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• New York Times: Trump paid $750 in U.S. income taxes in 2016, 2017

  27-09-2020 23:50
  
  President Donald Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times.Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only president in modern times not to make them public, paid $750 in taxes to the federal government the year he was elected, 2016, and $750 again his first year in office.The disclosure, which the Times said comes from tax return data it obtained extending over two decades, comes at a pivotal moment ahead of
  
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• Police seek public help in locating missing 6-year-old

  27-09-2020 23:02
  
  The Unified Police Department are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Terran Butler, a 6-year-old Millcreek boy who went missing along with his biological mother, Emily Jolley, following a court-supervised visit.Butler was visiting Jolley on Saturday. When his father attempted to pick him up, it was discovered that Jolley had taken the boy from the residence without permission.They were last seen together in the Millcreek area.The boy is described as Caucasian with brown hair, l
  
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• Trump, Biden battle over quick confirmation of court pick

  27-09-2020 21:33
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Sunday it’s “time for a woman” in nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, but Democratic rival Joe Biden implored the Senate to hold off on confirmation until after the Nov. 3 election to “let the people decide.”Trump’s announcement of Barrett for the seat held by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is launching a high-stakes, fast-track election season fight over confirmation of the conservative judge
  
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• Supreme Court should kill the Affordable Care Act, says Sen. Mike Lee, and he wants Amy Coney Barrett to help

  27-09-2020 21:33
  
  Sen. Mike Lee locked horns with TV host George Stephanopolous early Sunday over President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.Lee was a guest on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous” where he hailed Barrett’s nomination, saying he hoped it would lead to the court declaring the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. The court is set to hear oral arguments on the latest case challenging the law just days after the 2020 elect
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: State above 1,000 new cases for fourth straight day; five new deaths reported

  27-09-2020 21:00
  
  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.COVID-19 continues to tick off myriad dubious milestones. And the state of Utah continues to contribute to the problem.As the world approaches 1 million coronavirus deaths, and the United States surpasses 7 million cases and 204,000 deat
  
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• BYU in review: Stout defense paves the way for stellar offense in rout of Trojans

  27-09-2020 20:42
  
  While BYU quarterback Zach Wilson may have put up a highlight reel of one of his career-best performances Saturday against Troy, the Cougar defense set the tone for what turned out to be a 48-7 routing of the Trojans.In its first two games of the season, BYU has scored a total of 103 points while only giving up 10 points. The BYU defense has also prevented an opponent from reaching 200 total yards.On Saturday, Troy managed to put up 181 yards. Nearly three weeks prior, Navy only put up 149 yards
  
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• Universities to treat water in Navajo Nation communities

  27-09-2020 20:15
  
  Albuquerque, N.M. • Environmental science students at Navajo Technical University are often asked by their professors about how they want to give back to their Navajo Nation communities.The top answer: by improving access to clean water.Navajo Technical University and New Mexico Tech have teamed up to address such water issues in rural Navajo areas, starting a pilot project to build and operate filtration units for well sites across the vast reservation.The units can treat even the dirtiest
  
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• Matthew Gong, gay Mormon, reflects on his journey from inner war to inner peace

  27-09-2020 19:25
  
  Matthew Gong is a minority three times over — in his own words — “Chinese American, Mormon and queer.”All three parts of Gong’s identity have shaped him, including heroic tales of service and sacrifice, and are worth celebrating.Still, they often have warred within the psyche of this 29-year-old, leaving wounds that have taken years to heal.His mother, an avid gardener, once explained the difference between flowers and weeds.“Weeds,” she told him, &ldquo
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 32 new coronavirus cases

  27-09-2020 18:38
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials report 32 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, but no additional deaths.The latest figures released Saturday night bring the total number of cases to 10,269 with the known death toll at 552.Tribal officials said 104,746 people have been tested on the vast reservation that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, and 72,250 have recovered from COVID-19.The Navajo Nation has implemented a stricter weekend lockdown as it looks into ne
  
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• 4th District candidate Burgess Owens’ campaign HQ damaged by ‘runaway truck’

  27-09-2020 18:04
  
  As a congressional candidate, Burgess Owens is accustomed to taking metaphorical hits. Over the weekend, though, his campaign took a more literal one.A pickup truck ran into the 4th District candidate’s campaign headquarters in Midvale on late Friday night/early Saturday morning, causing significant damage to the building and the destruction of pretty much all the campaign’s materials stored inside, according to Owens Communications Director Jesse Ranney.Owens’ Twitter account
  
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• Despite long layoff, injuries, No. 18 BYU looks sharp in thumping Troy 48-7 in home opener

  27-09-2020 16:07
  
  Provo • If the BYU Cougars had fallen behind due to taking 19 days between games, a result of a small COVID-19 outbreak on the team, they quickly put it behind them. No. 18 BYU put on yet another dominating performance Saturday against Troy, beating the Trojans 48-7 in an empty LaVell Edwards Stadium.The late-night game was highlighted by a stout defense and a laser arm from starting quarterback Zach Wilson.Wilson, who shared that he tested positive for COVID-19 during the summer earlier th
  
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• Robert Kirby: What if this pandemic is just the beginning? What if more plagues await?

