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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Could the Utah Compact make a difference for America’s immigration standoff? (Deseret News)

Election news

• Gov. candidate Phil Lyman questioned Utah’s elections. We looked into the process (Deseret News)
• Iron County Commissioner refuses to certify primary election results amid controversy (St. George News)
• Still a few hundred votes behind in congressional race, Colby Jenkins files lawsuit to get voters’ names and addresses (Deseret News)
• Hoping for a recount to beat Maloy, GOP House candidate Colby Jenkins sues to get voter information. Washington County officials say Jenkins’ claim to force release of uncured ballots has ‘no basis in fact’ (Standard-Examiner)
• Biden’s top Utah surrogate: If Biden can’t beat Trump, he should drop out (Deseret News)

Utah news

• Burn experts warn of hot surfaces, other heat-related dangers during summer months. Many playground surfaces and features can reach well over 100 degrees in the sun (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Preparing to celebrate the 250th anniversary of a pivotal moment in American history (Deseret News)
• Jerry Bovee responds to his firing by Utah State (Deseret News)
• Utah company mourns loss of CEO, his daughter in fatal Ogden crash (KSL)
• Sunday Edition: Rabbi Avremi Zippel (KSL TV)

Olympics

• Former BYU runner Whittni Morgan is headed to the Olympics after all (Deseret News)

Business

• Smith Entertainment Group estimates spending $525 million remodeling Delta Center (UPR)

Crime/Courts

• $1 billion Utah prison isn’t delivering promised programs. (Fox13)
• Woman claiming ‘sovereign’ status jailed after allegedly resisting arrest in Cedar City (St George News)

Education

• Why Abby Cox ‘shows up’ for Utah teachers (Deseret News)
• $1 billion gift to make Johns Hopkins medical school free for most (Washington Post)

Environment

• Uranium still poisoning Navajo people. But they can't stop the ore from coming (KSL)

Health

• New West Valley City health clinic puts focus on Latinos, immigrants, the uninsured (KSL)

Housing

• Utah public defenders are anxious about the Supreme Court’s camping ban decision (KUER)
• Park City’s elders helped build the resort town. Now, they’re retiring with few housing and care options. (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• Poll: Are we still proud to be Americans? (Deseret News)
• Las Vegas shatters all-time record high temperature at 120 degrees (KUTV)
• Boeing to plead guilty to fraud in US probe of fatal 737 MAX crashes (Reuters)
• Volunteers who lived in a NASA-created Mars replica for over a year have emerged (NPR)

Political news

• Are congregations the key to stemming America’s rising tide of polarization? (Deseret News)
• ‘I just can’t bring myself to support either candidate’: Why so many American Latter-day Saints feel politically homeless (Deseret News)
• No Labels warned us (Deseret News)
• Biden is now deporting more people than Trump (Reuters)
• Americans evenly divided over whether Trump should face prison time in hush money case: Poll (The Hill)
• Sen. Vance says ‘totally reasonable’ for Trump to investigate Biden for possible wrongdoing (The Hill)
• Biden administration plans major cuts to AIDS relief programs in Africa (Politico)

Election news

• President Biden said it would take divine intervention for him to stand aside (Deseret News)
• Rep. Burgess Owens’ cross-country campaigning (Deseret News)
• Biden’s uncertain political future divides Democrats as they return to Capitol Hill (AP)
• Online reports falsely claim Biden suffered a ‘medical emergency’ on Air Force One (AP)
• Gov. Whitmer shuts down 2024 presidential talk but doesn’t hide her ambitions in timely book launch (AP)
• Democrats focus attacks on right-wing Project 2025 pushed by Trump allies (Washington Post)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Russian missile attack kills 29, hits children's hospital, Ukraine says (Reuters)
• NATO chief says alliance will set up new command, establish financial pledges to support Ukraine (The Hill)

Israel and Gaza

• Israel deepens its operation in Gaza City, as pockets of militancy confront the military (AP)
• Netanyahu's resistance to a deal narrows hopes for a cease-fire in Gaza (New York Times)

World news

• Labour Party's Keir Starmer new UK prime minister after historic win (Deseret News)
• France faces coalition puzzle after left-wing surge (Reuters)

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On This Day In History 

• 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
• 1861 - Nettie Stevens is born. She discovered the X and Y chromosomes.
• 1865 - Mary Surratt becomes the first woman executed by the US government for her role in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. She was joined on the gallows by Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt.
• 1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder. Described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.
• 1930 - Building begins on the Hoover Dam.
• 1946 - James Earl “Jimmy” Carter marries Eleanor Rosalynn Smith at the Plains Methodist Church in Plains, Georgia.
• 1947 - The Roswell Daily Record, quoted officials at Roswell Army Air Field as saying they had recovered a “flying saucer” that crashed onto a ranch
• 1976 - Female cadets enrolled at West Point for the first time.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O’Connor nominated to the US Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan
• 2011 - Former first lady Betty Ford dies at age 93
• 2019 - US women’s soccer team wins record 4th World Cup title

Quote of the Day

“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”
― Sandra Day O'Connor

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