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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Cassidy Tuttle: Sen. Mike Lee’s digital advertising bill will hurt my bottom line. Small blogs competing with established national magazines should be celebrated, not dismantled. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah AG knew about nonprofit psychic paid to speak with 'dead Mormon leaders,' (Fox13)
• Looming government shutdown (Hinckley Report)
• Upbeat, ‘token conservative,’ Utah Gov. Spencer Cox takes center stage at Atlantic Festival in Washington, D.C. (Deseret News)

Election news

• Utah primary elections: People4Utah wants to open primaries (Deseret News)
• Taylor Knuth, Ben Nadolski each raised over $100k in Ogden’s mayoral race. Here’s who is funding their campaigns. (Salt Lake Tribune)

General Utah news

• Utah museum calls for oral histories, trying to share Utah’s Japanese history (KSL TV)
• Reed Hastings pulls Powder Mountain properties off the market, will ‘reset’ next summer (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Four killed in Grand County plane crash near Moab (KUTV)
• Hill Air Force Base fighters return from deployment (Fox13)
• Church President Russell M. Nelson tells global membership to ‘think celestial’ as more temples announced (Deseret News)
• President Nelson announces 20 temples at close of general conference (KSL)

Culture

• You can now get a degree in influencing (You read that right) (Deseret News)
• The Quest for Peace: The difference between peacemaking and peacekeeping (KSL Newsradio)

Environment

• Utah researchers are at the forefront of protecting the grid from climate change (KUER)
• A pouring out of love: Utahns gather for Great Salt Lake blessing ceremony (KSL)

Health

• Health news: Breast cancer, stair climbing and relieving long COVID (Deseret News)
• Study reveals that consumption of processed food may cause depression (Deseret News)
• Nobel Prize goes to scientists who made mRNA COVID vaccines possible (NPR)
• Human by design. The promise and peril of genetic engineering (Deseret News)

Housing

• Where has all the housing gone? SLC leaders are rolling out a plan to help curb gentrification. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• A major backer of Mendenhall’s chief political rival is suing SLC over homeless camps (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• Women’s voices and votes loom large as pope is to open a Vatican meeting on church’s future (AP)
• Americans are still spending like there's no tomorrow (Wall Street Journal)
• Gen. Milley delivers defense of democracy and swipes at Trump in farewell address (AP)

Politics

• Is it fair to judge politicians by their speeches? Video clips can be cringey, but transcripts can be even worse. Whatever happened to soaring oration? (Deseret News)
• Religion cases are notably absent from the Supreme Court’s fall schedule. Is that a good thing? (Deseret News)
• Supreme Court to consider abortion pills, guns, social media in its new term (NPR)
• Biden says there’s ‘not much time’ to keep aid flowing to Ukraine and Congress must ‘stop the games’ (AP)
• Trump's civil trial starts today. It will spotlight what he's really worth (New York Times)
• Inside the Senate’s looming showdown over the future of Ukraine (Politico)

Election news

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly planning to announce run for president as an independent (Deseret News)
• Haley draws Trump’s fury after strong debate showing (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• How Ukraine tricks Russia into wasting ammunition (Wall Street Journal)
• E.U. foreign ministers gather in Kyiv for surprise summit  (New York Times)
• Kyiv downplays lack of Ukraine aid in new U.S. spending bill (Washington Post)

World

• New UN migration chief says private sector ‘desperate’ to take migrants despite negative narrative (AP)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Curtis on the bipartisan CR that averted a government shutdown

Today, in a significant display of bipartisanship, Congress passed a clean Continuing Resolution (CR) aimed at averting a government shutdown, securing vital government services, and providing more time for the completion of appropriations bills. The CR, which received substantial support across party lines, ensures that the government remains funded for an additional 45 days.

“Today’s passage of the Continuing Resolution is a positive step to avoiding a government shutdown,” said Rep. Curtis. “While I’m pleased with this outcome, it’s disheartening that some of my colleagues, who call themselves conservatives, didn’t support an earlier resolution that prioritized resources towards addressing critical border security issues.” (Read More)

Moore on the CR to fund government

Today, Congressman Blake Moore voted in favor of the continuing resolution to keep the government funded and released the following statement:

“I was proud to join the Utah House delegation and vote for today’s continuing resolution that will ensure the servicemen and women at Hill Air Force Base and the over 40,000 federal workers, uniformed personnel, and military dependents in my district continue to receive a paycheck for their work and service. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day 

Upcoming

• Understanding Sexism in Utah with the Utah Women and Leadership Project— Oct. 10, 12:00-1:15 pm, Register here
• Civics Educator Conference with "Sharon Says So" — Oct. 10, UVU, More information and registration here
• Interim Day — Oct 10-11, le.utah.gov
• Martha Hughes Cannon Award with Utah Women Run — Nov 2, 6:00-8:00 pm, Nominate someone here
• Interim Day — Nov 14-15, le.utah.gov
• General election — Nov. 21

On This Day In History 

• 1869 - Mahatma Gandhi is born.
• 1895 - Ruth Streeter is born. She became the first director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (USMCWR) and in 1943, she became the first woman to attain the rank of major in the United States Marine Corps.
• 1912 - Alice Bourneuf is born. An economist, she worked on the Marshall Plan to help Europe after World War II and taught economics at Boston College
• 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
• 1950 - Charles M. Schultz Peanuts makes its first appearance in newspapers
• 1965 - Gatorade invented at the University of Florida
• 1967 - Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice, is sworn in
• 1985 - Hollywood icon Rock Hudson dies of AIDS
• 2001 - NATO backs US military strikes following attacks on 9/11
• 2018 - Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul

Quote of the Day

"Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on."
—Thurgood Marshall

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