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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Editorial Board: We can't send these Afghan refugees back to the Taliban (Deseret News)
• The most powerful Utahn you’ve never heard of could be America’s next vice president (Deseret News)
• Utah lawmakers plan to reevaluate water rights held by mineral companies on the Great Salt Lake (KSL Newsradio)

Election news

• The 4 policy issues Sen. Mitt Romney is weighing as he decides whether to run again (Deseret News)
• How do caucus goers differ statistically from primary voters in Utah. Nationally, every caucus state underperforms every primary state, and other realities of voter participation. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• 2CD Candidate Profile: Celeste Maloy (ABC4)
• U.S. Senate Candidate Profile: Trent Staggs (ABC4)

General Utah news

• RIP, invisible lanes. (Deseret News)
• How to help Maui families rebuild (KSL TV)
• Ogden woman arrested for allegedly attempting to kidnap 1-year-old (KSL Newsradio)
• Salt Lake City has more households with dogs than children, survey says (Fox13)

Business

• Fed says economy, consumer spending still too hot, further rate hikes may be in the offing (Deseret News)
• Nomi Health’s COVID-19 app was built on stolen software and broken promises, lawsuits claim (Salt Lake Tribune)
• You’ve heard of quiet quitting. Now companies are quiet cutting. Layoffs are down, but employers are still finding ways to cut jobs (Wall Street Journal)
• They invest in Black women. A lawsuit claims it’s discrimination. (Washington Post)

Culture

• Rev. Theresa Dear:  5 of my favorite American heroes you might not know about (Deseret News)
• The surprising way that churches help to reduce poverty and heal division (Deseret News)
• ‘Stranger Becomes Neighbor’: Separated from parents, Afghan refugees land in Utah in the dark (KSL Newsradio)
• Worried about income inequality? Move to Utah (Deseret News)

Education

• Utah gymnastics under outside review after emotional abuse allegations (Deseret News)
• F. Wayne Vaught: Why come to Utah? You can’t beat our education system (Deseret News)
• 'I feel limitless': Female prisoners get equal-opportunity education with new certification programs (KSL)
• 4 things this Utah school district is thinking about as it writes a new AI policy (Salt Lake Tribune)
• ‘We want you to have a place’: Southern Utah tech firms take active role in college students’ futures (St. George News)

Environment

• Utah prairie dog flourishing again, thanks to a little help from its human friends (Deseret News)
• Death Valley National Park remains closed after historic rains (Deseret News)
• Garfield County officials urge hikers to be prepared after death in Bryce Canyon National Park (KSL TV)
• ‘We must change or die,’ author Terry Tempest Williams says of saving Great Salt Lake (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• A hidden crisis. The unclear future of male fertility and the American family (Deseret News)
• Parents in their late 20s helped Utah’s falling fertility rate finally hit a plateau (KUER)
• Millennials are tired of trying to be perfect moms (Washington Post)

Health

• Is it the flu, COVID or RSV? Experts share symptoms to watch out for this fall (Deseret News)
• How a Cache Valley art studio is using clay to heal (KSL)
• Utah professor says genetics, personalized medicine aren't a 'magic bullet' for many diseases (KSL)

Housing

• Sandy neighbors voice concern for proposed transitional housing (KSL Newsradio)
• Salt Lake City will get a legal homeless campground. Somewhere. (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• The aloha spirit: How these Pacific Islanders help Maui from the mainland (Deseret News)
• Maui's surf pros paddle out with kids from Lahaina for a healing surf session (NPR)
• Biden and Harris will meet with King’s family on 60th anniversary of the March on Washington (AP)
• Thousands march to mark the 60th anniversary of MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech (NPR)
• 5,000 pilots suspected of hiding major health issues. Most are still flying. (Washington Post)
• How a small-town feud in Kansas sent a shock through American journalism (Washington Post)

Politics

• No Labels’ big gamble (Deseret News)
• Could Trump be disqualified under the 14th Amendment? (Deseret News)
• Jennifer Graham: Mugshots, merch and ‘a very sad day for America’ (Deseret News)
• Biden is ‘old,’ Trump is ‘corrupt': AP-NORC poll has ominous signs for both in possible 2024 rematch (AP)
• The World Is Contemplating a Second Trump Administration. Possibility that former president will win next year’s election has capitals across globe on edge (Wall Street Journal)
• Wisconsin Supreme Court flips liberal, creating a ‘seismic shift’ (Washington Post)
• DeSantis booed at vigil for victims of racist shooting in Florida (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Zelenskyy pays tribute as Ukrainian pilot ‘Juice,’ 2 others killed in air ‘catastrophe’ (Politico)
• An evacuation order finds few followers in northeastern Ukraine despite Russia’s push in the region (AP)
• Love, war and loss: How one soldier in Ukraine hopes to be made whole again (NPR)
• Russia confirms that Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in last week's plane crash (NPR)
• Wagner mourners in Moscow reflect Prigozhin's appeal among Russians (New York Times)
• Ukraine says it liberates strategic southeastern settlement (Reuters)

World

• Holly Richardson: Millions of children in Pakistan don’t have access to safe water a year after floods, UNICEF report says (Deseret News)
• Illegal logging thrives in Mexico City’s forest-covered boroughs, as locals strive to plant trees (AP)
• French education minister announces ban on Islamic dress in schools (Politico)

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Upcoming

• 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
• 2nd Annual Conservative Climate Summit with Rep. John Curtis — Sept. 8, 8:00 am-3:00 pm, UVU, Register here
• 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 

• 476 - End of the Western Roman Empire when Orestes is captured and executed
• 1915 - Tasha Tudor is born. She was an illustrator and author of children’s books who received many awards and honors, including Caldecott Honors for Mother Goose in 1945.
• 1917 - President Woodrow Wilson picketed by women suffragists
• 1955 - Emmett Till is murdered
• 1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr gives his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington.
• 1996 - Charles and Diana divorce
• 2006 - Warren Jeffs arrested
• 2012 - Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the GOP’s candidate
• 2020 - Chadwick Boseman, (Black Panther), dies of colon cancer at 42

Quote of the Day

"We have also come to his hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism."

—Martin Luther King, Jr., in his I Have a Dream speech

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