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Utah Sen. Mitt Romney says Trump should 'up his game,' on day he and Rep. Ben McAdams are sworn in

Utah State School Board releases new school report card- without grades

Utah businessman Jeremy Johnson to appeal newly reduced prison sentence

Salt Lake Tribune

Holly Richardson: Tips for freshman legislators

Utah's new version of school 'grades' are out - and here's how Salt Lake County high schools fared

Removal of old tires from Utah ponds counted as an environmental success

As Utah's tough DUI law takes effect to improve highway safety, uphill fight seen for banning hand-held cellphones while driving

Mitt Romney sworn in as Utah's newest senator amid shutdown, Trump criticism

Incoming San Juan County commissioner's Utah residency questioned again in lawsuit filed by unsuccessful Republican opponent

  NATIONAL HEADLINES  

• Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House on Thursday as Democrats officially took control of one branch of Congress - https://nyti.ms/2F8POla
  
  
• The first order of business for the new Democratic majority was passing a funding package to end the partial government shutdown. The plan does not include money for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump has said he would not sign any bill that did not contain wall funding - https://wapo.st/2F9EGo7 
  
  
• Republicans in the Senate are pressuring Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to stop avoiding the fight over government funding. McConnell says he will not bring a measure up for a vote that President Trump won't sign - https://politi.co/2F9hxSI 
  
  
• Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday night there would be no deal to end the government shutdown without money for President Trump's border wall - http://bit.ly/2FbXDXj
  
  
• A new poll shows nearly half of Americans blame President Trump for the government shutdown - http://bit.ly/2FaSRJE
  
  
• Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado is calling on Congress to re-open the federal government without money for President Trump's border wall. Gardner is facing a potentially tough re-election bid in 2020 - http://bit.ly/2F7MFBT 
  
  
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it's an "open discussion" as to whether a sitting president can be indicted - http://bit.ly/2F7qGLq
  
  
• Newly sworn-in Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib told a cheering crowd on Thursday night that Congress was going to impeach President Donald Trump. "We're gonna go in there and impeach the motherf*cker" said Tlaib - http://bit.ly/2F6ogwK
  
  
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit back at House Republicans who booed her when she voted for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. "Over 200 members voted for Nancy Pelosi, yet the GOP only booed one: me," wrote Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter. "Don't hate me because you ain't me, fellas" - http://bit.ly/2F6phVA
  
  
• The new Democratic majority in Congress is planning to hold hearings on Medicare-for-All legislation - https://wapo.st/2F9SBub
  
  
• Boring but important. The U.S. national debt is more than $2 trillion higher than when President Donald Trump took office - https://cnn.it/2F7OgHT
  
  
• The White House is considering former Democratic Senator Jim Webb as the next Secretary of Defense - https://nyti.ms/2FbUBCp
  
  
• A former employee at one of President Trump's golf clubs says management hid her from Secret Service security screenings because she is an undocumented immigrant - https://wapo.st/2F8Qt68
  
  
• The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke lied to that agency's inspector general - https://wapo.st/2F89lC2 
  
  
• Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Francis Rooney proposed a Constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of both houses of Congress - https://cnn.it/2F877mf 
  
  
• MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said President Trump's cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office - http://bit.ly/2F7NV85
  
  
• Economists expect job growth in 2019 to slow down - https://wapo.st/2FbTKSd

  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY  

• 1847 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government.
  
  
• 1865 - The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters near Wall Street in New York City.
  
  
• 1885 - Dr. William Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed the first successful appendectomy.
  
  
• 1893 - President Benjamin Harrison granted amnesty to all people who had abstained from practicing polygamy since Nov. 1, 1890. It was part of a deal for Utah to achieve statehood. 
  
  
• 1896 - Utah is admitted as the 45th state.
  
  
• 1965 - The "Great Society" is proclaimed by President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address. The Great Society was a set of domestic programs to eliminate poverty and injustice.
  
  
• 1974 - President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
  
  
• 1975 - Elizabeth Ann Seton was canonized as the first Roman Catholic saint born in America.
  
  
• 1999 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as governor of Minnesota.

Policy News

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Bernie Sanders on why he was unaware of sexual harassment claims rocking campaign: 'I was a little bit busy' (FOX News)

The freshman class of House Democrats is already making waves (Los Angeles Times)

Apple's shock warning bolsters one of Trump's biggest arguments for the US-China trade war (Reuters)