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• Vatican: OK to get virus vaccines using abortion cell lines

  21-12-2020 23:58
  
  Vatican City • The Vatican on Monday declared that it is “morally acceptable” for Roman Catholics to receive COVID-19 vaccines based on research that used cells derived from aborted fetuses, guidance that came after some churchmen in the United States argued that such products were immoral.The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s watchdog office for doctrinal orthodoxy, said it had received several requests for “guidance” during recent mont
  
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• Letter: Bring America Together Again

  21-12-2020 23:32
  
  Rep.-elect Burgess Owens: Congratulations on your remarkably close race and election success to Utah’s 4th Congressional District. Here you can faithfully represent those who live in this district as well as the state of Utah.It was with dismay that I read Fox News interview remarks you made during congressional orientation. You said, “The other side is all about divisiveness. It divides with color, with gender, with wealth.” There were several more untrue and inflammatory locu
  
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• RSL legend Kyle Beckerman announces his retirement

  21-12-2020 23:19
  
  Kyle Beckerman’s career as a North American soccer player has been so impactful that it has even touched those who don’t follow the sport at all. That much is evidenced by what a Twitter user wrote when Beckerman announced his retirement.“I am not a soccer fan at all,” Joe Krueger wrote. “Don’t follow the sport one iota, but I know who Kyle Beckerman is. That should say a lot of him.”Beckerman, the longest tenured Major League Soccer player, hung up his
  
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• Doug Vilnius: Don’t blame public health, blame yourself

  21-12-2020 22:30
  
  How many public health officials have either resigned or been fired across the country for trying to protect you, your family and neighbors from dying?How many have been threatened and watched protesters, some armed, chanting outside their homes for following public health procedures based on established science?How many of you attend a job support group because of stress caused by your customers threatening violence?I have worked with these dedicated public health professionals in another life
  
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• Olympic athletes gain power in the United States after a series of scandals

  21-12-2020 22:22
  
  More than a decade ago, rocked by a series of scandals — including one surrounding the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City — the United States Olympic Committee took a machete to its operation. It hacked the board of directors from 124 members down to nine. It cut all vice presidential positions and dropped 23 committees.Now, with Salt Lake City back in discussions as the host-in-waiting for the nation’s next Winter Olympic Games, the board of what is now called the U.S. Oly
  
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• BYU football will try to end its Sunshine State curse in Tuesday’s bowl game

  21-12-2020 21:23
  
  Over the course of nearly 50 years, BYU has played in the state of Florida eight times. And lost eight times. Some were bowl game blowouts, others were heartbreakers. One ended in a brawl.On Tuesday, the Cougars will face the University of Central Florida in the Boca Raton Bowl. Will the Cougars break their Sunshine State curse?“Why not?” says BYU coach Kalani Sitake. After all, the Cougars had never won on Boise State’s blue turf before but emerged victorious earlier this seas
  
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• ACLU of Utah attorney reportedly shoots at a car with his ex-wife and children inside

  21-12-2020 21:10
  
  An attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah has been jailed, after he allegedly fired a gun at his ex-wife’s car while she and their children were inside.Aaron Kinikini, 45, is being held without bail in the Salt Lake County jail pending formal charges.The victim told police she went to Kinikini’s home about 9:30 p.m. on Friday to pick up three of their children. According to a probable cause statement, the victim said Kinikini stood behind her car to prevent her from
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,819 Monday

  21-12-2020 21:07
  
  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 1,819 new coronavirus cases reported Monday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to decline.The Utah Department of Health on Monday reported a seven-day average of 2,423 new positive test results per day — the lowest
  
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• RSL legend Kyle Beckerman anounces his retirement

  21-12-2020 20:43
  
  The longest tenured Major League Soccer player has hung up his boots.Kyle Beckerman announced his retirement via Twitter on Monday, bringing an end to a career that lasted 21 of the league’s 25 seasons in existence. Beckerman played 13 and a half seasons with RSL.“This game has given me so much,” Beckerman wrote in a letter to RSL fans. “Many teammates have become my brothers. I’ve learned life lessons spending my days in locker rooms and on training grounds. I know
  
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• Moderna vaccine doses start to arrive in Utah

