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Deseret News

Op-ed: Proposition 4 is a win for everyone

What is Utah doing about illegal, annoying robocalls, telemarketing scams?

Ranchers reveling in Trump's proposed rollback of water regulations

Utah Rep. Mia Love: Trump 'obviously' doesn't understand GOP's issues with minority women

For sale: One embattled jail in rural Utah

Too close for comfort: Groups say oil and gas leases jeopardize pristine public lands in Utah

Mark Huntsman re-elected chairman of the Utah State Board of Education

Salt Lake City Council votes to give themselves a nearly $10,000 pay bump

Utah patients upset at surprise medical bills; hospitals, insurers at odds over who is to blame

'I'm in': Retiring state Sen. Jim Dabakis joins 2019 race for Salt Lake City mayor

Salt Lake Tribune

Why was the surly bobcat Mr. Murderbritches freed, while thousands of other 'nuisance' wild animals get a bullet?

Feds hold biggest Utah oil and gas auction in years, setting off heightened concerns from environmentalists

UDOT buys homes to make way for I-15 widening, but neighbors say vacant houses bring squatters, drugs, graffiti

Outgoing Sen. Jim Dabakis announces plans to run (again) for Salt Lake City mayor

The internet is in love with a massive reply-all failure in Utah government

The public is 'beating the hell out of us': Inland port board member blames community engagement for slow progress on planned development

Rep. Mia Love: 'My job is not to walk in lockstep' with Trump

Walmart looks for last call on 3.2 beer in Utah

'This is about access to democracy for me': Salt Lake City Council votes to increase its own pay in an effort to encourage diversity of representation

Other

Utah County Commissioners delay decision again on implementing sales tax (Daily Herald)

Summit County officials have captive audience with state representatives (Park Record)

Valley residents visit with representative from Sen. Mike Lee's office (Logan Herald Journal)

  NATIONAL HEADLINES  

• President Donald Trump, incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer fight on live TV in the Oval Office about funding for Trump's border wall. During the gripping exchange, Trump said he would be "proud" to shut down the government unless he gets the money for the wall, which was one of his central campaign promises - https://politi.co/2G8jOQ2
  
  
• After the exchange, Trump reportedly tossed a folder of briefing papers in anger - https://lat.ms/2GcWwbU
  
  
• Vice President Mike Pence remained silent and looked visibly uncomfortable during the remarkable public squabble. Twitter had a field day roasting Pence, with some referring to Pence as "Flat Mike" - https://cnn.it/2Gb6g6v
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  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is close to a deal to impose term limits on Democratic leadership in the House. The deal will all but assure she will have enough votes to win the Speakership in January - https://politi.co/2GmX6DM
  
  
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reverses course and says he will bring a criminal justice overhaul bill to the floor for a vote - https://wapo.st/2GeV20V
  
  
• President Trump said he was willing to intervene in the arrest of a Chinese tech executive on charges related to violating economic sanctions against Iran - https://nyti.ms/2GbJmf3
  
  
• Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for President Trump, will be sentenced Wednesday morning for his role in a scandal to pay hush money to two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump - https://nyti.ms/2GbJmf3 
  
  
• President Trump said Tuesday that hush money payments to two women during the 2016 campaign did not violate campaign finance laws, calling the payments "peanut stuff." Trump also said he wasn't worried about being impeached because he "created the greatest economy in the history of our country" - https://reut.rs/2GdYuZD 
  
  
• Lawyers for Michael Flynn, President Trump's first national security adviser, asked a federal judge for leniency when he's sentenced for lying to the FBI - https://nyti.ms/2GcYWr0
  
  
• President Trump is continuing to stand by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, despite a CIA assessment he ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi - https://reut.rs/2GeVKv7
  
  
• Potential rivals are taking a potential presidential run by Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke very seriously - http://bit.ly/2Gb6Q4b
  
  
• President Trump has repeatedly blasted special counsel Robert Mueller's team for making political donations to Democrats as evidence of bias. But William Barr, Trump's pick for Attorney General donated more than $500,000 to Republican groups and candidates over the past two decades - https://wapo.st/2GbJAmp 
  
  
• A judge ordered adult film actress Stormy Daniels to pay President Trump $293,000 for attorneys' fees and other penalties in connection with a dismissed defamation suit against the president - https://cnb.cx/2Gb7heP 
  
  
• Kentucky lawmakers are considering a ban on corporal punishment in the state's schools - http://bit.ly/2GbKWgZ 
  
  
• Newly elected New York Attorney General Letitia James says she is planning wide-ranging investigations into President Donald Trump's business dealing, his family, and "anyone" connected to him who may have violated the law - https://nbcnews.to/2rzAfuy
  
  
• Britain's prime minister Theresa May will face a no-confidence vote from her own Conservative Party for her handling of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union - https://nyti.ms/2GpbhIT 
  
  
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before Congress on Tuesday. Members of the House Judiciary Committee spent the three hours attacking other over whether Google is biased against conservatives instead of digging into how Google handles the massive amount of information the company utilizes - http://bit.ly/2G8lSaK 
  
  
• French authorities say an attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg was an act of terror. Two people were killed, while 13 others were injured - https://wapo.st/2GdlasU
  
  
• U.S. investigators believe China is responsible for the massive hack of Marriot's reservation system that exposed the personal information of up to 500 million people - https://wapo.st/2GcWa54 
  
  
• A jury said James Fields, who was convicted of killing Heather Hyer during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last year, should serve life in prison - https://cnn.it/2GlYAhY
  
  
• The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest and thickest ice, which researchers say will lead to a rapidly warming planet due to lack of ice cover - https://wapo.st/2GaAF4E

  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY  

• 1787 - Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the Constitution.
  
  
• 1870 - Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes is sworn in as the first African American to serve in the U.S. House.
  
  
• 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi sends the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean.
  
  
• 1913  Two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was recovered from a hotel room in Florence, Italy.
  
  
• 1917 - Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town in Nebraska.
  
  
• 1968 - Arthur Ashe became the first African American to be ranked No. 1 in tennis.
  
  
• 2000 - The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 reversing the ruling of the Florida Supreme Court allowing the hand recount of votes in Florida. The decision in effect ensured Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush would win the presidency over former Vice President Al Gore.

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Beto O'Rourke narrowly tops wide-open MoveOn 2020 presidential straw poll; Biden is runner-up (NBC News)

Republican senator feels 'vindication' after Kavanaugh votes in favor of Planned Parenthood (CNN)

Trump says he's not concerned about being impeached: 'The people would revolt' (The Hill)

Trump administration files Supreme Court appeal after Ninth Circuit ruling halting new asylum policy (FOX News)

Trump administration proposes major rollback of water rules (NBC News)

More than 3,000 illegals caught in one day: DHS (Washington Times)

Leaks From Moonves Probe Spook Directors, Spark Confidentiality Concern (TPM)