Utah Headlines

Political news

• Rep. Burgess Owens advocates for free market and family values in American education at Sutherland Institute talk (Deseret News)
• ‘It felt Islamophobic,’ Utah Muslims speak out over post from Utah lawmaker (KSL TV)
• Lawmaker posts video of Utah Muslims observing tradition. His followers piled on with Islamophobia. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Council meeting could change landscape of downtown Salt Lake City (Fox13)
• Wendy Davis: We are in a fight to protect the constitutionally guaranteed rights of all Utah voters (Salt Lake Tribune)

Election news

• From the slopes to the Senate: Democrat Caroline Gleich’s bid to replace Sen. Mitt Romney (Deseret News)
• AG candidate seeks to return trust and transparency to the office (Cache Valley Daily)

Utah

• The state bucking the national ‘dechurching’ trend. (That would be us) (Deseret News)
• Project helping adults learn to read is booming; many more volunteers are needed (KSL)
• Utah exceeds annual average of boating related drownings (KSL Newsradio)
• Ogden Police Department changes policy to remove public's 'perception of a quota' (Fox13)
• Smith's Zero Hunger Hero: Barber and family help children facing food insecurity (Fox13)

Business/Tech

• Sorry, boss, not sorry. What Australia's 'right to disconnect' rule means for workers (Deseret News)
• Utah’s national parks brought $1.9B in 2023 and towns like Moab are banking on it (KUER)

Crime/Courts

• Judge orders Kouri Richins to stand trial for murder, attempted murder of her husband (KSL)
• 'Noncompliant' Utah sex offender arrested, accused of voyeurism at library (KSL)
• 2 men charged with damaging ancient rock formation at Lake Mead (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utahns in Congo coup faces death penalty (ABC4)

Education

• ‘The Chosen’ creator Dallas Jenkins to speak at BYU campus forum in October (Deseret News)
• BYU again No. 1 in Princeton Review’s ‘Cancel the Keg’ rankings (Deseret News)
• Training standards being set for Utah's new school guardian program (KUTV)
• Mountainland Technical College marks 35 years of providing hands-on education (Daily Herald)
• USU offers free professional development focused on Autism (Cache Valley Daily)
• Sydnee Dickson: All of us play a role in Utah student success. Here’s how you can help. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Environment

• Mystery solved: Rangers recover historic military vehicle illegally taken from Utah national forest (KSL)
• Utah explores 'credit' for conservation along Colorado River (Fox13)
• Zion National Park’s last wild California condor weathers near-death experience (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• Rise in counterfeit car seat sales putting children at risk (KUTV)

Health

• Need to cool down fast? Try a slushy or an ice bath (Deseret News)
• Free COVID tests are coming back soon (Deseret News)
• Lilly launches lower-price weight loss drug without injector pen (KSL)

Housing

• Davis County considers permanent emergency shelter in North Salt Lake (KSL)
• ‘Locked in’: Nearly 3 out of 4 Utah homeowners have mortgage rate below 4% (KSL TV)
• Utah’s rents are already a challenge. Extra fees can stretch things even further (KUER)
• People with disabilities face extra hurdles amid national housing shortage (PBS)

National Headlines

General

• The cost of mocking neurodiversity: A call for empathy and inclusion (Deseret News)
• The American Dream feels out of reach for most (Wall Street Journal)

Political news

•  Editorial Board: Here’s a tip; don’t promise the same awful tax policy your opponent is promising (Deseret News)
• Trump, without evidence, in part faults Biden, Harris for assassination attempt (Washington Post)
• After a Supreme Court ruling gave former presidents broad immunity, prosecutors revised an indictment against Donald Trump. (New York Times)

Election news

• RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard join Trump transition team (Deseret News)
• The debate is back on: Harris, Trump to meet on Sept. 10 (Deseret News)
• Trump’s deportation plan is missing key details (Deseret News)
• Mitt Romney was called a flip-flopper when he ran for president in 2012. Can Kamala Harris avoid the label? (Deseret News)
• Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National Cemetery (NPR)
• Cook Political Report shifts North Carolina toward Harris (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• A Russian missile strikes the Ukrainian president’s home city as it mourns deaths in earlier attack (AP)

Israel and Gaza

• At least nine Palestinians killed as Israel mounts major West Bank operation (Reuters)

World news

• The Taliban has silenced the women of Afghanistan (Deseret News) 
• Exclusive: WFP launches probe into its Sudan operations as famine spreads (Reuters)
• Africa’s debt crisis has ‘catastrophic implications’ for the world (New York Times)

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On This Day In History

• 476 - End of the Western Roman Empire when Orestes is captured and executed
• 1915 - Tasha Tudor is born. She was an illustrator and author of children’s books who received many awards and honors, including Caldecott Honors for Mother Goose in 1945.
• 1917 - President Woodrow Wilson picketed by women suffragists
• 1955 - Emmett Till is murdered
• 1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr gives his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington.
• 1996 - Charles and Diana divorce
• 2006 - Warren Jeffs arrested
• 2012 - Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the GOP’s presidential candidate
• 2020 - Chadwick Boseman, American actor (Black Panther), dies of colon cancer at 42

Quote of the Day

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed — we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

—Martin Luther King, Jr, in his "I have a dream" speech

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