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• Utah man rescued from mine shaft near Provo uninjured

  30-09-2020 23:58
  
  An 18-year-old Utah man was rescued from a mine shaft after he was unable to climb his way out.The man was not injured or trapped but did not make an attempt to climb out of the mine on Tuesday because he did not feel safe without assistance, Sgt. Spencer Cannon of the Utah County Sheriff’s Office said.It is currently unknown how the man became stuck in the mine shaft, KUTV-TV reported.The man’s friend told authorities he was going to lower a rope to help him up, but search and rescu
  
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• The NBA Combine is under way, and the pandemic has forced some big changes

  30-09-2020 23:16
  
  Everyoffseason, team executives assemble in Chicago for the NBA Combine for achance to get an in-person look at the proverbial meat market of draftprospects.This year, though, the combine — like pretty much everything else — is happening a little differently.There is, of course, no mass gathering of players, scouts, coaches, generalmanagers, et cetera in the name of social distancing. And so — likepretty much everything else — the combine is mostly taking place viavideo t
  
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• Governor appoints interim Utah insurance commissioner

  30-09-2020 23:07
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert appointed Tanji Northrup as the Utah Insurance Department’s interim commissioner on Wednesday.The appointment was made following the retirement of Commissioner Todd E. Kiser, a former state lawmaker and insurance executive who served in the post since 2012.Northrup has held various leadership positions in the department for the past 12 years, including as Kiser’s deputy commissioner, and had a major role in implementing state and federal health care insurance reform
  
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• Salt Lake City International Airport’s 65% drop in passengers from COVID looks pretty good in national picture

  30-09-2020 22:48
  
  Salt Lake City International Airport is still suffering a walloping 65% decrease in passengers as the pandemic continues. But actually, that is the envy of the airline industry as most other airports are faring even worse.Denver International Airport, like Salt Lake, is also doing relatively well. So, Airline Weekly says that shows “the emergence of the Rocky Mountain region as one of the crisis era’s relative winners,” and says the two airports are wielding “mountain mar
  
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• Elizabeth Garbe and M. Royce Van Tassell: A chance to see candidates for the Utah Board of Education

  30-09-2020 22:38
  
  Perhaps the most underappreciated elected officials in Utah are members of the state Board of Education. The Utah Constitution assigns them collectively “general control and supervision” of all of public education, which means they administer more than $5.6 billion to the state’s schools each year.They send the money to every school district and charter school that pays for your children’s teachers. And they verify that schools followed all the state and federal rules gov
  
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• RSL’s Albert Rusnák to miss six of next nine games after national team call-up

  30-09-2020 22:33
  
  Real Salt Lake has just nine games left in the 2020 regular season. For six of them, the team will be without one of its main pieces.Midfielder and designated player Albert Rusnák has been called up to the Slovakian national team to play in a knockout game against Ireland on Oct. 8. Due to the travel and the current 10-day quarantine mandated by Major League Soccer, Rusnák will miss two-thirds of the remaining RSL schedule.The matchup between Slovakia and Ireland is a knockout semi
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Matthew Gong discusses his LGBTQ journey with his faith, his family and himself

  30-09-2020 22:32
  
  Many gay Mormons have a story about their experience in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Though all the narratives stand on their own, most involve these members recognizing their attractions, trying to reconcile what they are feeling with what the Utah-based faith is teaching about homosexuality — that it is not a sin, just acting on it is — coming out, what they hope for the future, and how their family and friends respond.On this week’s podcast, Matthew Gong,
  
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• Virginia Riley: Who are the people for which America is great?

