Utah Headlines

Political news

• Utah immigrant advocates blast anti-illegal immigration talk as 'fear mongering,' 'dehumanizing' (KSL)
• Sunday Edition: Tim Shriver (KSL TV)
• Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says culture is ‘secret sauce’ that makes Utah thrive (KSL Newsradio)
• How our election coverage is changing. Roughly 75% of Utahns said they are somewhat progressive, moderate or somewhat conservative (Salt Lake Tribune)

Election news

• Why these Cache County Republicans won’t see a challenger in their 2024 election bids for clerk and auditor (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Inside Utah Politics: Josh Randall, Phil Dean (ABC4)
• How ‘FAFSA Fail’ is impacting Utah students (KUER)
• Endorsements and campaigns (Hinckley Report)
• Local GOP Nominating Convention is tough day for County Council incumbents (Cache Valley Daily)

Utah news

• Has this fundraiser got a deal for you. Under a special legislative provision, donations to help kids with disabilities can be paid with state income tax dollars (Deseret News)
• What's next for Salt Lake City's bid for the 2034 Winter Games? The IOC has some advice (Deseret News)
• Jay Evensen: How smart do you want your bathroom to be?! (Deseret News)
• Families reunite at Hill AFB after airmen return from months-long deployment in Japan (ABC4)

Business/Tech

• Utah’s economy still bumping along but housing is ‘single greatest threat’ (Deseret News)
• Former Deseret Management CEO Keith McMullin honored at One Utah Summit (Deseret News)
• Retail sales up a strong 0.7% in March from February, underscoring the resiliency of the US consumer (AP)

Culture

• ‘American Idol’ reveals its top 20. Here’s how to vote for your favorite singer (Deseret News)
• Disney is giving out lifetime bans to guests who lie about disability status (Deseret News)

Education

• Law aiming to protect teachers could harm students with disabilities, opponents claim (Deseret News)

Environment

• California construction company moves to silence Parleys quarry opposition (Salt Lake Tribune)
• What biologists see from the shores of the drying Great Salt Lake (NPR)

Family

• Lonely men: The sounds of silence. Is there a cure to the loneliness epidemic? (Deseret News)

Health

• Valerie Hudson: What the U.K.’s explosive Cass Review means for gender medicine in the U.S. (Deseret News)
• Drug shortages reach record high in US, according to University of Utah data (KSL)
• Anxiety and depression is spiking among young people. No one knows why. (Politico)

Housing

• The evolving American dream: High costs make homeownership a distant reality for Gen Z (Deseret News)

National Headlines

General

• A country divided: Reckoning with America’s COVID-19 school closures 4 years later (Deseret News)
• U.S. military review disputes that Marines had Kabul bomber in sights (Washington Post)

Political news

• Haley joining conservative think tank (The Hill)
• 4 Supreme Court cases to follow this month (Deseret News)
• More diverse than ever: How the Democratic and Republican parties have changed over the last 3 decades (Deseret News)
• ‘Delusional’: Bolton blasts Trump for saying Iranian attacks wouldn’t have happened on his watch (Politico)
• Trump’s history-making hush money trial starts today (AP)
• Trump rages at judge hours before hush money case begins (The Hill)
• House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will push for aid to Israel and Ukraine this week (AP)

Election news

• How Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has shifted her abortion stance (Washington Post)
• These Mormon women are rejecting Trump, fraying GOP support in a key state (NPR)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Should the U.S. give money to Ukraine? Here's what the Ukrainian ambassador told the Deseret News
• Ukraine's power plants at the mercy of Russian missiles (BBC)

Israel and Gaza

• Analysis: Israel repelled Iran’s huge attack. But only with help from U.S. and Arab partners. (Wall Street Journal)
• Iran says it gave warning before attacking Israel. US says that's not true (Reuters)

World news

• Russia and China trade new copper disguised as scrap to skirt taxes, sanctions (Reuters)
• Sudan's uprooted millions pay price for year-long war (Reuters)
• Man kills 6 in stabbing attack at mall in Sydney suburb (Washington Post)

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On This Day In History 

• 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci is born.
• 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies.
• 1892 - Corrie ten Boom is born.
• 1896 - May Edward Chin is born. She was the first Black woman doctor in Harlem and worked with George Papanicolaon on the Pap smear to identify cervical cancer.
• 1912 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic.
• 1926 - Norma Merrick Sklarek is born. Called the “Rosa Parks of Architecture,” she became the first African-American woman licensed to practice architecture in New York in 1954.
• 1955 - Ray Kroc opens the first McDonald’s in Des Plaines, Illinois.
• 1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author of The Hiding Place and Holocaust survivor, dies at 91
• 1998 - Pol Pot, the architect of Cambodia’s killing fields, dies at age 72 of apparently natural causes while serving a life sentence imposed against him by his own Khmer Rouge.
• 2013 - Three people killed, hundreds injured in Boston Marathon bombing.
• 2019 - Notre Dame de Paris catches fire, toppling its spire and destroying its roof.

Quote of the Day

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”

—Corrie ten Boom 

On the Punny Side

Why did the farmer bury all his money?

To make his soil rich.

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