News Roundup: Trump just can’t stop himself from repeating this lie
Trump just can’t stop himself from repeating this lie. Curtis says he ignores Trump but backs agenda. SLC fires cop in nurse incident.Happy Wednesday. President Donald Trump just can’t help himself....
View ArticleUtah forecast: A warm Wednesday on the Wasatch Front, then comes the 'Big Chill'
Autumn along the Wasatch Front is a fickle thing, where a warm, windy Wednesday will be supplanted by a week-ending “Big Chill.”That’s what the National Weather Service is calling northern Utah’s...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Birth control is basic medicine
Just when Republicans in Utah are starting to grasp the fact that contraception is a basic and integral part of modern medicine, the Republicans who run the federal government are trying to take an...
View ArticleKragthorpe: The state of the offenses? Utes, Cougars and Aggies have ‘Some...
Any judgment of the offensive coordinators in the state’s three FBS programs leads to this conclusion: Utah and Utah State should meet San Jose State more frequently and BYU needs to play the Spartans...
View ArticleFor Utah’s beautiful autumn leaves, wheelchair access and a living classroom,...
On a fine autumn afternoon this week, loads of multigenerational families were hiking this nature trail, which has been set up with every amenity despite being in a relatively remote part of the...
View ArticleGreg Sargent: As Trump implodes, he threatens to hurt millions — out of pure...
As the implosion of President Donald Trump continues amid the increasingly bitter intraparty war engulfing the GOP, let’s not lose sight of the very real impact this spectacular meltdown could have: It...
View ArticleUtah’s attorney general is fighting to keep legal opinion secret on 3rd...
The Utah attorney general’s office continues fighting to keep out of the public eye a written legal opinion it prepared for the Legislature — then withheld citing ethical concerns — on Gov. Gary...
View ArticleGehrke: There’s some good reasons for Ben McAdams to challenge Rep. Mia Love,...
Ever since Ben McAdams won his Salt Lake County mayoral race in 2012, the political gossip mill has been obsessed with where he would go next. He is, after all, the highest-profile Democrat in the...
View ArticlePaul Waldman: Is it time for the Democratic Party's old guard to step aside?
Senator Dianne Feinstein has announced that she’ll be running in 2018 for a fifth term, and since she’ll be 85 next year, that would mean if she wins she’d serve until the age of 91, putting her in a...
View ArticleLetter: Trump raises a smokescreen of patriotism
To quote Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Donald Trump is now trying to appeal to patriotism as a reason for his poor performance as president. The definition...
View ArticleHere’s your chance to be in Kevin Costner’s TV show: ‘Yellowstone’ is looking...
Do you want to work with Kevin Costner? Make that ... do you want to be in the same TV show as Kevin Costner?You could make that dream come true on Saturday. The upcoming series “Yellowstone,” which...
View ArticleLetter: Working to make politics more civil
The Tribune has run two stories recently featuring Republicans lamenting the loss of civility in public life: a largely positive piece about Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox’s talk at UVU, where he criticized...
View ArticleLetter: Miller case opened the floodgates to guns
Although I have not read Judge Ted Stewart’s book “Supreme Power: 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America,” a listing of those decisions indicates that he missed one that...
View ArticleThe king of action movies: 7 movies from Jackie Chan's prime years
A few years ago, as he was nearing his 60th birthday, Jackie Chan talked about slowing down — taking some serious roles and doing fewer stunts in his action movies.The man who was once considered the...
View ArticleLetter: Send a message by boycotting the NFL
I am an American, born here in America and still live here in America.I have been saddened by the recent outcome with the NFL and its sponsors beside the citizens of the free country who show so much...
View ArticleJennifer Rubin: Chief of Staff Kelly hasn't tamed him — Trump hasn't changed...
The notion that Chief of Staff John F. Kelly can bring order to the White House rests on the false premise that President Donald Trump is rational, disciplined and understands a president is measured...
View ArticleCanadian pipeline keeps paying off for Utah women’s basketball team
San Francisco • The true freshman has been teaching the senior.The classroom topic? French lessons.Utah’s 6-foot-5 freshman Maurane Corbin from Quebec, Canada, is adapting to being coached in a...
View ArticleInterior Secretary Zinke's claim that the U.S. has struggled to produce...
"Our country has inherited an energy-dependent country from previous generations, and in recent years, we've struggled to be self-sufficient in producing low-cost, abundant and reliable energy."—...
View Article'Pure devastation': At least 17 dead as firefighters struggle to contain...
Santa Rosa, Calif. — A series of historically deadly Northern California wildfires regained momentum Wednesday as winds whipped back up, pushing blazes through parched hills and vineyards and prompting...
View ArticleKennecott worker dies from exposure to sulfur dioxide at smelter
The Utah Occupational Safety and Health Division is investigating the death Tuesday night of a Rio Tinto Kennecott employee exposed to sulfur dioxide two days earlier at the company’s smelter near...
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