OTHER UTAH HEADLINES   

Deseret News

Pignanelli and Webb: And a very Merry Christmas to all

Greg Bell: Why the Utah way is the solution to solving critical issues

Op-ed: USDA investments continue to build rural prosperity in Utah

Gov. Gary Herbert lashes out over killed public lands bills for Utah

Gov. Gary Herbert calls government shutdown a 'sorry state of affairs,' but says Utah will be fine

Rainbows and unicorns: New report lauds Utah tech but local experts cautious

New recorder pledges 'integrity' as she takes over office smarting from scandal

ACA ruling won't have immediate impact on Utahns' coverage, experts say

Utah has plenty of 'bling' from mining

Salt Lake Tribune

Op-ed: Anderson is wrong about medical marijuana compromise

Editorial: Maj. Brent Taylor, an 'enthusiastic evangelist for democracy,' is The Tribune's Utahn of the Year

Dust blowing off the shrinking Great Salt Lake is eroding Wasatch snowpack and that could eventually threaten drinking water

Utah drops to No. 4 nationally for job creation - but that's not bad

What a government shutdown means for Utah and how we got here in the first place

As shutdown continues, Utah's Mike Lee meets with Trump and says his border request is reasonable, Ben McAdams disagrees

Utah's governor wants to tax vaping at the same rate as cigarettes, citing a growing use among teens

Why Utah doctors are hesitant to recommend medical marijuana, even though it is now legal

Utah House and Senate reshuffle legislative committee assignments ahead of 2019 session

Utahns die on the job far less often than workers do nationwide

A Utah Republican wants to let state candidates pay for child care using campaign money. Federal candidates can already do that.

Other

State collecting feedback on revised, slimmer set of health ed standards (Logan Herald Journal)

  NATIONAL HEADLINES  

• The government shutdown, now entering its fifth day, shows no signs of ending. President Donald Trump is standing firm on his demand for $5 billion in funding for his border wall on Christmas Day. Trump claimed, without proof, that several government workers told him they would be happy to continue working for free until his demands are met - https://nyti.ms/2EQjFyi
  
  
• The partial shutdown will gain more impact this week as Washington, D.C. moves past the Christmas holiday - http://bit.ly/2EOKPph
  
  
• The markets re-open Wednesday morning after the worst Christmas Eve for stocks in U.S. history. Investors are bracing for another brutal week - https://nyti.ms/2EKBLSy 
  
  
• Now Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is on the hot seat after his failed attempt to calm the markets earlier this week. There is growing speculation that he could be the next Trump Cabinet official to be shown the door. Some close to Trump say Mnuchin is in "serious trouble" - https://cnn.it/2EJqTo1
  
  
• Another migrant child has died in U.S. custody. An 8-year-old Guatemalan child died in a New Mexico hospital on Tuesday - https://wapo.st/2ELKiVf 
  
  
• The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has ordered medical checks for every migrant child in custody following the death of a second child this week - http://bit.ly/2EJMhcy
  
  
• The fight over a North Carolina Congressional seat could drag on for months amid allegations of election fraud - http://bit.ly/2EOCxht
  
  
• The daughters of the New York City podiatrist who gave Donald Trump a letter saying he had bone spurs in his heel, which enabled him to avoid military service in Vietnam, said the diagnosis was a favor for Trump's father - https://nyti.ms/2EOL5F8
  
  
• Israeli warplanes fired missiles on an arms depot in Syria on Tuesday. Israeli officials say the country could expand military actions in that country in response to the growing influence of Iran in that country - https://wapo.st/2EKrjKS
  
  
• Economic growth is slowing down around the globe, which is fueling increasing economic turmoil - https://wapo.st/2EKj2Xf 
  
  
• Holiday sales in the U.S. were up more than 5-percent this year, which is the strongest growth in years - https://on.wsj.com/2EKVTE4
  
  
• The U.S. Navy is set to abandon an age-old regulation allowing ship captains to throw sailors in the brig with nothing but bread and water to eat. The rule, which is still used, will be no more on January 1 - https://nyti.ms/2EKqwto
  
  
• Japan announces they will leave the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling - https://wapo.st/2EKAZoC

  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY  

• 1776 - American forces under Gen. George Washington, having crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night, defeated Hessian mercenary troops at the Battle of Trenton.
  
  
• 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
  
  
• 1908 - Jack Johnson became the first African-American to win the world heavyweight boxing title.
  
  
• 1917 - President Woodrow Wilson signed an order giving the federal government control over operation of U.S. railroads for the duration of World War I.
  
  
• 1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
  
  
• 1991 - The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War.
  
  
• 1996 - Child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found slain in a basement room of her family's Boulder, Colo., home.

Policy News

More National Headlines

Chicago nixes next Women's March amid growing rift over anti-Semitism claims against national group (Chicago Tribune)

Why We Should Worry about the Cult of RBG (Politico)

Syria airstrikes continue despite Trump withdrawal announcement (Axios)

Facebook suspends accounts over 'coordinated inauthentic behavior' around Alabama Senate race (Washington Times)

Claire McCaskill: I hope Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knows parts of the US reject the Democratic Party (Washington Examiner)

Don't give Schumer & Co. a pass for government shutdown (New York Post)