republican-appointed jurists who the administration had hoped would be friendly.Those losses have actually heightened the stakes in the election and the fight over a replacement on the Supreme Court for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A second term, coupled with a
  
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• 1 officer indicted in Breonna Taylor case; not for her death

  23-09-2020 20:42
  
  Louisville, Ky. • A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday indicted a single former police officer for shooting into neighboring apartments but did not move forward with charges against any officers for their role in Breonna Taylor’s death.The jury announced that fired Officer Brett Hankison was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment in connection to the police raid of Taylor’s home on the night of March 13.Immediately after the announcement, people were expressing frustrati
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Can we still be a country?

  23-09-2020 19:54
  
  Ultimately, it comes down to a set of rules.Meaning norms, practices, guidelines — some written as law, some just respected as customs — to which we all adhere, even when that gives advantage to those with whom we disagree. It’s a covenant pluralistic self-government demands. And it’s one America is in the process of shredding — as seen anew in the Republican Party’s response to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Understand: that response t
  
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• Grand jury indicts 1 police officer in Breonna Taylor death

  23-09-2020 19:47
  
  Louisville, Ky. • A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday indicted a single police officer for shooting into neighboring apartments but did not move forward with charges against any officers for their role in Breonna Taylor’s death.A grand jury announced that Officer Brett Hankison was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment in connection to the police raid on the night of March 13.Neither the grand jury nor the presiding judge elaborated on the charges.State Attorney General Dani
  
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• What led to Utah’s K-12 enrollment dropping for the first time in 20 years

  23-09-2020 19:34
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has caused a shift that hasn’t been seen in Utah’s public schools in 20 years: The number of students enrolled has declined.Some parents have started home-schooling their kids. Others have opted to keep their 5-year-olds out of kindergarten for now. As a result of those and other decisions, the state’s anticipated 7,000 increase in students this fall evaporated. In reality, the school population is instead down roughly 2,000.A change like this, even if
  
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• Utah’s powderhounds find hucks, hope in drive-in ski films

  23-09-2020 19:26
  
  The ski flick for decades has been the harbinger of hope, but never more so than in the chaos of 2020.“It’s crazy. There’s just such a new norm now and, like, looking into winter, I just have no idea what to expect really, especially with the ski resorts,” Millcreek resident Tim McChesney said. “And I’m excited to watch all the ski movies and remember that, like, things will get back to normal eventually and skiing will still go on.”McChesney isn’t
  
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• Salt Lake City, County announce fee waiver extension at landfill for windstorm debris

  23-09-2020 18:32
  
  It’s been more than two weeks since a historic windstorm struck the Wasatch Front — causing significant damage from Salt Lake City to Logan — and remnants of the damage continue to block sidewalks and sit in storm gutters.But for anyone who hasn’t cleaned up damaged trees or branches quite yet, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson said Wednesday that the landfill would extend its fee waiver for storm debris through close of business
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee pushes for nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court

  23-09-2020 17:52
  
  Utah Sen. Mike Lee has shifted from being a top mention on President Donald Trump’s short list for Supreme Court nominees earlier this month to becoming a big cheerleader for the appointment of someone else: Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the 7th Court of Appeals.That comes after Trump has said he will appoint a woman to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. Trump said he will announce his pick on Saturday at 5 p.m.Lee — a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hold c
  
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• Ex-BYU groundskeeping supervisor charged with sexually assaulting an employee

  23-09-2020 16:57
  
  A former Brigham Young University groundskeeping supervisor has been charged with sexually assaulting one of his employees.Michael Dufur, 62, of Lehi, was charged in 4th District Court with object rape, a first-degree felony; and forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony.BYU fired Dufur after the assault was reported in December.According to a probable cause statement, on Dec. 13, Dufur told the 51-year-old victim to come into a shed with him because he wanted to get her something. When she
  
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• Gale Sayers, Chicago Bears Hall of Fame running back, dies at 77

  23-09-2020 16:51
  
  Chicago • Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, who made his mark as one of the NFL’s best all-purpose running backs and was later celebrated for his enduring friendship with a Chicago Bears teammate with cancer, has died. He was 77.Nicknamed “The Kansas Comet” and considered among the best open-field runners the game has ever seen, Sayers died Wednesday, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.Relatives of Sayers had said he was diagnosed with dementia. In March 2017, his wife, A
  
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• Murray residents warned to beware of cougars