  21-12-2020 20:31
  
  Vaccine doses from the pharmaceutical company Moderna began to arrive Monday morning in Utah, with 47,800 doses expected by the end of the week.That’s on top of the 23,400 doses of the Pfizer vaccine being used in the state’s first round of vaccinations, which started last week.About half the Moderna doses are going to Community Nursing Services (CNS), a nonprofit home health care agency based in West Valley City, to be distributed to nursing homes, said Tom Hudachko, spokesman for t
  
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• Gov.-elect Spencer Cox announces his picks for agriculture commissioner, top energy adviser

  21-12-2020 19:32
  
  Gov.-elect Spencer Cox announced another round of senior Cabinet and staff picks Monday, choosing the executive director of the Utah Clean Air Partnership as his top energy adviser and the Cache County executive as the next commissioner of the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.The Utah Senate will have to confirm many of the 19 new appointees picked by Cox, who’s working to fill out his administration ahead of his Jan. 4 inauguration.“After a thorough interview process, I&rsquo
  
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• Latter-day Saints announce the location of a new temple in Lindon

  21-12-2020 18:37
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced where it will build a new temple in Lindon.The structure will be located near 800 East and Center Street in the Utah County city, which is north of Orem and South of Pleasant Grove.The temple was announced by President Russell M. Nelson at the church’s General Conference in October. No date has been set for the start of construction in the city of about 11,000. An exterior rendering has not been released, but plans call for a th
  
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• Sal Petilos to retire as head of Utah’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control

  21-12-2020 18:15
  
  Sal Petilos, the executive director of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, announced Monday that he will retire from public service effective Jan. 4.Petilos has overseen the sometimes controversial state liquor agency — which for the first time in state history topped half a billion dollars in sales — for 8½ years.Before arriving at the DABC, he had worked for 16 years as an analyst dealing with state policy.“I look at the rearview mirror with pride at wha
  
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• Memories linger a decade after the huge Provo Tabernacle fire

  21-12-2020 18:14
  
  Provo • The shadows of 2020 are about the only thing that remain of a rather unusual and chaotic year. But time passes quickly and it will soon be but a memory.That is exactly what area residents were saying a decade ago when their year ended with a devastating fire the belched pillars of smoke and shooting flames, the Daily Herald reported.December 2010 was a month of celebration.Locally, the annual Santa Run, “lights on” celebrations and “A Christmas Carol” product
  
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• Dreaming of a white Christmas? Don’t hold your breath, Utah.

  21-12-2020 16:21
  
  The chances of a white Christmas in Utah this year are not great, according to the National Weather Service.There’s some snow in the forecast for the Salt Lake City area this week, but not much. And not on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.Monday will remain unseasonably warm, with a forecast high of 48. It will reach about 38 on Tuesday morning before a cold front moves in, dropping the temperature to 26 by 5 p.m. and bringing a 50% chance of snow, mainly after 11 a.m. Accumulations of 1-2 i
  
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• Utah women’s basketball falls to No. 6 Arizona at Huntsman Center

  21-12-2020 15:36
  
  TheUtah women’s basketball team fell 77-60 to the No. 6 ArizonaWildcats at the Huntsman Center on Sunday.The Wildcats took control with an 8-0 run in the opening quarter. They led by as many as 17 points in the third quarter and were never seriously threatened after that as the Utes made just four shots in the final period.“I thought we competed,” Utah coach Lynne Roberts said. “The first quarter kind of crushed us and put usin a hole, but then for the most part after tha
  
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• Robert Gehrke: We need to get past the COVID shaming for public health’s sake

  21-12-2020 14:15
  
  After the Thanksgiving holiday, you probably noticed a flurry of social media posts with people calling out their neighbors for having a dozen people over for dinner. Or maybe you’ve seen the complaints of people not wearing masks in stores or a delivery driver who had a mask below the nose.I’m guilty of it, at least privately basking in the moral superiority of doing the “right thing,” while judging the intelligence or callousness of people who aren’t. Chances are,
  
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• Trump promised ‘energy dominance.’ Here is what that meant for Utah.

