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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Editorial Board: Threats against the president are not protected speech, but questions remain in Provo killing (Deseret News)
• Tip from Trump's Truth Social led to FBI investigation and shootout with Provo man (Fox13)
• In Utah, we speak up, which is why Gov. Cox is warning parents about social media (Deseret News)
• Scott Howell: Reflections on President Biden’s visit to Utah and what he said at that fundraiser in Park City (Deseret News)
• David Schwendiman: How Utah’s delegation let veterans down (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Representative Chris Stewart on his resignation and time in office (ABC4)
• The IUP Panel on President Biden’s visit and the 2CD primary (ABC4)

Election news

• Trump indictment emerges as central GOP concern at Utah special election debate (St. George News)
• GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy rejects Sen. Mitt Romney’s call to back one Trump opponent (Deseret News)

General Utah news

• ‘I want to write for my kids’: How motherhood shaped Shannon Hale’s writing career (Deseret News)
• Utahn headed to world championship for hot air ballooning (KSL)
• Missing Utah woman found dead in Alaska, husband arrested (Fox13)
• Child dies after propeller incident at Echo State Park (ABC4)
• Census data: Utah's most ethnically and racially diverse counties (KSL)

Hawaii wildfires

• Utah firefighter shares personal impact as Maui fire ravages hometown, some friends unaccounted for (KUTV)
• Aerial photos show devastation of Hawaii wildfires (Deseret News)
• Photo Gallery: Maui inferno pictured from the ground (Deseret News)
• Hawaii’s alarm system didn’t warn people of the blaze. Why did it fail? (Deseret News)
• Donation drive at UVU brings in supplies to send to Maui (Fox13)
• American Red Cross of Utah sending help to Hawaii (Fox13)
• Utahns helping those impacted by Hawaii wildfires (Fox13)
• As Maui rescue continues, families and faith leaders cling to hope but tackle reality of loss (AP)

Business

• As heat waves rage, the country struggles to keep workers safe (Deseret News)
• ‘Barbie’ has legs: Greta Gerwig’s film tops box office again and gives industry a midsummer surge (KSL TV)
• New Sandy liquor store breaks opening day record (Fox13)
• Companies that use lots of water will get a hard look as St. George booms, new economic development director says (Salt Lake Tribune)

Culture

• Are Utah drivers really as bad as people say? (Deseret News)
• Why I drove from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles to listen to a Taylor Swift concert from the parking lot (Deseret News)
• The right to rant — and why it might be dangerous (Deseret News)
• Utah’s Pacific Islander community celebrates opening of ‘Tatau’ exhibition. The exhibition, highlighting the history and culture of Samoan tattooing, will be featured at UMFA through December (Salt Lake Tribune)

Education

• Post-SCOTUS, what’s next for Utahns with student loans? (Deseret News)
• Kids got to shop with a cop in Hurricane, just in time for school (KSL Newsradio)
• Hundreds of new teachers welcomed to Jordan School District with celebration (Fox13)
• The great school supply debate (Deseret News)

Environment

• Tracy Stone-Manning: How the BLM is ensuring the health of our public lands (Salt Lake Tribune)
• State scrutinizing company over lithium extraction from Great Salt Lake (Fox13)
• Once given a death sentence, Utah’s Pando aspen grove has ‘come a long way’ (Salt Lake Tribune)
• The clean energy future is roiling both friends and foes (New York Times)

Family

• Can the government help your marriage? (Deseret News)
• Natalie Brown: Don’t let reunions become the be all and end all of family togetherness (Salt Lake Tribune)
• 4 things to know about Utah’s child care challenges. Organizations are raising the alarm about cost hikes and a looming crisis with potentially “catastrophic” impacts. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Health

• Suicides in the U.S. are at an all-time high. 49,449 people took their own lives in 2022, according to the CDC (Deseret News)
• Dimming reality: The harsh impact of gaslighting in romantic relationships (Deseret News)
• Extra fiber? Nestlé recalls some Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough due to wood chips (KSL)
• Utah researchers study effect of diabetes drug on muscle recovery (Standard-Examiner)
• Caring for people with fentanyl addiction often means treating terrible wounds (NPR)
• Ozempic settles the obesity debate: It's biology over willpower (Wall Street Journal)

National Headlines

General

• A central Kansas police force sparked a firestorm by raiding a newspaper and the publisher’s home (AP)
• Revealing the Smithsonian's 'racial brain collection' (Washington Post)

