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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Cox announces plan to double Utah’s energy in 10 years (Deseret News)
• Here’s who the Utah Democratic Party says best embodies Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy (Deseret News)
• 13 states plus Washington D.C. join Utah in lawsuit against TikTok (KSL News Radio)
• State lawmaker says it's time to educate Utahns about road rage incidents (FOX 13)

Election news

• New GOP leader Rep. Blake Moore defends party in debate focused on the budget (Deseret News)
• Scott Cuthbertson: As a state senator, I want to eschew partisan rhetoric and actually govern (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Municipal news

• Salt Lake County Council approves resolution of support for preserving Abravanel Hall (KSL)
• Australian high school football player files suit against UHSAA to play varsity, says new rule discriminates (KSL News Radio)
• Raccoon starts Salt Lake City power outage affecting nearly 5,000 customers (KUTV)
• Delta plane with ‘engulfed engine’ returns safely to SLC airport (ABC4)
• UDOT further refines plans for I-15 expansion through Davis County (ABC4)
• Delta hit hard by inflation, residents hope new growth could solve economic disparities (KSL)

Utah

• Smoke spreads as Yellow Lake Fire reaches almost 20,000 acres (KSL)
• Utah task force moves to Georgia to prepare for Hurricane Milton (KSL)
• First game, first goals, first win: Inside Utah Hockey Club’s big night (Deseret News)
• Utah officials warn to watch for fraud attempts in the wake of Hurricane Helene (St. George News)
• Above average highs stay in Utah but a cool down could be on the horizon (ABC4)

Biz/Tech

• An American Fork company aims at grid storage solutions (Deseret News)
• The legal battle over AI continues: AI artist files lawsuit seeking copyright protection (Deseret News)

Crime/Courts

• Ogden man seeks parole 25 years after brutally slaying his estranged wife (KSL)
• Serial burglar arrested in Salt Lake City yet again (KSL)
• Man facing child abuse charge days after wife jailed for death of 4-month-old baby (KUTV)

Culture

• 'An ongoing process': Latino students discuss efforts balancing US, Latin American roots (KSL)

Education

• How Utah's higher education landscape can evolve to meet a future of fewer students (KSL)
• Box Elder School District asking voters to approve a $220M bond (KSL-TV)

Environment

• BLM to consider e-bike allowance on some Moab mountain biking trails (KSL News Radio)
• Springdale’s river park secures funding to protect critical infrastructure from erosion threats (St. George News)
• Climate change helped fuel Hurricane Milton's explosive growth (Axios)
• Grazer beats the behemoth that killed her cub to win Alaska’s Fat Bear Contest (The Associated Press)

Health

• Nobel Prize in physics and in medicine explained (Deseret News)

Housing

• Cities attempt to manage growth as Utah's population increases (KUTV)

National Headlines

General

• Tampa mayor: If you stay in evacuation area, ‘you are going to die’ (The Hill)
• American Water, the largest water utility in US, is targeted by a cyberattack (The Associated Press)
• Are Americans falling behind on savings goals? (Deseret News)
• DOJ weighs suggesting Google breakup as "remedy" to search monopoly (Axios)

Political news

• Even young children are getting scared and angry about politics (Deseret News)
• FBI says it thwarted plot for Election Day terror attack by Afghan national (The Hill)
• A Christian baker wouldn’t make a gender transition cake. The Colorado Supreme Court just ruled in his favor (Deseret News)
• Supreme Court justices seem inclined to OK Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ rule (POLITICO)

Election news

• A retired conservative judge’s challenge to claims about the 2020 election (Deseret News)
• Sen. Mitt Romney weighs in on Trump, Harris economic plans (Deseret News)
• 3 takeaways from Vice President Kamala Harris’ ‘60 Minutes’ interview (Deseret News)
• 3 takeaways from Trump’s recent Interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham (Deseret News)
• Trump campaign launches official Latter-day Saint outreach effort (Deseret News)
• Melania Trump’s memoir is out. Will its revelations matter? (Deseret News)
• Trump spoke with Putin multiple times since leaving office, Woodward book reports (POLITICO)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Biden deals blow to Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’ as Russia claims two more villages (The Independent)
• Opinion: The West’s support for Ukraine is fading – and that will empower Putin for his next war (The Guardian)

Israel and Gaza

• Heavy fighting in Gaza's Jabalia as Israel conducts new ground operation (BBC)
• Hezbollah targets Israeli troops on Lebanese border, sirens sound in northern Israel (Reuters)

World news

• CDC to screen travelers from Rwanda amid deadly Marburg outbreak (Deseret News)
• Ishiba dissolves Japan’s lower house to set up an Oct. 27 parliamentary election (The Associated Press)
• Brazil's Supreme Court lifts ban on X (Axios)

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Upcoming

• Oct. 7-9 — One Utah Summit, SUU. Register here
• Oct. 10 — US Senate Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 14 â€” CD2 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 15-16 — Interim Days
• Oct. 16 — Nurturing Hope in Ourselves and Others: The Science of Hope and Well-Being sponsored by the Utah Women and Leadership Project, 12:00 - 1:15 pm. Register here
• Oct. 17 — CD3 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 24 — CD4 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Nov. 5 — Election Day!
• Nov. 15 — Women & Business Conference & ATHENA Awards Luncheon with the Salt Lake Chamber, Grand America Hotel. Register here
• Nov. 19-20 — Interim Days
• Jan. 9 — What’s Up Down South Economic Summit. St. George. Register here
• Jan. 10 — Rural Utah Data Symposium. St. George. Register here

On This Day In History

• 768 - Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks.
• 1635 - Religious dissident Roger Williams, who believed in the separation of church and state, is banished from Mass Bay Colony.
• 1823 - Mary Ann Shadd Cary is born. An American-Canadian publisher and anti-slavery campaigner, she became the first African American newspaper publisher.
• 1884 - Helene Deutsch, psychoanalyst, wrote two volumes on "The Psychology of Women" (1944-45) with emphasis on motherhood.
• 1941 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project.
• 1949 - Harvard Law School begins admitting women.
• 1974 - Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman credited with saving 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, dies at 66.
• 1984 - Astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes the first U.S. woman to walk in space during a Space Shuttle Challenger mission.
• 1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American politician and U.S. ambassador to Italy, dies at 84.
• 2012 - Women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tries to board her school bus.

Quote of the Day

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"
― Clare Boothe Luce

On the Punny Side

I just invented the world’s fastest escalator.

I call it the “escanow.”

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