  23-09-2020 16:38
  
  Murray residents are being warned to be on the lookout for mountain lions.According to a Facebook post from the Murray Police Department, there have been multiple cougar sightings in the city over the past few weeks. The most recent, in the “early morning hours” on Tuesday, was in the area of 1300 East and 5600 South.The Division of Wildlife Resources was notified, but the animal was not located.Murray police are advising residents to bring their children inside before dusk; keep pet
  
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• First-of-its-kind report addresses ways to reduce suicide among Utah’s LGBTQ+ community

  23-09-2020 15:22
  
  Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is at risk of self-harm, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24-hour support at 1-800-273-8255. The Trevor Project also has a 24-hour suicide hotline for the LGBTQ+ community at 1-866-488-7386.The Utah Suicide Prevention Coalition released a new plan this month that provides a first-of-its kind road map to reducing suicide rates among the state’s vulnerable LGBTQ+ community.The most significant area
  
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• Russia offers U.N. staff free coronavirus vaccines

  23-09-2020 15:14
  
  Moscow • What do you do when Vladimir Putin offers you Russia’s new coronavirus vaccine, for free?United Nations staff in New York and around the world are now facing that choice, after the Russian president offered Tuesday to provide them the Sputnik-V vaccine in a speech to this year’s General Assembly marking the body’s 75th birthday.Only results from small early studies on the Russian vaccine have been published, raising concerns among some scientis
  
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• Utah’s new Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls task force is finally coming together

  23-09-2020 15:10
  
  Bluff • When Meskee Yanabah Yatsayte started Navajo Nation Missing Persons Updates seven years ago, she’d never heard of the acronym MMIWG, which stands for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and wasn’t widely used at the time.Yatsayte did, however, know there was a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people in the United States.“We’ve had several people in our family murdered,” she said. “I’ve had several friends murdered.”
  
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• Grand County fights resurrected Book Cliffs highway proposal

  23-09-2020 15:01
  
  Despite decades of opposition from environmentalists, hunters and Grand County officials, a proposed highway through Utah’s Book Cliffs never died.The project merely went underground and has recently resurfaced with a right-of-way application from a consortium of energy-producing counties that have long sought to connect the Uinta Basin with Interstate 70.Grand County is upset that the project application is moving ahead without any consultation with it by legislators and Gov. Gary Herbert
  
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• Utah schools enrolled 2,000 fewer kids, the first decline in 20 years. COVID-19 is to blame.

  23-09-2020 15:00
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has caused a shift that hasn’t been seen in Utah’s public schools in 20 years: The number of students enrolled has declined.Some parents have started home-schooling their kids. Others have opted to keep their 5-year-olds out of kindergarten for now. As a result of those and other decisions, the state’s anticipated 7,000 increase in students this fall evaporated. In reality, the school population is instead down roughly 2,000.A change like this, even if
  
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• Robert Gehrke: We need a fresh look at how police respond to people with special needs

  23-09-2020 15:00
  
  It was sickening to watch — the crackling of rapid gunfire and then 13-year-old Linden Cameron collapsing to the ground.“I don’t feel good,” the young man, who has autism, moaned. “Tell my mom I love her.”Read that again… “Tell my mom I love her.”In that moment, Cameron had to believe he was going to die. Bullets ripped through his shoulder, intestines, bladder and both ankles, according to the family’s fundraising page. Frankly, he is
  
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• Letter: Bagley cartoon took a risk

  23-09-2020 14:04
  
  Pat Bagley took a giant risk with his cartoon on Sept. 1 with his X-ray of the police, judging by the furor since then. Having been involved with law enforcement and individual sheriff’s deputies for many years, I winced a bit when I saw it.My instant reaction was, “Pat, you painted with too broad a brush.” The officer’s uniform should have had Kenosha printed on it. I have met officers to whom the racist label would apply; I have known many more who would never be labele
  
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• Letter: We know what to do, but we don’t do it

  23-09-2020 14:03
  
  Universal mask wearing, social distancing, appropriate hygiene and hand washing/sanitizing are proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to save lives. As a nation, we know how to prevent thousands of deaths, and to a disturbing degree, we’re not doing it.It’s unbelievable. It’s stunning. It’s shocking. It’s absurd. It’s self-defeating. It’s stupid. It’s America.Jim Ack, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Libraries should be open

  23-09-2020 14:03
  
  Salt Lake City’s limited library access during the pandemic is not cutting it. Who can pick up books from noon to 6 p.m.? Certainly not working people.I appreciate the efforts to adapt and to reopen slowly, but months later, as we move into a “new normal,” I can’t see any reason why no evening hours are available.If it’s a staffing issue, I’ll volunteer. Others will volunteer. Volunteers — or library staffers — could even physically take books to p
  
