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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Sen. Mike Lee criticizes President Joe Biden’s proposals to reform the Supreme Court (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Supreme Court gerrymandering decision shows power of Utah voters (Deseret News)
• Here’s how Salt Lake County’s $36.7M zoo, arts and parks tax keeps these programs alive (KSL)

Election news

• Not over yet. Colby Jenkins requests recount in Utah’s 2nd District race against Rep. Celeste Maloy (Deseret News) 
• Seeing Trump in Utah will cost as much as franchising a Chick-fil-A – or even more (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Rep. Phil Lyman’s attempt to contest the election rejected for failing to follow procedure (Daily Herald)

Utah

• After deadly weekend, Utah's summer traffic deaths are higher than last year's (KSL)
• Venezuelans in Utah gathered as election results came in, hoping for change (Deseret News)

Olympics

• Amid the Olympics, some workers in Paris are going on strike (Deseret News) 
• NASA astronauts celebrate 2024 Olympics with zero-gravity sports (Deseret News)
• U.S. women’s rugby just made history. Now they’ll have a chance to win an Olympic medal (Deseret News)
• 10 Olympic events you don’t want to miss — and how to watch them (Deseret News)
• Brazil's Gabriel Medina, and Tahiti's 'Wall of Skulls', approach perfection (Reuters)
• Stephen Nedoroscik waited his whole life for one routine. The US pommel horse specialist nailed it (AP)
• Tom Daley wins a 5th Olympic medal. But fans adore him, and his knitting, win or lose (NPR)
• U.S. women’s basketball team opens the Olympics with dominant win over Japan (NPR)
• Stunning photo of Olympic surfer’s mid-air celebration goes viral (Washington Post)
• Pollution in Seine forces Paris Olympics to postpone men’s triathlon (Washington Post)
• She’s a four-time Olympian. Her parents want her to get a real job. (Wall Street Journal)
• In the 1,500, there’s Katie Ledecky and then there’s everyone else (New York Times)

Business/Tech

• NASA/Boeing could set Starliner return date this week (Deseret News)
• Celebrity chef Bobby Flay set to expand burger chain to Utah (KSL)
• Local business owner creates badges for hikers (KSL TV)

Crime/Courts

• Boy accused of stabbing woman and 2 boys at TRAX platform is only 12 (Deseret News)
• Former sheriff's deputy charged in sex abuse case dies by suicide after bailing out of jail (KSL)
• This Utahn claimed silver could cure COVID-19. Now, his fraud sentence comes with an ironic twist. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Education

• Medical school will be created at BYU, church announces (Deseret News)
• Utah school district set to take on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat (Deseret News)
• More than 100 current, former Utah State athletes call for 'full and transparent investigation' (KSL)
• New push to reduce Utah’s multi-million-dollar lunch debt (KUTV)

Environment

• The future of energy in Utah (UPR) 
• BYU professor says AI can shave years and millions off nuclear power development process (KSL)

Health

• Wildfire smoke hard on brain health, increases dementia risk (Deseret News)
• Eagle Mountain school evacuated after 'sewer gases' leak into building, make several sick (KUTV)
• Utah has ‘very high’ COVID-19 levels in wastewater, federal data shows (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Infants’ tongue-tie may be overdiagnosed and needlessly treated, American Academy of Pediatrics says (AP)

Housing

• Housing market sees lower costs, but buyer hesitancy remains (Deseret News)
• More than half of renters believe homeownership will always be out of reach (KUTV)

National Headlines

General

• Fake images are getting harder to spot. Here’s a field guide. (Washington Post) 

Political news

• How to keep today’s hot take from becoming tomorrow’s apology — the lessons of JD Vance (Deseret News)
• Illegal crossings hit Biden-era low as migrants wait longer for entry (NPR)

Election news

• Arizona holds congressional primaries today. Trump's influence looms large (NPR)
• Kamala Harris vice president race narrows with Cooper, Whitmer out (Reuters)
• Harris and Democrats keep calling Trump and Vance ‘weird.’ Here’s why (AP)
• Russia is relying on unwitting Americans to spread election disinformation, US officials say (AP)
• Donald Trump to attend Black journalists’ convention in Chicago (AP)
• Vance tells donors Harris change was a ‘sucker punch' (Washington Post)
• Republican senators divided over Trump sticking with Vance (The Hill)
• JD Vance went viral for ‘cat lady’ comments. The centuries-old trope has a long tail (NPR)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• After furious battles, Ukraine loses a pair of hard-one villages (New York Times) 

Israel and Gaza

• Israeli forces quit east Khan Younis, Palestinians recover dozens of bodies (Reuters)
• Probe of soldiers over alleged sexual abuse fuels tension between Israeli military and hard-liners (AP)
• Netanyahu vows ‘severe’ response to deadly rocket attack tied to Hezbollah (New York Times)

World news

• Anti-Maduro protests spread as Venezuelan opposition says he stole vote (Reuters)
• Rain and floods add to misery of Sudanese displaced by war (Reuters)
• Taylor Swift says she is ‘in shock’ after 3 children died in an attack on a UK dance class (AP)

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Upcoming

• August 14 â€” Hatch Foundation "Titan of Public Service" recognizing Sen. John Thune, Grand America, Register here
• August 20-21 — Interim Days
• September 17-18 — Interim Days
• October 4 — Conservative Climate Summit, 7:30 am - 3:00 pm, UVU, Register here
• October 4 — Civil Dialogue Symposium with Dana Perino, 2:00 pm, USU, Register here
• October 7-9 — One Utah Summit, SUU, Register here
• October 15-16 — Interim Day
• November 15 â€” Women & Business Conference & ATHENA Awards Luncheon with the Salt Lake Chamber, Grand America Hotel, Register here
• November 19-20 — Interim Days

On This Day In History 

• 1619 - Jamestown has the first representative assembly of white people in the Western Hemisphere
• 1863 - Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
• 1863 - President Abraham Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
• 1940 - Patricia Schroeder is born. She was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress from Colorado (1973-1997), the first woman on the House Armed Services Committee, promoted the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and was president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers (1997-2008).
• 1942 - FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
• 1956 - “In God We Trust” replaces “E Pluribus Unum” as the motto of the United States. 
• 1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare into law
• 1974 - Under subpoena, Nixon surrenders Watergate tapes
• 1984 - WNBA player Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks became the first woman to dunk in a professional game.
• 2002 - The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" signed into law by President George W. Bush
• 2020 - Barack Obama gives the eulogy at the funeral of congressman John Lewis, with former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

Quote of the Day

"Any of us, ordinary people ... can stand up to the powers and principalities and say no this isn’t right, this isn’t true, this isn’t just. We can do better."

—Former Pres. Barack Obama, at the funeral of congressman John Lewis

On the Punny Side

My car broke down between the marina and the Hallmark store.

Now, I'm stuck between a dock and a card place.

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