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• MLS to take over sale process of RSL on Friday

  07-01-2021 22:45
  
  A new phase of the sale of Utah Soccer Holdings is imminent.Major League Soccer on Friday will take over the sales process of the holding company that includes Real Salt Lake, the Real Monarchs, Rio Tinto Stadium, and the training complex in Herriman. The holding company used to house Utah Royals FC, but ownership of that club transferred to Kansas City last month and the team moved out of Utah.The league gave owner Dell Loy Hansen until Jan. 8 to find a buyer for RSL. Hansen announced late last
  
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• Best of Utah gym meet features four programs itching to get back on the floor after last season was shortened

  07-01-2021 21:59
  
  Saturday’s Best of Utah gymnastics meet at the Maverik Center was conceived toshowcase Utah’s college teams in a podium-like setting to help thesquads prepare for the postseason.But nothing could have prepared the gymnastics teams for this kind ofyear, one in which preseason training not only had start delays, butinterruptions too due to the pandemic.“It has been crazy,” said SUU coach Scott Bauman, who was forced away from the gym himself for a time until he found out a
  
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• As Utah’s jobless numbers rise, most unemployed workers can expect to see that extra $300 stipend soon

  07-01-2021 21:59
  
  Utah’s unemployment claims shot up last week, even as national jobless claims inched down.State officials said Thursday the jump to 5,588 new jobless applications for the week ending Jan. 2 was mostly seasonal and not attributed to the coronavirus pandemic, while also reflecting large numbers of displaced workers reapplying for benefits newly approved by Congress.The Department of Labor, meanwhile, reported Thursday that 787,000 Americans had filed new claims for benefits that same week, d
  
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• Another 29 Utahns die of COVID-19, a total that includes delayed reports

  07-01-2021 21:35
  
  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 Utah Department of Health reported 29 COVID-19 related deaths on Thursday — with a caveat. Twelve of those are people who died in the past day, and 17 died before Dec. 20.According to a new release from UDOH, “there can b
  
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• Red All Over: How Utah’s athletic department has operated in the wake of Ty Jordan’s death should not go unnoticed

  07-01-2021 21:30
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.It should not go unnoticed that in the wake of Ty Jordan’s death, the University of Utah athletic department has handled things exceptionally.I say that because after the murder of Lauren McCluskey, and the ensuing debacle involving the university side of campus, as well as the University of Utah police department, there were surely some hard lessons learned by everyone.The McCluskey situation aside, Utes AD Mark H
  
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• Top Democrats press for Trump’s immediate removal from office

  07-01-2021 21:18
  
  Washington • The top Democrats in Congress called on Thursday for President Donald Trump’s immediate removal from office for his role in urging on the violent mob that overtook the Capitol a day before, disrupting the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, which allows him and the Cabinet to wrest the power of the pr
  
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• ‘We can fix this’: Utah Jazz express optimism even as more lack of focus costs them a 112-100 loss to Knicks

  07-01-2021 20:23
  
  Remember that time all the way back on Tuesday night when the Utah Jazz bemoaned their lack of consistency of effort?Wednesday night was not much of an indication that they’re capable of doing much about it yet.After leading by as many as 18 points in the second quarter, the Jazz were trailing by the end of the third quarter. Their effort dipped, their execution waned, and they got the result they deserved: A 112-100 defeat to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.“We came out
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: The Capitol gang, ‘First Vision’ poems, youth theme songs

  07-01-2021 20:21
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Latter-day Saints in Congress
  (Erin Scott | Pool via AP) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi administers the oath to members of the 117th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. (ERIN SCOTT/)Yes, there
  
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• Kay J. Christofferson and Trent England: The Electoral College balances state, federal power

  07-01-2021 19:52
  
  When the 13 original colonies considered a new form of government, their objective was to preserve freedom, promote justice and avoid tyranny. They did not want anything like the oppressive British colonial government that they had just risked their lives, fortunes and sacred honor fighting against in our war for independence.The American Founders knew that too much power in the national government would consume the states, stifling the freedom and diversity made possible by local control. This
  
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• The day after: Utah’s members of Congress talk about Capitol violence, blame and solutions

  07-01-2021 19:27
  
  Utah’s members of Congress were doing some thoughtful Monday morning quarterbacking — even though it was Thursday — after a long day and night of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol plus political brawling before lawmakers finally accepted the results of the presidential election.Some of their takeaways: President Donald Trump is mostly to blame for the violence; his sincere followers in Congress may or may not share blame; it’s time for Republicans to recognize and work wi
  
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• Chuck Schumer joins growing calls for Trump’s immediate removal

