Utah Headlines

Political news

• Investigation: State employees accuse Phil Lyman of unprofessional, misogynistic conduct in meeting (Daily Herald)
• Israel's ceasefire plan, Trump's felony convictions, and Utah Pride (Both Sides of the Aisle)

Election news

• Tension mounts over pre-primary mailer from SL County GOP (Deseret News)
• Big ad buys come to Utah statewide races. Here’s what we know (Deseret News)
• 2024 Primary Election Voter Guides: In their own words (Salt Lake Tribune)
• The Utah Debate Commission has never done a state auditor debate. Why is that? (KUER)

Utah news

• Frank Arnold, who led BYU basketball to Elite Eight, dies at 89 (Deseret News)
• Jay Evensen: Gambling could put taxpayer investment in sports at risk (Deseret News)
• 12 year-old boy dies after being pulled from Provo River (KSL)
• Orem resident turns 105, has some advice for young people (KSL)
• Girl who died in ‘troubled teen’ facility was dead for up to 10 hours before staff realized (Fox13)
• A water park’s lazy river flooded raw sewage into Farmington basements. Homeowners are still waiting on payouts. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Business/Tech

• Job growth spiked but unemployment also ticked up. What gives? (Deseret News)
• Logan restaurant requests 'no tips' from customers as part of new business model (KSL)
• H Mart, a giant Asian food chain, opens its first Utah store (Salt Lake Tribune)

Crime/Courts

• Utah teenage girl missing, believed to be with man from out-of-state (Fox13)

Culture

• DA drops charges against Latter-day Saint stake president (Deseret News)

Education

• How Utah’s $300M higher education endowment can help students experiencing FAFSA rollout delays (Deseret News)

Environment

• Hikers, cyclists could face fines for using City Creek Canyon (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Mona Smith: The Inland Port Authority prioritizes environmental and human health. It’s my job to ensure it. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Could the U.S. military help save the Great Salt Lake? (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Uranium booms again in Utah and across the Colorado Plateau. Miners and land will be protected this time, industry vows. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• In their own words: What young people wish they’d known about social media (AP)

Health

• The color of your child's swimsuit can play a role in their safety at the pool, experts say (KSL)
• These disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefits (NPR)
• Cancer researchers begins large long-term study of Black women (New York Times)

Housing

• Utah is considering building its biggest-ever homeless shelter (Fox13)
• Ogden City proposing ordinance to increase single-family homes (KSL Newsradio)

National Headlines

General

• Gen. John Adams: Drone wars expose America’s Achilles’ heel (Deseret News)
• Ambos Nogales. Where the border doesn’t divide people — it unites them (Deseret News)
• The ‘rise of the nones’ hits a plateau (Deseret News)
• Large chunk of Wyoming’s Teton Pass road collapses; unclear how quickly it can be rebuilt (AP)

Political news

• Video edited to make it appear Biden tried to sit down when there wasn’t a chair (AP)
• Trump’s calls for political vengeance worry Senate GOP (The Hill)
• How vulnerable GOP lawmakers are taking credit for an infrastructure law they opposed (Politico)
• Trump to undergo probation interview today, a required step before his New York sentencing (AP)

Election news

• Dr. Phil asks Donald Trump if he is willing to forgive, forego revenge (Deseret News)
• White non-college voters are Trump’s base, but Biden seems to be hanging on to them in this Midwestern swing state (Washington Post)
• At scorching Vegas rally, Trump bashes migrants — and courts Latinos (Washington Post)
• I’m the Governor of Nevada. This Is Why Trump Is Doing So Well With Our Voters. (New York Times)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Ukraine’s air force may keep some F-16 warplanes abroad to protect them from Russian strikes (AP) 
• Switzerland flags cyberattacks, disinformation ahead of Ukraine summit (Reuters)

Israel and Gaza

• Noa Argamani freed in time to see her terminally ill mother (Reuters)
• What does Israel’s rescue of 4 captives, and the killing of 274 Palestinians, mean for truce talks? (AP)

World news

• Far-right advances in EU election, France calls snap national vote (Reuters)
• Sudan's al-Fashir main hospital shut after RSF attack, aid group says (Reuters)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Owens announces summer mobile office hours

Congressman Burgess Owens (UT-04) announced the June and July 2024 schedule for his team’s mobile office hours, where staff members will be available in local communities to assist constituents with services including federal agency interactions, passport renewals, and service academy inquiries. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• June 10 —Debates for CD2 (10 am), CD1 (2 pm), US Senate (6 pm)
• June 11 — Debates for Utah AG (2 pm) and governor (6 pm)
• June 12 — Debate for CD3 (6 pm)
• June 18-19 — Interim Days
• June 25 — Primary Election Day
• August 14 â€” Hatch Foundation "Titan of Public Service" recognizing Sen. John Thune, Grand America
• August 20-21 — Interim Days
• September 17-18 — Interim Days
• October 15-16 — Interim Day
• November 19-20 — Interim Days

On This Day In History 

• 1692 - Bridget Bishop is the first to be hung as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts
• 1752 - Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm, collecting ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar.
• 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded
• 1953 - President Eisenhower rejects calls for US isolationism 
• 1963 - The Equal Pay Act is signed by President John F. Kennedy: “To prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce.” 
• 1963 - Black students Vivian Malone and James Hood, accompanied by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach attempted to register at the University of Alabama today in 1963. Governor George Wallace bodily blocked their entrance. Vivian Malone became the first black graduate of the University.
• 1967 - Six-Day War ends
• 1977 - The Jazz draft Lusia Harris, the only woman ever drafted into the NBA
• 2007 -  Novelty dance song "I'm a Gummy Bear" by German band Gummibär released. I know you started singing it in your head…

Quote of the Day

"We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."

—Thomas Jefferson

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