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• Lawmakers say COVID-19 relief bill won’t offer $1,200 checks

  06-12-2020 22:58
  
  Washington • With time running out, lawmakers on Sunday closed in on a proposed COVID-19 relief bill that would provide roughly $300 in extra federal weekly unemployment benefits but not another round of $1,200 in direct payments to most Americans, leaving that issue for President-elect Joe Biden to wrestle over with a new Congress next year.The $908 billion aid package to be released Monday would be attached to a larger year-end spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown this comi
  
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• Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests positive for COVID-19

  06-12-2020 22:47
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Sunday his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus.The 76-year-old former New York mayor has traveled extensively to battleground states in recent days and weeks in an effort to help Trump subvert his election loss. On numerous occasions he has met with local officials for hours at a time without wearing a mask. Trump, who confirmed Giuliani’s positive test in a Sunday afternoon tweet, wished him a speedy recover
  
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• Letter: Swan hunters just seek power

  06-12-2020 22:00
  
  People might think I don’t understand swan hunting because I live in the city. No, I grew up in rural Virginia. We usually had deer meat in our freezer and venison jerky for snacking. But I looked and didn’t find any recipes on the swan hunters’ Facebook page.I know people in the country kill animals for other reasons, as well. Down South they hunt wild boar, and not just because they’re destructive animals. A wild boar might kill the hunter. But swans don’t provide
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: Record-high hospitalizations have almost all ICU beds filled

  06-12-2020 21:59
  
  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 COVID-19 situation across the state of Utah is not getting better, and there remains plenty of room for it to still get worse.The Utah Department of Health reported 2,563 new cases on Sunday. With that, the seven-day period beginning
  
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• Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests positive for COVID

  06-12-2020 21:45
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump says his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus.The president confirmed in a Sunday afternoon tweet that the former New York mayor had tested positive. Giuliani has traveled extensively to battleground states in recent weeks in an effort to help Trump subvert his election loss.Trump wished Giuliani a speedy recovery.“Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!!!” Trump wrote in his tweet.Giuliani made an appearance ear
  
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• BYU in review: Cougars walked the walk, but it cost them

  06-12-2020 21:41
  
  Any team. Any place. Any time.BYU talked the talk and finally got the chance to walk the walk, agreeing to play Coastal Carolina on two-day’s notice. But it proved to be too big of a challenge on such short turnaround, and the Cougars walked out of Brooks Stadium with their tails tucked in after suffering a 22-17 loss.“I want to make sure that everybody understands Carolina is a really good team,” BYU coach Kalani Sitake said. “And they showed it tonight. And they outplay
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: Health officials report 2,563 more cases, but no new deaths

  06-12-2020 21:12
  
  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 COVID-19 pandemic isn’t getting any better, with Sunday’s latest virus figures qualifying as just another day.The Utah Department of Health on Sunday reported 2,563 new cases, bringing the statewide case total since the p
  
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• Timothy Egan: Barack and Michelle: Scenes From a Marriage

  06-12-2020 20:03
  
  He walks too slowly, a languorous Hawaiian ambler. She’s a get-to-the-point woman, in gait and gab. He’s a politician. She has no use for the type. He gets tangled up in fancy talk. She cuts through the fluff. He smoked. She loathes the smell of cigarettes.Can this marriage be saved? We know, of course, that it can. We now have more than 1,100 pages on the extraordinary lives of Michelle and Barack Obama, as told by themselves. The two books — her “Becoming,” publis
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 225 new COVID-19 cases, full ICU beds

  06-12-2020 19:39
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 225 new COVID-19 cases and two additional deaths with intensive care unit beds at health care facilities now at full capacity.Officials said the new numbers released Saturday night push the total of cases on the vast reservation since the pandemic began to 17,738 with 667 known deaths.They said 170,343 people have been tested for coronavirus and 9,797 have recovered.The reservation includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Ut
  
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• Letter: It’s time to curb carbon emissions

  06-12-2020 19:00
  
  In a historic step, the Business Roundtable recently called for a national climate strategy centered on a carbon price. In doing so, it undercut a powerful argument against climate action: that it will harm the economy. On the contrary, the roundtable’s appeal — coming from the backbone of American business — affirms that curbing carbon emissions will only strengthen the recovery and cement U.S. economic leadership.What the roundtable’s CEOs understand is that climate cha
  
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• Utah football gets well-deserved win, but not everything was perfect vs. Oregon State

  06-12-2020 18:50
  
  At 12:19 a.m. Sunday, @Utah_Football fired off a 37-second video from deep inside the bowels of Rice-Eccles Stadium.The Utes, moments removed from a 30-24 win over Oregon State, engaged in a rousing, raucous rendition of the Utah fight song, “Utah Man.” To put the whole thing over the top, the video featured 5-foot-8 Britain Covey on the shoulders of 6-foot-7 Bam Olaseni.The moment was well-deserved for Covey, who, in his first extended action of the season, had four catches for 54 y
  
