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• ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek remembered for grace that elevated him above TV host

  08-11-2020 23:08
  
  Los Angeles • Alex Trebek never pretended to have all the answers, but the “Jeopardy!” host became an inspiration and solace to Americans who otherwise are at odds with each other.He looked and sounded the part of a senior statesman, impeccably suited and groomed and with an authoritative voice any politician would crave. He commanded his turf — the quiz show’s stage — but refused to overshadow its brainy contestants.And when he faced the challenge of pancreati
  
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• Letter: Addressing our nation

  08-11-2020 22:30
  
  Dear Sen. McConnell: American citizens elect senators and congressional representatives so that our thoughts and concerns may be brought to the forefront. Please allow our elected senators to hear all congressional bills, so that we, the people, may have our voices heard. American citizens, please do not consider Congress “do-nothings” when it is Mr. McConnell who refuses their bills to be heard on the Senate floor.Mr. Trump: If you are reelected, please become the president to all A
  
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• Utah officials and health experts disagree on COVID-19 data — and new business restrictions

  08-11-2020 22:29
  
  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.As Utah’s coronavirus case counts soar and hospitals warn that rationing care is all but inevitable, health experts say that state officials for weeks have rejected their recommendations for more severe restrictions to preven
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: 2,386 new cases ends brutal week. Positive rate now above 20%.

  08-11-2020 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.The deadliest and sickest week in Utah got capped off Sunday with 2,386 new cases and one more death, according to the latest report from the Utah Department of Health.Over the past seven days, Utah has seen a total of 16,111 new cases a
  
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• Larry Miller would’ve loved the return on investment

  08-11-2020 21:19
  
  Larry Miller watches as the Utah Jazz draft pick nears during an NBA draft party at the Delta Center in this file photo. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Eleven years ago, at Larry H. Miller’s funeral — held appropriately in the 20,000 seat downtown arena he bought and paid for — his son Greg told a story that paid tribute to his father’s frugality.
  They were going to lunch downtown, Larry was driving, and looking to find a place to park in front o
  
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• Biden seeks to move quickly and build out his administration

  08-11-2020 20:40
  
  Wilmington, Del. • President-elect Joe Biden signaled on Sunday he plans to move quickly to build out his government, focusing first on the raging pandemic that will likely dominate the early days of his administration.Biden named a former surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, David Kessler, as co-chairs of a coronavirus working group set to get started, with other members expected to be announced Monday.Transition team officials said tha
  
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• BYU football keeps inching up national rankings following 51-17 win over Boise State

  08-11-2020 20:15
  
  After a dominating 51-17 win at Boise State, and over a ranked opponent no less, BYU continues to rise in the national rankings.In the latest Associated Press Top 25 Poll, released Sunday, the Cougars found themselves in the No. 8 spot. The Broncos, however, didn’t fare as well. Boise State got bumped out of both the AP Poll and the Amway Coaches Poll.In Sunday’s updated Amway Coaches Poll, BYU also moved up one spot to No. 8.The latest rankings bode well for BYU, inching the Cougars
  
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• Mitt Romney rejects Trump’s voter fraud claims, says it’s time to ‘get behind the new president’

  08-11-2020 19:59
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s allegations of widespread voter fraud is “destructive to the cause of democracy" and Americans of all political stripes should back President-elect Joe Biden.“I think it’s time we get behind the new president and wish him the very best,” said Romney, who was the first sitting Republican senator to congratulate Biden, sending a tweet about two hours after The Associated Press and the TV networks called the ra
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: We are finally getting rid of him

  08-11-2020 19:58
  
  Before Democrats begin their reckoning over their apparent failure to take the Senate and their reduced numbers in the House, before the intraparty recriminations between centrists and progressives, let’s take a moment to appreciate what’s before us. After four grueling years, President Donald Trump has been defeated.The fact that the election came down to the wire in the swing states, that around 70 million Americans looked at the last four years and opted for more, is an ominous si
  
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• Maureen Dowd: Trump couldn’t con his way past 74 million ballots

  08-11-2020 19:24
  
  Washington • We expected more of Donald Trump.An epic, Jack Nicholson-in-the-Overlook-Hotel meltdown, not just Rose Garden-variety mewling. A conspiracy with grandiosity, not merely pathetic blathering about pointless lawsuits from his entitled children and oddballs Rudy Giuliani and Richard Grenell.The president has had all this time to hatch a spidery plot to ruin democracy on the way out the door, and this is the best he can come up with?The election has been stolen!What’s your pro
  
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• ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek dies

