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• National attention places target on Cougars' backs, but BYU will stay humble and hungry

  05-10-2020 23:26
  
  BYU football is back in the national conversation. But coach Kalani Sitake is hoping to keep his players away from the hype.Following the Cougars' third dominating performance, BYU found itself ranked No. 15 in both the Associated Press Top 25 and Amway Coaches Poll on Sunday. The Cougars also received a vote for the College Football Playoffs.Bill Connelly of ESPN.com and the creator of the S&P+ ratings picked BYU as his No. 4 contender for the CFP. Connelly also selected No. 1 Alabama, No.
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee again attacks Netflix movie ‘Cuties’ as possible criminal exploitation of minors

  05-10-2020 23:24
  
  After reading a response from Netflix to his concerns about its movie “Cuties,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said Monday that he still questions whether it constitutes criminal exploitation of minors — and is renewing his call to pull the film.“Asked whether the sexualization of young girls depicted in Cuties constituted criminal conduct, Netflix offered only conclusory statements in denial,” Lee complained in a statement about questions he asked three weeks ago. “I
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: White House Updates

  05-10-2020 23:20
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Spikes and OutbreaksWho Watches the Watchers?Thunderdome DebateWorkhorseBad FaithLooking for TroubleUtah SkillsVote!Notorious RBGHis Story HistoryWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Utahns are excited to vote, but how they do it may depend on their political party

  05-10-2020 22:22
  
  Utahns are eager to vote and many plan to do so well before Election Day.A new statewide poll found that 47% of respondents say they will vote as soon as they are legally able to do so. That would be next week, when ballots will be mailed out.The Y2 Analytics survey of 1,214 likely voters, conducted online from Sept. 26 to Oct. 4 and released Monday, also sheds light on how Utahns plan to vote as the coronavirus pandemic wears on.The largest number of respondents, at 39%, said they planned to se
  
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• Rentals

  05-10-2020 21:38
  
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• Utah to open a temporary liquor store inside the closed Red Butte Cafe

  05-10-2020 21:24
  
  Salt Lake City’s Red Butte Cafe closed in August, but the building at 1414 Foothill Drive won’t sit vacant for long.The Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has already started converting the site into a liquor store. It will be a temporary one while the state-run outlet a few blocks south is rebuilt.The store at 1615 S. Foothill Drive — in the Lamplighter Square Shopping Center — was built in 1982 and is currently one of the smallest stores in the state at just
  
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• Trump says he ‘feels good,’ leaving hospital for the White House

  05-10-2020 21:11
  
  Bethesda, Md. • President Donald Trump said Monday he’s leaving the military hospital where he has been treated for COVID-19 and will continue his recovery at the White House He said he’s feeling good and the nation should not be afraid of the virus that has killed more than 209,000 Americans.Trump’s expected return comes as the scale of the outbreak within the White House itself is still being uncovered. Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced she had tested positive f
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up more than 1,000 again Monday

  05-10-2020 21:09
  
  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 1,105 new coronavirus cases reported on Monday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise.For the past week, the Utah Department of Health has tallied 1,027 new positive test results a day — continuing a streak of n
  
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• Video captures passengers on Provo-bound plane fighting, as one is kicked off for not wearing a face mask

  05-10-2020 20:42
  
  A man planning to fly to Provo didn’t get to his destination over the weekend after a fight broke out on his flight before takeoff because the man refused to wear a face mask.A Utah baker captured some of the fight, and flight attendants’ efforts to remove the man from his seat, on video that she posted on her Instagram account Sunday.Rylie Lansford, who operates Baked by Rylie in Lehi, said it started when a man behind her on the plane — Allegiant Air flight 607, boarding in M
  
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• Three Points: RSL is not a playoff team, Erik Holt is a defensive liability, and the injury policy needs a change

  05-10-2020 20:32
  
  Here are three observations from Real Salt Lake’s 3-1 loss to LAFC from beat writer Alex Vejar.1. RSL is not a playoff teamThis might sound harsh, but if RSL qualifies for the postseason, it won’t be because of stellar play.Sunday’s performance against LAFC solidified this line of thinking. A week’s rest, hardly any rotation in the lineup, commendable showings in the past three games. But none of that held over against LAFC. It made Salt Lake’s 3-0 win over them on
  
