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Situational awareness - August 14, 2018
Good Tuesday morning from Salt Lake City.
Count My Vote in court. London terror. Strzok out.
TICK TOCK
- 56 days until the last day to register to vote by mail (10/9/2018)
- 63 days until mail-in ballots are sent to voters (10/16/2018)
- 70 days until in-person early voting begins (10/23/2018)
- 77 days until the last day to register to vote in person or by mail (10/30/2018)
- 79 days until in-person early voting ends (11/2/2018)
- 84 days until the 2018 midterm elections (11/6/2018)
- 167 days until the first day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (1/28/2019)
- 212 days until the final day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (3/14/2019)
- 812 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
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HERE ARE THE STORIES YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO TODAY
Count My Vote in court
Backers of the Count My Vote ballot proposal are set to argue in front of the Utah Supreme Court on Wednesday that the process that blocked them from the ballot is unconstitutional - http://bit.ly/2OzPYDj
OTHER UTAH HEADLINES
Salt Lake Tribune
Editorial: County bid preferences help the whole community
Deseret News
Editorial: A burning West needs the best ideas to tame its fires
With operations to begin in weeks, Amazon shows off new Utah distribution center
Man with Utah ties who helped terrorist group gets more prison time for trying to kill warden
Rep. Love urges Senate to permanently repeal medical device tax
NATIONAL HEADLINES
- Breaking overnight: A London driver crashed into a barrier outside of Parliament. Officials have arrested him on suspicion of terrorism - https://nyti.ms/2w7h6SR
- Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump text messages, has been fired - https://cnn.it/2wei6Vl
- Former White House advisor Omarosa Manigault Newman claims she secretly recorded Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. The revelation came after she released a recording of President Trump who did not seem to know she had been fired - https://politi.co/2OzeFzI
- President Trump required White House staffers to sign a non-disclosure agreement that barred former employees from penning tell-all books - https://politi.co/2OATKN0
- The Trump White House's use of non-disclosure agreements is unusually aggressive for the federal government - https://wapo.st/2OznnhC
- President Trump signed a defense authorization bill named for Sen. John McCain but did not mention's McCain's name during the public ceremony - https://abcn.ws/2w7YEt5
- A federal judge appointed by President Trump rules special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is constitutional - https://politi.co/2w45oID
- The White House is considering rolling back protections for military members who may be targeted by predatory lending practices - https://n.pr/2w6KIj0
- An 11-year-old was able to hack into an exact replica of the Florida election website and change vote totals in just 10 minutes - http://bit.ly/2w9RRiw
- The son of retiring GOP Congressman Bob Goodlatte is roasting his father on Twitter and encouraging his followers to donate to the Democratic candidate seeking to replace him - https://usat.ly/2OAbMPc
- The West Virginia House of Delegates votes to impeach the entire state supreme court - https://nyti.ms/2OvWQ4P
- A 14-year-old is running to be the next governor of Vermont - https://abcn.ws/2wbowoa
- The FBI is warning that ATM machines may be targeted by a massive malware attack in the next few days - http://bit.ly/2w6LsVk
- Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul," is reportedly in hospice care at her home - https://cnn.it/2weibID
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
- 1784 - Grigory Shelikhov, a Russian fur trader, founded the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska on Kodiak Island.
- 1848 - The Oregon territory is organized by an act of Congress.
- 1893 - France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- 1912 - U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after Jose Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
- 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act.
- 1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II.
- 1975 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
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National Headlines
Democrats view socialism more favorably than capitalism, Gallup says (FOX News)
1 data point that should make Democrats nervous (CNN)
Antifa protesters caught on video threatening to kill president (Daily Caller)
Taliban blindsides U.S. forces with surprise Afghan offensive (Washington Times)
Latino advocacy groups split over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (NBC News)
Trump dares Cuomo to run against him in 2020 (New York Post)
Antifa clashes with police and journalists in Charlottesville and DC (Vox)
Trump cabinet secretaries tour devastation of California fires (San Francisco Chronicle)
Prosecutors Conclude Arguments Against Paul Manafort In Bank And Tax Fraud Tria (NPR)
US reaps more than $1.4 billion from steel and aluminum tariffs, report finds (CNBC)
