Putin calls Christianity foundation of Russian state
Moscow • Vladimir Putin says that the adoption of Christianity more than 1,000 years in territory that later became Russia marked the starting point for forming Russia itself.Putin’s comments came...
View ArticleAccused prelate McCarrick resigns from College of Cardinals; Pope Francis...
Vatican City • Pope Francis has accepted U.S. prelate Theodore McCarrick’s offer to resign from the College of Cardinals in the wake of allegations of sexual abuse, including one involving an...
View ArticleLetter: Utah will be a lesser place without Rocky Mountain Raceways
I spent a recent Saturday night, much as I have for many years, at Rocky Mountain Raceways. The cars sped around the track, the noise filled my ears, the smell of the tires filled my nose, and my son...
View ArticleLetter: No Russians meddled in my vote — can Utahns who voted for Clinton say...
I read Robert Kirby's tongue-in-cheek column "Hey, Ambassador Huntsman, I'll take over your Russian gig."Putting all jokes aside, I thought Ambassador Jon Huntsman did a very dignified job, sitting on...
View ArticleLetter: Resigning over Mormon donation to LGBTQ group didn’t help the cause
LGBTQ group vice president Kimberly Anderson has reportedly quit over the LDS Church’s recent donation to help the at times socially beleaguered organization's desire to deal with the rising tide of...
View ArticleLetter: In Utah, everything can be sponsored
Coming soon to a commute near you … even more advertising! Gone are views of mountains, replaced with a dazzling array of constantly changing billboards along the major beverage corporation interstate...
View ArticleLetter: We’ve made a terrible mistake putting the port by the prison
Not too many years ago, we were told by our elected officials in the Utah Legislature that the state prison, occupying 1 square mile, was an obstacle to economic development and had to be relocated to...
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Rich Lowry: Trump rises on the power of low expectations
It’s a symptom of our time that a tape of the future president of the United States discussing machinations related to an alleged affair with a former Playboy Playmate isn’t truly a blockbuster.The...
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Ramesh Ponnuru: Trump seems barely in charge of his appointees
Eleven conservatives in the U.S. House have filed a motion to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Critics say it’s an outrage. Maybe so. But let’s not lose sight of how deeply weird the...
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Jonathan Capehart: That moral arc doesn’t bend toward justice all by itself
With President Donald Trump in the White House, everything seems under assault. Civil rights, the rule of law, our moral standing, the global liberal democratic order the United States spent decades,...
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Paul Waldman: Why as many Democrats as possible should run for president
To give you a break from the scandal over a hostile foreign power’s attack on our democracy, let’s turn to something more diverting: the 2020 presidential campaign. We keep hearing that more and more...
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George Chapman: Salt Lake City bond could hurt Medicaid expansion
Many of us have been fighting for health care expansion for years. The Legislature finally agreed to expand Medicaid for the homeless, including addiction treatment. But this leaves law-abiding...
View ArticleHolly Richardson: Here are some ways to mourn with those who mourn
In spite of the old saying, there is really one thing that is certain in life, and that is that no one gets out alive.In the past month, two of my friends — both in their 40s — have lost their spouses....
View ArticleEditor chosen to oversee Standard-Examiner and Daily Herald newspapers
Ogden • The Standard-Examiner newspaper in Ogden has named a new executive editor to oversee its newsroom in addition to her current post directing the Daily Herald in Provo.The Standard-Examiner...
View ArticleSalt Lake City has a new bike registration system that could help riders...
Salt Lake City police officers handled 1,406 reports for stolen and abandoned bikes last year — but they were only able to return 83 of those to their owners.But officials hope recent changes to the...
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Monson: BYU quarterbacks should listen to the sage advice of this former Ute
With college football camps about to open, and quarterback battles about to rage in some of them — at BYU, for instance — nobody’s more fully informed on this business than Troy Williams.He has seen...
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BYU’s declaration of football independence is looking a little frayed after...
Provo • Stay the course as a college football independent or go back to a conference?Seven years after BYU left the Mountain West, a conference it helped form, and going it alone in football, the...
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With a fresh start as a linebacker, Utah’s Chase Hansen is primed for a big...
Hollywood, Calif. • Utah receiver Britain Covey wishes he could have “Chase Hansen” as a superpower. Hansen just hopes to remain a healthy version of himself as a senior linebacker, applying the...
View ArticleClosed because of wildfire, I-70 expected to fully reopen Saturday
Cove Fort • The Utah Department of Transportation says a 23-mile stretch of Interstate 70 that was closed because of a wildfire in south-central Utah is expected to fully reopen Saturday evening.I-70′s...
View ArticleCalifornia’s deadly Carr Fire doubles in size again
Redding, Calif. • Fueled by an incendiary combination of scorching temperatures, dry air and unpredictable winds, the deadly Carr Fire has doubled in size to 80,906 acres - almost the size of the city...
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