  07-01-2021 19:07
  
  Washington • Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, called Thursday for President Donald Trump’s immediate removal from office for his role in urging on the violent mob that overtook the Capitol a day before, disrupting the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory.“What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United States, incited by the president,” Schumer said. “This president should not hol
  
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• How to get tickets for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which only will be online in Utah

  07-01-2021 19:02
  
  Even though the show will go on only over the internet, the organizers of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival are trying to make their home town of Park City feel a bit like normal.“We put up our banners, and we put up the marquee at the Egyptian,” said Betsy Wallace, Utah managing director and chief financial officer for the Sundance Institute. “We really wanted to make sure people knew that we were here at heart.”Festival fans can start buying their tickets for this year&rs
  
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• Utah’s Cove Reservoir was proposed under false pretenses to win federal subsidy, critics allege

  07-01-2021 17:19
  
  The stated purpose of a $30 million reservoir proposed by the Kane County Water Conservancy District is to provide water for alfalfa growers, mostly in neighboring Washington County downstream on the Virgin River. Because it would support Utah agriculture, the Cove Reservoir would enjoy a generous federal subsidy with U.S. taxpayers shouldering 75% of the costs.But land that project proponents identified for receiving the water appears to be slated for development on St. George’s periphery
  
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• We face three major coronavirus dilemmas. How would you handle them?

  07-01-2021 16:57
  
  The current state of coronavirus affairs is a little like the famous Trolley problem.If you’re unaware, here’s the quick version.There is a runaway trolley and up ahead are five people tied on the track. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, there is one person tied on that side track.You have two options: Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill five people, or pul
  
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• OK, Utah chocolate lovers, hot cocoa bombs are exploding in a mug near you

  07-01-2021 16:57
  
  A warm cup of cocoa has always been a beloved winter treat, but these days it’s really “the bomb.”A hot chocolate bomb, to be exact.When heated milk is poured over one of these hollow chocolate spheres — filled with marshmallows and various candies — it dissolves into a dreamy, steamy, creamy cup of cocoa.“It takes 30 seconds to a minute before it explodes,” said South Jordan baker Carissa Starks. “But that is the best part — the anticipation
  
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• Hundreds of pro-Trump activists protested at the Utah Capitol as the president fought to stay in office

  07-01-2021 16:35
  
  About 400 pro-Trump demonstrators turned up on Utah’s Capitol Hill on Wednesday to show their continued loyalty to the White House occupant who so far has refused to accept his reelection defeat.The protest in Salt Lake City was one of more than a dozen at state Capitols around the nation, according to news reports. But violence at the state-centered rallies was only sporadic — a sharp contrast to the mob scene in Washington, D.C., where backers of President Donald Trump stormed the
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Historian Richard Bushman explores faith, doubt, the gold plates, prophetic fallibility and feminism

  07-01-2021 16:23
  
  In a wide-ranging interview published in Sunday’s Salt Lake Tribune, revered Mormon historian Richard Bushman, author of the acclaimed Joseph Smith biography “Rough Stone Rolling,” talked at length about his childhood in Oregon, his mission in New England and his education at Harvard, where he wrestled with his faith in God.He also discussed the mystery of the gold plates, from which the Book of Mormon sprang, his understanding of truth, and his perspectives on The Church of Je
  
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• Neemias Queta scores 18 to lead Utah State over New Mexico 77-45

  07-01-2021 16:12
  
  Lubbock, Texas • Neemias Queta had 18 points and three blocks as Utah State extended its winning streak to seven games, romping past New Mexico 77-45 on Wednesday night.Queta made 9 of 10 shots.Quetawas joined in double figures by redshirt junior guard Marco Anthonywith 15 points and senior forward Alphonso Anderson with a season-high 14 points. As a team, Utah State narrowlymissed shooting 50 percent or better for the third consecutive game,finishing the night 49.1 percent (28-of-57) from
  
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• Bret Stephens: Impeach and convict. Right now.