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• Thousands of minks dead in COVID outbreak on Utah farms

  05-10-2020 20:08
  
  Thousands of minks at Utah fur farms have died because of the coronavirus in the past 10 days, forcing nine sites in three counties to quarantine, but the state veterinarian said people don’t appear to be at risk from the outbreak.The COVID-19 infections likely were spread from workers at the mink ranches to the animals, with no sign so far that the animals are spreading it to humans, said Dr. Dean Taylor, the state veterinarian, who is investigating the outbreak.“We genuinely don&rs
  
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• Analysis: Utes' get a favorable Pac-12 football schedule. So how many wins will they get?

  05-10-2020 20:08
  
  The Pac-12 office dragged its feet in getting a fall football season played.But there are now seven games on the schedule and a planned Nov. 7 start, barely enough games and time to call it a legitimate season, but beggars can’t be choosers. The West Coast gets college football and the University of Utah will participate, isn’t that all anybody really wanted in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic?The Utes, 11-3 last season, but needing to replace a slew of key departures, will open at
  
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• New Utah poll has Trump up 10, and a big majority don’t see him as a person of faith

  05-10-2020 20:05
  
  President Donald Trump has a 10-point lead over Joe Biden in Utah with less than a month to go before the presidential election.The survey from Y2 Analytics found Trump ahead of Biden by a roughly 50% to 40% split among likely voters, while about 10% said they favored another candidate. The number of respondents who said they were undecided was tiny and would make up about 1%.Y2 surveyed 1,214 likely voters online from Sept. 26 to Oct. 4. The latter half of that time period covers the aftermath
  
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• Spencer Cox holds a big lead in Utah’s race for governor

  05-10-2020 20:00
  
  Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, the Republican nominee for governor, is cruising toward Election Day with a 28-point lead over Democrat Chris Peterson, whose name is still largely unfamiliar to the electorate, a new poll shows.When asked for their opinion of Peterson, about 63% said they were unaware of the Democratic candidate, according to the survey released Monday by Y2 Analytics.“That’s brutal,” said Quin Monson, a partner at the Salt Lake City polling firm. “I think [Peterson
  
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• The stakes for Wednesday’s VP debate raise after Trump’s coronavirus case

  05-10-2020 19:18
  
  President Donald Trump’s hospitalization with the coronavirus has catapulted this week’s vice-presidential debate into the spotlight to an extraordinary degree, putting pressure on Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris to use this forum to reassure an anxious public they are prepared and qualified to step in as president.Trump’s diagnosis with a potentially lethal virus — and the fact that he is 74 and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, is 77 — was a stark
  
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• Man arrested for killing woman in South Salt Lake. Police say he beat her with a rock.

  05-10-2020 18:46
  
  A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the killing of a woman whose naked body was found in a South Salt Lake parking lot.On Sept. 28, the body of 23-year-old Kaitlyn Barron was found near the corner of 300 West and Ironwood Drive. The San Antonio, Texas, woman had been “severely beaten," investigators wrote. Foul play was “obvious,” wrote police, who also suspect she was raped.Police obtained footage from a surveillance camera across the street from where Barro
  
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• Donovan Mitchell, mom go on ‘Today’ show, give World Teachers’ Day surprise

  05-10-2020 18:39
  
  Utah Jazz player Donovan Mitchell and his mother Nicole Mitchell hand out backpacks to Kearns High students in Kearns on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell and his mother Nicole are incredibly close, and on Monday, which is World Teachers’ Day, they teamed up on the “Today” show to give a surprise to some preschoolers in Connecticut and New York.
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  05-10-2020 18:04
  
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• Nevada dam changes give rare trout new life 115 years later

  05-10-2020 17:54
  
  Wadsworth, Nev. • U.S. and tribal officials are celebrating completion of a $34 million fish bypass system at a Nevada dam that will allow a threatened trout species to return to some of its native spawning grounds for the first time in more than a century.Construction of the side channel with fish-friendly screens is a major step toward someday enabling Lahontan cutthroat trout to make the same 100-mile journey — upstream from a desert lake on tribal land northeast of Reno to Lake Ta
  
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• 16 Yellowstone workers test positive for COVID in September

