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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Utah files lawsuit against TikTok, alleging harm to teen users (Deseret News)
• GOP presidential hopefuls arrive in Park City for Sen. Mitt Romney-led summit (Deseret News)
• AG Sean Reyes: Tim Ballard lawsuit should be taken seriously, declines to answer specifics (KSL Newsradio)
• Lawsuit accuses Brad Wilson of financial misconduct and forgiving a loan to another Utah politician (Salt Lake Tribune)

General Utah news

• Photo gallery: Utahns gather to show solidarity with Israel (Deseret News)
• Anti-human trafficking organization receives $900,000 grant (KSL Newsradio)

Business

• Work ethic or work mode? Here’s what a new poll reveals about remote employment productivity (Deseret News)
• Space travel meets high fashion: Why Prada is designing spacesuits for NASA (Deseret News)
• Is Utah the best state for business? Rankings say yes — and no. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Cookie-bakery chain Crumbl confirms layoffs, citing ‘strong economic headwinds’ (Salt Lake Tribune)
• ‘Startup capital of the world’: One Utah Summit in Cedar City focuses on entrepreneurism, leadership (St. George News)
• Milkshake bar with mouth-watering creations coming to Utah (Fox13)

Crime

• Utah judge issues order to seal all records in Ruby Franke child welfare case (KUTV)
• Man accused of attempting to lure female students in car at Granger High (Fox13)

Education

• As Israel takes ‘mighty revenge’ on Hamas, classes continue at calm, secure BYU Jerusalem Center (Deseret News)
• New BYU-Idaho president charged to align university with prophetically inspired direction (Deseret News)
• ACT test scores for US students drop to new 30-year low (KSL TV)

Environment

• Utah lawmakers prepare to wrangle with Millard power plant (Deseret News)
• Legislative leaders blister power agency for denying access to their auditors (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Legal action may be pursued over UDOT's gondola decision in Little Cottonwood Canyon (KUTV)
• Using technology to open up wilderness trails to people with disabilities (NPR)

Health

• How much sunshine are you getting? Now your watch can keep track. (Washington Post)

Housing

• No more rate hikes, housing market leaders urge Federal Reserve (Deseret News)
• Free tai chi class helps homeless find stability in Utah (Fox13)

National Headlines

General

• The latest Riley Gaines controversy, explained. Was the former college swimmer ‘canceled’ by Penn State? Gaines and the university have different takes (Deseret News)
• Opinion: The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize represents the genius of visionary women (Deseret News)

Politics

• President Biden calls attack on Israel "sheer evil" (Wall Street Journal)
• Perspective: Kevin McCarthy and the trust deficit in politics (Deseret News)
• Perspective: The Religious Freedom Restoration Act is 30 years old. What’s next? (Deseret News)
• Rep. Santos faces new charges he stole donor IDs, made unauthorized charges to their credit cards (AP)
• Having ousted Kevin McCarthy, House Republicans are hitting trouble trying to nominate a new speaker (AP)
• US Supreme Court scrutinizes South Carolina voting map deemed racially biased (Reuters)

Elections

• Sen. Mitt Romney urged Democratic senators to challenge Biden — and he named names (Deseret News)
• What RFK Jr. can learn from Evan McMullin (Deseret News)
• Former baseball MVP Steve Garvey launches U.S. Senate campaign in California (Deseret News)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Ukraine accuses two men of helping guide missile that killed dozens in Hroza village (Reuters)
• Zelenskyy, at NATO HQ, asks for weapons to face winter of 'terror' (Reuters)
• 'Always under fire': On the battlefield with Ukraine's elite troops (New York Times)

Israel 🇮🇱

• Israeli strikes demolish entire Gaza neighborhoods as only power plant in territory runs out of fuel (AP)
• How an Israeli kibbutz 'paradise' turned into hell in Hamas attack (Reuters)
• As Israel strikes Gaza, fears of humanitarian disaster mount (Wall Street Journal)
• Hamas leaves a trail of terror in Israel. 'It's not a war or a battlefielf; it's a massacre.' (New York Times)
• 900 red roses left outside Israeli Embassy in Sweden (Washington Post)
• Israel ordered a ‘complete siege’ of Gaza. Here’s what that looks like. (Washington Post)
• ‘You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers in their bedrooms and how the terrorists killed’ (Politico)
• Israel is acting against international law, EU’s top diplomat says. "Cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people, is against international law." (Politico)

World

• Quake in Afghanistan leaves rubble, funerals and survivors struggling with loss (AP)
• Another quake strikes western Afghanistan; official says more homes destroyed (Reuters)
• 'The wrath of God': Afghans mourn unimaginable loss from quake (New York Times)

Number of the Day 

News Releases

Moore introduces legislation to protect the U of U’s Research Park

Congressman Blake Moore introduced the University of Utah Research Park Act in the House of Representatives to ensure the longevity of the University of Utah’s Research Park, an integral hub for research and development in the Beehive State and a key driver of Utah’s workforce and economy.  (Read More)

Tweet of the Day 

Upcoming

• Interim Days — Oct 10-12, le.utah.gov
• Special Election, SD 22 — Oct. 11, booths 5:00-7:00 pm, election, 7 pm
• Martha Hughes Cannon Award with Utah Women Run — Nov 2, 6:00-8:00 pm, Nominate someone here
• Interim Day — Nov 14-15, le.utah.gov
• Celebrating 30 years of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, with the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation — Nov 16, 10 am, MST, Register here
  
• General election — Nov. 21
  

On This Day In History 

• 1809 - Meriweather Lewis dies of gunshot wounds under mysterious circumstances at age 35.
• 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt is born. A civil rights advocate, feminist, author, and world diplomat, she was also the First Lady from 1933-45.
• 1890 - Daughters of the American Revolution is founded
• 1906 - San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children, sparking diplomatic crises
• 1939 - Albert Einstein informs FDR of the possibilities of an atomic bomb
• 1950 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color
• 1984 - Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to “walk” in space during Challenger flight
• 1986 - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
• 2000 - NASA launches the 100th space shuttle mission
• 2002 - Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Quote of the Day

"War ... is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children."
—Jimmy Carter, giving his Nobel Lecture, 2002

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