Utah Headlines

Political news

• Utah's political standing in Congress (Hinckley Report)
• At Orem forum, Phil Lyman announces 2028 election plans, Utah County clerk calls commissioner his ‘nemesis’ (Daily Herald)
• Which Latter-day Saints will get jobs in the Trump administration? (Deseret News)
• Sen.-elect Curtis denies reports that he tanked Matt Gaetz’s bid for attorney general (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Keep Utah elections great (Deseret News)
• Opinion: John Curtis’ victory shows the path forward for Republicans on climate. Environmental leaders should take note (Deseret News)
• A look inside the official meetings Utah A.G. Sean Reyes held at his unofficial office in a private club (Salt Lake Tribune)

Utah

• Rays of hope: Finding light beyond the bad news (Deseret News)
• Jordan Clarkson's foundation helps bring Thanksgiving to families in need (Fox13)
• Utah ranks No. 1 for volunteerism, showcasing a 'deep-rooted spirit of service' (St. George News)

Biz/Tech

• Beehive Meals feted for solving ‘What’s for dinner?’ (Deseret News)
• These activities drive Utah's booming outdoor recreation economy (Deseret News)
• Parfé Diem, local Black-owned business wins $25,000 grant (KSL Newsradio)
• US Magnesium will idle operations after laying off 186 workers (KUER)

Crime/Courts

• Utah youth firearm offenses double, but no one really knows where they’re getting the guns (KSL TV)

Culture

• ‘We get to take the audience closer than ever before’: Director Jon M. Chu talks all things ‘Wicked’ with Deseret News (Deseret News)
• Can 'Glicked' compete with 'Barbenheimer'? (Deseret News)

Education

• Enrollment growth at Latter-day Saint universities rebuts narrative about young adults losing faith (Deseret News)
• Taylor Randall: How college campuses are a platform for ‘fantastic discourse’ (Deseret News)
• BYU drops to No. 19 in latest AP Top 25 rankings following 2nd straight loss (KSL)

Environment

• What is Utah’s plan for the Intermountain Power Agency’s coal fired units? (Deseret News)

Family

• Georgia arrest puts spotlight on 'free-range' parenting again (Deseret News)
• Adventures in parenting, winter edition: Why is one glove always missing? (Deseret News)
• The seeming chaos of family is part of why it teaches us so much (Deseret News)

Health

• How a new postage stamp-sized patch monitors blood pressure (Deseret News)
• Financial stress linked to mental health issues for many Americans (Deseret News)
• Fentanyl overtook meth for overdose deaths in Utah for the first time last year. Advocates don’t want compassion left behind as it does. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Forest bathing? Discover the health benefits of Southern Utah's native plants, desert landscapes (St. George News)
• You can reduce your risk of dementia. Here's how to get started (NPR)

Housing

• Not just brick and mortar — the changes 2 experts say Utah needs to reduce homelessness (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Davis County residents, we need to talk about warming shelters (Deseret News)
• Ogden police show heart in effort to help the city's homeless (Fox13)
• Provo considers changing pathways to acquire mother-in-law, basement apartment approval (KSL)
• Utah housing vouchers struggle to meet demand (Daily Herald)
• Utah lawmakers’ next big housing bill is taking shape. Here’s what it includes — so far (Standard-Examiner)

National Headlines

General

• Chuck Woolery, smooth-talking game show host of ‘Love Connection’ and ‘Scrabble,’ dies at 83 (AP)
  
• Barbara Taylor Bradford, million-selling novelist known for ‘A Woman of Substance,’ has died at 91 (AP)
  
• The history of one of Washington's weirdest traditions: the turkey pardon (NPR)
  

Political news

• Gen Z’s gender paradox (Deseret News)
• To restore the American dream, Donald Trump wants to get the country building again (Deseret News)
• US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation (Reuters)
• The rising price of paying the national debt is a risk for Trump’s promises on growth and inflation (AP)
• Rand Paul opposes using military for mass deportations: ‘It’s a terrible image’ (The Hill)
• As Musk Assumes Deregulation Role, Tesla Racks Up Pollution Violations (Wall Street Journal)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• North Korea expands plant making missile used by Russia in Ukraine, researchers say (Reuters)
• West must not set ‘red lines’ in helping Ukraine, France says (Politico)

Israel and Gaza

• Rainstorms flood tents of Gaza's displaced as Israel steps up strikes (Reuters)
• War fatigue deepens in Israel as deaths mount and fighting expands (Washington Post)

World news

• Māori lawmakers perform a defiant haka in parliament amid controversy over the proposed Treaty Principles Bill (Deseret News)
• In world's largest refugee camps, Rohingya mobilise to fight in Myanmar (Reuters)
• Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old canals used to fish by predecessors of ancient Maya (AP)
• Hundreds more Nazca Lines emerge in Peru’s desert (New York Times)

Number of the Day 

UVU students on mission to preach fire safety this holiday season

Utah Valley University students are on a mission to help make sure the holiday season does not go up in smoke.

According to the National Fire Protection Association, Thanksgiving is the peak day for home cooking fires with an 399% increase over the daily average — Christmas Eve is the next highest. Being prepared to apply home fire safety tips is the key to a safe and merry holiday. Since 2014, the American Red Cross estimates that approximately 2,167 lives have been saved as people learned about the fire safety program. (Read More)

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• Dec. 3 â€” Promoting Civility and Dignity in Utah, with UWLP, 12:00-1:15 pm, Register here
• Jan. 9 — What’s Up Down South Economic Summit. St. George. Register here
• Jan. 10 — Rural Utah Data Symposium. St. George. Register here
• Jan 14 — Utah Taxpayers Association Legislative Outlook Conference, 9 am - 12:00 pm, Little America Hotel, Register here
• Jan. 21 — Utah legislative session begins
• Mar. 7 — Utah legislative session ends

On This Day In History

• 1741 - Elizabeth of Russia seizes power in a coup with the aid of Imperial Russian guards in Saint Petersburg, Russia
• 1835 - Andrew Carnegie is born
• 1867 - US Congress commission looks into impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
• 1876 - In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops attack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
• 1949 - Gene Autry's single "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts; songwriter Johnny Marks adapted a poem written by his brother-in-law Robert L. May for Montgomery Ward department stores
• 1955 - Race segregation forbidden on trains & buses between US states
• 1957 - US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
• 1963 - JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
• 1986 - Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arms deal
• 1990 - The floating Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge breaks apart and sinks to the bottom of Lake Washington.
• 1999 - First International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
• 2016 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary, Prime Minister (1959-76) and President (1976-2008), dies at 90

Quote of the Day

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and ... those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

—Robert F. Kennedy

On the Punny Side

What do you call a sad cranberry?

A blueberry.

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