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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Republicans and Democrats say lawmakers are using this 'sneaky' tactic to kill popular bills (Fox13)
• U.S. House approves $95 billion foreign aid package, including funds for Ukraine, Israel, and a TikTok ban. Utah’s all-Republican U.S. House delegation split on aid to Ukraine, but united on approving aid for Israel and Tiktok ban (Deseret News)
• Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vows to sue over new BLM landscape rule (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Government-owned internet networks hurt taxpayers (Deseret News)
• A Utah law, designed to help gig workers earn benefits, gets its first test (Salt Lake Tribune)
• A.G. Sean Reyes’ must turn over his calendars to The Tribune, Utah records committee rules (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Inside Utah Politics: Aimee Winder Newton, Wesley Ruff (ABC4)
• A small Utah city is sending its mayor and her staff on spendy trade missions around the world. Not everyone is happy. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Election news

• Opinion: The need for candidates who will keep promises (Deseret News)
• Opinion: How to fix Washington’s financial problems (Deseret News)
• Ahead of Utah GOP Convention, one Utah attorney general candidate still isn’t licensed to practice in Utah (Deseret News)
• County Conventions & Campaign Costs (Hinckley Report)
• Utah County Republicans vote for nominees in local and state races (Daily Herald)
• After second thoughts, candidate Paul Borup bows out of District 3 legislative race (Cache Valley Daily)

Utah news

• Sunday Edition: Curtis Bennett and Jay Evensen (KSL TV)
• Former Utah Rep. Jeremy Peterson discovers items from the Spanish-American War: 'It's piqued our curiosity' (KSL)
• From Caitlin Clark to Utah Jazz commentary, U of U alum Holly Rowe is covering it all (Deseret News)
• Jay Evensen: A penny won’t even buy your thoughts anymore (Deseret News)
• A sea of trash — Logan landfill has a plastic problem (KSL)

Business/Tech

• Look what Utah ingenuity — and a desire to get out of work — has wrought (Deseret News)
• Small cities prove to be hotbeds for startups in Utah (Deseret News)
• The perils of populism, from an economist's point of view (Deseret News)

Crime/Courts

•  Sextortion attempts occurring daily, Weber detective warns (KSL)
• After an online ‘sextortion’ threat, a Utah teen died by suicide. Now his parents are warning others. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Culture

• Kevin Bacon’s message sparks ‘Footloose’ dance at Payson High prom (Deseret News)
• Kevin Bacon greets students, fans at Payson High School where 'Footloose' was filmed (KUTV)
• We asked ChatGPT to design Utah’s NHL jersey. Here’s what happened (Deseret News)
• 'The little museum that could': Springville Museum of Art celebrates 100th salon (KSL)
• ‘A long ways to go.’ Where women are — and are not — making progress in Utah. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Education

• Coca-Cola ad made by BYU students wins film competition, will screen at theaters (KSL Newsradio)
• School districts await statewide book ban list as Utah plans to retroactively enforce new law (Salt Lake Tribune)

Environment

• These 18 Utah cities and towns still want clean energy, even as RMP backs off (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Panguitch Lake isn’t the only dam in Utah that needs updates. At the current pace, it will take 100 years to get to them all. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Health

• CDC investigating fake Botox, blamed for 9-state outbreak of botulism (Deseret News)

Housing

• Salt Lake City’s microshelter will stay open in current location for a few more months (Salt Lake Tribune)

National Headlines

General

• Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died at 76 (AP)
• Trump hush-money trial kicks off with opening statements in New York (Reuters)
• Columbia University classes moved online after rabbi says Jewish students should ‘return home’ (The Hill)

Political news

• Pandemic policies under scrutiny: American voters question COVID-19 measures (Deseret News)
• The issue with ‘migrant crime’ (Deseret News)
• Trump said immigrants ‘inundated’ this tiny town. Here’s what residents say (Deseret News)
• Mitt Romney for president — of Harvard University? (Deseret News)
• US Supreme Court eyes anti-camping laws used against the homeless (Reuters)
• Graham rips Vance’s Ukraine position, challenges him to visit country (The Hill)
• Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on Johnson to resign after foreign aid bills pass (KSL TV)

Election news

• The other party: When the Republican Convention visits a Democratic stronghold (Deseret News)
• How Libertarians plan to ‘throw a wrench’ into the 2024 presidential election (Deseret News)
• RFK Jr. hurts Trump’s election chances more than Biden: poll (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Russia says US facing humiliation in Ukraine like in Vietnam (Reuters)
• Russian attacks have crushed factories and a way of life in Ukrainian villages. (New York Times)

Israel and Gaza

• A Palestinian baby in Gaza is born an orphan in an urgent cesarean section after an Israeli strike (AP)
• Israeli military intelligence head resigns over Oct. 7 Hamas attack (Washington Post)

World news

• Chinese province of Guangdong hit by historic floods (Washington Post)
• This ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton (AP)
• Finland long believed it could tame Russia. Now Moscow is enemy No. 1. (Wall Street Journal)

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On This Day In History 

• 1857 - Sarah B. Cochran is born. She was an American coal magnate, philanthropist and women’s suffrage supporter in southwestern Pennsylvania.
• 1891 - Laura Gilpin is born. An early photographer, she won acclaim for mastery of the platinum printing process in the early 1920s. Her early work with autochromes of still-life and portraits allowed her to record 35 years of vanishing rural America.
• 1904 - Robert Oppenheimer, American theoretical physicist known as the father of the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project), is born in NYC, New York.
• 1925 - Fire breaks out at Saltaire and destroys the resort.
• 1945 - Hitler admits defeat.
• 1970 - The first Earth Day is celebrated.
• 1976 - Barbara Walters becomes the first female US nightly news anchor.
• 1994 - Former President Nixon dies.
• 1994 - 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda.
• 2000 - In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
• 2004 - Pat Tillman killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan.

Quote of the Day

“There are two things I want constituents to know: 1) The overwhelming majority of this money is going directly back into the U.S. economy and supporting jobs at home. ... 2) The supplemental aid we have provided Ukraine since Russia’s invasion is approximately 5% of our defense spending and less than 0.2% of our GDP during that period.”

—Rep. Blake Moore

On the Punny Side

What is a baker’s favorite garden?

A flour garden

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