President Trump on 9/11: ‘America cannot be intimidated’
Arlington, VA • Leading his first commemoration of the solemn 9/11 anniversary, President Donald Trump said Monday that “the living, breathing soul of America wept with grief” for each of the nearly...
View ArticleIrma loses hurricane status but keeps spreading misery
Tampa, Florida • Hurricane Irma weakened to a still-dangerous tropical storm Monday as it pushed inland, triggering record flooding in Florida’s northeastern corner, while rescuers in its soggy,...
View ArticleU.S. calls for Monday vote on new North Korea sanctions
United Nations • The United States called for a vote Monday on new U.N. sanctions against North Korea, though exactly what measures would be in the resolution remained a mystery.Security Council...
View ArticleAlbert R. Hunt: Don't expect Trump and Congress to do anything
As a presidential deal-maker, Donald Trump is, in Texas parlance, all hat and no cattle. It’s a big reason that, aside from disaster relief, not much is likely to get get done this month or this...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Is BYU's football season beyond repair? Maybe not — but time is...
Well into the early hours of Sunday at LaVell Edwards Stadium, seven crew members were stomping around the field, replacing divots and making other repairs to the grass.The work started soon after...
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Jennifer Rubin: What Republicans should have learned (other than not to trust...
Republicans learned the hard way this week that the tactic of using the debt ceiling to extract further spending cuts is a losing one. And now, thanks to President Donald Trump, they may lose it...
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Gehrke: Morning of 9/11 changed the world, setting us on a path of indefinite...
I was due on Capitol Hill by 10 a.m. for a hearing on security preparations for the 2002 Winter Olympics. So, as we’d done numerous times, we strapped our 6-month-old daughter, Georgia, into the car...
View ArticleCache Humane Society takes in dogs, helps Texas shelters
Logan • Several animal shelters in Utah including the Cache Humane Society have taken in pets from Texas to make sure animal shelters there have room for pets lost or left behind in Hurricane...
View ArticleHungary says Ukraine's new school law hurts minority rights
Budapest, Hungary • Ukraine has “stabbed Hungary in the back” with a new education law that “drastically” limits the rights of ethnic minorities to study in their mother tongue, Hungary’s foreign...
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Real Salt Lake relying heavily on homegrown talent as it rebuilds itself into...
A header from 16-year-old Justen Glad floats over the goalie’s outstretched hands in Houston, giving the RSL-Arizona academy team a late lead in the 2013 U.S. Developmental Academy championship game....
View ArticleBipartisan Policy Center: Five bipartisan steps to fix health care
At a meeting in California this spring, we sat down with a number of insurance company chief executives who are major participants in the Affordable Care Act exchanges. They asked us to carry back a...
View ArticleSettlement would let Rocky Mountain Power charge nonsolar customers to pay...
Utah’s Rocky Mountain Power customers could end up paying more directly for power generated by their neighbors’ solar panels under the terms of the company’s recent settlement with the solar...
View ArticleTexas pets prepped for adoption in Utah after hurricane
Dozens of homeless dogs and cats brought to Salt Lake City from Texas because of Hurricane Harvey will be spayed and neutered Sunday as animal advocates prepare them for local adoption.The Community...
View ArticleFrench hurricane rescues raise anger, racial questions
Paris • Some black and mixed-race residents of the hurricane-devastated French territory of St. Martin have expressed anger at a perception that white tourists were given priority during the evacuation...
View ArticleSorry, Grandma, I’m tweaking your spaghetti and meatballs
Spaghetti and meatballs was the classic dish I ate at Grandma’s house growing up: She had her all-day recipe that filled her creaky house with heady aromas that built anticipation as meatballs simmered...
View ArticleUtah students’ SAGE test scores dropped in all subjects last year
Fewer students across Utah met grade-level standards, according to the latest round of SAGE scores — the first dip in results since the state proficiency test’s inception four years ago. Also, more...
View ArticleAfter rating students’ decency with ‘outrageous’ drugs and sex quiz, Utah...
Are you “as pure as Ivory soap” or “hopelessly condemned”?A questionnaire given to students at Roy High School asks respondents about their sexual histories and drug and alcohol use — and then provides...
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BYU football: Tanner Mangum’s gimpy left ankle is struggling Cougars’ latest...
Provo • Only three of the 127 teams in major college football have worse offenses, in terms of scoring and total yards, than BYU through the first few weeks of the season. Things could get even more...
View ArticleU.N. rights chief: Rohingya seemingly face ‘ethnic cleansing’
Geneva • The U.N. human rights chief said Monday that the violence and injustice faced by the ethnic Rohingya minority in Myanmar, where U.N. rights investigators have been barred from entering, “seems...
View ArticleMitt Romney is considering a Senate run if Orrin Hatch retires, and a new...
Washington • Mitt Romney would handily beat Democrat Jenny Wilson if the two competed for the Senate seat from Utah next year, though Wilson would beat Sen. Orrin Hatch if he runs again, a new poll...
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