  07-01-2021 15:56
  
  It wasn’t hard to see, when it began, that it would end exactly the way it has. Donald Trump is America’s willful arsonist, the man who lit the match under the fabric of our constitutional republic.The duty of the House of Representatives and the Senate, once they certify Joe Biden’s election, is to reconvene as quickly as possible, Wednesday night if possible, to impeach the president and then remove him from office and bar him from ever holding office again.To allow Trump to
  
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• Infant found; Amber Alert canceled

  07-01-2021 15:30
  The Davis County Sheriff’s Office canceled an Amber Alert for a 2½-week-old boy who has been taken from Salt Lake City on Wednesday.Police tweeted Wednesday night that “Baby Boy Torres ... was found in Salt Lake County” on Wednesday evening. “Thank you to everyone for sharing the information and providing tips/leads.”AMBER ALERT CANCELED for Baby Boy Torres—he was found in Salt Lake County this evening.
  Thank you to everyone for sharing the information
  
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• Biden win confirmed after pro-Trump mob storms U.S. Capitol

  07-01-2021 15:08
  
  Washington • Congress confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner early Thursday after a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep Trump in the White House.Lawmakers were resolved to complete the Electoral College tally in a display to the country, and the world, of the nation’s enduring commitment to uphold the will of
  
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• Piety and pay: Why religious states like Utah have larger gender wage gaps

  07-01-2021 15:04
  
  The gender wage gap is closing at a slower rate in Utah and other states considered to be more religious than in more secular states.But there are ways to fix that, researchers say, and the remedies start by being aware that piety can affect pay.Each of the six major world religions — Buddhism, Christianity, Folk, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism — promotes differentiated gender roles for men and women, which shape social norms, including in the workplace, according to “The Hidden C
  
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• Letter: We must retrain our society

  07-01-2021 15:00
  
  All I have heard all of my life is how we need to retrain the police. I think they have been retrained enough. I think it’s time we retrain our society. We as a society don’t take responsibility for our shortcomings. We spoil our children to the point they don’t even respect us.I was a police officer some years ago and arrested a young man. While at the jail, he told me he was going to lie about what was going on. He with all the confidence in the world said they would believe
  
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• Letter: The strutting partridge

  07-01-2021 15:00
  
  After every court including the Supreme Court twice rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the election results, I was reminded of line in a poem written by Hafez, the beloved Persian poet: “Did you see the cackling, strutting partridge that was ignorant of the talon of the falcon of destiny?”Behrouz Motiee, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• ‘We can fix this’: Utah Jazz express optimism even as more lack of focus costs them a 112-100 loss o Knicks

  07-01-2021 08:31
  
  Remember that time all the way back on Tuesday night when the Utah Jazz bemoaned their lack of consistency of effort?Wednesday night was not much of an indication that they’re capable of doing much about it yet.After leading by as many as 18 points in the second quarter, the Jazz were trailing by the end of the third quarter. Their effort dipped, their execution waned, and they got the result they deserved: A 112-100 defeat to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.“We came out
  
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• The Triple Team: Jazz defense isn’t good enough in collapse to Knicks — is this just who they are?

  07-01-2021 05:37
  
  Three thoughts on the Jazz’s 112-100 loss to the New York Knicks from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz get toasted inside early in second halfThe Jazz allowed 43 shots for the Knicks within five feet of the basket tonight, per NBA.com. New York made 25 of them.Both figures are way too many for a team that has Rudy Gobert. The whole point of Gobert is for teams to be prevented from getting the layups that they normally get down low, or if they are so unfoolish as to tr
  
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• Episode 9: Mary ruins a party she isn’t even invited to on ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’

  07-01-2021 05:08
  
  In the ninth episode of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” Mary Cosby only interacts with one of the other Housewives. But — with a huge assist from an imbibing Whitney Rose — Mary still manages to ruin Sharrieff Shah’s surprise birthday party.Mary’s not invitedJen Shah tells Whitney about the surprise hip-hop/golf themed birthday party she’s planning for her husband, Sharrieff, at Topgolf in Midvale. She’s not inviting Mary, which is hardly
  
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• Utah Jazz fall apart late in 112-100 loss to Knicks

  07-01-2021 04:23
  
  Remember that time all the way back on Tuesday night when the Utah Jazz bemoaned their lack of consistency?Wednesday night was not much of an indication that they’re willing to do much about it yet.After leading by as many as 18 points in the second quarter, the Jazz trailed by the end of the third quarter, as their effort dipped, their execution waned.And they got the result they deserved as a result: A 112-100 defeat.Here are some early thoughts and observations from the game:Lather, rin
  
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• Would-be developer of Bridal Veil Falls sues Utah County over conservation plan

  07-01-2021 04:20
  
  The effort to permanently preserve Provo Canyon’s Bridal Veil Falls as a public space appears to have hit a snag.Richard Losee, the owner of the high-end Cirque Lodge treatment centers, filed a lawsuit in Utah’s 4th District Court on Wednesday. His complaint claims a conservation easement the Utah County Commission placed on the falls last month violated county code.Losee has ambitions to develop a private addiction treatment lodge at the top of the falls, along with an aerial tramwa
  
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• Hundreds of pro-Trump activists protested at the Utah Capitol as the president fights to stay in office