  27-09-2020 16:05
  
  We’re going back to church. My Latter-day Saint ward resumed congregational worship Sunday — with some adjustments.In the Rose Summit Ward, only people with surnames A through H will be allowed to attend in person the first “open” Sunday. Social distancing will be enforced, presumably through the power of the priesthood.Only every other pew will be open for seating. Families must seat themselves 6 feet apart from others. No loitering in the foyer. And no showing up early
  
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• Utah high schools’ spike in COVID-19 cases blamed on parties, extracurriculars

  27-09-2020 16:04
  
  Teenagers still flock to Brown Floral in Holladay, just as they have since 1915, to order corsages and boutonnieres perfectly matched to the dresses and ties they plan to wear to their homecoming dance. Only this year, because of COVID-19 precautions, no social functions are being sponsored by the high schools and few are being held on school grounds.Yet the orders keep coming, and at a steady enough pace that owner Tracie Drage and her staff have come up with a name for the replacement parties
  
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• Courtney Rich found joy, a career and internet fame in baking cakes

  27-09-2020 16:03
  
  When she was a young wife and new mother, Courtney Rich felt the joy of starting a family and building a career as a media consultant — but also struggled, as she had for years, with anxiety and depression.Then she baked a cake.Rich, then 26, decided to make a cake from scratch for her son Westin’s first birthday — partly to impress her in-laws. She found a recipe in Bon Appetit magazine for a peanut butter cake with chocolate frosting, bought new pans and ingredients and, she
  
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• LDS apostle’s gay son reflects on his journey from inner war to inner peace

  27-09-2020 15:57
  
  Matthew Gong is a minority three times over — in his own words — “Chinese American, Mormon and queer.”All three parts of Gong’s identity have shaped him, including heroic tales of service and sacrifice, and are worth celebrating.Still, they often have warred within the psyche of this 29-year-old, leaving wounds that have taken years to heal.His mother, an avid gardener, once explained the difference between flowers and weeds.“Weeds,” she told him, &ldquo
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Just about everybody has reason to hate ‘The Comey Rule’

  27-09-2020 14:00
  
  Who is going to want to watch “The Comey Rule” on Showtime?Democrats hate former FBI director James Comey because he torpedoed Hillary Clinton. Republicans hate him because he refused to bow down to Donald Trump, and because of the Russia investigation.If you don’t support Trump, Part 1 is painful to watch as a self-righteous, often oblivious Comey violates FBI standards, undermines Clinton, shields Trump and helps put an unqualified, possibly criminal candidate in the White Ho
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump’s Stalinist approach to science

  27-09-2020 14:00
  
  Lately I’ve found myself thinking about Trofim Lysenko.Who? Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist who decided that modern genetics was all wrong, indeed contrary to Marxist-Leninist principles. He even denied that genes existed, while insisting that long-discredited views about evolution were actually right. Real scientists marveled at his ignorance.But Josef Stalin liked him, so Lysenko’s views became official doctrine, and scientists who refused to endorse them were sent to labor camps o
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Which of your children would you lose for $12 million

  27-09-2020 14:00
  
  “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal.”’-- Martin Luther KingIn other words, what is legal is not necessarily what is right.With that in mind, I find myself struggling to imagine what justice for Breonna Taylor would have looked like. After all, last week’s refusal by a grand jury to indict the Louisville police officers who killed her in March during a bungled midnight drug raid is likely defensible on narrow legal grounds.
  
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• Letter: Vote ‘no’ on Amendment G

  27-09-2020 13:30
  
  My fellow Utah voters, please consider voting “no” on Utah Constitutional Amendment G. We should celebrate recent increases in our state treasury through rising incomes. These income taxes are all promised and reserved for our fragile education system as the Utah Constitution is written now.Finally! We can offer more money to loyal teachers who guide the youth. Maybe we can patch up aging school buildings, too. Please do not rip away this guaranteed school funding as some legislators
  
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• Letter: Our leaders are failing us

  27-09-2020 13:00
  
  In June, I had a letter to The Public Forum published. The gist of it was my concern that by September, our nation could easily reach 200,000 COVID-19 deaths. I was using a formula put forth by Dr. Anthony Fauci.It is September, and that milestone has been achieved. Now, we have additional members of the medical profession stating that without federal and local state governments providing much-needed leadership, more of our fellow Americans will also perish over the ensuing months.Where is the l
  
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• Gordon Monson: A confirmed fact — only BYU can beat BYU in 2020

