Behind the Headlines: Interior wants to shrink Bears Ears, lawmakers consider...
Welcome to this week’s episode of “Behind the Headlines,” where we speak to Salt Lake Tribune reporters about the biggest news of the week. After a review of national monument sizes around the country,...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: The devolution of repeal-and-replace
Washington - Motivated by the cynical aims of fulfilling a bumper-sticker campaign promise and lavishing tax cuts on the wealthy, Republicans are threatening to pass a health care bill they know will...
View ArticleGirl hit by foul ball at Yankees game gets game's attention
New York • It might be the shot heard around the baseball world: the rocket-like foul ball that hit a young girl at a New York Yankees game.In the hours after the girl was struck in the face by the...
View ArticleCorner Canyon beats Brighton handily in girls' soccer
Draper • After finishing a tidy 5-0 win over Brighton on Thursday afternoon, the Corner Canyon Chargers rushed off the field unknowing that they just had clinched a share of their school’s first region...
View ArticleIn Salt Lake City speech, Michelle Obama preaches hope as she cringes at...
When asked how she views the world “right now,” former first lady Michelle Obama had less of an answer and more of a gut reaction.She cringed and quietly groaned.“I don’t have much of a poker voice,”...
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‘I’m afraid there are going to be passing bullets’: Frustrated Kearns...
Kearns • Christina Robles has called the police three times in the past 10 days to report gunshots.In the case of two of those calls, no one was injured. But on Tuesday, a drive-by shooting at her...
View ArticleSeoul media say North might test nuke in Pacific
Seol, South Korea • South Korean media report North Korea’s top diplomat says his country may test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean to fulfill leader Kim Jong Un’s vow to take the “highest-level”...
View ArticleAustin Bartholomew helps lead confident Weber football team
Pleasant View • The Weber football team, led by its senior quarterback, knew of only one way to respond to its season-opening loss to visiting American Fork more than a month ago.“We talked a little...
View ArticleCommentary: Single-payer health care is not the answer
Recently, The Salt Lake Tribune published commentary supporting the expansion of Medicare and a single-payer health care system. Unfortunately, single-payer’s track record abroad reveals that...
View ArticleCassidy-Graham bill sponsors include favors for one potential Republican holdout
Washington • An internal analysis by the Trump administration concludes that 31 states would lose federal money for health coverage under Senate Republicans’ latest effort to abolish much of the...
View ArticleUndefeated champ Andre Ward retires, desire no longer there
Oakland, Calif. • Andre Ward decided to end his career on top.Ward announced Thursday he is retiring from boxing because he no longer has the desire to fight, leaving the sport at age 33 with an...
View ArticleCommentary: Graham-Cassidy bill is not the answer for U.S. health care
The debate about U.S. health care reform and the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has once again “risen from the dead” in the form of the Graham-Cassidy bill in the Senate....
View ArticlePrep football: Top-ranked Corner Canyon blows out No. 2 Timpview
Draper • Timpview had the pedigree, but Corner Canyon had the No. 1 ranking when the second-ranked Thunderbirds came calling Thursday night.While the cold, rainy conditions left many scampering for...
View ArticleHoward Stephenson: Protecting taxpayers from out-of-control medication costs
As the debate over repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, winds its way through the halls of Congress, one thing is clear: Health care costs are out of control...
View ArticleHistorian: At $35M, original printer's manuscript of Book of Mormon a bargain
The original printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon now belongs to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and at $35 million, acquiring it was a bargain.At least, that’s what historian...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: Oh no! Maybe CBS’ new ‘Star Trek’ stinks
Well, fellow Trekkers, I was planning a big cover story about “Star Trek: Discovery” this weekend, along with a review of the new series.That’s not going to happen. Because CBS won’t screen the show...
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Utah documentary tells intimate, gritty story of opiate crisis
In a dark bedroom, Maddy is tying off her arm, getting ready to shoot heroin with her girlfriend, Page. Through the camera’s eye, we watch these intimate, gritty scenes in Jenny Mackenzie’s new...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Ute basketball recruiting is riding momentum, creating a good...
In the past six months, my analysis of the University of Utah’s basketball recruiting has revolved around the players the Ute staff barely missed signing and those who came to the school and...
View ArticleCatherine Rampell: Republicans' brave new strategy for fixing health care:...
Republicans have unveiled their brave new strategy for fixing the U.S. health care system: Make someone else deal with it.Of all the god-awful Obamacare-repeal-and-replace plans that Republicans have...
View ArticleKim Jong Un fires off insults at Trump and hints at weapons test
Seoul, South Korea • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un lobbed a string of insults at President Donald Trump on Friday, calling him a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard” and hinting at a frightening new...
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