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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Convention reports and summer preview (Hinckley Report)
• Sunday Edition: Eboo Patel and Sam Daley-Harris (KSL TV)
• Mitt Romney praises Kyrsten Sinema, explains why he thinks she became ‘toxic’ to Democrats (Deseret News)
• Sen. Mitt Romney, Secretary of State Antony Blinken explore progress in Middle East, Ukraine, China (Deseret News)
• Gov. Spencer Cox waxed philosophical. It broke the internet (Deseret News)

Election news

• Utah’s caucus-convention system leaves young families behind (Deseret News)
• The state of the Utah Republican Party (RadioWest)

Utah news

• Felecia Maxfield-Barrett: Utah’s key to unlocking the world (Deseret News)
• SLC park, known for its expansive dog run and persistent homelessness issues, will get a face-lift (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Exhibit probes contributions, struggles of Chinese laborers building transcontinental railroad (Standard-Examiner)

Business

• April job growth slows but rate may be better for overall economy (Deseret News)
• Rue21 files for bankruptcy, to close all stores, including 5 in Utah (Fox13)
• Who’s happiest at work? Hint: It’s not women (Wall Street Journal)

Culture

• Actor Bernard Hill, of 'Titanic' and 'Lord of the Rings,' has died at 79 (KSL)

Education

• Eboo Patel: My advice to graduates: Host a potluck (Deseret News)
• Utah Fits All scholarships awarded to 10,000 families (Fox13)

Environment

• Why Colorado River basin states are split on long-term plan to manage its water (KSL)
• Utah’s 4th largest coal power plant asks to keep burning into the 2040s (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Damage to Glen Canyon Dam reveals vulnerabilities of the entire Colorado River system (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• Hope and healing possible for those hurt by pornography, Elder Renlund says (Deseret News)
• Your parents know what’s best for you. Even when it comes to marriage? (Deseret News)

Health

• Want to be happy? Try helping other people (Deseret News)
• How to navigate Utah’s ‘Wild West’ of psychedelic-assisted therapy options (Salt Lake Tribune)

Housing

• Dehumanizing the homeless won’t solve Utah’s crisis. We’re taking a new approach. (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• Sea drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. is floundering. (Reuters)
• Explainer: How US campus protests over Gaza differ from Vietnam war era (Reuters)
• The U.S. is updating its Social Security estimates. Here’s what you need to know. (Washington Post)
• The new propaganda war (The Atlantic)

Political news

• The triumph of democracy over faction (Deseret News)
• Top RNC lawyer resigns after rift grows with Trump (Washington Post)
• Hope Hicks gets teary testifying at Trump’s hush money trial (Washington Post)

Election news

• Biden, Trump speak out on campus protests (Deseret News)
• A group of Republicans has united to defend the legitimacy of US elections and those who run them (Cache Valley Daily)
• Fewer Black voters plan to vote in 2024, Post-Ipsos poll finds (Washington Post)
• Biden, Trump deadlocked in national survey (The Hill)
• More Americans trust Trump on economy, inflation than Biden: Poll (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Russia is using chemical weapons, says the U.S. State Department (Deseret News)
• Confident of victory over Ukraine, Russia exhibits Western war trophies (Washington Post)
• Russia to hold drills on tactical nuclear weapons (New York Times)

Israel and Gaza

• Israeli army tells Palestinians to evacuate parts of Gaza’s Rafah ahead of an expected assault (AP)
• With schools in ruins, education in Gaza will be hobbled for years (New York Times)

World news

• 3 bodies in Mexican well identified as Australian and American surfers killed for truck’s tires (AP)
• Under Putin, a militarized new Russia rises to challenge U.S. and the West (Washington Post)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) this week was recognized as a “Fiscal Hero” for the 118^th Congress by Fix the Debt—a project of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CFRB)—for his bipartisan efforts to rein in the national debt and balance the federal budget. Since coming to Congress, Romney has made budget and debt issues a top priority and has been urging Congress to pass the Fiscal Stability Act—his legislation with Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) which would create a bicameral fiscal commission tasked with finding legislative solutions to stabilize and decrease our national debt. The Fiscal Responsibility Act, the companion legislation introduced in the House by Representatives Bill Huizenga (R-MI) and Scott Peters (D-CA), passed out of the Budget Committee in January on a bipartisan basis. A one-pager of the bill is available here. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• May 7 â€” Election Trust Forum, UVU, 8:00 am-11:30 am, Register here
• May 8 — BioHive Live conference, Hale Centre Theatre, Register here
• May 13-15 — Interim Days
• May 29 — Northern Utah Conference to End Violence, USU Logan campus,  8:30 am-4:30 pm, Register here
• June 6 — Bolder Way Forward 2nd Annual Summit, Zions Technology Campus, 9:00 am-2:00 pm, Register here
• June 18-19 — Interim Days
• August 14 â€” Hatch Foundation "Titan of Public Service" recognizing Sen. John Thune, Grand America
• August 20-21 — Interim Days
• September 17-18 — Interim Days
• October 15-16 — Interim Day
• November 19-20 — Interim Days

On This Day In History 

• 1922 - KSL launches.
• 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
• 1937 - German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground and ends the age of zeppelins.
• 1947 - Martha Craven Nussbaum, one of the foremost American philosophers, was born today.
• 1954 - Roger Bannister becomes first to run a sub-4 minute mile at 3:59:4
• 1960 - President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
• 1961 - George Clooney is born.
• 1981 - Architecture student Maya Lin wins a national competition for the design of the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial to be built in Washington, D.C.
• 1987 - William J. Casey, American head of the CIA during the Iran-contra scandal (1981-87), dies of aspiration pneumonia at 73
• 1994 - The “Chunnel” officially opens, linking England and France through an underwater tunnel.

Quote of the Day

“You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.”
― Martha Nussbaum

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