  30-09-2020 21:53
  
  “Keep America Great.” That’s the new slogan.But here is my question: Who are the people for which America is currently “great”?Not people of color. From the very beginning, this administration has given legitimacy to white supremacy, with Trump referring to Mexicans as “rapists,” tweeting that four minority congresswomen should “go back” to the “corrupt countries” he said they are from, and calling neo-Nazis in Charlottesville &ld
  
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• Elizabeth Garbe and M. Royce Van Tassell: A chance to see candidates for the State Board of Education

  30-09-2020 21:44
  
  Perhaps the most underappreciated elected officials in Utah are members of the State Board of Education. The state Constitution assigns them collectively “general control and supervision” of all of public education, which means they administer more than $5.6 billion to Utah’s schools each year.They send the money to every school district and charter school that pays for your children’s teachers. And they verify that schools followed all the state and federal rules governi
  
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• Judge reduces legal fees after alleged false arrests in Box Elder County

  30-09-2020 21:34
  
  Brigham City • A northwestern Utah county must pay $135,200 in attorney fees for the alleged false arrests of two Black men after a federal judge reduced the original amount owed by Box Elder County by about $90,000.Judge Dale Kimball’s Sept. 10 ruling stems from the December 2016 arrests of Nehemiah McFarlin and Atoa Fox, two Idaho State University students and football players, the Standard-Examiner reported.Police arrested Fox and McFarlin after a man described as Black robbed a ba
  
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• Utah reports 906 new coronavirus cases Wednesday

  30-09-2020 21:20
  
  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 906 new coronavirus cases reported on Wednesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise.For the past week, the Utah Department of Health has tallied 1,017 new positive test results a day — continuing a streak of
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: All the fascinating stories Nate Carlisle has reported

  30-09-2020 21:01
  
  Today is Salt Lake Tribune reporter Nate Carlisle’s last day with the paper.Join us as Tribune interim Editor David Noyce talks with Nate about some of the stories he has covered — from witnessing the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner to exploring the disappearance of Susan Powell, the exodus from Short Creek, and the aftermath of an ambush in Mexico.Tweet your questions using #TribTalk on Twitter, or email them to [email protected]. Watch live on our Facebook page at 1 p.m.“Tr
  
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• Robert Kirby: 1920 — when worldly concerns met spiritual counsel in LDS General Conference

  30-09-2020 21:00
  
  A century ago, on Oct. 8, 1920, thousands of Latter-day Saints packed Temple Square to get the latest word from church leaders.Just like today, worldly matters then competed with spiritual counsel for the attention of those lending their ears in the Tabernacle.For example, the headline of the Deseret News that particular day was, “Ninety-first Semi-Annual Conference Opens,” followed by the equally eye-catching: “Salt Laker Found With Throat Cut.”No doubt people were relie
  
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• Utah pushes the unemployed to find new work as some jobless benefits are about to disappear

  30-09-2020 20:51
  
  The state of Utah is warning thousands of residents thrown out of work by the pandemic that government assistance will soon run out and they need to get a job.With nearly 47,800 Utahns still laid off, furloughed or struggling with pay cuts due to the coronavirus and still receiving some kind of aid, state officials are launching a $1 million public campaign to connect them with new work.UT Job Support will include TV, online, radio and outdoor billboard ads highlighting a series of year-end cuto
  
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• ‘Utah Politics’ podcast: Debating the first presidential debate with Jason Chaffetz

  30-09-2020 20:25
  
  Tuesday night’s off-the-rails first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden was widely panned by pundits and observers after the participants talked over each other and moderator Chris Wallace. Former Utah congressman and current Fox News pundit Jason Chaffetz says he believes the debate turned off a lot of people, especially those few Americans who are undecided at this point.“I think the debate was sort of a reflection of America,&rdqu
  
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• Frank Bruni: After that fiasco, Biden should refuse to debate Trump again

  30-09-2020 19:55
  
  I wasn’t in the crowd of people who believed Joe Biden shouldn’t deign to debate President Donald Trump, but put me in the crowd that believes he shouldn’t debate him again. Not after Tuesday night’s horror show: a disgrace to the format, an insult to the country, a nearly pointless 90 minutes.And, I should add, a degradation of the presidency itself, which Trump had degraded so thoroughly already. He put on a performance so contemptuous, so puerile, so dishonest and so a
  
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• Rich Lowry: No, the Democrats won’t pack the Supreme Court

  30-09-2020 19:54
  
  For many progressive opinion-makers, the only way to save the Supreme Court is to destroy it.They believe the best response to the Republican-held Senate confirming a Trump nominee to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court is to pack the court if Democrats win in November. Holding out the court-packing threat, they argue, also might give Republicans second thoughts about filling the vacancy.As a medium-term strategy, court-packing is a woefully misconceived fantasy, a
  
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• Oregon president says Pac-12′s decision to play football isn’t about money. Athletic department deficits say otherwise.

