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• Utah’s only available bar license goes to a South Salt Lake strip club

  27-10-2020 23:58
  
  Duces Wild received the state’s only available bar license on Tuesday — edging out nine other businesses for the hard-to-get permit and ending a years-long drama for the South Salt Lake strip club.Duces Wild, 2750 S. 300 West, lost its bar license more than a year ago in a legal dispute with the city.After the issue wound its way through the courts, the owner had to reapply for a bar license with the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which currently is experiencing a sho
  
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• George Pyle: No wonder we don’t follow doctors' orders

  27-10-2020 23:25
  
  Maybe it is not so surprising that so many Americans, so many Utahns, are refusing to follow the instructions and advice of their government officials during this unending pandemic. A little mistrust of people who hold power is healthy.Now, though, we live in an atmosphere where a great many people totally mistrust the president of the United States, or far too many people completely trust the president.The result is a state and a nation populated by far too many people who view a mask-wearing o
  
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• NXIVM guru gets 120 years in prison in sex-slaves case

  27-10-2020 23:11
  
  New York • Disgraced self-improvement guru Keith Raniere, whose NXIVM followers included millionaires and Hollywood actors, was sentenced to 120 years on Tuesday for turning some adherents into sex slaves branded with his initials.U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis called Raniere “ruthless and unyielding” in crimes that were “particularly egregious” because he targeted girls and young women. He handed down the unusually high sentence in federal court in Brooklyn a
  
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• With rising COVID-19 cases inside the Vatican, pressure mounts for Pope Francis to don a mask

  27-10-2020 23:08
  
  Vatican City• While the Vatican’s COVID-19 commission attempts to tangibly address the consequences of the pandemic, it struggled to explain Tuesday why its boss, Pope Francis, is so often seen without a mask.“We are trying to convince him” to wear a mask, said the Rev. Augusto Zampini, adjunct secretary of the Vatican Department for Promoting Integral Human Development and one of the coordinators of the Vatican COVID-19 commission.“He has started wearing a mask now,
  
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• Margaret S. Audell: It didn’t have to be this way

  27-10-2020 23:00
  
  Dear Gov. Herbert and Lt. Gov. Cox,It didn’t have to be this way.You two gentlemen have failed us as leaders. As a retired physician, I never expected to read about the possible implementation of the Utah Crisis Standards of Care Guidelines for the purpose of rationing of care in the intensive care units of Utah. It didn’t have to be this way.Because of the absence of your leadership, the most heartbreaking and gut-wrenching decisions that physicians must make are on our doorstep. Yo
  
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• Utah Republicans retaliate against Democrats for misleading tax reform mailers

  27-10-2020 22:58
  
  What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, apparently. Utah Republicans, who were outraged after Democrats targeted several GOP legislators with a disingenuous attack over the failed tax reform bill, are using the same tactics against a Democratic House member.Earlier this month, Utah Democrats sent mailers to voters in the districts of several vulnerable House Republicans, slamming them for failing to stand in the way of the tax reform package despite those same Republicans voting
  
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• Black lives matter, LDS leader Dallin Oaks tells BYU audience, and is a cause all should support

  27-10-2020 22:55
  
  For the first time, Dallin H. Oaks, next in line for the presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called Black lives matter an “eternal truth all reasonable people should support.”That does not mean everything that is done under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement — including “abolishing the police or seriously reducing their effectiveness or changing our constitutional government” — commands universal backing, Oaks said Tuesday
  
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• Deseret News, like The Tribune, will move to a weekly print edition

  27-10-2020 22:50
  
  The Deseret News announced Tuesday it would cut back its daily print newspaper and replace it with a weekly for readers in Utah and another for those outside its borders, along with a national monthly magazine it will call Deseret.The newspaper, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said on its website the plans were part of a longstanding effort to foster a “national leadership role as the watchdog of the family and of faith in the public square.”The announcement
  
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• RSL wants to overmatch intensity of San Jose in game with massive playoff implications

  27-10-2020 22:33
  
  The timing couldn’t have been tricker for Real Salt Lake to face the San Jose Earthquakes in a game with massive playoff implications.RSL travels to San Jose on Wednesday after drawing with FC Dallas just this past Saturday. Short rest is the norm during the coronavirus pandemic, but the Earthquakes are not a normal Major League Soccer team.San Jose plays man-to-man defensively for the full 90 minutes and thus like to speed up its opponent. No other team in the league plays that way, which
  