  05-10-2020 17:44
  
  Bozeman, Mont. • Yellowstone National Park officials say 16 employees tested positive for COVID-19 in September, marking a significant uptick in cases.The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that the number of positive cases in September quadrupled from the number reported between May 18 and Aug. 30. During that time, four park employees and one contractor tested positive for the virus and have since recovered.Seven of the employees who tested positive in September work for the National Park Se
  
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• Pope Francis’ new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, enshrines familiar criticisms of racism and borders

  05-10-2020 16:44
  
  Vatican City • In a time of global pandemic, social unrest and widespread armed conflict, Pope Francis released his third encyclical on Sunday (Oct. 4), mapping out the moral guidelines for “an open world” that places human dignity at the forefront, ahead of national borders, private property and racism.Francis signed the encyclical, the third of his pontificate, on Saturday (Oct. 3) in Assisi, Italy, the birthplace of his namesake, St. Francis. The encyclical, titled Fratelli T
  
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• Utahns want a cleaner, more wild Jordan River, with improved safety

  05-10-2020 16:28
  
  A survey taken as more Utahns enjoy the Jordan River during the coronavirus pandemic shows they want the urban waterway cleaned up and made more accessible.In an unmistakable echo of similar polls a decade ago, thousands of residents in Salt Lake, Utah and Davis counties also heavily favor maintaining and adding to open spaces along the river’s 51-mile path from Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake.Safety, homelessness and calls for added police patrols on the parkway also emerged sharply in t
  
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• Murray High, Piute schools close due to coronavirus spread

  05-10-2020 15:31
  
  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.Multiple schools in Utah shifted to online-only classes on Monday due to rising numbers of coronavirus infections and related quarantines.The Piute School District in central Utah announced on Sunday that it would close all three of its
  
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• These Utahns lost work to COVID-19 and are struggling to rebound

  05-10-2020 14:00
  
  Edmund Burke has been meticulous in keeping a running tally of the employment applications he’s filled out since April, when COVID-19 cost him his job.In September alone, the West Valley City resident applied for 20 positions. He’s only gotten one reply, informing him he hadn’t been picked.“I’m not even getting rejection emails,” the 42-year-old said wryly.He and his family have been scraping by, thanks in part to an ample severance package from his former com
  
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• Jonah Hansen: Rooftop forests are the future

  05-10-2020 14:00
  
  Whenever I fly above Salt Lake City and look out at all the blank and boring rooftops in the valley, I wish there was something better to do with that empty space.It turns out there is. And it might just save us.If each rooftop were a forest, no one would even be able to spot where the mountains end and the city begins. Everyone who flies into the Wasatch Front would be amazed by the greenery and the hidden civilization beneath it.Rooftop forests would be tree gardens installed on the top of dep
  
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• Letter: ‘Hate speech’ is in the eye of the beholder

  05-10-2020 13:29
  
  Recently, an administrator in the Salt Lake City school district took umbrage from the following statement included in a school publication: “There are two genders and a lot of mental illnesses.” He referred to this statement as hate speech, and seems to want to punish whoever included it. One could, though, also classify his retort as hate speech directed toward the writer of the statement. Hate speech is a flawed concept and is really in the eye of the speaker.The term “hate
  
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• Letter: The anticipation of Nov. 3

  05-10-2020 13:00
  
  When I was a kid in the late ’50s and early ’60s, I kept fervent track on a bedside calendar of the remaining days until fishing season began (aka, school ending), and then the days until Ute football and basketball season started.Sixty years later, I am now counting down and checking off the days until we can vote the “current occupant” out of the White House. Nothing in recent times even approaches the excitement and anticipation that I currently feel about this looming
  
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• Butler, Heat beat Lakers 114-105 to cut deficit in NBA Finals to 2-1

  05-10-2020 06:54
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • Biggest moment of his career. Best game of his life.Jimmy Butler is clearly not ready to go home quite yet. With a triple-double, he joined NBA Finals lore — and the short-handed Miami Heat might have made this title matchup a series after all.Butler finished with 40 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists, and the Heat beat the Los Angeles Lakers 115-104 on Sunday night to get within 2-1 — doing so with starters Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic still unable to p
  
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• RSL loses 3-1 to Los Angeles FC but stays above playoff line