  08-11-2020 19:02
  
  Los Angeles • Alex Trebek, who presided over the beloved quiz show “Jeopardy!” for more than 30 years with dapper charm and a touch of school-master strictness, died Sunday. He was 80.Trebek, who announced in 2019 that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, died at his California home, surrounded by family and friends, “Jeopardy!” studio Sony said.The Canadian-born host, who made a point of informing fans about his health directly, spoke in a calm, even tone as he reveal
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 158 new COVID-19 cases, but no deaths

  08-11-2020 18:54
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 158 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 but no additional deaths.The latest figures released Saturday night bring the total number of known cases to 12,447 with 591 known deaths.Tribal health officials said 131,525 people have been tested for COVID-19 since the pandemic started and 7,641 have recovered.The Navajo Nation Department of Health previously issued a health advisory warning to residents about the uncontrolled spread of
  
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• Joe Biden, the second Catholic to win the presidency, gains support from Utah Catholics as ‘a man of faith’

  08-11-2020 18:54
  
  Among the history-making aspects of Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president, here’s one that hasn’t attracted much attention: He will be only the second Catholic elevated to the country’s highest office in its 244-year history.The first one, of course, was John F. Kennedy, who was elected in 1960 — 60 years ago.“I am so happy Joe won,” said Rosemary Baron, a Catholic chaplain at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.Baron was attending a Catholic high sc
  
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• Utah officials and health experts disagree on how to interpret COVID-19 transmission data — and more business restrictions

  08-11-2020 18:03
  
  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.As Utah’s coronavirus case counts soar and hospitals warn that rationing care is all but inevitable, health experts say that state officials for weeks have rejected their recommendations for more severe restrictions to preven
  
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• Mitt Romney rejects Trump’s voter fraud claims, says it’s time to 'get behind the new president’

  08-11-2020 18:01
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s allegations of widespread voter fraud is “destructive to the cause of democracy" and Americans of all political stripes should back President-elect Joe Biden.“I think it’s time we get behind the new president and wish him the very best,” said Romney, who was the first sitting Republican senator to congratulate Biden, sending a tweet about two hours after The Associated Press and the TV networks called the ra
  
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• Mitt Romney rejects Trump’s voter fraud claims, says its time to 'get behind the new president’

  08-11-2020 17:30
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s allegations of widespread voter fraud is “destructive to the cause of democracy" and Americans of all political stripes should back President-elect Joe Biden.“I think it’s time we get behind the new president and wish him the very best,” said Romney, who was the first sitting Republican senator to congratulate Biden. Since the race was called early Saturday, only one other Republican senator has done so, Ala
  
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• Joe Biden, the second Catholic to win the presidency, wins support from Utah Catholics as ‘a man of faith’

  08-11-2020 16:55
  
  Among the history-making aspects of Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president, here’s one that hasn’t attracted much attention: He will be only the second Catholic elevated to the country’s highest office in its 244-year history.The first one, of course, was John F. Kennedy, who was elected in 1960 — 60 years ago.“I am so happy Joe won,” said Rosemary Baron, a Catholic chaplain at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.Baron was attending a Catholic high sc
  
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• As second Catholic to win the presidency, Biden wins support from Utah Catholics as ‘a man of faith’

  08-11-2020 16:13
  
  Among the history-making aspects of Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president, here’s one that hasn’t attracted much attention: He will be only the second Catholic elevated to the country’s highest office in its 244-year history.The first one, of course, was John F. Kennedy, who was elected in 1960 — 60 years ago.“I am so happy Joe won,” said Rosemary Baron, a Catholic chaplain at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.Baron was attending a Catholic high sc
  
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• Frank Bruni: We still don’t understand Trump. Or America.

  08-11-2020 16:10
  
  Like many Americans demoralized by the softness of the spanking that voters just gave President Donald Trump, I spent the past few days in search of answers. Why were so many of my fellow citizens so content to continue spoiling him? And what happened to the comeuppance due Republican lawmakers for not giving him timeouts?Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat who represented deep-red North Dakota in the Senate from 2013 to 2019, had a theory.“COVID cut both ways,” she said when we spoke Thursda
  
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• ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ arrives Wednesday — and the fireworks start immediately

  08-11-2020 16:08
  
  Take six strong-willed Utah women who are casual friends, make them spend a lot of time together and film what happens.Voila! You’ve got “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.” And the sparks start flying immediately when the guilty-pleasure, must-see show premieres Wednesday on Bravo (8 p.m. Dish and DirecTV; 11 p.m. Comcast).Jen Shaw and Mary Cosby do not get along. Heather Gay thought she and Lisa Barlow were longtime friends, but Lisa has a different view of things. And Whitne
  
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• Robert Kirby: Remembering the first contested election — in Mormonism’s preexistence

  08-11-2020 15:00
  
  Much as it seems, even here in Utah, the current election is not the most important the world has ever seen. Not according to the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.According to Mormon theology, there was an election in what is known as the “preexistence,” the time when we all lived as created spirits with God.Without going into too much detail, there came a point when we were all (yes, including you) given a choice between supporting the platforms of Jesus o
  
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• Leonard Pitts: What about what’s good for us?