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• Letter: Utah debate schedule is an insult to the voters

  23-09-2020 14:02
  
  It is remarkable that the Utah Debate Commission schedule begins Sept. 24 and ends on Oct. 21, in consideration that ballots will be sent out beginning on Oct. 13.Four debates occur on or after Oct. 12, which also happen to be the most competitive races in Utah. Additionally, voters are being encouraged to return their ballots early due to the changes taking place in the U.S. Post Office which could affect ballot returns. Unlike previous election cycles, there will be a diminished opportunity fo
  
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• Letter: The South could teach you some humility

  23-09-2020 14:02
  
  I cannot help but notice left-leaning media such as The Salt Lake Tribune and many others constantly bad-mouthing the South and generalizing all southerners as racists. We get slavery was a problem, but I grew up in a Christian family in the Bible Belt that taught me about all humans being created in the image of God, to love thy neighbor, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. What’s so bad about that?The nastiness coming from urban America and far-left leaning political gr
  
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• Letter: Shooting of 13-year-old is unacceptable

  23-09-2020 14:01
  
  The shooting of a child suffering a medical crisis by a Salt Lake City police officer is unacceptable. One does not need to see the body camera footage or read the official write-up of this incident to know this is unacceptable. Bullets should never be used to treat a child in crisis. I cannot believe it even needs to be said. If this is how the Salt Lake City Police Department has been training its officers to respond, then they all need to be decertified, disarmed and retrained immediately.Chi
  
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• Abraham Owen McKay: My ancestor’s name should not be on BYU building

  23-09-2020 14:00
  
  In recent weeks, I, like many others, have been doing my best to listen to Black community members as they push for greater equality in this country and, more specifically, at our university. To my surprise, I have learned that many buildings at Brigham Young University are named after men who treated many of God’s children as less than they were. Even more horrifically I learned that Abraham Owen Smoot, of whom I am a direct descendant and am named after, was among these men.Though the ex
  
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• Mitt Romney says America is a ‘center-right’ nation. Is that true?

  23-09-2020 13:00
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney broke the hearts of Democrats and liberals on Tuesday by announcing he would be willing to cast a vote for President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy that resulted from the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.In part, Romney justified his decision by saying America, and Americans, are more conservative than liberal.“My liberal friends have over many decades gotten very used to the idea of having a liberal court, and that’s not written in t
  
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• Another Salt Lake County high school closes for ‘deep cleaning' after surpassing 15 COVID-19 cases; 2 Canyons district high schools go to in-person classes for 14 days

  23-09-2020 06:11
  
  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.A West Jordan high school is suspending classes on Tuesday after health officials Monday confirmed more than 15 coronavirus cases at the school.Copper Hills High School was to undergo a “deep cleaning and thorough disinfecting&rdqu
  
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• Utah County announces new mask mandate as Utah reports 650 new COVID-19 cases

  23-09-2020 06:00
  
  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.With a statewide spike in COVID-19 cases focused largely in Utah County, Gov. Gary Herbert is placing the county’s two largest cities, Provo and Orem, under tougher restrictions.Herbert ordered those cities to go back to an “
  
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• Candidates running for Wasatch County House seat criticize Legislature’s passage of the bill that kicked off Hideout controversy

  23-09-2020 05:32
  
  The Democratic and Republican candidates seeking to represent an open House seat in the Wasatch County area criticized the state Legislature during a debate on Tuesday night over its passage of a controversial bill that allowed a town to absorb land without a bordering county’s consent.HB359, which the Legislature passed earlier this year and later overturned in a special session, had opened the door for the Wasatch County town of Hideout to snatch up a portion of the 940-acre Richardson F
  
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• Michelle Brown: Bountiful High must address legacy of racism by changing its mascot

  23-09-2020 04:01
  
  Imagine googling the simple phrase “high school mascot.” An array of silly animal costumes from every beast imaginable begin to populate the screen. In addition to all the beasts used for entertaining crowds at sporting events and assemblies, picture a lone Native American more popularly known as “a Brave” at Bountiful High School.Now imagine being a Native American from any tribe living in Utah, with the full understanding that the people in positions of power believe th
  
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• Beaver County wildfire continues to burn, grows to 60 acres

  23-09-2020 03:29
  
  A wildfire in Beaver County that forced evacuations and closed a portion of Highway 153 on Monday night continued to burn on Tuesday.State wildfire officials said that the Three Creeks Fire began around 5 p.m. Monday along the highway “in a fuels treatment” area that included piles of dead and downed trees. The fire was unable to be burned earlier this season “due to regulations associated with COVID-19,” fire officials said on Twitter.It is not a controlled or prescribed
  