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• Police offer reward for info about woman found dead near Great Saltair music venue

  06-12-2020 18:38
  
  The Unified Police Department is offering a reward to the person who gives information that leads to the suspect in the shooting death of a woman found near the Great Saltair music venue in August.A jogger found 42-year-old Akosita Kaufusi’s body Aug. 14, police said.Later that month, police said they had “zero leads” in the case and asked those who knew something to come forward.On Thursday, they announced a $1,500 reward for information that leads to charges in the homicide.A
  
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• Ross Douthat: Why do so many Americans believe the election was stolen?

  06-12-2020 18:36
  
  There have been few surprises this past month in how Donald Trump has dealt with the reality of his electoral defeat.Anyone familiar with his career could have predicted that he would claim to have been cheated out of victory. Anyone watching how he wielded power (or, more often, didn’t) as president could have predicted that his efforts to challenge the election results would be embarrassing, ridiculous and dismissed with prejudice in court. And anyone watching how the Republican Party de
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Pornhub makes money from the abuse of children

  06-12-2020 17:01
  
  This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.—————Pornhub prides itself on being the cheery, winking face of naughty, the website that buys a billboard in Times Square and provides snow plows to clear Boston streets. It donates to organizations fighting for racial equality and offers steamy content free to get people through COVID-19 shutdowns.That supposedly “wholesome Pornhub” attracts 3.5 billion visits a month, more than Netflix, Yahoo or Ama
  
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• Sample Utah food and history on a walking tour

  06-12-2020 16:29
  
  When California native Maurice “Moe” Egan moved to Salt Lake City for a job, he was naturally curious about his new home and wanted to explore its restaurant culture.Egan recalls asking himself, “I wonder if Salt Lake City has a food walking tour?”It did not.“So I did my research,” he said, studying everything from the state’s political and religious history to its booming tech industry. “I became sort of an amateur closet historian on everything U
  
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• Utah researchers work to understand how COVID-19 affects premature births, stillbirth rates

  06-12-2020 16:10
  
  Megan Briley was about six months pregnant when the fever, aches and cough set in days before Thanksgiving as COVID-19 cases were surging in Utah.Briley said she doesn’t know how it happened; she works alone at her Park City home and always wears a mask when she shops. But her coronavirus test was positive.”To be honest, I’m worried about the long-term effects and any effects to the baby,” Briley said. “But I decided not to research too much and make myself scared.&
  
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• Frank Bruni: When death came for the Dakotas

  06-12-2020 16:06
  
  Under normal circumstances, I would have flown to one or both of the Dakotas to write this column, but the whole point is that these aren’t normal circumstances. And I don’t have a death wish.Too much? Probably. But how else to convey the proper timbre of outrage, the right pitch of grief, over what happened there? Deep into the coronavirus pandemic, when there was no doubt about the damage that COVID-19 could do, the Dakotas scaled their morbid heights, propelled by denial and defia
  
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• Robert Kirby: Confessing our sins before God — and everyone else

  06-12-2020 16:05
  
  My ancestors have been part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since the early 1850s, joining in England and then migrating to Zion.They arrived in Utah just in time for the public acknowledgment of plural marriage and a slightly lesser bit of craziness known as “the Reformation.”Without getting into the history too extensively, the Reformation began in 1856 after Jedediah Grant, a member of the governing First Presidency and worried about an ongoing drought, preached
  
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• Whitney Rose of ‘Real Housewives of SLC’ is 34 — and she’s a grandmother

  06-12-2020 16:04
  
  Whitney Rose is not only the youngest of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” the 34-year-old is the only one of the six who’s a grandmother. Through marriage, that is.“I’m officially a stepgrandmother now!” Rose recently said with delight.You won’t see it on this season of the Bravo show, which finished filming back in March. One of her stepsons got married a few weeks ago — and his new wife is the mother of young twin boys.“They’r
  
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• Keith Carrick: No economic recovery without an arts recovery

  06-12-2020 16:03
  
  The recent decision by Salt Lake County to temporarily close its performing arts venues came as a tough blow to the arts industry.Though it was an expected and necessary step in an attempt to slow the pandemic, Christmas won’t be the same without live music, dance and theater and the sense of celebration, reflection and joy that they bring — things that our community so desperately need right now.The pandemic continues to be a grueling experience for so many of our businesses that de
  
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• Letter: Follow Gov. Herbert’s directives

