Once with the Real Salt Lake academy, Taylor Booth living his dream as a...
Growing up in Ogden, Taylor Booth always had designs on one day leaving the town 40 miles north of Salt Lake City to pursue his dream of becoming a professional soccer player overseas. On Jan. 31,...
View ArticleTexas bans clergy from executions after Supreme Court ruling
Dallas • Texas prisons will no longer allow clergy in the death chamber after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the scheduled execution of a man who argued his religious freedom would be violated if his...
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Leonard Pitts: ‘We are Americans first’
It felt, with apologies to Yogi Berra, like “deja vu all over again.”In July, after all, it will be 15 years since a skinny guy with an odd name sang a hymn to American union. “There is not a liberal...
View ArticleBrunei invokes laws allowing stoning for gay sex, adultery
Singapore • New Islamic criminal laws that took effect Wednesday in Brunei that punish gay sex and adultery by stoning offenders to death have triggered an outcry from countries, rights groups and...
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E.J. Dionne: A time for Constitutional boldness
Washington • As a country, we have become Constitutionally lazy. And timid.Note the capitalization of "Constitutionally."At various points in our history, we have been willing to re-examine flawed or...
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Commentary: With proposed inland port, Utah planners continue to ignore...
In recent weeks we have seen catastrophic flooding across the Midwest, the devastating Cyclone Idai in southeast Africa, emergencies and/or evacuations in impoverished Native American communities in...
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George F. Will: The madness of college hoops’ amateurism
Washington - Appropriately, during the crescendo of this college basketball season, in which the most significant event was a shoe malfunction, a lawyer whose best-known client was a pornographic...
View ArticleStallions make it official: The AAF is shutting down
The Salt Lake Stallions made it official on Wednesday afternoon. The Alliance of American Football franchise and the rest of the league is shutting down.“On behalf of the Salt Lake Stallions...
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Gov. Herbert uses line-item budget veto to erase $800k favor to homebuilder...
Using a line-item veto, Gov. Gary Herbert rejected Wednesday spending $800,000 of tax money for what was essentially a gift by legislators to Bryson Garbett, a prominent homebuilder and former...
View ArticleWith Ingles pointing the way, Jazz pull away late to hand Phoenix a 118-97...
Phoenix • It helps to have your own personal cheering section.That’s what Joe Ingles had in enemy territory on Wednesday night, with a group of four Jazz fans in the front row of Talking Stick Resort...
View ArticleSuns coach Igor Kokoskov says Jazz are ‘built to go to the end of May, maybe...
Suns head coach Igor Kokoskov obviously knows the Jazz well, after all, he was an assistant coach for the team from 2015 to 2018. With that comes a respect for his past coworkers, including Quin Snyder...
View ArticleA 14-year-old says he is Illinois boy who went missing in 2011
A 14-year-old boy who said he escaped from two kidnappers in Ohio told authorities he is from Illinois, where he went missing nearly eight years ago when his mother apparently took her own life.Police...
View ArticleSmith’s stops accepting Visa credit cards due to transaction fee dispute
You’ve probably seen signs warning shoppers of the upcoming change at your local Smith’s Food & Drug. As of today, the grocery store chain stopped accepting Visa credit cards due to a dispute over...
View ArticleThe Triple Team: Jazz players step up — including a career-best game for...
Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 118-97 win over the Phoenix Suns from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. With five players out, five players step upThe Jazz had a entire lineup of players...
View ArticlePolitical Cornflakes: Utah faces five competitors to host presidential debates
Happy Thursday!Utah will face five competitors to host the 2020 presidential debates, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Wednesday.It said the other applicants are: Belmont University in...
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Commentary: NATO’s next war is against global tyranny
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of NATO, the most successful alliance in history. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addressed a joint session of Congress, an event that allowed...
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Some go from polygamy to the LDS Church, but only after navigating obstacles...
May Jeffs had enough of prophets.Her grandfather and an uncle were presidents of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Their orders dictated what Jeffs could eat,...
View ArticleAsk Ann Cannon: Pet influencers make me feel inferior as a doggy parent
Dear Ann Cannon • I love following dogs on Instagram, but since I got a puppy a year ago, the pet-stagram that used to make me so happy now makes me feel bad about my failures as a dog mom. I know...
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As recreation keeps booming near Moab, feds look to limit dispersed camping...
Klondike Bluffs, where a heavenly mountain bike area north of Moab was developed barely a decade ago, appears to be going to hell — if it hasn’t arrived there already.These public lands, sandwiched...
View ArticleLetter: Lee doesn’t want to solve our problems
Thanks to our increasingly infamous senator, Mike Lee, I now understand better why we must defund Planned Parenthood.In his otherworldly speech against the Green New Deal, he explained that we need...
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