  30-09-2020 19:44
  
  Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott has maintained for months that decision-making as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic will be done based on science on data, which is exactly what happened on Aug. 11.One day after Scott was presented with a damning report from the Pac-12 Medical Advisory Board, the league’s presidents and chancellors voted to postpone all sports until at least Jan. 1. Science and data were again at the forefront of the decision-making process on Sept. 24 when the presidents
  
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• China is America’s greatest threat, says GOP task force with Utahns Chris Stewart and John Curtis

  30-09-2020 19:15
  
  A House Republican task force — which includes Utah Reps. Chris Stewart and John Curtis — on Wednesday called China the greatest long-term threat to America and issued a report with hundreds of recommendations on how to combat it.House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy also contended that its finding help show that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden doesn’t see China’s threat and “why switching the administration would be wrong,” and perhaps “why C
  
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• State auditors say Utah did ‘not adequately anticipate or prepare’ for COVID-19

  30-09-2020 18:49
  
  A newly released review of the state’s early response to COVID-19 found that Utah leaders were unprepared for a global pandemic and that in the scramble to adapt, they spent millions of dollars in no-bid contracts with little documentation of due diligence.“From our high-level review, we conclude that the State did not adequately anticipate or prepare for this type of statewide, national, and global pandemic,” stated the review released Wednesday by the Office of the State Audi
  
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• Mitt Romney impressed after meeting Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, but doesn’t commit to vote for her

  30-09-2020 18:45
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney praised Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett after he met with her on Wednesday, but did not say whether he is ready to vote to confirm her.“I enjoyed meeting Judge Barrett, and we had an informative, wide-ranging discussion about her impressive background and her judicial philosophy,” Romney said.“I look forward to her upcoming testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee,” he added, without a pledge yet to vote for her.As they posed for pictures b
  
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• Suspect shot by Ogden police responding to intrusion call

  30-09-2020 18:32
  
  Police are investigating after an Ogden officer shot a man Wednesday morning.The Ogden officer was responding to an intrusion alarm call at the AAMCO near 31st Street and Wall Avenue when he noticed a male suspect inside. Once confronted, Ogden police, in a news release, said “shots were fired, and the suspect was struck.”Officials did not state whether the suspect had a gun, pointed it at anyone or fired.The responding officer placed the suspect into custody and provided medical tre
  
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• State auditors say there’s little paper trail on Utah’s no-bid, COVID-19 contracts

  30-09-2020 18:23
  
  A newly released review of the state’s no-bid contracts during the early days of COVID-19 turned up scant documentation that officials compared options for testing and digital contact tracing before signing the multimillion-dollar agreements.And in the case of the controversial hydroxychloroquine purchase, state auditors couldn’t determine who OK’d spending $800,000 on the unproven malaria drug.“Without written documentation of authorization (or explicit verbal authorizat
  
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• Steelers and Titans will play Monday or Tuesday due to COVID-19 outbreak

  30-09-2020 18:11
  
  Nashville, Tenn. • The Pittsburgh-Tennessee NFL game will be played either Monday or Tuesday due to positive coronavirus test results among the Titans.The NFL announced the switch on Wednesday. The previous day the NFL said that three Titans and five other team personnel had tested positive for COVID-19. The Titans have closed their facility at least through Friday and will not be able to practice in any fashion together until Saturday at the earliest. Both the Titans and Steelers are 3-0 a
  
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• The BYU Cougars are ‘going to keep dancing’ through season should more games be played in empty stadiums

  30-09-2020 18:05
  
  Provo • On Saturday, BYU football found itself once again on a national platform, having the Cougars' home opener against Troy televised on ESPN in the late-night slot. And while the Cougars put up a dominating victory over the Trojans, it was the sidelines that caught the attention of viewers all over the nation.BYU coach Kalani Sitake is known for his dance moves, busting out his Hawaiian inspired breakdowns after big wins, but the jitter bug bit more than just the fifth-year coach &mdash
  