  08-11-2020 15:00
  
  Allow me to explain.On Thursday night as a Biden victory was beginning to look inevitable, I had a brief Twitter exchange with a Republican blogger who complained that, in cheering the fall of Donald Trump, the “media elite” were “insulting those who supported him.”Let’s just say I wasn’t sympathetic.Whereupon someone else raised a sensible question: my attitude being what it is, how would I get along with Trump followers in a post-Trump world, “assuming
  
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• Utah health experts say state officials are ignoring their advice for stopping COVID-19 surge

  08-11-2020 14:00
  
  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.As Utah’s coronavirus case counts soar and hospitals warn that rationing care is all but inevitable, health experts say that state officials for weeks have rejected their recommendations for more severe restrictions to preven
  
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• Thousands of Utah students are struggling with online learning during the pandemic

  08-11-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note • Through a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting in-depth on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education.West Valley City • Kyle and his mother are huddled over a Chromebook inside Hillsdale Elementary with his concerned fifth grade teacher.He’s learning online this fall as a safeguard against COVID-19 for his grandparents, who have significant health issues and share his family’s home. His mother works 12-hou
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: FX on Hulu series makes a point about teachers who prey on students — eventually

  08-11-2020 14:00
  
  “A Teacher,” we’re told, works hard not to be salacious about a high school teacher who has sex with one of her students.But the 10-part limited series — which starts streaming Wednesday on FX on Hulu — doesn’t altogether succeed at being something other than just exploitation.(FX on Hulu is a specific section of the streaming service.)You can probably imagine how this starts. Attractive, 20-something teacher Claire (Kate Mara) takes a job at a Texas high scho
  
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• ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ arrives Wednesday — and fireworks start immediately

  08-11-2020 14:00
  
  Take six strong-willed Utah women who are casual friends, make them spend a lot of time together and film what happens.Voila! You’ve got “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.” And the sparks start flying immediately when the guilty-pleasure, must-see show premieres Wednesday on Bravo (8 p.m. Dish and DirecTV; 11 p.m. Comcast).Jen Shaw and Mary Cosby do not get along. Heather Gay thought she and Lisa Barlow were longtime friends, but Lisa has a different view of things. And Whitne
  
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• Letter: The D word

  08-11-2020 13:00
  
  As an LDS Democrat, I was disheartened but not surprised to see that the majority of Latter-day Saints again voted for Donald Trump.In pre-election conversations, some of my LDS neighbors acknowledged that Trump is a liar, adulterer, lawbreaker and bully, but followed up with, “But I just can’t bring myself to vote for a Democrat.”How did Latter-day Saints become so blindly allegiant to the Republican Party? Historians trace the trend to church leaders of the 1960s and ’7
  
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• President-elect Joe Biden vows unity in prime-time victory speech

  08-11-2020 04:39
  
  Washington •Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday and offered himself to the nation as a leader who “seeks not to divide, but to unify” a country gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.“I sought this office to restore the soul of America,” Biden said in a prime-time victory speech not far from his Delaware home, “and to make America respected aroun
  
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• Ground broken for a second Latter-day Saint temple in St. George

  08-11-2020 03:23
  
  St. George moved one step closer Saturday to having two temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland, a St. George native, presided over a socially distanced groundbreaking ceremony for the Red Cliffs Temple.The new temple is named for the redrock landscape that will surround it. It will be three stories and 90,000 square feet. The temple will sit on a 14-acre parcel northeast of 3000 East and 1580 South.
  (Image courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of L
  
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• Ground broken for new LDS temple in St. George

  08-11-2020 02:41
  
  St. George is one step closer to having two temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Elder Jeffrey Holland on Saturday presided over a groundbreaking ceremony for the Red Cliffs Utah Temple.The new temple is named for the red rock landscape that will surround it. It will be three stories and 90,000 square feet. The temple will sit on a 14-acre parcel of land northeast of 3000 East 1580 South.The city is already home to the St. George Utah Temple, the first completed temple in
  
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• Letter: Let’s strike a balance

  08-11-2020 02:25
  
  Nearly all of us, to a large extent, are both capitalists and socialists.Most of us believe a market should decide how resources are invested. And most of us believe in some level of social services. We’re only arguing about where the balance of capitalism and socialism should occur.History is full of examples where pure socialism fails. It tends to reduce an individual’s incentive to produce and reduces the economic output of that country. However, social services are required to ad
  