Politics

• Violent threats against public officials are rising. Here's why (NPR)
• At the Iowa State Fair, DeSantis appears to be a second-rate attraction (Deseret News)
• Trump’s Iowa state fair spectacle clouds DeSantis as former president is joined by Florida officials (AP)
• Sen. Joe Manchin — ally of Sen. Mitt Romney — says he may leave Dems, become independent (Deseret News)
• Supreme Court pushes pause on Purdue Pharma settlement (Deseret News)
• Independent voters now outnumber Republicans in Arizona (Deseret News)
• How Donald Trump tried to undo his loss in Georgia in 2020 (Washington Post)
• Vivek Ramaswamy says US ‘climate change agenda’ is a ‘hoax’ (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• 7 killed in Ukraine’s Kherson region, including a 23-day-old baby girl (AP)
• Russia and Ukraine trade aerial attacks as Zelenskyy makes another move against corruption (AP)
• Ukraine reports fierce fighting, 'some success' in counteroffensive (Reuters)
• ‘We are not human to them’: Life for convicts in Russia’s army (New York Times)
• Wagner’s prisoner of war: A Ukrainian soldier’s 46-day nightmare. Russian mercenaries captured Ilia Mykhalchuk outside Bakhmut. They amputated his arms in a dark basement, he says, and subjected him to mind-bending psychological abuse. (Washington Post)

World

• Kidnapped American nurse and daughter are released in Haiti, while violence rises (Deseret News)
• The Taliban are entrenched in Afghanistan after 2 years of rule. Women and girls pay the price (AP)
• Far-right libertarian wins Argentina’s presidential primary (New York Times)

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News Releases

Gov. Spencer Cox issues statement on national monuments ruling

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox issued a statement following today’s court order in the Bears Ears/Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments lawsuit: 

“This case will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court and today’s ruling helps us get there even sooner. The clear language of the law gives the president the authority only to designate monuments that are ‘the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected.’ Monument designations over a million acres are clearly outside that authority and end up ignoring local concerns and damaging the very resources we want to protect. We look forward to starting the appeals process immediately and will continue fighting this type of glaring misuse of the Antiquities Act.”

Utah’s consumer sentiment continues to rise

Utah’s consumer sentiment edged up in July to its highest level since February 2022 (from 76.3 in June to 77.3 in July), according to the Kem C. Gardner Institute’s Survey of Utah Consumer Sentiment. A similar survey by the University of Michigan found a larger increase among Americans as a whole (from 64.4 in June to 71.6 in July). (Read More)

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Upcoming

• Municipal election filing period for cities using ranked choice voting — Aug. 8-15
• Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Sen. Mitt Romney — Aug 21, 10:00-11:30 am, Hinckley Institute, U of U
• Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Rep. John Curtis — Aug 22, 9:00-10:30 am, Center for Constitutional Studies, UVU
• Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Sen. Mike Lee — Aug 22, 3:00-4:30 pm, Hinckley Institute, U of U
• 'Titan of Public Service' gala recognizing Senator Mitch McConnell and former Transportation and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, hosted by the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation — Aug. 22, 7 p.m., Register here
• Legislative Education and Mental Health Coordinating Council — Aug 23, le.utah.gov
• Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Rep. Blake Moore — Aug 29, 10:00-11:30 am, Olene S. Walker Institute of Politics & Public Service, Lindquist Hall, Weber State
• Sutherland Institute Congressional Series with Rep. Burgess Owens — Aug 30, 12:00-1:30 pm, Hinckley Institute, U of U
• Municipal/Special election primary — Sept. 5
• Interim Day — Sept. 18, Utah Tech University, le.utah.gov
• A Bolder Way Forward with the Utah Women and Leadership Project — Sept. 20, 12:00 - 1:15 pm, Virtual, Register here
• Interim Day — Oct 10-11, le.utah.gov
• Interim Day — Nov 14-15, le.utah.gov
• General election — Nov. 21

On This Day In History 

• 1784 - Russians settle Alaska
• 1870 - David Farragut, American Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), dies at 69
• 1899 - Caroline Ware is born. A history professor and pioneer in the “cultural approach to History,” she was also an expert on consumer affairs and the Chair of the American Association of University Women Committee on Social Studies
• 1911 - Ethel Payne is born. Called “The First Lady of the Black Press,” she was the first African American female radio and television commentator at a national news organization (CBS) in 1972.
• 1935 - The Social Security Act becomes law. The sweeping legislation created a pension program based on and supported by workers’ income.
• 1937 - After 10 years of work, the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine is completed. More than 2,000 miles of trails and paths entice hikers from all over the country, including some governors.
• 1945 - V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II 
• 1986 - After a 43 year military career, Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper retires from active duty in the U.S. Navy. Known as the “grandmother of the computer age,” Hopper was a pioneer of computer language.
• 1997 - Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is formally sentenced to death by Oklahoma Court of Appeals
• 2018 - After a 2-yr investigation, a Pennsylvania grand jury alleges 300 "predator priests" abused over 1000 children over 30 years and Catholic leaders covered it up.
• 2019 - Iowa congressman Steve King says that without rape and incest "“Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?" in video for "The Des Moines Register"
• 2021 - It rains for the first time at Greenland ice sheets' highest point, at Summit Station research facility, above-freezing conditions create some melting for 337,000 square miles of ice

Quote of the Day

“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

—Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

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