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Leonid Bershidsky: Why Merkel is winning without a bold vision
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is often accused of refusing to lead. Many inside and outside her country would like her to be the leader of the free world, to suggest bold concepts and make decisive...
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Station Park: Re-energizing Retail through Placemaking
Is it a buzzword, or is it real? The short answer is, yes, placemaking is real; it is predicated on the idea that if you provide positive encounters, people will continue to come back for new...
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Labor Department doesn’t want a polygamous church to use child labor anymore
The U.S. Department of Labor is asking a judge to prohibit the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and one of its former bishops from using underage workers. In a...
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Utah native and former RSL player Phanuel Kavita coping with Hurricane Maria
Former Real Salt Lake defender Phanuel Kavita sat staring at the television as images of Puerto Rico flitted across the screen. He rattled off a string to texts to his teammates. “How is it?” he typed...
View ArticleFacebook to release Russia ads to Congress amid pressure
New York • Facebook will provide the contents of 3,000 ads bought by a Russian agency to congressional investigators, bowing to pressure that it be more forthcoming with information that could shed...
View ArticleKim Jong Un: 'Deranged' Trump will 'pay dearly' for threat
United Nations • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called President Donald Trump “deranged” and said in a statement carried by the state news agency that he will “pay dearly” for his threats.Kim said...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Trust the courts, not the lobbyists.
Some Utah lawmakers voted Wednesday to encourage Utah courts to stop a new screening process meant to identify a defendant’s “background information, failure-to-appear records and history of violent...
View ArticleBehind the Headlines: Interior wants to shrink Bears Ears, lawmakers consider...
Welcome to this week’s episode of “Behind the Headlines,” where we speak to Salt Lake Tribune reporters about the biggest news of the week. After a review of national monument sizes around the country,...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: The devolution of repeal-and-replace
Washington - Motivated by the cynical aims of fulfilling a bumper-sticker campaign promise and lavishing tax cuts on the wealthy, Republicans are threatening to pass a health care bill they know will...
View ArticleGirl hit by foul ball at Yankees game gets game's attention
New York • It might be the shot heard around the baseball world: the rocket-like foul ball that hit a young girl at a New York Yankees game.In the hours after the girl was struck in the face by the...
View ArticleCorner Canyon beats Brighton handily in girls' soccer
Draper • After finishing a tidy 5-0 win over Brighton on Thursday afternoon, the Corner Canyon Chargers rushed off the field unknowing that they just had clinched a share of their school’s first region...
View ArticleIn Salt Lake City speech, Michelle Obama preaches hope as she cringes at...
When asked how she views the world “right now,” former first lady Michelle Obama had less of an answer and more of a gut reaction.She cringed and quietly groaned.“I don’t have much of a poker voice,”...
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‘I’m afraid there are going to be passing bullets’: Frustrated Kearns...
Kearns • Christina Robles has called the police three times in the past 10 days to report gunshots.In the case of two of those calls, no one was injured. But on Tuesday, a drive-by shooting at her...
View ArticleSeoul media say North might test nuke in Pacific
Seol, South Korea • South Korean media report North Korea’s top diplomat says his country may test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean to fulfill leader Kim Jong Un’s vow to take the “highest-level”...
View ArticleAustin Bartholomew helps lead confident Weber football team
Pleasant View • The Weber football team, led by its senior quarterback, knew of only one way to respond to its season-opening loss to visiting American Fork more than a month ago.“We talked a little...
View ArticleCommentary: Single-payer health care is not the answer
Recently, The Salt Lake Tribune published commentary supporting the expansion of Medicare and a single-payer health care system. Unfortunately, single-payer’s track record abroad reveals that...
View ArticleCassidy-Graham bill sponsors include favors for one potential Republican holdout
Washington • An internal analysis by the Trump administration concludes that 31 states would lose federal money for health coverage under Senate Republicans’ latest effort to abolish much of the...
View ArticleUndefeated champ Andre Ward retires, desire no longer there
Oakland, Calif. • Andre Ward decided to end his career on top.Ward announced Thursday he is retiring from boxing because he no longer has the desire to fight, leaving the sport at age 33 with an...
View ArticleCommentary: Graham-Cassidy bill is not the answer for U.S. health care
The debate about U.S. health care reform and the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has once again “risen from the dead” in the form of the Graham-Cassidy bill in the Senate....
View ArticlePrep football: Top-ranked Corner Canyon blows out No. 2 Timpview
Draper • Timpview had the pedigree, but Corner Canyon had the No. 1 ranking when the second-ranked Thunderbirds came calling Thursday night.While the cold, rainy conditions left many scampering for...
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