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• It’s draft workout season for the Utah Jazz and NBA, but this one will be quite different

  27-10-2020 22:23
  
  Normally, the weeks following the end of the Utah Jazz’s season would be filled with a seemingly nonstop parade of NBA Draft prospects filing into the Zions Bank Basketball Campus for interviews, tests, drills, even some 3-on-3 games just to see how they adapt to playing with unfamiliar teammates.For obvious reasons, that isn’t the case this year.With the coronavirus pandemic still ongoing, the NBA established myriad new protocols to enable teams to get to know prospects better (and
  
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• Utah Latinos are urged to stay safe from COVID-19, avoid big holiday gatherings

  27-10-2020 21:56
  
  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.Although the spread of the coronavirus has slowed among Utah Latinos, they are still overrepresented in daily cases — and with the holidays approaching, officials urged the community to avoid large gatherings.Utah Gov. Gary Herbert
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,145 on Tuesday, as more schools shift online

  27-10-2020 21:32
  
  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.Spikes in COVID-19 cases are forcing two Salt Lake County high schools to close their doors and switch to online-only instruction — in a district where half the high schools were already closed.That’s on a day when Utah recor
  
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• Go Comics

  27-10-2020 21:31
  
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• That was no earthquake Tuesday morning — it was a sonic boom

  27-10-2020 21:15
  
  Some residents of the Salt Lake Valley reported hearing and feeling a boom on Tuesday morning — and many believed it was an earthquake. It wasn’t.The noise and shaking at about 11:30 a.m. “was the result of a sonic boom that happened during aerial combat training on the Utah Test and Training Range,” said a spokesman for Hill Air Force Base.According to the Air Force, F-35 combat jet pilots from the 388th Fighter Wing are authorized “to fly at supersonic speeds in c
  
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• Charlie Warzel: How to talk to friends and family who share conspiracy theories

  27-10-2020 21:10
  
  Increasingly, friends, colleagues and readers share the same story with me: Online, somebody they know and love has stumbled into the treacherous world of online conspiracy theories and, in some cases, might not even know it. I’m often asked: How do you talk to people you care about who might be on the precipice of or headed down the conspiratorial rabbit hole?It’s a question without an easy answer, but one we need to ask with increasing urgency. I decided to ask some scholars and re
  
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• Utah to host AMA Supercross finale for second year

  27-10-2020 20:47
  
  Rice-Eccles Stadium served as the site of the first professional sports bubble experiment when the entire Monster Energy AMA Supercross season was held there over three weeks in June. That worked so well, the series will stop at the University of Utah venue again in 2021.Only this time, it will be only one day — for the finals — and fans might get to go.Though the coronavirus outbreak may not be under control by then, organizers are following the NFL’s blueprint in their plan t
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,145 on Tuesday, with transmission rate considered high statewide

  27-10-2020 20:36
  
  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.Spikes in COVID-19 cases are forcing two Salt Lake County high schools to close their doors and switch to online-only instruction — in a district where half the high schools were already closed.That’s on a day when Utah recor
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,145 on Tuesday, with record hospitalizations in the past two weeks

  27-10-2020 20:05
  
  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 1,145 new coronavirus cases reported on Tuesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise to record-high levels.For the past week, the state has averaged 1,507 new positive test results a day, continuing a streak of new
  
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• Republican Burgess Owens may have to refund thousands of dollars in campaign donations

  27-10-2020 19:55
  
  Burgess Owens, the GOP nominee in Utah’s 4th Congressional District, appears to be at the center of a campaign finance controversy with a week to go until Election Day.The New York Times reported Tuesday that Owens' campaign accepted more than $135,000 in illegal campaign contributions, which is approximately 40% of the money he has available for the stretch run to the election.A review of Owens' campaign finance filing confirms multiple donations over the legal limit stretching as far bac
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Election Run

  27-10-2020 19:52
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Very Good BrainTrain WreckThe Case FOR TrumpPride PopeDog BiteWhat Women WantKiller AsteroidSupreme SphinxThe Persecution GameCovidiotsWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Utah football’s secondary emerges as Kyle Whittingham’s biggest concern as season opener approaches