  27-09-2020 07:57
  
  One word more than any other characterized what most observers were looking for out of BYU football on Saturday night.Confirmation.They wanted to know if the impressive combo-pack of offense and defense the Cougars used what seemed like so long ago — 19 days — in the drubbing of Navy was and is and will be the truth.It was and it is. And it will be, as best can be determined, given the lineup of opponents BYU has in front of it over the next couple of months. More on that in a minute
  
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• No. 18 BYU thumps Troy 48-7 in home opener

  27-09-2020 07:41
  
  Provo • If the Cougars had fallen behind due to taking 19 days between games, a result of a small COVID-19 outbreak on the team, they quickly put it behind them. No. 18 BYU put on yet another dominating performance Saturday against Troy, beating the Trojans 48-7 in an empty LaVell Edwards Stadium.The late-night game was highlighted by a stout defense and a laser arm from starting quarterback Zach Wilson.Wilson, who shared that he tested positive for COVID-19 during the summer earl
  
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• Letter: Not all voters have internet access

  27-09-2020 05:30
  
  As an 88-year-old veteran, I have very limited access to the internet due to the closure of senior centers and very limited access to libraries. I called Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox’s office, who is head of elections in Utah, for an election guide pamphlet and was informed that they are only accessible through the internet, due to the limited state budget. My question to the Utah Legislative body, governor and lieutenant governor is: Are you limiting voter access to the seven constitutional issue
  
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• Hundreds rally at Say Their Names memorial in Salt Lake City

  27-09-2020 04:59
  
  Hundreds came together Saturday evening for a block party to honor Black people who’ve lost their lives to police violence and racism.People gathered at the Say Their Names memorial — one of more than 25 nationwide — located at 355 N. 500 West in Salt Lake City.On Saturday, attendees danced and ate at food trucks, but they also heard from speakers and took time to remember those killed by police, including a number of people killed by police in Utah.Attendees hung flowers on a
  
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• Check out renovation progress at the iconic Salt Lake Temple

  27-09-2020 04:37
  
  The Salt Lake Temple looks a lot different after nine months of renovation work.Crews have demolished the parts constructed in the 1960s — the sealing addition, north entrance and chapel — and will soon begin the work of excavating about 40 feet below ground to strengthen the foundation against earthquakes, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced.During the work, crews have discovered some of the building’s historic foundation stones.“It’s
  
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• Check out renovation progress at the Salt Lake City Temple

  27-09-2020 03:09
  
  The Salt Lake Temple looks a lot different after nine months of renovations.Crews have demolished the parts constructed in the 1960s — the sealing addition, north entrance and chapel — and will soon begin the work of excavating about 40 feet below ground to strengthen the foundation against earthquakes, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced.During the work, crews have discovered some of the building’s historic foundation stones.“It’s spe
  
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• Letter: Consider reducing waste

  27-09-2020 01:30
  
  First, great job and thank you to all who played a role in getting power back to the almost 200,000 folks who lost power. I’m sure it was a learning experience for many, as well.We were without power for eight days. We did have one power cord from neighbors on either side of us to power our fridge/freezer and charge phones. It was glam-camping fun as much as an inconvenience at times. We made the best of it and were thankful for great neighbors.What we learned is how much we waste or overu
  
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• RSL looking to earn points in Minnesota for the first time

  27-09-2020 01:03
  
  Real Salt Lake and Minnesota United have played even, scoreless soccer for 135 out of the 180 minutes they’ve contested against each other this season. The only difference was the second half of RSL’s most recent game against Minnesota, during which Real fell apart and allowed four goals.That last game was out of the ordinary in other ways as well. Salt Lake rolled out a 4-4-2 diamond formation and almost completely overhauled the starting lineup to save some legs. Not to mention the
  
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• Utah’s senators lauded Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett — but only one was ready to vote today

  27-09-2020 00:54
  
  Utah’s two Republican senators both praised President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, saying conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett had the right credentials for the job.But only one of them seemed ready to vote her in on Saturday, and it comes as no surprise who it was.Sen. Mike Lee — a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hold confirmation hearings on her — had been campaigning this week for Barret
  
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• Trump taps ‘eminently qualified’ Barrett for Supreme Court

  27-09-2020 00:21
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort.Barrett, a former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, said she was “truly humbled” by the nomination and quickly aligned herself with Scalia’s conservative approach to the law, saying that his “judici
  
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• Colorado Rapids, FC Cincinnati report positive COVID-19 tests; Sunday game postponed

  27-09-2020 00:19
  
  Colorado’s MLS game against Sporting Kansas City was postponed Saturday after a Rapids player and three staff members tested positive for the coronavirus.A player for FC Cincinnati also tested positive and is in isolation, the team announced. The player, who was not identified, was symptomatic, the team said. The Rapids suspended training while the player and staff members who tested positive were isolated. They were not identified. The team has conducted additional testing and contact tra
  
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