Amid rising home costs and sky-high mortgage rates, potential homebuyers have at least some good news: The number of homes for sale in the U.S. is slowly rising back to pre-pandemic levels.
The South and West lead the way in the rise of the inventory of homes available for sale, with Utah seeing a 12.4% increase.
Read more about the good news for the nation’s housing market.
On the Utah-Nevada border, a ‘swing city’ gears up for 2024
Straddling the border of Nevada and Utah, the community of Wendover is split in two. On the Nevada side, voters could help decide the next U.S. president. Across the street, in Utah, voters almost certainly won’t.
Thanks to the Electoral College system, the 2024 election will likely be determined by a handful of swing states. Utah, which has voted for the Republican nominee in every election since 1964, is not one of them. Nevada, which President Joe Biden won by two percentage points in 2020, is.
That has turned half of Wendover into a battleground. In West Wendover, Nevada, campaigns are already flooding residents with robocalls and texts messages, and super PACs are filling mailboxes with flyers. “We really get hit hard with that,” West Wendover Mayor Jasie Holm said. “It’s overwhelming. It’s a little bit much.”
Read more about life and politics in the two Wendovers.
If you search enough on the internet, you can find a recording of the complete CBS radio broadcast from D-Day, June 6, 1944, beginning about an hour after the network’s news team came on the air shortly after midnight to share German radio reports about an invasion.
At one point, a commentator observes how lights can be seen coming on in windows around New York as people become aware of the news.
Most likely, each light represented a son, a brother, a father or a husband and the dread each of their relatives felt, wondering about a distant unknown that loomed as thick as the darkness of that predawn morning.
Read more from Jay Evensen on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
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The U.S.
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The World
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Gaza war: Hamas leader demands full end to conflict in blow to Biden plan (Reuters)
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Salmonella outbreak in cucumbers hits 25 states and D.C. (Deseret News)
TikTok brings awareness to men’s mental health (Deseret News)
Culture
Nara Smith is not a tradwife. She created a thriving career from scratch (Deseret News)
Today’s young men are struggling with loneliness — here’s how to help your boys make more friends (Deseret News)
Sports
Way-too-early Big 12 basketball power rankings and how recruiting has shaken things up (Deseret News)
Jazz are ditching highlighter yellow uniforms. Here's all you need to know about the rebrand (Deseret News)
AI is changing the way we referee sports (Deseret News)
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