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• Mitt Romney impressed by Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in meeting, but doesn’t yet commit to vote for her

  30-09-2020 18:01
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney praised Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett after he met with her on Wednesday, but did not say whether he is ready to vote to confirm her.“I enjoyed meeting Judge Barrett, and we had an informative, wide-ranging discussion about her impressive background and her judicial philosophy,” Romney said.“I look forward to her upcoming testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee,” he added, without a pledge yet to vote for her.As they posed for pictures b
  
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• USA Bobsled, citing pandemic, skipping some World Cup races

  30-09-2020 17:38
  
  USA Bobsled and Skeleton is not sending sliders to Europe for at least the first half of the World Cup sliding season, part of a plan to keep its athletes and coaches as safe as possible during the coronavirus pandemic.At a minimum, the Americans are planning to miss four World Cup weekends — two in Sigulda, Latvia, in November and two in Igls, Austria, in December. There are eight World Cup weekends on the schedule, plus the world championships that were moved from the U.S. team’s h
  
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• Ogden police shooting is under investigation

  30-09-2020 17:14
  
  Police are investigating after an Ogden officer shot at someone on Wednesday morning.The shooting happened near 31st Street and Wall Avenue shortly before 8 a.m. Police did not immediately release any information about a suspect, what precipitated the shooting or if anyone was wounded.Officials are advising people to stay away from the area while the shooting is under investigation.This story will be updated when more information is available.
  
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• Jordan District closes 2 high schools because of COVID-19 outbreaks

  30-09-2020 16:40
  
  The Jordan School District shut down in-person classes at two of its high schools — West Jordan and Mountain Ridge — for two weeks because of outbreaks of COVID-19.At an emergency meeting on Tuesday night, school board members voted to move to online learning at the two high schools beginning Thursday. Both schools are closed Wednesday, and there will be no online classes “to allow students and staff time to prepare” for virtual teaching, according to news releases from t
  
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• These are the Salt Lake County businesses that had COVID-19 outbreaks

  30-09-2020 15:41
  
  The Salt Lake County Health Department on Friday released a list of workplaces who have had two or more coronavirus cases — the department’s definition of an outbreak.Salt Lake County omitted the names of nursing homes, daycares, schools and correctional facilities that have had outbreaks, saying they are kept on a different reporting system. Even still, the list includes 565 workplaces that have met the health department’s definition of an outbreak — at least two cases w
  
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• Ballot initiative could ban new hog farms in Millard County

  30-09-2020 15:17
  
  Residents in one of Utah’s least populated counties are gearing up for a vote this November on a ballot initiative that has the potential to enact sweeping changes to the county’s zoning code and could have decadeslong implications for future growth.If approved, the initiative in Millard County would outlaw new industrial hog farms across the county and would require any effort to site one to go on the ballot for a vote — a win for residents who have raised concerns about the w
  
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• Against a spending deadline, counties express frustration over coronavirus aid restrictions

  30-09-2020 15:16
  
  Local governments still have a lot of federal dollars to spend on their COVID-19 response and not a lot of time to do it. Meanwhile, the pandemic continues to move at its own deadly pace.Complicating matters are inconsistent messages and a perceived lack of trust coming from state leaders that has at least some county officials feeling confused, if not irked.“We all recognize this is our first pandemic, whether you’re at the federal level, the state level or local level,” said
  
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• What the science says about the sensitivity of coronavirus tests

  30-09-2020 15:00
  
  A debate among researchers has been picked up by coronavirus skeptics — could tests for COVID-19 be a little too sensitive?That was the thesis of an article published by The New York Times with the headline “Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.”You may remember my explanation of how most COVID-19 tests work using a process called PCR. Here’s a quick recap: The PCR process doubles the small amount of viral genetic code found in a swab sample over
  
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• Robert Gehrke: How one Utahn used this pandemic to create works of art

