Pence calls prospect of a 2020 presidential campaign ‘laughable and absurd’
Washington • Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday sought to tamp down speculation that he is preparing for his own 2020 White House bid, characterizing the notion as “both laughable and absurd.”“My...
View ArticleLetter: Stewart should know that leaks are legal
Rep. Chris Stewart, in defense of proposing yet another secrecy law, claims that there were 124 leaks in the first 125 days of the Trump administration, hoping that the public will believe the leaks...
View ArticleBYU football: Receiver Aleva Hifo hoping to learn from mistakes, setbacks in...
Provo • Much has been made in BYU preseason training camp about the Cougars’ inexperience at receiver.People tend to forget, however, that freshman Aleva Hifo got as many opportunities at the...
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Anne Applebaum: Losing the battle against propaganda
In retrospect, the battle lines of the Cold War - the West, NATO and democracy on one side; the East, the Warsaw Pact and dictatorship on the other - seem obvious and inevitable. The outcome - the...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake searches for way to break down defensive game plans
When Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke substituted striker Yura Movsisyan in for winger Jefferson Savarino on Saturday night, RSL shifted to an attack-oriented formation.Houston was down a man after Alex...
View ArticleSky Sox complete sweep of Salt Lake Bees, 4-2
With a bevy of pitches in his arsenal, Colorado Springs Sky Sox starting pitcher Taylor Jungmann mystified the Salt Lake Bees on Sunday afternoon, facing just one above the minimum through five innings...
View ArticleSalt Lake City elementary school employs goats for gardening work
A Salt Lake City elementary school has found a cheap, chemical-free way to clear weeds from a treacherous hillside: a team of hungry goats.For the third year in a row, a herd of goats is being used to...
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Leonid Bershidsky: Robots created a language. No need to panic.
For some, the idea of artificially intelligent bots that can invent languages of their own and not teach them to us invokes images of of Skynet from the “Terminator” movies. The recent spat between...
View ArticleChina tells North Korea to be ‘smart’ and drop missile tests
Manila, The Philippines • China delivered frank advice to North Korea, its outcast neighbor, on Sunday, telling Pyongyang to make a “smart decision” and stop conducting missile launches and nuclear...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: Missing out on the kindness of strangers
Washington • There are happier stories about those who travel the nation trying to find buyers for their wares than Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” Just ask Marc J. Dunkelman.In an essay in the...
View ArticleFormer Ute Star Lotulelei isn't worried about uncertain future with the...
Spartanburg, S.C. • Defensive tackle Star Lotulelei isn’t fretting about his uncertain future with the Carolina Panthers.The team’s 2013 first-round draft pick out of Utah said he’d love to return to...
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Prep girls’ soccer: Twin sisters power Woods Cross offense, defense
It’s fair to say that Sara and Rachel Noel have gotten used to sharing things with each other.They share a birthday.They share physical features.They share food.And clothes.And shoes.They’ve also spent...
View ArticleWoman killed, 2 injured in fire at West Jordan condos
A woman was killed and two people were injured Sunday after a fire burned a West Jordan condominium complex.The woman, who was in her mid-60s, was unable to get out of her ground-floor condo at...
View ArticleWashington Post Editorial: How to reverse a catastrophe
There is, alas, no shortage of ways to measure the damage done by the nationwide opioid epidemic, but perhaps the most dramatic is to consider how it has reversed four decades of progress against...
View ArticleBowie gets gold, and Jamaica fails to medal in the 100
London • The American sprinter took a mighty tumble. Nobody, however, has fallen harder than Jamaica so far at this year’s world championships.The evening after Usain Bolt’s improbable loss to a pair...
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Your naked friends and neighbors, all part of the Great Salt Lake Fringe...
So there I was, completely naked and curled up in a wooden box while a strange man on a ladder above snapped photos of me.Aterrifying dream for some. But this was photographer Bruce Aoki makingart at...
View ArticleRobert Britton holds on to win Tour of Utah championship
Robert Britton rode about 30 feet past the finish line, then slowed to a stop. He leaned over his bike and exhaled, secure in the knowledge he was the newest champion of the Tour of Utah. Britton...
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Family holds out hope to find Utah man Paul Swenson despite few tips checking...
Family members of a man who was last seen leaving his American Fork home July 27 believe he is “alive and will come home to us safely.”According to a statement posted to the Bring Paul Home Facebook...
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Lawmakers to take up new fireworks proposals — including a statewide ban
When fireworks start booming every July, state Rep. Marie Poulson says upset people bombard her with letters, emails and phone calls.“I hear from veterans with PTSD,” the Cottonwood Heights Democrat...
View ArticleAt transgender camp, children as young as 4 find safe space
El Cerrito, Calif. • In some ways, Rainbow Day Camp is very ordinary. Kids arrive with a packed lunch, make friendship bracelets, play basketball, sing songs and get silly. But it is also...
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