OTHER UTAH HEADLINES   

Deseret News

Pignanelli and Webb: Introspection on heroes and other current issues

Greg Bell: The complexity of poverty

Editorial: Utah budget is an image of prudence

Trump signs Hatch-sponsored child pornography victim assistance law

Report suggests ways to deal with high number of deaths in Utah's county jails

Utah Rep. Mia Love spent $2.2 million more than Ben McAdams in losing bid to keep 4th Congressional District seat

No more letter grades when Utah board rolls out new report cards for schools Jan. 3

School safety committee needs voices of teachers, school employees, students, board members say

Medical marijuana in Utah could mean retirement for generation of drug K-9s

Salt Lake Tribune

Op-ed: You could go to jail for what?

Editorial: Sales tax update won't come easy

For his protest against rising tourism, Utah rancher lets his cows do the, uh, talking

Landowner inside Bears Ears monument wants out of newly incorporated Bluff, raising questions about what is planned for the property

Gehrke: Why are Utah taxpayers being asked to fork over more than $56 million for Merit Medical?

An election win means bonuses for Ben McAdams' campaign consultants and staff

On national TV, Mia Love says Trump is not racist but Democrats are

Herriman mayor won't face criminal charges, but the city isn't done discussing his unauthorized spending

Legacy Parkway's truck ban and low speed limit will disappear without action by the Utah Legislature

Salt Lake County is now minority Mormon, and the impacts are far reaching

Other

Ogden kids more likely to live in poverty than in the rest of Weber County, Utah (Standard-Examiner)

Many in Weber County's Utah House delegation will be new, joining familiar faces (Standard-Examiner)

  NATIONAL HEADLINES  

• Nick Ayers, the most likely replacement for John Kelly as White House chief of staff, said Sunday he won't take the job. Instead, he will leave the administration at the end of the year to head up a pro-Trump outside group - https://wapo.st/2G9f90m 
  
  
• Congress has until the end of next week to pass a spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown. But, Democrats in Congress don't trust President Trump to keep his word on any possible agreement - https://politi.co/2GagGDd
  
  
• Russians interacted with at least 14 Trump associates during the 2016 campaign and transition after Trump won - https://wapo.st/2GbJ0VO
  
  
• President Trump's advisers are adopting a "shrugged shoulders" strategy when it comes to the findings in the Russia investigation, calculating that his base will believe whatever he tells them to believe - https://wapo.st/2G76hbG 
  
  
• After Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws, federal prosecutors are now scrutinizing what role the Trump Organization may have played in the crimes - http://bit.ly/2G5VAFZ 
  
  
• Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who will head up the House Intelligence Committee next year, says President Trump could face a "real prospect of jail time" once he leaves office as a result of the Russia investigation - https://cbsn.ws/2G7ZjmD
  
  
• The FBI's counterintelligence investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia initially focused on four Americans according to former FBI Director James Comey's closed-door testimony to Congress last week - http://bit.ly/2G6G5ha 
  
  
• Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the incoming head of the House Judiciary Committee, says the allegations from last week's court filings in the Russia investigation could result in an impeachable offense by President Trump, but it's unclear how Congress should proceed - https://lat.ms/2GjiidQ
  
  
• "I can't breathe." Those were the final words of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after he was attacked by a Saudi hit squad in the country's consulate in Istanbul according to a leaked transcript of a recording of his alleged murder - https://cnn.it/2Ga1fLw 
  
  
• President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner gave advice to Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman on how to handle the outrage over Jamal Khashoggi's murder - http://bit.ly/2GahUOP
  
  
• An "unprecedented" number of Democrats in Congress are considering a run for president in 2020 - https://wapo.st/2G6PPrC
  
  
• The Trump administration signed on to a proposal put forward by Saudi Arabia and Russia to weaken language in a landmark climate change report - https://wapo.st/2G7f4dB

  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY  

• 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th state.
  
  
• 1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London.
  
  
• 1869 - The Territory of Wyoming granted women the right to vote.
  
  
• 1884 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
  
  
• 1898 - The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the Spanish-American War. It gave Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the United States.
  
  
• 1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War.
  
  
• 1936 - Britain's King Edward VII abdicated the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
  
  
• 1984 - The National Science Foundation reported the discovery of the first planet outside of the solar system - 21 million light-years from Earth.

Policy News

More National Headlines

Dershowitz: Mueller Has Come Up With Far Less Than He Hoped For (RealClearPolitics)

Comey: Anti-Trump FBI agent 'helped draft' letter 'that Hillary Clinton blames for her defeat' (Washington Examiner)

'Amazon will go bankrupt': Jeff Bezos keeps talking about Amazon's inevitable death (Business Insider)

Far right breakthrough in Andaluca send shockwave through Spanish politics (Guardian)

More than a thousand arrested in Paris 'Yellow Vest' protests (France24)

Macron's Defeat in Paris Sounds Alarm for Europe (Bloomberg)

Rahm Emanuel to Democrats: 'Don't focus immediately on Trump' (CNN)

Cory Booker will decide whether to run for president 'over the holidays' (ABC News)

Meet Mark Milley, Trump's Pick For Joint Chiefs Chairman (NPR)

Ayers not taking job as White House chief of staff (CNN)

Amazon touted as big win for NY, but math is more complex (Associated Press)