OTHER UTAH HEADLINES   

Deseret News

Editorial: Tumblr shows the need for private solutions to public problems

Mitt Romney raised, spent more than 5 times Democratic opponent in U.S Senate race

Are Utah's multimillion-dollar homeless efforts working? Auditors don't know due to 'poor' data

3 ask Utah Supreme Court to let Utahns vote on Prop. 2 compromise

Utah Rep.-elect Ben McAdams names former deputy mayor as congressional chief of staff

Sen. Orrin Hatch brushes off allegations that Trump was involved in crimes

Helping to drive investment in 'opportunity zones'

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch calls for research of e-cigarettes in schools, recommends 611 for suicide hotline

Salt Lake County Councilman Arlyn Bradshaw jumps in race for county mayor

State School Board OKs near-$600,000 budget for public relations contract services

Salt Lake Tribune

Utah Democrats won a third of the votes for the state House, but only a fifth of the seats. Is this what gerrymandering looks like?

Utah's state flag is an 'S.O.B.' and one Republican lawmaker thinks it's time for a change

Audit says it's impossible to gauge the success of Utah's homelessness programs because of bad or useless data

Utah is adding two new air quality monitors in Salt Lake County

Utah's troubled public defender system would get a big boost in funding under Gov. Gary Herbert's plan

Group of voters asks Utah Supreme Court to strike down new medical cannabis act, reinstate Proposition 2

County Councilman Arlyn Bradshaw enters the race for Salt Lake County mayor

Rep.-elect McAdams picks longtime former aide Nichole Dunn as his new chief of staff

Sen. Orrin Hatch dismisses allegations against Trump saying 'you can make anything a crime under the current laws'

Other

Cedar Fort man feels pressured by rising property valuations (Daily Herald)

  NATIONAL HEADLINES  

• Breaking Tuesday morning: Time Magazine has named several journalists and journalism outlets as their "Person of the Year." The list includes murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the staff of the Annapolis Capital in Maryland, which published a newspaper the day after a gunman shot up their newsroom - http://bit.ly/2rw46Ej
  
  
• President Trump is telling associates he is worried he may be impeached when Democrats take control of the House in January - https://cnn.it/2rwFewk 
  
  
• President Trump will meet with Democratic Congressional leaders on Tuesday to discuss how to avoid a partial government shutdown next week - http://bit.ly/2rvcrbe
  
  
• 44 former U.S. Senators from both parties wrote a letter to current Senators warning them that the country is "entering a dangerous period" following the latest revelations from Robert Mueller's investigation and the coming investigations from the Democratic-led House. They say, in the past, the "Senate has stood in defense of our democracy," and it's time for the body to step up again - https://wapo.st/2Ga5fvf
  
  
• When Nick Ayers turned down President Trump's overtures to become the next White House chief of staff, Trump did not have a plan B to fall back on. Trump is now scrambling to find someone to help run the executive branch. Trump also wanted Ayers to fire outgoing chief of staff John Kelly, but he declined - https://nyti.ms/2ryipbv
  
  
• Maria Butina, the Russian woman accused of running a secret campaign to influence powerful American conservatives, has agreed to plead guilty to charges she was acting as a foreign agent. She also agreed to fully cooperate with federal investigators - https://nyti.ms/2rtSAcx
  
  
• President Trump defended himself on Monday against allegations he directed illegal payments to two women to buy their silence during the 2016 campaign as "a simple private transaction" and not an illegal campaign contribution - https://nyti.ms/2rsWYsg
  
  
• Republicans are beginning to worry that President Donald Trump's growing legal problems are making him increasingly vulnerable as we head toward the 2020 election - http://bit.ly/2Gb9Eyj 
  
  
• The Senate may vote on a resolution condemning Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by the end of the year. The vote would be a stunning rebuke for the Trump administration - https://wapo.st/2GbahI8 
  
  
• After President Trump called the $716 billion the government spent on defense last year "crazy," he told Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to submit a $750 billion budget proposal for next year - https://politi.co/2ryibRH 
  
  
• Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the liberal wing of the court in declining to hear two cases that threatened to block federal funding for Planned Parenthood - http://bit.ly/2rygzal
  
  
• British Prime Minister Theresa May delays a vote in Parliament on Britain's exit from the European Union because it was clear her side was about to suffer a humiliating defeat - https://nyti.ms/2GcaRoP 
  
  
• A former Trump campaign staffer has been ordered to cough up $25,000 after she violated her nondisclosure agreement - http://bit.ly/2rxYlpK
  
  
• The federal government paid a private firm nearly $14 million to increase border protection, but the company staffed just two agents after promising to hire 7,500 people over the next five years - http://bit.ly/2rxOksq
  
  
• The Trump administration is preparing to unveil a plan to weaken federal clean water rules - https://nyti.ms/2rwmXPt
  
  
• Voyager 2, which was launched in 1977, has officially left the solar system and entered interstellar space - https://nyti.ms/2rw3bUn

  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY  

• 1816 - Indiana becomes the 19th state.
  
  
• 1941 - Germany and Italy declare war on the United States following the American declaration of war on Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  
  
• 1946 - UNICEF was established.
  
  
• 1951 - Joe DiMaggio announced his retirement from baseball.
  
  
• 1972 - Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the moon.
  
  
• 1994 - Up to 40,000 Russian troops invaded Chechnya to put down a secessionist rebellion.
  
  
• 2008 - Bernard Madoff, an investment manager, was arrested and charged with defrauding clients of up to $50 billion in what may have been the largest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history.

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