West Jordan ends dispute over electronic meeting participation with unanimous...
West Jordan’s City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to change a 14-year-old rule governing council members’ electronic participation in its meetings.The new rule will allow council members to...
View ArticleYosemite's El Capitan scarred after 2 days of rock falls
Yosemite National Park, Calif. • Two thundering rock falls in as many days at Yosemite National Park’s landmark El Capitan left experienced climbers stunned as huge plumes of dust enveloped the valley...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Between BYU and USU, who needs a win more?
The last time BYU’s offense looked this bad, Bronco Mendenhall fired his defensive coordinator.BYU’s 2010 offensive struggles, with four straight games of fewer than 20 points, included a 31-16 loss at...
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Jennifer Rubin: Time to end the happy talk and grill the tax-plan salesmen
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., and other Republican proponents of the tax “plan” released on Wednesday will fan out on the Sunday talk shows. Rather than allow them to spout talking points,...
View ArticlePope Francis’ deputy urges dialogue after Francis accused of heresy
Vatican City • The Vatican secretary of state called Thursday for greater dialogue within the Catholic Church after a small group of traditionalists formally accused Pope Francis of spreading heresy...
View ArticleMattel gadget listens to babies, setting off privacy alarms
Toymaker Mattel has announced plans to sell a nursery gadget that will listen to infants and watch over them, record their sleep patterns, and even play a lullaby should they awaken.Put another way: It...
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The Spiral Jetty, and more: Utah’s most famous artwork — from A to Z
When Hikmet Sidney Loe told her adviser that she wanted to write her master’s thesis in art history on Spiral Jetty, the adviser was dubious.“He said, ‘You’re not going to write a dead work of art....
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Utahns who know something about autism aren’t too sure about ABC’s ‘The Good...
The new ABC series “The Good Doctor” centers on a young surgeon with autism — and the character is already controversial.“It’s like ‘Green Mile.’ He’s a magical creature that comes into everyone’s...
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Immigrants line up to renew work permits as program ends
Los Angeles • The line stretches down the block before the sun rises in Los Angeles for immigrants seeking help to renew their work permits under a 5-year-old program that has shielded them from...
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George Pyle: What we can learn from Hefner’s hedonistic fantasy world
Sept. 10, 1974.I’m sure of the date because it was my 18th birthday. Old enough to finally buy a copy of Playboy magazine at the Campus Activities Center bookstore without fear of being challenged or...
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Rich Lowry: The GOP identity crisis
The Republican Party can’t pass Obamacare repeal, but it can nominate Roy Moore.This is the state of the GOP in a nutshell. It is a party locked in mortal combat between an establishment that is...
View ArticleTransgender teacher removed from classroom after some parents object to...
A Florida school district this week transferred a fifth-grade teacher from working with children into a classroom with adults afterthe educator requested to be addressed with gender-neutral...
View ArticleTrump promotes 'giant, beautiful, massive' tax plan
Washington • President Donald Trump said Friday that the centerpiece of his plan to help American businesses and workers “thrive, compete and grow” is a “giant, beautiful, massive, the biggest ever in...
View ArticleD.A. warns failure to hire additional prosecutors could hamper Operation Rio...
The flood of arrests since the August launch of Operation Rio Grande — the massive crackdown on crime followed by attempts to connect addicts and homeless people with treatment and services — has left...
View ArticleYellow wristbands, segregation for Florida homeless in Irma
St. Augustine, Fla. • Shelby Hoogendyk says that when she, her husband and her 17-month-old son arrived at an emergency shelter as Hurricane Irma closed in, they were separated from others by yellow...
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Salt Lake City police chief says officers shot man during ‘violent, intense’...
A man who was fatally shot during a “very violent, intense” confrontation with Salt Lake City police officers on Thursday afternoon had reportedly been acting erratically at a massage school just...
View ArticleRussia's next election attack hard to predict, spy-catcher says
National security agencies are certain Russia will try to influence future elections, but they don’t know how to stop it, according to the head of U.S. counterintelligence.While Russia exploited...
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Kirby: I was prepared for the worst at the Ben Shapiro protest in Utah and...
Although masks were technically banned, I brought one to the protest against Ben Shapiro on the University of Utah campus Wednesday evening.Shapiro, editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire and former...
View ArticleTrump to travel to 5 countries in Asia in November
Washington • The White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump will take a five-nation trip to the Asia Pacific region in November as the U.S. seeks to curb North Korea’s growing nuclear...
View ArticleA kid walked into a GameStop wearing a Kaepernick jersey. Two NFL players...
Saundra Watts was getting her makeup done in the Dulles 28 Centre in Sterling, Virginia, on Tuesday, killing time while her dog was groomed at Petco, when her 10-year-old grandson, Jaden, came running...
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