  06-12-2020 16:00
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert listening to health experts and epidemiologists while trying to appease people who want to pretend this epidemic isn’t happening is unfortunate but necessary. I wish he would do more. In their op-ed, Ethan Blevins and Daniel Ortner write that more power be given to the “peoples representatives” to make those decisions.Please, if you weren’t aware, the legislature has been so gerrymandered that many people are not represented in this state, and the govern
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Bryan Cranston’s new series is bad; re-edited ‘Godfather 3’ is somewhat better

  06-12-2020 14:00
  
  Bryan Cranston is one of my favorite people. Not just because he’s such a talented actor, but because he’s a genuinely good guy.Hey, I was complaining in print that he wasn’t winning much-deserved best actor in a comedy Emmys when he starred as the dad in “Malcolm in the Middle.” I was thrilled when he won four best actor in a drama Emmys for “Breaking Bad.”Not only is he a great interview, he’s just plain entertaining. Cranston once showed up at m
  
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• Leonard Pitts: And so this is Christmas

  06-12-2020 14:00
  
  And so this is Christmas.So sang John Lennon in 1971. The Vietnam War took 2,414 American lives that year, so the song was a prayer of harmony and peace with a scrim of irony. Nor did the irony end there. Lennon was shot to death nine years later, 40 years ago Tuesday.And if the events of 1971 seemed sharply at odds with the hope of the holiday, the same can surely be said of 2020. On the surface, things seem much the same as they ever were, the same crush of manufactured joy and consumer avaric
  
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• George Pyle: Utah Republicans should see that winning an election is not cheating

  06-12-2020 13:00
  
  Whatever possessed my high school civics teacher to tell the whole class that I had earned a perfect score on the midterm exam, I’ll never know. Maybe it was an attempt to shame the kid sitting behind me.“That’s not fair,” the other student said, apparently in serious indignation. “He studied.”And if by “studied,” he meant that I more or less paid attention in class and opened the textbook, well, yes, I guess I studied. But it wasn’t any extr
  
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• Utah survives Oregon State comeback attempt, wins 30-24

  06-12-2020 08:24
  
  After the last month the University of Utah football team has had, beggars can’t be choosers.The Utes, 0-2 and attempting to give away a game to Oregon State Saturday night that they led by 20 points in the fourth quarter, won anyway, 30-24, thanks to the defense getting stops on consecutive possessions with the Beavers trying to drive for the win.Down, 30-24, the Oregon State defensive front stuffed Utes freshman running back Ty Jordan on three consecutive runs, including fourth-and-1, to
  
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• Small plane makes emergency landing on highway in Park City; no one injured

  06-12-2020 07:19
  
  A small red-and-white plane made an emergency landing on Interstate 80 in Park City on Saturday night.Agent Colton Freckleton with the State Bureau of Investigations said there were two men in the plane who were traveling from Idaho to Provo. He said they had recently purchased the plane and were flying it for fun. They lost control of the plane for an unknown reason and had to make an emergency landing.The plane landed in the middle lanes of the road but was moved to the shoulder after it came
  
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• BYU edges Utah State 67-64 in Aggies’ home opener

  06-12-2020 05:16
  
  Logan • The BYU Cougars beat the Utah State Aggies 67-64 on Saturday at the Spectrum in front of a limited but spirited crowd.Cougars guard Connor Harding broke a 61-61 tie with a corner 3-pointer with 57 seconds remaining. Aggies freshman guard Rollie Worster had the opportunity to the tie game at 65 with 12 seconds left, but he split the free throws.Worster missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer that could have sent the game to overtime.The game stood tied at 60 for about two minutes before Cou
  
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• Gordon Monson: BYU absorbs a painful truth against Coastal Carolina

  06-12-2020 04:31
  
  Bruce Springsteen sings a song featuring the lyric, “With every wish, there comes a curse.”Thattune became BYU’s sad-and-sorry requiem on Saturday at Coastal Carolina, where the Cougars had their hurried, jangled chance to prove to all of college football, most importantly to the postseason presidium that sits atop that world, how good they really are.Did. Not. Happen.Instead,Coastal Carolina, which has been playing FBS ball for a mere fistful ofyears, showed it was the better
  
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• BYU-Coastal Carolina matchup takes center stage on ESPN’s GameDay

  06-12-2020 04:10
  
  With a game like the one unbeaten BYU managed on Saturday to pull off at similarly undefeated Coastal Carolina, and at the last minute no less, it’s no surprise that the matchup captured the college football world’s imagination.How big of a hit was the Cougars-Chanticleer’s showdown? Big enough that it drew ESPN’s College GameDay, including regulars — Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Lee Corso and Rece Davis — plopping down in Conway, S.C. Saturday to put thei
  
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• Small plane lands on highway in Park City; no one injured

