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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Sens. Mike Lee, Mitt Romney and others react to report of 2nd assassination attempt against Donald Trump (Deseret News)
• Utah Legislature appeals decision blocking Amendment D from the ballot (KSL)
• State refuses to release conflict-of-interest records for Cox's cabinet (KSL)
• Another billion-dollar Utah stadium project is asking for taxpayer money (Salt Lake Tribune)
• How the Utah Inland Port is funded, and why it's controversial (KSL)

Election news

• Inside Trump’s brief Utah fundraiser — and how Gov. Cox was involved (Deseret News)
• Donald Trump ‘cares about Utah,’ top state lawmaker says after former president’s three-hour SLC visit (Salt Lake Tribune)
• The ‘Utah way’ is scarce in 2024 politics. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get there (KUER)
• National and local debates (Hinckley Report)

Municipal news

• Cache County Council agrees to fund private defamation lawsuit in unusual move (KSL)
• Utah County’s largest playground opens in Lehi, offering inclusive space for kids of all abilities (Daily Herald)

Utah

• Opinion: How a smartphone became the thief of my joy (Deseret News)
• Three Americans — including two with Utah ties — sentenced to death for failed Congo coup (Salt Lake Tribune)
• West Jordan man runs into burning house before roof collapse to save neighbors (KUTV)

Biz/Tech

• Local food truck owner fighting misinformation about Haitian immigrants through cuisine (Fox13)

Crime/courts

• Human trafficking charges filed against pine nut harvesting operation in Iron County (St. George News)

Culture

• Emmy Awards 2024: Here are all the winners (Deseret News)
• Why did D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai have a red hand painted on his face at the Emmys? (Deseret News)
• Opinion: What the Ballerina Farm following tells us about the economy (Deseret News)

Education

• ‘It was amazing’: How the University of Utah shaped Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull’s career (Deseret News)
• Book bans cost Utah taxpayers thousands of dollars. Here’s how much two school districts spent. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Environment

• What is Lake Powell and why does it matter? (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• Sunday Edition: Brad Wilcox on parenting (KSL TV)
• Valerie Hudson: ‘We are forgivable people’ — navigating conflict when your child has gone ‘no contact’ (Deseret News)
• One in eight women suffer from postpartum depression (KSL Newsradio)

Health

• What you need to know to make smart choices about caffeine (Deseret News)
• How athletes use caffeine: Boosting performance or risking health? (Deseret News)
• ARUP among 5 companies developing bird flu test for CDC (Deseret News)
• Making arts, crafts improves mental health as much as having a job, scientists find (KSL TV)
• USU Extension launches comprehensive series on coping with loneliness (Cache Valley Daily)
• Utah lab may help develop a more efficient bird flu test after 14th human case in 2024 (St. George News)

National Headlines

General

• Hispanic Heritage Month puts diversity and culture at the forefront (AP)
• Michaela DePrince, war orphan turned leading ballerina, dies at 29 (New York Times)

Political news

• Opinion: Gaza ceasefire, the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy (Deseret News)
• Gambling on U.S. elections is an idea that should die quickly (Deseret News)
• DOJ shines a light on Russian use of conservative influencers (The Hill)

Election news

• Trump pledges to deport Haitians in Ohio city if elected (Reuters)
• Trump says 'I hate Taylor Swift!' in Truth Social post (Reuters)
• Trump was the subject of an apparent assassination attempt at his Florida golf club, the FBI says (AP)
• Vance doesn’t back away from false claims about migrants in Ohio even amid threats to the community (AP)
• Republicans had planned to campaign on the economy but instead, Trump posts disdain for Taylor Swift and Vance defends pet-eating claims (Wall Street Journal)
• 17 former staff members of the late Republican President Ronald Reagan are endorsing Kamala Harris (CBS News)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Mining and the war in Ukraine (Deseret News)
• Russian bomb strikes Kharkiv apartment building, one dead, 42 injured, officials say (Reuters)
• ‘Sprinkled with our blood’: Why so many Ukrainians resist land for peace (Washington Post)
• Russia’s Medvedev threatens to turn Kyiv into ‘giant melted spot’ (Politico)

Israel and Gaza

• Top Biden aide to visit Israel amid fears of escalation With Hezbollah (New York Times)

World news

• Hundreds of thousands in Cuba without water (Reuters)
• Rebecca Cheptegei defied her violent ex. It killed her. (Reuters)
• At least 10 killed in floods as a month’s worth of rain pounds central Europe (KSL TV)
• The calamitous rape crisis unfolding in Congo’s war. Around 80% of women in camps for the displaced have been raped (Wall Street Journal)

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News Releases

UVU’s Center for Constitutional Studies to host Constitution Day conference Sept. 17

Utah Valley University’s Center for Constitutional Studies (CCS) will hold its annual Constitution Day conference Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Clarke Building on the Orem Campus.

The morning session will be held in room 101 of the Clarke Building, and the afternoon session will be in room 510. The theme of the conference is“Parties in the USA: Does Partisanship Undermine the Constitution?”

Matthew Brogdon, CCS senior director, will host a panel discussion in the afternoon titled: “Direct Democracy versus the Legislature: A Discussion about Ballot Initiatives in Utah.” The panel will feature experts and civic leaders discussing the Utah Legislature’s efforts to reverse the Utah Supreme Court’s recent decision on the initiative process and the role of direct democracy in constitutional self-government. (Read More)

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Upcoming

• Sep. 17-18 — Interim Days
• Oct. 1 — Attorney General Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• Oct. 4 — Conservative Climate Summit, 7:30 am - 3:00 pm, UVU, Register here
• Oct. 4 — Hatch Foundation hosts Civil Dialogue Symposium with Dana Perino, 2:00 pm, USU, Register here
• Oct. 7-9 — One Utah Summit, SUU, Register here
• Oct. 8 â€” CD1 Debate, UT Debate Commission, 6:00 pm
• 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. 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

• 1620 - The Mayflower sets sail
• 1875 - James Cash Penney, American department store founder (JC Penney), is born on this day.
• 1887 - Louise Boyd is born. The American explorer led expeditions to the Arctic and wrote several books about her experiences. Her amassed knowledge of the Arctic led the U.S. government to appoint her as the head of an investigation of magnetic and radio phenomena in the Arctic.
• 1920 - The "Wall Street bombing" occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143.
• 1932 - Gandhi begins a fast in protest of caste separation
• 1940 - The Selective Service Act is passed, the first peacetime draft in history
• 1941 - Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed
• 1971 - Amy Poehler, aka Leslie Knope is born
• 1997 - Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs interim CEO
• 2018 - Cycling land speed record broken for men and women by Denise Mueller-Korenek riding 183.932 mph (296.010 km/h) Bonneville Salt Flats

Quote of the Day

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
—Mahatma Gandhi

On the Punny Side

I tried to take a picture of a wheat field

but it turned out grainy.

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