  30-09-2020 15:00
  
  How have you spent your COVID quarantine?Did you get a sourdough starter and figure out, like I did, that you’re better suited for baking bricks, or did you promise to wear out those running shoes that are still sitting in your closet? Or maybe you had a stack of books that are gathering dust.John Hess is making a significantly better use of this time.Hess was born in Ogden in 1939, earned a botany degree from the University of Utah before moving to San Francisco to attend design school in
  
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• How the coronavirus has reshaped LDS missionaries and members as they find new meaning in a new normal

  30-09-2020 15:00
  
  Missionaries suddenly streaming home before their end dates. Weekly worship services being discontinued. Temples closing. Brigham Young University moving online. The campus evacuating its students.Like so many worldwide disruptions last spring, COVID-19 was radically reshaping Latter-day Saint rituals and communities — and BYU folklore archivist Christine Blythe felt an urgency to document the transformations.Many other universities and institutions — including The Church of Jesus Ch
  
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• Disney to lay off 28,000 at its parks in California, Florida

  30-09-2020 15:00
  
  Orlando, Fla. • Squeezed by limits on attendance at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in its parks division in California and Florida.Two-thirds of the planned layoffs involve part-time workers but they ranged from salaried employees to hourly workers, Disney officials said.Disney’s parks closed last spring as the pandemic started spreading in the U.S. The Florida parks reopened this summer
  
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• Letter: Republicans gladly sacrifice their freedom

  30-09-2020 14:03
  
  I do not believe a democracy can survive when some 40% of its population believes there is nothing their leader could do that would cause them to withdraw their support.I further believe that the vast majority of Republicans in this country believe their president is not only above the law, but above reproach. Even Republican politicians who found him reprehensible and completely unfit for the job four years ago now claim he can do no wrong.It is horrifying to consider that support for Donald Tr
  
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• Letter: Acceptance helps reduce LGBTQ suicides

  30-09-2020 14:01
  
  Along with many others who have been working to reduce suicide among Utah’s LGBTQ+ population over the years, I welcome the news of the Utah Suicide Prevention Coalition’s new plan and look forward to supporting their efforts. Utah’s consistently high national suicide ranking is an indication that this continuing tragedy has not been taken seriously enough by government and religious leaders.I call attention to the work in Utah over the past several decades of Caitlin Ryan of t
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: All the fascinating stories Nate Carlisle has reported

  30-09-2020 14:00
  
  Today is Salt Lake Tribune reporter Nate Carlisle’s last day with the paper.Join us as Tribune interim Editor David Noyce talks with Nate about some of the stories he has covered — from witnessing the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner to exploring the disappearance of Susan Powell, the exodus from Short Creek, and the aftermath of an ambush in Mexico.Tweet your questions using #TribTalk on Twitter, or email them to [email protected]. Watch live on our Facebook page at 1 p.m.
  
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• Salt Lake County lists workplaces that had COVID-19 outbreaks — from warehouses to bars to religious sites

  30-09-2020 14:00
  
  Travelers coming and going from Salt Lake City International Airport have dropped considerably in 2020, but that hasn’t kept the coronavirus away.Airport employees account for 113 COVID-19 cases so far, according to the Salt Lake County Health Department. That doesn’t count the 53 construction workers renovating the airport who got sick, too.Amazon has been hiring since mid-March and some of those new employees are probably among the 106 workers across three Amazon facilities In Salt
  
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• Letter: Graham is not qualified to judge

  30-09-2020 14:00
  
  A bedrock principle of the United States Supreme Court is its reliance on precedent. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is the quintessential example of the opposite.Four years ago he forcefully insisted on ignoring President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merritt Garland to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. The senator went on record, multiple times, declaring if the identical situation arose in 2020 near the end of Donald Trump’s term, he would support waiting until after the election before
  
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• Letter: Our futures are interdependent

  30-09-2020 13:01
  
  I think we can all agree that this has not been a great year.Long-simmering tensions over racial inequalities have exploded across the country. Climate change is no longer just a worry for the future. We are experiencing it daily — in the record high temperatures experienced across Utah this summer; in the seemingly unending parade of hurricanes along the East Coast and South; and in the devastating West Coast fire season that is far from over.All of this as we are still grappling with the
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: There’s a reason the election of 1800 still sings out to us

