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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Editorial Board: Trump shooting was an assault on all Americans (Deseret News)
• Optimism, no. Hope, yes. Gov. Cox’s call to action at the end of ‘Disagree Better’ (Deseret News)
• What one Latter-day Saint leader learned about peacemaking after California’s Proposition 8 (Deseret News)
• Zelenskyy in Utah: ‘Evil must always, always lose’ (Deseret News)
• Sunday Edition: Mayor Erin Mendenhall (KSL TV)
• Sunday Edition: The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump (KSL TV)
• Utahns weigh in on attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump (KUTV)

Election news

• Utah attorney general candidates talk Chevron deference and Trump immunity (Deseret News)

Utah news

• Foreign countries are buying up Utah land. Are you worried? (Deseret News)
• Former Ogden man identified as victim of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre from DNA (KSL)
• Father and daughter found dead in Canyonlands (KSL)
• State tech officer fired after pushing back against plans to scrub public data (KSL)
• A Utah gardening nonprofit helps homeless women put down roots, grow a better life (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah Treasure Hunt undiscovered a month later, organizers drop new hints (ABC4)

Olympics

• Olympic flame arrives in Paris, at the center of Bastille Day parade (Washington Post)

Environment

• Deer Springs Fire is at 70% contained, according to officials (KSL TV)
• How high is the wildfire risk in Utah this summer? (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Tribune editorial: If Utah wants the feds to butt out, it must show it can do the job of protecting our environment (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Can a conservative think tank help save the Great Salt Lake? (Salt Lake Tribune)

Health

• Extreme heat and some medicines can be a risky combo. Here’s what to know (AP)
• About 7 percent of U.S. adults have had long covid, report says (Washington Post)

National Headlines

General

• US health officials confirm four new bird flu cases, in Colorado poultry workers (AP)

Political news

• Four U.S. presidents were assassinated; others were targeted, as were presidential candidates (Fox13)
• How both parties are getting it wrong on tariffs and trade. The candidates’ machismo about trade will lead to severe economic consequences, as history shows (Deseret News)

Election news

• Republican National Convention set to kick off in the wake of Trump assassination attempt (Deseret News)
• Trump says he’s changed convention speech to help ‘bring the country together’ (The Hill)
• Whatever happens next, Biden deserves dignity and decorum (Deseret News)
• Nikki Haley, Trump’s former primary rival, will speak Tuesday at the Republican convention (AP)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Ukraine's mobilization campaign picks up despite faltering enthusiasm (Reuters)
• From basement to battlefield: Ukrainian startups create low-cost robots to fight Russia (AP)

Israel and Gaza

• Israel launches new Gaza strikes after weekend attack kills scores in safe zone (Reuters)

World news

• Gambia parliament rejects bill to end ban on female genital mutilation, speaker says (Reuters)
• Trillions in hidden debt drove China's growth. Now it threatens its future (Wall Street Journal)

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On This Day In History 

• 1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign
• 1806 - Zebulon Pike leads an exploring party across the American Southwest. He ends up in Colorado and has a mountain named after him. 
• 1899 - Estelle Ishigo is born. An artist, she joined her Japanese-American husband in a Wyoming internment camp during WWII, made sketches of her experience for the War Relocation Authority, and published “Lone Heart Mountain” in 1972 chronicling her internment.
• 1923 - Connie Boucher is born. An artist, she helped start the character merchandising industry by licensing characters such as Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” and Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are.”
• 1952 - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is born. In 1989, Ros-Lehtinen became the first Cuban American and Latina elected to Congress. She gave the first Republican response to the State of the Union Address in Spanish in 2011 then again in 2014.
• 1971 - US President Richard Nixon announces he will visit the People's Republic of China
• 1982 - Senate confirms George P. Shultz as US 60th Secretary of State by vote of 97-0
• 2006 - Twitter officially launches

Quote of the Day

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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