  27-10-2020 19:35
  
  Kyle Whittingham has been consistent this month in regards to what his priorities are during fall camp for the University of Utah football team.The top priority was always to figure out who the quarterback is between Jake Bentley, Cameron Rising and Drew Lisk. Just behind the quarterback situation was to figure out how to replace the entire secondary after all five members cracked NFL active rosters, or at least practice squads last month.Even if Whittingham will not publicly announce who his qu
  
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• Deseret News announces cutbacks in print

  27-10-2020 19:35
  
  The Deseret News announced Tuesday it would cut back its daily print offerings and replace them with a weekly print newspaper for readers in Utah and another for those outside its borders, along with a national monthly magazine it will call Deseret.The Salt Lake City based newspaper, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said on its website the plans were part of an effort to foster a “national leadership role as the watchdog of the family and of faith in the public squ
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump tells coronavirus, ‘I surrender’

  27-10-2020 19:09
  
  As we head into the final stretch of the election, COVID-19 is on a roll.Coronavirus cases keep hitting records — among other things, five aides to Vice President Mike Pence have tested positive. Hospitalizations, which lag behind cases, are soaring. And deaths, which lag even further behind, are starting to rise, too. Put it this way: Just between now and Election Day, we’re likely to lose almost twice as many Americans to COVID-19 as died on 9/11.So how is the Trump administration
  
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• Bret Stephens: Anti-Semitism and what feeds it

  27-10-2020 19:09
  
  On Oct. 27, 2018, a man armed with a semiautomatic rifle and three pistols entered Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue and murdered 11 congregants. In addition to raging anti-Semitism, the killer had a more immediate motive: fury that the synagogue had participated in the National Refugee Shabbat, sponsored by the humanitarian group HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.“HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people,” he wrote on a social network. &ldq
  
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• Will Utah Runnin’ Utes be able to play a full 27-game season? COVID-19 will help dictate what happens

  27-10-2020 17:52
  
  The question to Larry Krystkowiak centered around this college basketball season and whether or not it is reasonable to believe that the University of Utah would be able to get in a full 27-game season.Knowing what the COVID-19 situation looks like across the state of Utah, and really the entire country right now, the Utes head coach let out a little chuckle. He danced around the question some, then painted himself as the eternal optimist.Krystkowiak, though, knew the answer and eventually, he g
  
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• BYU women’s basketball picked to finish second in WCC; 3 Cougars named to preseason team

  27-10-2020 17:46
  
  The BYU women’s basketball team was picked to finish second in the West Coast Conference in the annual poll of the league’s 10 coaches.The Cougars also had three athletes named to the preseason All-WCC Team: senior guard Paisley Johnson Harding, senior center Sara Hamson and sophomore guard Shaylee Gonzales. BYU was the only school in the league with three players on the preseason team. It is a second-straight time Harding and Hamson to receive the recognition.Hamson was the 2020 WCC
  
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• Mike Lee says Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation gives his heart joy, and makes Democrats’ heads explode

  27-10-2020 17:42
  
  The last time Sen. Mike Lee went to the White House to see Amy Coney Barrett nominated to the Supreme Court, he and many other attendees later tested positive for COVID-19. He returned there Monday to see her sworn in and reported that it did something to his heartbeat.Listening to her “just got my heart pounding a little bit faster and brought a bigger smile to my face,” the happy senator — who had pushed for Barrett’s nomination and helped defend her during confirmation
  
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• Utah Jazz: The case for and against trading Rudy Gobert

  27-10-2020 17:30
  
  The Utah Jazz may consider trading Rudy Gobert Let’s move past the basic Utah Jazz/Rudy Gobert storylines as quickly as we can, given that they’re extremely played out and most Jazz fans are probably tired of hearing them. Yes, he was the reason the league initially suspended its season in March due to a positive […]
  Utah Jazz: The case for and against trading Rudy Gobert - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Navajo Nation: No new COVID-19 deaths for 7th day in a row

  27-10-2020 17:30
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials on Monday reported 63 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, but no additional deaths for the seventh consecutive day.The latest figures bring the total number of cases to 11,362 which includes one delayed reported case. The known death toll remains at 574.Tribal health officials said 121,827 people on the vast reservation that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah have been tested for COVID-19 since the pandemic started and 7,497 have re
  
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• The Tribune’s first reader advocate — a mild-tempered news junkie — dies at 85

  27-10-2020 16:44
  
  Long before cable television and the internet created the 24-hour news cycle, John Cummins found a way to consume information all day, every day.He listened to it on the radio each morning, watched it on the television each night, and read it at his desk inside The Salt Lake Tribune newsroom — where he worked for three decades as a reporter, editor, promotions manager and as the newspaper’s first reader advocate"He was definitely a news junkie,” Scott Cummins said of his father
  
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• Gordon Monson: How good is BYU, really? Maybe it doesn’t matter.

