Trump, McConnell: No matter what people say, we're friends
Washington • Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell reaffirmed their alliance of necessity Monday in a raucous Rose Garden news conference that also underscored their sharp differences. The garrulous...
View ArticleLetter: Native Americans are forgotten. Again.
News has been full of reports of racial tension in the last couple of years. Police treat blacks more violently than they do other groups. Muslims and other refugees are no longer welcome in the U.S....
View ArticleNew film on Mark Twain highlights his religious doubts
Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens, didn’t have much of anything good to say about religion, at least the organized kind.“I have a religion — but you will call it blasphemy,” he wrote in a letter in 1865....
View ArticleCougars' issues run deep, and lack of depth is one of them
Provo • BYU football coach Kalani Sitake refuses to make excuses.Injuries have mounted throughout the Cougars’ six-game losing skid — the school’s longest since 1968 — but Sitake in almost every...
View ArticleLetter: White, rich, old men voted into office forever
The home of the good ole boys. White, rich, old men voted into office for life. Does that make you proud? They must keep them in office forever.Sen. Orrin Hatch is wanting another run at it. Why not?...
View ArticleLetter: Take Care Utah is still here
Who do you call with questions about health insurance?For years the answer has been Take Care Utah and its statewide team of navigators and brokers who provide free assistance to anyone who calls...
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Sex, alcohol and attorneys’ fees: Brewvies seeks half a million dollars from...
Fighting against Deadpool could cost the state of Utah more than half a million dollars.A motion filed Monday by the lawyers for Brewvies Cinema Pub — which recently won a judge’s ruling overturning a...
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Commentary: Trump abandons efforts to clean up Utah's air
With all the scandals, in-fighting, threats, taunts, firings, bragging, tweeting and name calling, President Trump’s White House is certainly “The Greatest Show on Earth.” But behind this circus tent...
View ArticleTrump says predecessors didn't honor fallen; response heated
Washington • For U.S. presidents, meeting the families of military personnel killed in war is about as wrenching as the presidency gets. President Donald Trump’s suggestion Monday that his predecessors...
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Huge new Museum of the Bible includes lots of tech, but not a lot of Jesus
Washington • The Museum of the Bible, a massive new institution opening next month here just south of the National Mall, is just as notable for what it includes — vivid walk-through re-creations of the...
View ArticleLetter: Zinke's comments are beneath contempt
Re: “Interior Secretary Zinke says 30 percent of his employees are ‘not loyal’ to him, Trump or the flag.”I am literally stunned that Zinke would publicly express such a statement in the news world.As...
View ArticleLetter: Why are the football players even on the field?
All of this nonsensical press coverage over whether NFL players should sit, kneel or stand for the national anthem could be easily solved by what they do at college football games: The teams don’t come...
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Commentary: The Founding Fathers designed impeachment for someone exactly...
Their writings and debates surrounding the creation of the Constitution make clear that the framers feared a certain kind of character coming to power and usurping the republican ideal of their new...
View ArticleWaterford cruises past Beaver to reach Class 2A girls' soccer state semifinals
Sandy • Waterford’s quest for a seventh state championship in girls’ soccer got off to a roaring start Monday afternoon as the Ravens beat up on Beaver 6-0 in the Class 2A state quarterfinals.Junior...
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A Utah woman says she escaped ‘severe abuse and violence’ in Guatemala. The...
West Valley City • In two weeks, a Utah mother will be in one of two places.Here in Utah, tending to her four young children and making tamales to support them.Or in Guatemala, homeless without...
View ArticleYankees hammer Astros 8-1 to cut their ALCS deficit to 2-1
New York • Back in the Bronx, the big guys delivered.Greeted by an array of "All Rise" signs in a ballpark that fits their style, Aaron Judge hit a three-run homer and made a pair of sparkling catches,...
View ArticleThird-period burst not enough as the Utah Grizzlies fall to the Norfolk...
West Valley City • Forty minutes of hockey had transpired between the Utah Grizzlies and the Norfolk Admirals and the home team found itself facing an impossible five-goal deficit against an...
View ArticleFinally! Titans beat Colts 36-22 after 11 losses to Indianapolis
Nashville, Tenn. • Marcus Mariota threw a 53-yard touchdown pass to Taywan Taylor with 5:29 left , and the Tennessee Titans beat the Indianapolis Colts 36-22 on Monday night to snap an 11-game skid...
View ArticleRacial slur shows up in University of Utah building
Vandals on the University of Utah campus spray-painted a racial slur over the weekend inside a building that’s under construction.The vandalism occurred at the Carolyn and Kem Gardner building, which...
View ArticleNews Roundup: White House brushes off House investigators over aides’ use of...
White House brushes off House investigators over aides’ use of personal email. Curtis raises three times Allen’s take in the last three months. Poll: 52% of Utahns approve of Trump.Happy Tuesday. The...
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