Trump demands 'much tougher' immigration law after NY attack
Washington • Roused by the first major ISIS-inspired attack on U.S. soil since he took office, President Donald Trump urged swift repeal of an immigration program that brought the suspect to America...
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Commentary: A historic church will remove plaques honoring George Washington...
The plaques on the walls of Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., commemorate famous Americans who at one time called the Episcopal parish their own: George Washington and Robert E. Lee.As a church...
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George F. Will: On tax reform, Republicans define victory down
Washington • Needing a victory to validate their majorities, congressional Republicans have chosen not to emulate Shakespeare’s Henry V before Agincourt. He advocated stiffening the sinews, summoning...
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E.J. Dionne: Trump, the GOP, and the autocrat's playbook
Washington • Democracies sometimes collapse suddenly. More typically, they waste away.One major cause of institutional decline involves politicians putting their own immediate interests ahead of their...
View ArticleAstros beat Dodgers 5-1 to win first World Series in franchise history
Los Angeles • As they woke from restless sleep on the first day of November, as they stared into their morning coffee, as they held their faces under their hotel-room showers, as they gazed out bus...
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Ricky Rubio’s 30-point performance leads Jazz past Blazers in OT
When the Utah Jazz traded for Ricky Rubio, most knew the Jazz were getting a playmaker, a passer and a defender.The Ricky Rubio that showed up in Wednesday night’s 112-103 overtime win over the...
View ArticleLast year’s Halloween rape scare better prepared University of Utah to...
Allegations of deficient handling of a reported rape last Halloween on the University of Utah campus likely informed the university’s emergency response to a fatal shooting near campus Monday...
View ArticleFrom raising taxes for schools to legalizing medical pot, Utah ballot...
Groups seeking to qualify five initiatives for next year’s ballot had a busy month — raising a combined $538,000 in October, according to new disclosure forms.They now have raised a grand total of...
View ArticleRSL legend Kyle Beckerman stuns soccer world, cuts off his dreadlocks
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...Kyle Beckerman pic.twitter.com/yTHXjwhnmM— Maddie Lee (@maddie_m_lee) November 1, 2017 Kyle Beckerman took off his hat and Joao Plata’s eyes widened.“Oh [expletive],”...
View Article2 men killed in Colorado Walmart shooting, police say
Thornton, Colo. • Two men were killed and a woman was injured in a shooting inside a suburban Denver Walmart on Wednesday night, forcing customers to either hide in the store or frantically run for the...
View ArticleUtah Republicans to drop lawsuit over SB54 law on picking candidates; right...
Utah Republican Party Chairman Rob Anderson said Wednesday he is ending the party’s expensive, divisive lawsuit challenging the state’s new election law, SB54.That brought howls from the party’s right...
View ArticleFormer Jazzman Gordon Hayward reveals emotions after broken ankle
It was the same play Gordon Hayward had run many times before with the Utah Jazz, and in practice with the Boston Celtics.But on an alley-oop gone terribly wrong, the broken leg he suffered in the...
View ArticleBYU holds off Westminster College in Marriott Center exhibition
Provo • Is BYU going to struggle this season, or is Westminster College that good?From afar, that was the big question from a glance at the final score Wednesday night — a 76-62 BYU win — after the...
View ArticleUtah rolls past Montana Tech in its first, and only, exhibition game of season
Despite an abundance of fresh faces sporting Utah uniforms this season, returning players carried the bulk of the load in just about every aspect of the team’s lone exhibition game on Wednesday...
View ArticlePedestrian dies after TRAX train hits him
A TRAX train struck and killed a man in Murray on Wednesday afternoon.The man was crossing tracks on the Murray Central platform about 3 p.m. when a train struck him, according to Utah Transit...
View ArticleStill shaken by their classmate’s death, University of Utah students hold...
As the sun set Wednesday evening, students at the University of Utah gathered around a small table that held a framed photo of ChenWei Guo, small paper notes and a vase of yellow flowers.Tealight...
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Kragthorpe: New acquisitions provide a needed boost for Jazz at home
Barely a minute into Wednesday’s fourth quarter, Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell checked back into the game for Rodney Hood, who pointed to his jersey as if to ask, “Me?”Yeah, you. This was not Hood’s...
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Donovan Mitchell savors first chance to match up with friend, rival Damian...
It was the first quarter when Donovan Mitchell’s friendship with Damian Lillard started showing signs of strain.That was when Mitchell start hitting shots as Lillard was guarding him, finishing the...
View ArticleAstros' Hinch: Backstop bust to Series-winning skipper
Los Angeles • About a dozen years ago, A.J. Hinch figured out his future in baseball wasn't behind the plate."When you don't hit a slider consistently, you're not going to play very long," he recalled...
View ArticleDodgers’ title drought reaches 30 years with Game 7 loss
Los Angeles • Even Clayton Kershaw couldn't save the Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series.The three-time NL Cy Young Award winner tossed four scoreless innings of relief when starter Yu Darvish fell...
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