  27-10-2020 16:42
  
  Over the past decade, BYU’s been doing things all wrong.If the 2020 season has revealed anything, it is that.The Cougars are 6-0. They’re ranked 11th in the AP poll and 10th in the coaches'. Their fans are fired up. if it weren’t for a pandemic, their stadium would be filled to the brim for every game. They’ve received increased attention from media, from coast to coast. Interest is high in BYU football.And they haven’t played anybody of significance.That’s be
  
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• Act 2: Salt Lake City International Airport opens another new concourse

  27-10-2020 16:04
  
  A second major act opened Tuesday for the ongoing $4.1 billion project to replace Salt Lake City International Airport — a second shiny new concourse of 21 gates, parallel to a 20-gate concourse that opened last month.It opened on schedule despite “a global pandemic, an earthquake, a catastrophic loss of business, and even last weekend’s snowstorm — which stalled a couple of deliveries that we really needed,” airport executive director Bill Wyatt said at 5 a.m. as p
  
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• Taylorsville appoints chief for its new police department

  27-10-2020 15:23
  
  Taylorsville has appointed a new police chief for its new police department, but he’s no newcomer to the city: Tracy Wyant has been the Unified Police Department’s Taylorsville precinct chief for the past eight years.He was also born and raised in Taylorsville, according to the city.“He has done an outstanding job as Taylorsville’s precinct chief since 2012, and we know our new department will continue to be in good hands under his leadership,” Mayor Kristie Overson
  
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• Brent Ward: The greatest threat to our nation is its president

  27-10-2020 13:00
  
  A few days ago, I saw a list of talking points issued by the White House to supporters. At a time when we have 20% of the world’s COVID-19 deaths, new cases at a near record of 75,000 per day and hospitals on the brink with a 40% rise in hospitalizations over the past month, the main talking point was, “Decide your vote based on what’s best for your wallet,” citing a rise in the value of 401(k)s.No wonder Donald Trump desperately wants to take the focus off his catastroph
  
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• Letter: Shame on legislators for allowing Hideout land grab

  27-10-2020 12:30
  
  Shame on our state legislators for enabling Hideout to annex and commercially develop Summit County land that has been zoned for decades as non-commercial. The Legislature repealed the bill (HB359) allowing for cross-county land annexation without consent of the county being annexed during the September special session. The repeal was overwhelmingly approved because it was seen as condoning a blatant land grab and because the legislators acknowledged being duped and lied to by a representative o
  
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• Letter: Vote for Parry

  27-10-2020 12:00
  
  I hate politics. All my life, I’ve voted independent. No party lines — just voting for who I believed would do the best job. And it sure is hard to sift thru the muck to decide in whom to put our trust. Politicians tell of changes they’ll make and promises they’ll keep, yet so often we feel we’ve been abandoned on the side of the road.Republicans say they can straighten things out. Democrats say they can do better. It would be great if they wouldn’t be afraid
  
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• Death of man found at Tooele fire ruled a homicide

  27-10-2020 05:27
  
  Fire crews responding to a wildfire Saturday in Tooele County discovered the remains of a deceased man on the edge of the flames.The death has now been ruled a homicide, sparking an investigation into how the man was killed, the Tooele County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday in a news release. The office is also trying to determine whether the death was connected to the fire, the cause of which is also under investigation.The fire ignited at 12:35 p.m. Saturday east of Stockton where Sold
  
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• The NBA is all-in on racial justice. So where does it go from here?

  27-10-2020 05:01
  
  Photo illustration by Alex Cochran The NBA firmly attached itself to social justice causes this season. How might its decision cost and benefit the league — and society — moving forward?
  In early September, a group of longtime Utah Jazz fans had seen enough.They’d seen NBA players, starting with the Jazz, kneel during the national anthem in the Orlando bubble.
  They’d seen Jazz star Donovan Mitchell become an outspoken advocate on racial justice initiatives.
  And they&rsqu
  
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• Costumed dogs bring the Halloween spirit to Wheeler Farm for Dog Days in the Maze

  27-10-2020 04:26
  
  Dog owners dressed up their pets as they celebrated Halloween at Wheeler Farm during the Dog Days in the Maze event Monday evening.Participants in the Pumpkin Days event received a treat bag for their pets to trick-or-treat down vendor alley, after they made their way through the straw bale maze. Participating dogs were dressed as pumpkins, scarecrows, hot dogs and tacos, as well as lions and squids and various Disney characters.
  