  21-12-2020 14:00
  
  President Donald Trump’s signature public lands initiative eased, even erased some bureaucratic obstacles to developing fossil energy.And nationally, onshore oil and gas production hit historic levels, particularly in states with rich, accessible deposits on public lands, such as New Mexico and Wyoming.Trump’s agenda of “American energy dominance” likely won’t last, though, as the more conservation-minded President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January. This trans
  
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• Stephen Buranyi: Big Pharma is fooling us

  21-12-2020 14:00
  
  It’s about as near as science gets to a miracle: A coronavirus vaccine has arrived — and the main reason is that mRNA vaccines, a previously untested technology, appears to work better than almost anyone had hoped.As recently as this summer, many analysts were pushing their predictions for a vaccine into the fall of 2021, in line with the timeline of traditional treatments. If these new vaccines perform as well in the wild as they have in clinical trials, the world will remember it a
  
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• Letter: Politics in education

  21-12-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Brad Wilson,That was a clever move. It has me wondering, what is the purpose of your amendment to withhold bonuses from teachers in districts that haven’t held in-person classes? And that led me to wonder, what is the purpose of this bonus anyway?I thought the bonus was for hazard pay, but that can’t be it. If that were the case, we’d be sending money to front-line health care workers. Or, perhaps that would suggest that Utah should have closed schools all together. A plan
  
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• A surprise win brings this Republican with an eclectic resume to the Salt Lake County Council

  21-12-2020 14:00
  
  It didn’t look good for Laurie Stringham on election night.The at-large Salt Lake County Council candidate took it all in at the Republican watch party, masked and socially distanced at her own table. She was down by 6 percentage points to incumbent Democrat Shireen Ghorbani.“I had several media people smile at me, say, ‘sorry about your race,’ ” Stringham said. “I smiled and said ‘they haven’t counted all the ballots, we can still win this thing.&
  
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• N.B.A. Western Conference Preview: The Lakers Reloaded

  21-12-2020 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Their championship glow still strong, the Lakers are poised to make another run, even as the Warriors bounce back and the Suns ascend.
  
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• Sources: Rudy Gobert, Jazz Agree to Extension

  21-12-2020 06:23 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Utah Jazz All-Star Rudy Gobert has agreed to a five-year, $205 million contract extension with the franchise, with player option in year five, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. Utah Jazz All-Star Rudy Gobert has agreed to a five-year, $205 million contract extension with the franchise, with player option in year five, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. — […]
  
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• State colleges: Sixth-ranked Arizona knocks off Utah women

  21-12-2020 06:00
  
  Aari McDonald, the NCAA career scoring leader among active players, tallied 19 points to lead the No. 6 Arizona women’s basketball team to a 77-60 victory over Utah on Sunday at the Huntsman Center.McDonald also chipped in six rebounds and six assists in a strong all-around effort that kept the Wildcats (6-0, 5-0 Pac-12) undefeated.Cate Reese and Sam Thomas added 11 points apiece for the Wildcats. As a team, Arizona forced Utah to commit 22 turnovers and scored 29 points off those turnover
  
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• Congress seals agreement on $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill

  21-12-2020 03:11
  
  Congress seals agreement on $900 billion COVID relief billWashington • Top Capitol Hill negotiators sealed a deal Sunday on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package, finally delivering long-overdue help to businesses and individuals and providing money to deliver vaccines to a nation eager for them.The agreement, announced by congressional leaders, would establish a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefit and a $600 direct stimulus payment to most Americans, along
  
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• Letter: It’s time to retire the Electoral College

  21-12-2020 00:30
  
  The functional compromise between agricultural and industrial, and later rural and metropolitan, states that is the Electoral College was highlighted in 2000 and 2016, when the popular vote and Electoral College chose different winners. In both cases, the losing candidates, losing parties and losing electors grudgingly accepted loss and formally expressed hope that winners would grow into their new positions of responsibility.But now in 2020, the rural contingent is formally unwilling to accept
  
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• Congress seals agreement on COVID-19 relief, government funding

  21-12-2020 00:28
  
  Washington • Top Capitol Hill negotiators sealed a deal Sunday on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package, finally delivering long-overdue help to businesses and individuals and providing money to deliver vaccines to a nation eager for them.The agreement, announced by Senate leaders, would establish a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefits and $600 direct stimulus payments to most Americans, along with a new round of subsidies for hard-hit businesses and money
  
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• AP Source: Kyle Kuzma gets 3-year, $40M extension with Lakers

  21-12-2020 00:17
  
  Los Angeles • Forward Kyle Kuzma has agreed to a three-year, $40 million extension to remain with the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers, a person familiar with the deal said Sunday.The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Lakers didn’t disclose the terms of the deal in their announcement of an extension. ESPN first reported the terms of Kuzma’s rookie contract extension, which begins in 2021 and includes a player option for the 2023-24 season.
  
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