  30-09-2020 13:00
  
  The past isn’t a road map to the present — or even a travel guide — but there’s tremendous value in knowing how our predecessors tackled the challenges of their era. The period of the early American republic, in particular, was a fierce and fractious time in our political history, with highly charged debates over the very foundation of self-rule and constitutional government. Over the last week, I’ve written about the judicial battles of Thomas Jefferson’s fir
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: :Our democracy is in terrible danger

  30-09-2020 06:25
  
  President Donald Trump has now made it unmistakably clear in recent weeks — and even more crystal clear at Wednesday night’s debate — that there are only two choices before voters Nov. 3 — and electing Joe Biden is not one of them.The president has told us in innumerable ways that either he will be reelected or he will delegitimize the vote by claiming that all mail-in ballots — a time-honored tradition that has ushered Republicans and Democrats into office and has
  
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• Wild-card roundup: Giolito, White Sox beat A’s 4-1

  30-09-2020 06:14
  
  Oakland, Calif. • Lucas Giolito dazzled in his postseason debut, stymieing the Oakland Athletics through six perfect innings and sending the Chicago White Sox to a 4-1 victory in the opener of their best-of-three wild-card series Tuesday.Giolito (1-0), who pitched a no-hitter against Pittsburgh on Aug. 25, didn’t allow a baserunner to the AL West champions until Tommy La Stella’s single up the middle to start the seventh. Giolito gave up one run on two hits over seven innings, s
  
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• Bitter debate jabs overshadow Trump’s, Biden’s visions

  30-09-2020 06:11
  
  Cleveland •The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into bitter taunts and near chaos Tuesday night as Trump repeatedly interrupted his opponent with angry — and personal — jabs that sometimes overshadowed the sharply different visions each man has for a nation facing historic crises.In the most tumultuous presidential debate in recent memory, Trump refused to condemn white supremacists who have supported him, telling one s
  
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• ‘I Am Woman’ singer Helen Reddy dies at 78 in Los Angeles

  30-09-2020 05:13
  
  Los Angeles • Helen Reddy, who shot to stardom in the 1970s with her feminist anthem “I Am Woman” and recorded a string of other hits, has died. She was 78.Reddy’s children Traci and Jordan announced that the actress-singer died Tuesday in Los Angeles. “She was a wonderful Mother, Grandmother and a truly formidable woman,” they said in a statement. “Our hearts are broken. But we take comfort in the knowledge that her voice will live on forever.”The
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee praises Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett after meeting

  30-09-2020 05:09
  
  During a parade of visits to key Senate Republicans on Tuesday, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett huddled with Utah Sen. Mike Lee, drawing more of the praise that he has lavished on her even before President Donald Trump named her.“I was remarkably impressed by Judge Barrett. My meeting with her was fantastic," Lee, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hold hearings on her nomination, said after the visit."She is a judge, a legal scholar, a lawyer, and a jurist with o
  
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• Spencer Cox takes hard-line on in-person school classes, Chris Peterson favors phased approach

  30-09-2020 05:01
  
  Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and Chris Peterson, rivals to become Utah’s next governor, agreed Tuesday evening that preserving in-person education where possible is important for the state’s young people, despite the challenges that COVID-19 presents.But Cox took a more hard-line stance than his opponent during the prime-time debate, arguing that keeping schools open is more than preferable — it’s essential.“The Salt Lake City School District is the only school district in
  
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• ‘Will you shut up, man?’: Trump, Biden lash, interrupt each other

  30-09-2020 04:26
  
  Cleveland • Marked by angry interruptions and bitter accusations, the first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden erupted in contentious exchanges Tuesday night over the coronavirus pandemic, city violence, job losses and how the Supreme Court will shape the future of the nation’s health care.In what was the most chaotic presidential debate in recent years, somehow fitting for what has been an extraordinarily ugly campaign, the two men frequently ta
  
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