  06-12-2020 03:48
  
  A small plane landed on Interstate 80 in Park City on Saturday nightAgent Colton Freckleton with the State Bureau of Investigations said the plane had two people on board. The plane landed in the middle lanes of the road but moved to the shoulder after coming to a stop. Freckleton said no one was injured.Freckleton said he wasn’t sure why the plane landed on the highway.
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• BYU comes up a yard short against Coastal Carolina, suffers its first loss of the season, 22-17

  06-12-2020 03:04
  
  Finally, No. 8 BYU got a chance to prove itself.It had some challenges earlier in the season, but the chance to prove the College Football Playoff committee wrong and move up in the rankings all came down to Saturday’s game at Coastal Carolina, which was put on the schedule just two days prior.With three seconds left, BYU’s Zach Wilson completed a pass to Dax Milne to win the game, but the wide receiver was stopped a yard short of the goal line. And just like that, BYU’s hopes
  
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• Utah Royals to relocate to Kansas City

  06-12-2020 02:57
  
  Utah Royals FC is set for a move to Kansas City, and the players were informed of the move Saturday, The Salt Lake Tribune confirmed. The news was first reported by The Equalizer and The Athletic.The sale of the team is not yet finalized, but is expected to be soon, per reports. Chris and Angie Long, executives at Palmer Square Capital Management, are reportedly theprospective owners. Joining the Longs, per The Equalizer, is former professional soccer player Brittany Matthews.The Longs emerged a
  
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• Police arrest Utah middle school teacher who sneaked a student into his classroom in a bin

  06-12-2020 01:22
  
  Riverton police arrested a middle school teacher Friday on kidnapping charges because he sneaked a child he had been grooming into his classroom in a bin.The teacher was communicating with multiple young girls over texts and emails, according to a probable cause statement. He told police he has anxiety and panic attacks so he reached out to young girls to see if they could talk him through his anxiety. He told police his ego “thrives” on validation from the girls.He began grooming a
  
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• Man shot in the face at South Salt Lake gas station

  06-12-2020 00:55
  
  South Salt Lake Police say they are looking for someone who shot a man in the face at the Maverick gas station at 3260 South West Temple.The victim is being treated at a hospital, according to police.Police don’t have any information about the suspect or suspects, but there was a silver Dodge Durango with plate F141EJ next to the No. 2 gas pump during the shooting.If anyone saw the shooting or has information about the case they can call 801-840-4000. Police say the suspect or suspects are
  
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• Police arrest Utah middle school teacher who snuck a student into his classroom in a bin

  06-12-2020 00:44
  
  Riverton police on Friday arrested a middle school teacher on kidnapping charges because he snuck a child he had been grooming into his classroom in a bin.The teacher was communicating with multiple young girls over texts and emails, according to a probable cause statement. He told police he has anxiety and panic attacks so he reached out to young girls to see if they could talk him through his anxiety. He told police his ego “thrives” on validation from the girls.He began grooming a
  
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• The number of failing Salt Lake City middle and high school students has skyrocketed, as all attend classes online

  06-12-2020 00:31
  
  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.The number of middle and high school students in the Salt Lake City School District who have failed one class — or all first-quarter classes — has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic while all of its students are attending school online.Data released to The Salt Lake Tribune in response to a public records
  
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• Letter: The climate change Super Bowl

  06-12-2020 00:30
  
  Most people, if pulled off the street and questioned, would say they care passionately about the environment; well-to-do folks may think about fuel economy when buying a new car, shop local foods, express pride at their new Teslas, or perhaps limit how much meat they consume. But how often do we see inspirational environmental leadership in our friend groups or where we work? Especially as Utah’s tourism is heavily dependent on snow sports, why aren’t we talking about or acting on cl
  
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• Letter: Inland port won’t help rural communities

  06-12-2020 00:30
  
  I was fascinated by the Utah Inland Port Authority meeting on Dec 2, which featured many articulate speakers from the Wasatch Front and from rural counties. One amazing thing was how rural commissioners are so grateful for attention from the board. They don’t realize what a scam they are being sold.The satellite ports were never part of the plan until public opposition exploded in their ears. If Utah officials are so concerned about rural populations, why didn’t they fund rural broad
  
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• Dale Renlund becomes the second Latter-day Saint apostle to get COVID-19

  06-12-2020 00:22
  
  Dale G. Renlund, a former cardiologist, has become the second apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be diagnosed with the coronavirus.Renlund and his wife, Ruth L. Renlund, “have tested positive for COVID-19, despite carefully following recommended public health practices,” church spokesman Eric Hawkins announced Saturday in a news release. “Their condition is being carefully monitored.”Hawkins said Renlund, who turned 68 on Nov. 13, has “mi
  
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