  05-10-2020 06:14
  
  Sandy • Sunday turned out to be Opposite Day for Real Salt Lake.The last time RSL hosted LAFC, it came away with a dominant win against a lesser lineup after both teams had just two days in between games. Sunday’s match saw both teams with a week’s rest, but a flipped result.RSL lost 3-1 to LAFC in front of 3,062 fans at Rio Tinto Stadium. Salt Lake fell behind 3-0 before pulling one back in the 64th minute.Despite the loss, Salt Lake (4-5-6) stayed above the playoff line in eig
  
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• RSL loses 3-1 to LAFC but stays above playoff line

  05-10-2020 05:38
  
  Sandy • Sunday turned out to be Opposite Day for Real Salt Lake.The last time RSL hosted LAFC, it came away with a dominant win against a lesser lineup after both teams had just two days in between games. Sunday’s match saw both teams with a week’s rest, but a flipped result.RSL lost 3-1 to LAFC in front of 3,062 fans at Rio Tinto Stadium. Salt Lake fell behind 3-0 before pulling one back in the 64th minute.Despite the loss, Salt Lake (4-5-6) stayed above the playoff line in eig
  
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• Letter: We need safer environmental regulations

  05-10-2020 05:30
  
  An American Heart Association estimation found there are up to 2,000 premature deaths every year in Utah from air pollution.I recently stumbled upon a 1989 paper from C. Arden Pope III titled “Respiratory Disease Associated with Community Air Pollution and a Steel Mill, Utah Valley.” This paper tested the relationship between PM10 levels and hospital admissions for respiratory diseases. Their findings showed when 24-hour PM10 monthly averages exceeded 150 micrograms per meter cubed,
  
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• Pope criticizes lack of unity in world’s response to coronavirus

  05-10-2020 04:53
  
  Rome • Pope Francis criticized the failures of global cooperation in response to the coronavirus pandemic in a document released Sunday that underscores the priorities of his pontificate.“As I was writing this letter, the COVID-19 pandemic unexpectedly erupted, exposing our false securities,” Francis said in the encyclical, the most authoritative form of papal teaching. “Aside from the different ways that various countries responded to the crisis, their inability to work t
  
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• Jimmy Butler’s big night helps Heat cut Lakers’ Finals lead to 2-1

  05-10-2020 04:34
  
  Miami Heat’s Jimmy Butler (22) shoots against Los Angeles Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma (0) during the second half in Game 3 of basketball’s NBA Finals, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Mark J. Terrill, AP LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Jimmy Butler is not ready to go home.
  A triple-double later, he joined NBA Finals lore — and the short-handed Miami Heat might have made this title matchup a series after all.
  Butler finished with 40 points, 11 rebounds and 13
  
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• Letter: Don’t let Rocky Mountain Power destroy solar energy

  05-10-2020 03:30
  
  Creative Energies has been in the renewable energy business since 2000. We have been in Utah since 2010, and it is our biggest office. During COVID-19, we were anxious like everyone else as to what it would mean for our business as everything came to a halt while everyone was putting on the breaks to see how this pandemic was going to unfold.About a month into the pandemic, we experienced a 5.7 earthquake, causing some 60,000 Utahns to lose power. What surprised us was how busy our phones were p
  
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• Trump declares ‘I get it,’ then leaves hospital to greet supporters; Biden tests negative

  05-10-2020 03:10
  
  Bethesda, Md. • Two days after being hospitalized with COVID-19, President Donald Trump declared, “I get it,” in a message to the nation Sunday before briefly leaving the hospital to salute supporters from his motorcade, a move that again showed his willingness to disregard basic precautions to contain the virus that has killed more than 209,000 Americans.Hours earlier, Trump’s medical team reported that his blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that
  
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• Utah Jazz mailbag: Are these familiar faces realistic options in free agency?