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• Body found at Tooele fire ruled a homicide

  27-10-2020 04:17
  
  Fire crews responding to a wildfire Saturday in Tooele County discovered the remains of a deceased man on the edge of the flames.The death has now been ruled a homicide, sparking an investigation into how the man was killed, the Tooele County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday in a news release. The office is also trying to determine whether the death was connected to the fire, the cause of which is also under investigation.The fire ignited at 12:35 p.m. Saturday east of Stockton where Sold
  
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• Daniel V. Wilson: Have we chosen an honest and wise man?

  27-10-2020 04:00
  
  On my bedroom wall I have a framed picture of my father shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan back in the day. My father was at the time the president of the world’s largest spice company. Needless to say, he was a strong believer in capitalism as well as a political conservative in nature.I am also a political and social conservative, as well as practicing (adult-convert) Latter-day Saint, recreational gun owner, etc. Nevertheless, I cannot for the life of me understand how any infor
  
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• Letter: Get a grip, Romney

  27-10-2020 02:00
  
  “I think our party is in trouble with young people, increasingly with older people, with minorities. And those young people we were in trouble with five years ago are now voting, and so we’ve got some real work to do,” Sen. Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 presidential nominee who isn’t backing Trump’s reelection bid, told CNN on Oct. 20.Get a clue, Sen. Romney. Your party is not in trouble because it lost the faith of the young, the old, the minorities. Your par
  
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• Blanding restaurant bans customers from wearing masks

  27-10-2020 01:59
  
  Blanding • Seven months ago, Yaks Cafe in Blanding advertised itself as a source of hamburgers and Bears Ears souvenirs. Now it has become a purveyor of anti-mask merchandise.“It’s a Yaks Cafe thing,” reads the front of one T-shirt that was offered in a limited sale through the restaurant’s Facebook page last week. Printed on the back of the tee: “No mask.”Since at least May, the owners of the cafe, a small breakfast and lunch joint in southeast Utah, hav
  
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• Senate confirms Barrett, delivering for Trump and reshaping the Supreme Court

  27-10-2020 01:57
  
  Washington • Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative appeals court judge and protégée of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, was confirmed on Monday to the Supreme Court, capping a lightning-fast Senate approval that handed President Donald Trump a victory ahead of the election and promised to tip the court to the right for years to come.Inside a Capitol mostly emptied by the resurgent coronavirus pandemic and an election looming in eight days, Republicans overcame unanimous oppo
  
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• Utah State’s Jaylen Warren in a bull market with the Aggies

  27-10-2020 01:54
  
  During his pandemic downtime, of which he had plenty, Utah State running back Jaylen Warren started learning about stocks.The senior, who is majoring in sociology, said he didn’t expect to take an interest in day trading, but the intricacies of it struck a chord deep inside him.“Like, you buy 'em, sell 'em. Which ones would be the best to buy?” Warren explained. “You know, sometimes you can’t sell 'em yet or buy them yet or that kind of stuff.”After the Aggies
  
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• BYU argues to keep its police department after Utah moved to shut it down

  27-10-2020 00:48
  
  For two years, a Brigham Young University police lieutenant accessed thousands of private police reports created by other law enforcement agencies, and passed on information of nearly two dozen cases to university officials — including those working in the Honor Code Office.State investigators found that of the 21 cases that Lt. Aaron Rhoades shared, 12 involved cases BYU police never investigated, but Rhoades was able to access the private records through a database shared among Utah Coun
  
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• Drew Clark: It’s not the Republican who is like Lincoln

  27-10-2020 00:29
  
  If one of the two presidential candidates on the debate stage Thursday night was like Abraham Lincoln, it wasn’t the Republican.Lincoln had a deep abhorrence to hurting others, as Doris Kearns Goodwin writes in her masterful biography “Team of Rivals.” This was born of Lincoln’s character and his empathy, which provides a model to which U.S. citizens should look in the 2020 presidential election.“He possessed extraordinary empathy — the gift or curse of puttin
  
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