Utah Headlines

Political news

• Tucker Carlson announces live tour, will appear in Salt Lake City with Glenn Beck (Deseret News)
• Take 2 Podcast: Martha Hughes Cannon statue to DC; Primary elections underway (KUTV)

Election news

• John Curtis gets the frontrunner treatment during Senate GOP primary debate (KSL)
• Utah’s 3rd Congressional District candidates answer questions on Trump, the budget and more (Daily Herald)

Utah news

• Tony Finau’s religion and family were in the spotlight during his latest on-course interview (Deseret News)
• ‘Right place, right time’: 2 Moab men save family of 3 from drowning (ABC4)
• Legendary pro skateboarder Tony Hawk coming to Utah for free, two-day skate event (ABC4)

Olympic news

• Here’s how much a 2034 Winter Games in Utah would cost (Deseret News)
• SLC sends $2.83 billion Winter Games budget - all privately funded - to Olympic Committee (KUTV)

Business/Tech

• Why fewer Americans are opting for electric vehicles despite price cuts (Deseret News)
• Apple WWDC 2024: ChatGPT comes to iPhone; 'Apple Intelligence' unveiled (Reuters)

Crime/Courts

• Judge signs execution warrant for Cedar City man convicted in 1999 of murdering his ex’s mother (KSL)

Culture

• Wendy’s unveils a new summertime Frosty flavor. Is it good? (Deseret News)

Education

• Skyridge female soccer player gets called up to Brazil National Team (Fox13)
• Santa Clara retirement community partners with Utah Tech for lifelong learning (St. George News)
• ‘Very unpredictable’: Colleges fear FAFSA fiasco will hurt enrollment (Washington Post)

Environment

• Planet care doesn’t require ‘climate despair’ (Deseret News)
• Cox calls on Utahns to 'stay vigilant' as prime fire conditions begin to develop (KSL)
• Utah delegation studies future geothermal potential in Iceland (KSL)
• Nuclear power is hard. Bill Gates wants to make it easier (New York Times)

Family

• Southern Utah mom finds new ways to 'bring a little more peace' to foster families (St. George News)
• How much do you need to know about how your spouse spends money? Maybe less than you think. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Health

• Ashley Hatch is on a mission to make sure nobody feels alone ‘in the good, the bad, the ugly’ (Deseret News)

National Headlines

General

• The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95 (AP)
• A majority of Black Americans believe US institutions are conspiring against them, a Pew poll finds (AP)
• Stranded surfer rescued after writing ‘HELP’ with rocks on beach (Washington Post)
• Why the recession still isn't here (Wall Street Journal)

Political news

• Two-party system ‘not working’ for many Americans: Colorado mayor (The Hill)
• Americans are split on Biden’s student loan work, even those with debt, new AP-NORC poll finds (AP)
• In Trump’s orbit, some muse about mandatory military service (Washington Post)
• Merrick Garland: Unfounded attacks on the Justice Department must end (Washington Post)
• US industry wants to see the 'Voldemort of administrative law' die (Reuters)
• In secret recordings, Alito endorses nation of ‘Godliness.’ Roberts talks of pluralism. (New York Times)

Election news

• How Trump and Biden voters differ on family issues: Pew survey (Deseret News)
• A group of House Democrats steps up to try to stop Project 2025 and a Trump White House (AP)
• Tim Scott, a potential Trump VP pick, launches a $14 million outreach effort to minority voters (AP)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Poll: Many Ukrainians see war as stalemate but most back fight vs. Russia (Washington Post)
• Ukraine drums up support to shield and rebuild shattered cities (Reuters)
• Inside Ukrainians desperate search for relatives in Russian jails (Wall Street Journal)
• Russia releases female prison inmates to join Ukraine war (New York Times)

Israel and Gaza

• UN Security Council adopts a cease-fire resolution aimed at ending Israel-Hamas war in Gaza (AP)
• Blinken says fate of cease-fire proposal 'is down to' Hamas leader (New York Times)

World news

• Study shows elephants might call each other by name (Reuters)
• Malawi’s vice president and 9 others have died in a plane crash, the president says (AP)
• Amnesty International says Nigerian army detains girls who escape from Boko Haram (Reuters)
• Nigeria confronts its worst economic crisis in a generation (New York Times)

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News Releases

Rep. Curtis targets China with strategic amendments to NDAA

This week, Representative John Curtis (R-UT) submitted 10 amendments ahead of the U.S. House of Representatives voting on the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The amendments range from ways to hold China accountable for its actions, to leveling the playing field for Utah businesses on the international stage, to ranking international organizations for funding priority as it relates to U.S. interests. Many are associated with legislation Curtis has previously introduced. (Read More)

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On This Day In History 

• 1776 - Congress appoints the Committee of Five to draft the Declaration of Independence.
• 1880 - Jeannette Rankin is born. An American politician, she was the 1st woman elected to US Congress (R-Montana), women's rights advocate and pacifist
• 1913 - Women in Illinois celebrate passage of a state woman suffrage bill allowing women to vote in presidential elections
• 1963 - Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolates himself at a Saigon intersection, creating one of the Vietnam War's most iconic images.
• 1963 - Facing federalized troops, Gov. George Wallace ends his blockade at the University of Alabama and allows Black students Vivian Malone and James Hood to enroll.
• 1964 - Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment
• 1979 - John Wayne dies
• 2004 - Napoleon Dynamite comes out. 
• 2009 - The World Health Organization declares H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, the first such incident in over forty years.
• 2021 - US lobsterman survives being swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts

Quote of the Day

Kid on the school bus: What are you going to do today, Napoleon?
Napoleon: Whatever I feel like I want to do. Gosh!

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