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• Jennifer Senior: The Ginsburg-Scalia act was not a farce

  23-09-2020 03:04
  
  For the second time in five years, a sitting Supreme Court justice has died, and for the second time in five years, Sen. Mitch McConnell has befouled the process to replace that justice with his signature blend of fresh greed and rancid partisanship. A Ruth-less court, answered with ruthlessness.As many have endlessly — almost tediously — noted, the irony of this two-part drama is that both seats were occupied by individuals who overcame the very rancor that McConnell hopes to exploi
  
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• 1st District candidates offer same cure for Washington’s divisiveness: Listen to one another.

  23-09-2020 02:40
  
  Both Republican Blake Moore and Democrat Darren Parry — who face each other in the 1st Congressional District race to replace retiring GOP Rep. Rob Bishop — said Tuesday that they essentially see the same solution to bridge the widening partisan divide in Washington.It is listening, and truly seeking common ground.“If we can put 100 people in the room from across the political spectrum, and if they can come together and find something that you all agree on, you should be able t
  
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• 1st District candidates offer same cure for Washington’s divisiveness: Start listening to each other

  23-09-2020 02:26
  
  Both Republican Blake Moore and Democrat Darren Parry — who face each other in the 1st Congressional District race to replace retiring GOP Rep. Rob Bishop — said Tuesday that they essentially see the same solution to bridge the widening partisan divide in Washington.It is listening, and truly seeking common ground.“If we can put 100 people in the room from across the political spectrum, and if they can come together and find something that you all agree on, you should be able t
  
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• Jennifer Senior: The Ginsburg-Scalia

  23-09-2020 02:07
  
  For the second time in five years, a sitting Supreme Court justice has died, and for the second time in five years, Sen. Mitch McConnell has befouled the process to replace that justice with his signature blend of fresh greed and rancid partisanship. A Ruth-less court, answered with ruthlessness.As many have endlessly — almost tediously — noted, the irony of this two-part drama is that both seats were occupied by individuals who overcame the very rancor that McConnell hopes to exploi
  
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• Chicago Bulls hire Billy Donovan as head coach to replace Jim Boylen

  23-09-2020 01:52
  
  Chicago • The Chicago Bulls hired Billy Donovan as their coach Tuesday, landing one of the top candidates on the market to lead a rebuilding team with an overhauled front office.The 55-year-old Donovan spent the past five seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder. He replaces Jim Boylen, who was fired after the Bulls finished 22-43 and were one of the eight teams that didn’t qualify for the NBA’s restart at Walt Disney World.In a statement, Donovan thanked ownership and said he&rsq
  
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• ‘Unfathomable’: U.S. death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000

  23-09-2020 01:38
  
  The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, by far the highest in the world, hitting the once-unimaginable threshold six weeks before an election that is certain to be a referendum in part on President Donald Trump’s handling of the crisis.“It is completely unfathomable that we’ve reached this point,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins University public health researcher, eight months after the scourge first reached the world’s richest nation,
  
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• Mormon Women for Ethical Government urges Romney, Senate to hold off on replacing Ginsburg

  23-09-2020 01:30
  
  Mormon Women for Ethical Government, a nonpartisan group with more than 7,000 members, urged the U.S. Senate to wait until after the election to select a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.“We are disappointed by the rush to hold Supreme Court hearings in the midst of a highly contentious election,” the group said Tuesday on its Facebook page. “While we respect the constitutional right of the president to nominate and the Senate to confirm, there is no constit
  
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• New University of Utah center aims to prevent relationship and sexual violence on college campuses

  23-09-2020 01:16
  
  Leaders of a new center at the University of Utah hope their work will not only help people better understand relationship and sexual violence, but prevent it from happening in the future.“We can offer safeguards for victims all day long, but if we’re not addressing perpetrators and common perpetrator behaviors, we’re really not going to be able to eradicate these issues on our campus," Kwynn Gonzalez-Pons, an advisory board member for the Center for Violence Prevention, said T
  
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• Gov. Herbert moves Provo and Orem to 'orange’ restrictions, as Utah reports 650 new COVID-19 cases

  23-09-2020 01:12
  
  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 a statewide spike in COVID-19 cases focused largely in Utah County, Gov. Gary Herbert is placing the county’s two largest cities, Provo and Orem, under tougher restrictions.Herbert ordered those cities to go back to an “
  
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