  07-01-2021 03:17
  
  About 400 pro-Trump demonstrators turned up on Utah’s Capitol Hill on Wednesday to show their continued loyalty to the White House occupant who so far as refused to accept his reelection defeat.The protest in Salt Lake City was one of more than a dozen at state Capitols around the nation, according to news reports. But violence at the state-centered rallies was only sporadic — a sharp contrast to the mob scene in Washington, D.C., where backers of President Donald Trump stormed the U
  
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• As chaos hits Capitol, two forms of faith on display

  07-01-2021 02:08
  
  On Wednesday morning, an interfaith group of religious leaders gathered outside of Luther Place Memorial Church in the nation’s capital. For two hours, the clergy prayed for an end to violence, for an eradication of white nationalism and for a groundswell of racial justice.Their small prayer circle surrounded a Black Lives Matter sign, created to replace similar banners repeatedly stolen and destroyed by the far-right Proud Boys in December.Near the end of the service, a gaggle of men ador
  
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• Tickets on sale Thursday for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which only will be online in Utah

  07-01-2021 01:51
  
  Even though the show will go on only over the internet, the organizers of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival are trying to make their home town of Park City feel a bit like normal.“We put up our banners, and we put up the marquee at the Egyptian,” said Betsy Wallace, Utah managing director and chief financial officer for the Sundance Institute. “We really wanted to make sure people knew that we were here at heart.”Festival fans can start buying their tickets for this year&rs
  
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• Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol in bid to overturn election

  07-01-2021 01:35
  
  Washington • A violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding, in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep Democrat Joe Biden from replacing Trump in the White House.The nation’s elected representatives scrambled to crouch under desks and donned gas marks, while police futilely tried to barricade the building, one of the most jarring scenes ev
  
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• In reaction to Capitol assault, LDS Church points to Oaks’ speech denouncing post-election violence

  07-01-2021 01:31
  
  Top officials in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints declined to comment on Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, a siege that included a banner copying the “Title of Liberty” used by the Book of Mormon’s Captain Moroni.Captain Moroni saving the constitution that’s hanging by a thread! #lightoftheworld #coup #cnn pic.twitter.com/eGINJCJ0Ud— The Great Gig in the Sky (@scotthoward) January 6, 2021But the Uta
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Trump incites terrorism with his lies

  07-01-2021 01:30
  
  “If the Democratic Party wants to stand with anarchists, agitators, rioters, looters and flag burners, that is up to them. But I as your president will not be part of it. The Republican Party will remain the voice of the patriotic heroes who keep America safe.”— Donald Trump, Aug. 28, 2020Wednesday was a horrifying and shameful moment in American history. I’ve covered attempted coups in many countries around the world, and now I’m finally covering one in the Un
  
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• Vaccine will be available for some Utah teachers next week. But it’s unclear who will get the first doses.

  07-01-2021 01:22
  
  After shipment delays seemed to derail a plan to begin vaccinating Salt Lake City teachers next week, a small amount of COVID-19 vaccine will now be available as originally scheduled — though there’s no direction yet on which Utah school staff members will be prioritized to get the limited number of doses.All K-12 personnel were moved up on Utah’s immunization priority list and now are scheduled after front-line hospital employees, long-term care residents and staff, and certai
  
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• Tribune photographer pepper-sprayed during Utah Capitol protest

  07-01-2021 00:53
  
  Journalism is enshrined in the First Amendment of our country’s Constitution.And today on the lawn of Utah’s Capitol it was tossed aside.While covering a largely peaceful gathering of those who oppose the results of our presidential election, a Salt Lake Tribune photojournalist was pepper-sprayed and verbally attacked.The protester who sprayed photographer Rick Egan in the eyes had yelled, “Look at you in your f---ing mask, you p---y.” Another protester started shoving hi
  
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• As another 18 Utahns die from COVID-19, some health workers are getting their second vaccine dose

  07-01-2021 00:45
  
  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 the daily number of COVID-19 related deaths in Utah spiked on Wednesday to 18 — equaling the number who died in the previous three days combined — Intermountain Healthcare has begungiving second doses of the vaccine to its
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Republicans must take a stand for democracy and not for Trump

  07-01-2021 00:44
  
  Not since the British occupied Washington has our nation’s capital been occupied by a group so intent on the destruction of our democracy, our Constitution and our country as we saw Wednesday.It was the saddest chapter I’ve witnessed in my lifetime, and among the darkest moments in our nation’s history, with a horde of insurrectionists trying to overthrow a legitimate, fair democratic election.Punches were thrown, windows smashed, offices trashed. One woman was shot and killed
  
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