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Traveling anywhere fun this year? This week has seen some big travel announcements. Here's three stories with the latest in travel:

1. Delta will begin serving Shake Shack burgers on select flights starting Dec. 1. Eating that SmokeShack burger has to hit different in the sky.

2. Budget airline Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy this week. If you have a Spirit Airlines flight coming up, not to worry. ABC News reported that the company "vowed to continue operations as normal while bankruptcy proceedings unfold over the coming months."

3. American Airlines does not like line cutters and is expanding its crackdown. The technology is undergoing test-runs at three airports — tech that will alert gate agents when someone tries to board in an assigned group that's not their own.

4. Low-cost Allegiant Air is going wider with "a massive expansion" of 44 new routes starting next year, including stops in three new cities.

A Saints history capturing the age, gender and ethnic diversity of a global faith

The recently completed four-volume Saints history integrates key moments in prophetic leadership with the wide-ranging everyday experience of members across two centuries and all around the world, a collective story told “through the eyes of the Latter-day Saints who lived it,” according to Matthew Grow, managing director of the Church History Department.

The estimated 1,000 people involved in the creation of this landmark text went to extraordinary measures to ensure the completed history would reflect the diversity of Latter-day Saints of many ages, ethnicities and backgrounds.

Among other things, this Saints series “gives us” as Latter-day Saints “the opportunity to tell our own story and represent our own history,” says Lisa Olsen Tait, a general editor for Saints and specialist on women’s history at the Church History Department.

Read more about the scope of international and gender diversity in the multi-volume history recently completed.

The story of Ballerina Farm and the two co-CEOs behind it

Hannah Neeleman and her husband Daniel Neeleman, the couple behind Ballerina Farm, come from entrepreneurial families. Hannah’s parents owned a flower shop and Daniel’s dad owned an airline.

Soon after marrying, they started thinking about what businesses to start. The couple was living in New York City as Hannah Neeleman was finishing her degree at The Juilliard School. During the brainstorming process, the Neeleman’s decided whatever business they started, they would be co-CEOs and co-business partners.

At the time, they didn’t know what exactly their business would be. But the genesis of it was a partnership — and that’s the story they shared at the second annual Utah Business Forward event.

The Neeleman’s were the keynote of a conference in downtown Salt Lake City at the Grand America Hotel bringing together Utah’s business community for panels and talks on pressing issues facing the industry like artificial intelligence and creating authentic brands.

Read more about what the Neelemans said during the Utah Business Forward event. And you can also read about how an Artificial Intelligence corporate trainer suggests we use AI.

More in Utah

'We're still here': Heritage month events spotlight Native American culture, contributions (KSL)
Utah officials preparing for another winter with an increasing homeless population (KSL)
What’s next for the Great Salt Lake? (Deseret News)
Utah’s higher ed institutions must boost efficiencies to meet challenges, audit concludes (Deseret News)
Jay Evensen: Don’t ‘fix’ a Utah election system that isn’t broken (Deseret News)
Top Utah GOP leaders want Rocky Mountain Power to divorce PacifiCorp (Deseret News)
Utah’s Teal Drones scores $260M defense contract for battlefield drones (Deseret News)
White House urges Colorado River states to pick up the pace of negotiations (KUER)
Utah's college costs are declining — but proposed education cuts could reverse that (Axios)

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Health

Regular exercise may not offset health risk of sitting too much (Deseret News)
It's a virus you may not have heard of. Here's why scientists are worried about it (NPR)
Most say they probably won’t get updated COVID vaccine: Survey (The Hill)

Politics

Letters from two Americas: A year on the campaign trail (Deseret News)
How a potential NFL stadium project brought together Sens. Mike Lee and Bernie Sanders (Deseret News)
Linda McMahon, Trump’s new education secretary, tasked with shrinking her own department (Deseret News)
Jay Evensen: Why recess appointments are a bad idea (Deseret News)

The Nation and The World

Bryan Kohbherger can face death penalty if convicted in trial of slain Idaho college students, judge rules (CBS News)
Duct-taped banana sells for more than $6 million at auction (NBC News)
Texas land commissioner offers 1,402 acres to Trump for 'deportation facilities' (ABC News)
Deadly bomb cyclone cuts power for thousands in US north-west (BBC)

Sports

A closer look at Saturday’s BYU vs. ASU Big 12 showdown (Deseret News)
‘Just love them. Grateful for them’: Utah to honor at least 25 seniors Saturday, including Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe (Deseret News)
Here are the hand-painted helmets Utah will wear for its home finale vs. Iowa State (Deseret News)
LPGA Tour to make historic return to Utah for inaugural Black Desert Championship (St George News)

🗓️ Events Calendar

We put together a calendar list of events and activities going on around the state of Utah the next month. Check it out and let us know if we are missing anything!

Here are some highlights for events in Utah today:

2024 World of Illumination: Reindeer Road | Utah State Fairpark and Event Center, Salt Lake City
Utah Tech Student Dance Concert | Dolores Dore Eccles Fine Arts Center, Saint George
A Merry Little Christmas Show by Ballet West Academy | Covey Center for the Arts, Provo
Utah Dance Institute: The Nutcracker | Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center, Taylorsville
Utah Hockey at Bruins | 5 p.m.
Utah Jazz at San Antonio Spurs | 6 p.m.
BYU women’s volleyball vs. Cincinnati at home | 7 p.m.
U of U women’s volleyball vs. West Virginia at home | 7 p.m.
USU women’s volleyball at Wyoming | 6:30 p.m.
Weber State women’s volleyball at Portland State | 8 p.m.
UVU women’s soccer — NCAA Tournament
Utah Tech women’s basketball at Houston Christian | 5 p.m.

Please reach out to me at sgambles@deseretnews.com if you have any thoughts, feedback or ideas you would like to share!

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