Scientists detect gravitational waves from a new kind of nova, sparking a new...
Some 130 million years ago, in a galaxy far away, the smoldering cores of two collapsed stars smashed into each other. The resulting explosion sent a burst of gamma rays streaming through space and...
View ArticleFlying out of Salt Lake City this week? Expect to be part of record crowds...
Salt Lake City International Airport expects a record number of passengers on Wednesday and Thursday — thanks to people escaping town during the school break for the annual Utah Education Association...
View ArticleLetter: Better to kneel with Kaepernick than stand with Trump
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech.”The president’s oath of office: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I...
View ArticleGynecology museum's 4,500 items tell an interesting and odd medical tale
Washington • “What are those?” I asked, pointing to an instrument that appeared to be a fork and a spoon joined with handles. "Those are salad tongs," deadpanned Mary Hyde, my guide through the...
View ArticleShort, nontechnical and free: Leprechaun Canyon is one of Utah’s accessible...
Utah’s slot canyons are iconic hiking experiences, but getting there can be overwhelming sometimes. They may require long, hot hikes through open desert or intimidating drives over questionable dirt...
View ArticleLetter: Time to rebuild America
Every household understands that when a financial catastrophe occurs it means that some things have to be postponed, regardless of merit or want. You make do and you cut back in ways that really have a...
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Catherine Rampell: Trump's tax proposal won't actually help the middle class....
President Trump campaigned on helping the little guy. His latest tax proposal, he says, is about helping the middle guy.“It’s a middle-class bill,” Trump promised an audience of truckers last...
View ArticleLetter: Address the causes of violence
So, a horrific event transpires on the Las Vegas Strip. People die and are injured. The response from our local representatives is sketchy and creepy. Yes, our harmed residents and any others should be...
View ArticleCharges unlikely in West Valley City auto-pedestrian fatality
Police are investigating a fatal auto-pedestrian accident in West Valley City, but it does not initially appear any charges will be filed.West Valley City police spokeswoman Roxeanne Vainuku confirmed...
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Dana Milbank: Trump’s Cabinet is the absolute best of all time. Ever.
Washington • It’s about time somebody gives Donald Trump the credit he deserves. Even if that person is Donald Trump.“We’re doing a lot of great things,” the president said at the start of a Cabinet...
View ArticleVideo of Utah cheerleaders chanting racial slur being investigated by district
An investigation is underway into a video circulated on social media Monday night showing a group of Weber High School students chanting racial slurs and vulgarities, a Weber School District spokesman...
View ArticleLetter: I can’t wait for the mining to start when Bears Ears and Grand...
The Oct. 1 Tribune carried an article on Gordon Creek Energy, a company drilling for gas west of Price. The company buried some electrical cables without permission and without following basic...
View ArticleFor Chaffetz and other Fox News hosts, Hillary Clinton’ ‘shadow presidency’...
Near the end of Monday's impromptu White House news conference, Fox News reporter John Roberts asked President Trump what he thought of a story that had little to do with his governing agenda: Hillary...
View ArticleLebanese Catholic cardinal, at center of Muslim-Christian tensions, to visit...
Cardinal Moran Mor Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, the sometimes-controversial patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, will visit Utah on Friday.The 77-year-old Lebanese cleric is to meet with the Salt...
View ArticleCarrie Fisher's gross but supremely satisfying warning to a Hollywood sexual...
In the wake of Hollywood's Harvey Weinstein scandal, countless women across the world have stepped forward to share their stories of sexual abuse and harassment.Heather Ross, also known as Heather...
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Jennifer Rubin: Sally Yates needs to be heard more often on Trump's unfitness
Former acting attorney general Sally Yates, who first alerted the White House to ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lies and who was fired for refusing to defend the first travel ban (which...
View ArticleMonson: In hushed tones, BYU looks for life anywhere it can find it
These are sad, gloomy days at BYU, dragging by under gray-blue October skies.Dark and morose times have descended, when people around the football program are wearing the darkest shades of blue, and...
View ArticleTrump mocked Pence, joked about him wanting to 'hang' gays in a New Yorker...
President Donald Trump and his administration are beset by controversies and scandals that refuse to go away. His list of critics is growing. Some of his allies are abandoning him. Others are calling...
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The Tribune's NBA picks for 2017-18
MVPIn Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals last May, the San Antonio Spurs led the Golden State Warriors by 20 points in the third quarter with Kawhi Leonard on the floor.Without him — he injured...
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Does new uptempo style fit Jazz? Early returns say yes
The last team to commit 31 turnovers in an NBA game was the Golden State Warriors in 2000. The 2017 Phoenix Suns ought to be glad that preseason stats don’t count or else they’d eclipse them.It says a...
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