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• David Brooks: What the voters are trying to tell us

  08-11-2020 02:10
  
  Yup, I wanted a grand rebuke, too. I wanted Donald Trump demolished by 10 points. But elections are educational events. Voters are not always wise, but they are usually comprehensible. They know more about their own lives than we in our information bubbles do, and they almost always tell us something important.The first thing we heard from most Americans — since Joe Biden’s popular vote victory seems all but certain — is that Trump is unacceptable. We live in a divided, dug-in
  
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• Biden and Trump supporters rallied in Salt Lake City after the race was called

  08-11-2020 02:02
  
  (Francisco Kjolseth|The Salt Lake Tribune) Supporters of President-elect Joe Biden celebrate at Liberty Park on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City. (Francisco Kjolseth/)Like many cities, Salt Lake City saw spontaneous rallies in support of President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump after additional vote tallies in Pennsylvania made it clear that Biden had won the election.Dozens of Trump supporters and a smattering of Biden fans braved windy conditions to rally at the Capitol i
  
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• Rich Lowry: Trump isn’t going away

  08-11-2020 02:00
  
  Pending the outcome in a few key states, Donald Trump may be leaving the White House, but he’s not exiting the room.The fiercest Never Trump critics hoped for — and wishfully predicted — a cleansing landslide that would wipe out every trace of Trump and his enablers from the GOP.That’s not happening. Trump’s poll- and pundit-defying surge toward the cusp of a second term vindicates Trump’s approach enough to give him and his potential successors continued trac
  
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• George Pyle: Reyes is supposed to uphold the law, not undermine it

  08-11-2020 02:00
  
  Somebody needs to tell the president of the United States that he lost. That he should pack his bags and go home.Somebody needs to tell the attorney general of Utah that he won. That he should unpack his bags and stay home.Sean Reyes was reelected Utah’s attorney general Tuesday, the same day that the president lost his bid for another term. The difference was that Reyes, an incumbent Republican running in an overwhelmingly Republican state, could be declared the winner right away, while t
  
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• Timpview beats rival Mountain View in 5 thrilling sets for 5A volleyball title

  08-11-2020 01:46
  
  Midvale • The way Mountain View and Timpview’s volleyball teams played each other this season proved indicative of what transpired during the 5Astate championship game between both teams.The Thunderbirds and Bruins split their two regular season matchups, eachwinning on their home court. So when the two converged at Hillcrest HighSchool on Saturday, there was no more fitting way than to go thedistance.The Thunderbirds beat the Bruins in five sets (25-19, 25-27, 25-30, 23-25,15-9)
  
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• A refresher ahead of the NBA draft: What the Jazz are looking for this offseason

  08-11-2020 00:45
  
  FILE: Dennis Lindsey, Utah Jazz general manager, talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Lindsey, now the team’s executive vice president of basketball operations, laid out what kind of talent the Jazz are looking for during the offseason. “Anyone who is an active and athletic defender with defensive integrity, and doesn’t sacrifice offensive spacing, will be someone of interest to us,” he said. | K
  
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• Letter: Don’t let this election tear families apart

  08-11-2020 00:30
  
  2020: The year of deadly disease, record hurricanes, unnerving earthquakes, caustic politics, raging wildfires, killer floods. We thought we had seen the worst nature and man could inflict on us.We were wrong. A new tragedy is creeping into our nation, an entirely preventable one: Family members are disowning each other for marking the “wrong” names on their ballots. In my many years of voting, I have not known this to be so prevalent.Please, my sister and brother Americans, don&rsqu
  
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• Burgess Owens takes a narrow lead over Ben McAdams in Utah’s 4th District race

  08-11-2020 00:14
  
  Rep. Ben McAdams lost his tenuous lead over Republican contender Burgess Owens in the race for Utah’s 4th Congressional District on Saturday after new ballots were added from Salt Lake County.Owens, a former NFL player and frequent Fox News commentator, now has a lead of 688 votes over McAdams, a first-term Democrat and the former mayor of Salt Lake County. It could be weeks before a clear winner emerges in the close contest.The race has been close since election night and at one point shr
  
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• Burgess Owens takes the lead over Ben McAdams in Utah’s close 4th District race

  08-11-2020 00:00
  
  Rep. Ben McAdams lost his tenuous lead over Republican contender Burgess Owens in the race for Utah’s 4th Congressional District on Saturday after new ballots were added from Salt Lake County.Owens, a former NFL player and frequent Fox News commentator, now has a lead of 688 votes over McAdams, a first-term Democrat and the former mayor of Salt Lake County.The race has been close since election night and at one point shrunk to just 18 votes separating the two candidates. But Owens has trai
  
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