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Deseret News

Editorial: Sears' bankruptcy is a sign free markets, entrepreneurial skill still work

Romney continues to raise more, spend more than Wilson in U.S. Senate race

Salt Lake City may require pet stores to sell only shelter animals

Salt Lake officials say $87 million for roads a matter of pay now, or pay more later

Utah Rep. Rob Bishop is facing a challenge. Here are his opponents

Lawmakers delay decision on keeping USTAR's light shining

School boards across Utah ask voter approval of $600 million in school construction bonds

Salt Lake City Council approves mother-in-law apartment ordinance

Controversy over Utah Rep. Mia Love's fundraising is not over

ACLU: Operation Rio Grande in Salt Lake City was 'heavy-handed,' led to long-term 'collateral damage'

Should school fees be eliminated? Lawmakers weigh options after two critical audits

Salt Lake Tribune

Michelle Quist: We need liberals and conservatives for a whole society

Editorial: Keep Rivera as Salt Lake County Sheriff

Utah's ACT scores inch up again - but most high school graduates are still not college-ready in math, reading or science

They pointed fingers and demanded apologies. Here's what you might have missed in the Mia Love and Ben McAdams debate.

Utah's medical marijuana initiative is no longer a sure thing, poll finds

FEC does not back Mia Love's claim that it has determined she did not raise $1 million illegally

ACLU says Operation Rio Grande was 'designed as a hammer,' and arrest figures show it

A group of private business leaders want to resurrect Salt Lake City's abandoned Wingpointe Golf Course

'Protect these members of the family': Salt Lake City considers rules that would help prevent inhumane puppy mills

Other

As intercountry adoptions decline, Rep. John Curtis is working to prevent international adoption from shutting down (Daily Herald)

Casey Snider appointed to Legislature by governor (Logan Herald Journal)

  NATIONAL HEADLINES  

• ALERT! Sources say special counsel Robert Mueller is ready to deliver key findings in his probe soon after the November midterm elections, including whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election - https://bloom.bg/2NJUH4E
  
  
• President Trump said in a Tuesday interview that if Republicans lose control of the House in November, it won't be his fault - http://bit.ly/2NMvEOe
  
  
• Polling shows politically moderate suburban women are fed up with the Republican Party and could deliver control of the House to Democrats in November - http://bit.ly/2NK6Mqz
  
  
• "We're getting our asses kicked": Democrats are massively out-raising Republican congressional candidates in the home stretch of the 2018 election - https://politi.co/2NKo86D
  
  
• Republicans are worried the Trump White House is not prepared to deal with a divided Congress if Democrats take control of the House in November - http://bit.ly/2NJVYss
  
  
• Absolutely horrifying. Turkish officials say they have recordings of journalist Jamal Khashoggi being drugged, murdered and dismembered inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. They say they have shared information about his disappearance with Saudi and U.S. officials - https://on.wsj.com/2NMvqqm 
  
  
• Several of the suspects in the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi had ties to the Saudi Crown Prince - https://nyti.ms/2NLv7fN
  
  
• Sen. Mitch McConnell called the exploding federal deficit "very disturbing" but did not agree the Trump tax cuts were responsible - https://wapo.st/2NNuWAF
  
  
• House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are not willing to vote for any funding for President Trump's border wall, saying the wall is like a "manhood issue" for Trump - http://bit.ly/2NO9Ly6
  
  
• President Trump attacked adult film actress Stormy Daniels on Twitter on Wednesday, calling her "Horseface" - https://wapo.st/2NM0Z3U
  
  
• Recreational marijuana is legal in Canada as of Wednesday. That country is reportedly ready to offer pardons to everyone convicted of marijuana possession - http://bit.ly/2NITHO5
  
  
• President Trump threatened to cut off aid to Honduras unless that country stops a caravan of migrants headed toward the southern U.S. border - https://politi.co/2NLvgjl

  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY  

• 1781 - American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
  
  
• 1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
  
  
• 1931 - Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
  
  
• 1933 - Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
  
  
• 1973 - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) declared an oil embargo on countries supporting Israel in its war with Egypt, Syria and Jordan. The ensuing energy crisis drove up gasoline prices and created a shortage in the U.S.
  
  
• 1979 - Mother Theresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Trump eviscerates Glenn Simpson as dossier director stonewalls Congress (Washington Times)

Julian Castro talks about 'likely' run against Trump, where Clinton went wrong (CBS News)

Senator apologizes after naming sexual abuse victims, without permission, in political ad (USA Today)

CNN poll: Cruz leads O'Rourke with three weeks to go (CNN)

A Lawsuit by Asian-American Students Against Harvard Could End Affirmative Action as We Know It (TIME)

US-China tensions soar as 'new cold war' heats up (Guardian)

How Trump's Trade War Is Driving China Nuts (Politico)