  05-10-2020 03:07
  
  New Orleans Pelicans’ Derrick Favors (22) looks to pass against the Sacramento Kings during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Ashley Landis, AP SALT LAKE CITY — As we near the end of the 2019-20 NBA season (it’s only taken us an entire calendar year to get here), it’s only natural to start talking in earnest about free agency and what kind of moves the Utah Jazz could look to make.
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• Latest from LDS General Conference: Apostle Renlund warns against self-righteousness; Holland frustrated with the pandemic

  05-10-2020 02:50
  
  A day after addressing timely topics ranging from racism to the recession and politics to the pandemic, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will return Sunday for the final two sessions of the faith’s 190th Semiannual General Conference.The all-virtual gathering, taking place under the direction of church President Russell M. Nelson, is being broadcast around the world from a theater in downtown Salt Lake City’s Conference Center.3:55 p.m.: Nelson announces six
  
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• In blunt language, Nelson denounces racism, urges Latter-day Saints to ‘lead out’ against prejudice

  05-10-2020 02:24
  
  In the most pointed and potent condemnation of racism from the pulpit by a Latter-day Saint prophet in recent years, President Russell M. Nelson told members Sunday to listen up: God does not prefer one race over another.“His doctrine on this matter is clear. He invites all to come unto him, ‘Black and white, bond and free, male and female,’” said the 96-year-old leader, revered as a “prophet, seer and revelator” by millions of Latter-day Saints across the glo
  
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• LeBron James just passed John Stockton on this list

  05-10-2020 02:13
  
  Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James dribbles during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) | Mark J. Terrill, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — It’s going to be tough for anyone to break Utah Jazz legend John Stockton’s NBA record of 15,806 career assists, but Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has now passed him for second-most helpers dished in postseason play.
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• Six new LDS temples, including a 25th in Utah, announced, boosting Nelson’s total to 49.

  05-10-2020 01:37
  
  President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced six new temples Sunday afternoon, including another one in the Beehive State.Lindon will be the site of the 25th temple in the state, and the seventh either existing or planned for Utah County.The five other new temples will be in Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Tarawa, Kiribati; Port Vila, Vanuatu; Greater Guatemala City, Guatemala; São Paulo East, Brazil.Nelson has announced 49 temples since taking the church&
  
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• Letter: Why promote guns?

  05-10-2020 01:30
  
  As ad revenue, the lifeblood of newspapers, continues to shrink, it is quite understandable that no ads promoting legal businesses would be rejected. However, promoting the marketing of lethal weapons in a state where gun deaths by suicide, homocide, police shootings and accidents is an almost daily occurence is irresponsible.I’m referring to the ad in a recent Salt Lake Tribune promoting the Crossroads of the West Gun Show. The ad features an image of an assault weapon — a chilling
  
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• Trump declares ‘I get it,’ then briefly leaves hospital to greet supporters

  05-10-2020 01:26
  
  Bethesda, Md. • President Donald Trump declared, “I get it,” in a message to the nation Sunday evening before briefly leaving the hospital to salute cheering supporters from his motorcade, a surprising move that raised new questions about the president’s understanding of the coronavirus that has killed more than 209,000 Americans.Hours earlier, Trump’s medical team reported that his blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a ste
  
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• Trump leaves hospital briefly to greet supporters outside

  05-10-2020 00:52
  
  Bethesda, Md. • President Donald Trump declared, “I get it,” in a message to the nation Sunday evening before briefly leaving the hospital to salute cheering supporters from his motorcade. The surprising move raised new questions about his understanding of the deadly coronavirus that has killed more than 209,000 Americans.Hours earlier, the president’s medical team reported that his blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days. The doctors also said his health
  
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• Latest from LDS General Conference: Nelson announces more temples, including a 25th in Utah; apostle warns against self-righteousness

  05-10-2020 00:34
  
  A day after addressing timely topics ranging from racism to the recession and politics to the pandemic, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will return Sunday for the final two sessions of the faith’s 190th Semiannual General Conference.The all-virtual gathering, taking place under the direction of church President Russell M. Nelson, is being broadcast around the world from a theater in downtown Salt Lake City’s Conference Center.3:55 p.m.: Nelson announces six
  
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• Latest from LDS General Conference: Nelson announces six more temples, including a 25th in Utah

  05-10-2020 00:05
  
  A day after addressing timely topics ranging from racism to the recession and politics to the pandemic, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will return Sunday for the final two sessions of the faith’s 190th Semiannual General Conference.The all-virtual gathering, taking place under the direction of church President Russell M. Nelson, is being broadcast around the world from a theater in downtown Salt Lake City’s Conference Center.3:55 p.m.: Nelson announces six
  
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