Planned Parenthood clinics in several states are charging new fees, tapping financial reserves, intensifying fundraising and warning of more unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases after its decision to quit a $260 million federal family planning program in an abortion dispute with the Trump administration.
Planned Parenthood clinics in several states are charging new fees, tapping financial reserves, intensifying fundraising and warning of more unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases after its decision to quit a $260 million federal family planning program in an abortion dispute with the Trump administration.
In 1862, an enslaved black pioneer was buried with little fanfare in a pauper’s grave in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. The man, who was identified only as “Tom (a Negro),” would not live to see the abolition of slavery just three years after his death.
Patrick Byrne, controversial founder and CEO of Utah-based Overstock.com, announced Thursday he is resigning immediately from the company and its board.
A West Valley City man was in a medically induced coma due to pneumonia apparently caused by vaping, his family said — one of 10 severe cases of vaping-related illnesses the state is investigating this week.
A southern Utah chiropractor was arrested Thursday after four patients reported he had sexually assaulted them during treatments.
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Several high-ranking Latter-day Saint leaders met Thursday with Vice President Mike Pence about a common concern: religious freedom in the United States and across the globe.
Washington • For a man who sees himself as the messiah, President Trump has a lackluster record on Earth.
Washington • The flood of bizarre pronouncements and behavior from President Trump is likely to get worse, I fear. He is now completely unfiltered — and, apparently, increasingly untethered to reality.
South Jordan • Vice President Mike Pence touted the strength of the U.S. economy during a visit to Utah-based Merit Medical on Thursday, pointing to stock market gains, low unemployment and manufacturing “roaring back” after years of decline.
After spending half a century in the suburbs, The Store — one of Utah’s best-known specialty markets — heads to the big city.
Does President Donald Trump have a Messiah complex?
South Burlington, Vt. • A report released Thursday by Vermont’s Roman Catholic Church found there were “credible and substantiated” allegations of the sexual abuse of minors against 40 priests in the state since 1950.
The Utah Wildlife Board boosted cougar hunting quotas Thursday for the fourth year in a row, voting to hike permits for the upcoming season to 690, representing about a quarter of the state’s lion population.
BYU is going through the regular prep for holding a season opener such as making sure the field is immaculate, running through the scoreboard program and cleaning up the grounds around LaVell Edwards Stadium.
After a tense summer of salary negotiations, members of the Salt Lake City teachers union voted this week to accept a tentative agreement with the school district to raise annual pay for all its educators by 4.1%.
Rome • Matteo Salvini slipped the rosary out of his pocket right before Premier Giuseppe Conte began his speech to Parliament. He took it out and kissed it again midway through the address, just as Conte began admonishing him for exploiting his Catholic faith for political ends.
Rome • Matteo Salvini slipped the rosary out of his pocket right before Premier Giuseppe Conte began his speech to Parliament. He took it out and kissed it again midway through the address, just as Conte began admonishing him for exploiting his Catholic faith for political ends.
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:
Utah football player Britain Covey can recite teammate Maxwell Cotton’s movie credits as a child actor. He knows receiver Jason Heller was nearly 4 years old before he could walk, due to a congenital foot issue. Covey marvels about how Polynesian defensive lineman Pita Tonga becomes almost a different person when he’s speaking Spanish.
Melbourne, Australia • No matter the game, Joe Ingles has one priority on his mind after playing basketball: going home with his family. So he couldn’t have been happy when he saw a Salt Lake Tribune reporter waiting for him after his Australian men’s national team lost to Team USA 102-86 before 50,000 fans on Thursday, knowing a litany of questions was waiting.
Utah lawmakers are crafting a cannabis bill that would ditch a state-run system of dispensing the substance, increase the number of private pharmacies from seven to 12 and allow for home delivery of the plant-based treatment.
August 23 is Lloyd Pendleton’s birthday. Noted as one of Utah’s premiere champions of populations most of us never see, he is probably best remembered by America for his interview, The Homeless Homed, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Jan. 7, 2015.
Melbourne, Australia • Team USA saw how it wanted to play on Thursday night. It’s just that, for one half, the Americans saw it from the other team.
There seems to be no limit to the cruelty Donald Trump and his administration are willing to exhibit and exact when it comes to immigrants and asylum-seekers from Latin America.
Utah ranks No. 9 nationally — up one spot this year — for the condition and cost-effectiveness of its state highway system.
New federal data show that Wasatch Front counties are among the best in the nation for creating new jobs — but lag when it comes to increasing wages. Pay in all these counties remains below the national average.
It’s not often that I go to a restaurant and get dinner and a show — let alone one that includes belly dancers.
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Washington • President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was looking “very seriously” at ending the right to citizenship for babies born to non-U.S. citizens on American soil.
Washington • President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was looking “very seriously” at ending the right to citizenship for babies born to non-U.S. citizens on American soil.
After months of study and years of handwringing, a panel of Utah lawmakers recommended Wednesday that Utah maintain its status quo regarding election candidates who win a party nomination with less than a majority of votes.
The last time Mike Pence was in Utah it was damage control, trying to firm up squishy support in a normally rock solid conservative state.
Dear Ann Cannon • I was raised in a conservative religion and taught that sex was reserved for marriage only. I am now divorced and seriously dating someone who is not of my faith. The sex conversation has come up and I am conflicted. I would like to have sex with my boyfriend, and I am no longer a believer in the religion I was raised in. I know my parents and friends would be disappointed in me. I’m 30! I feel conflicted! How do I navigate this situation? My boyfriend is supportive of whatever I decide.
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Tracy Aviary is tickled pink about two new members of its 400-plus flock.
The Goose Point Fire in Utah County grew from about 700 acres on Wednesday to 6,500 acres by midday Thursday, but the fire has been kept away from people and structures.
Logan, Utah • A Utah woman convicted of stealing more than $100,000 from people with disabilities was sentenced to three years of probation.
Ken Ivory has exited his Utah House seat to take an executive level job at a Silicon Slopes company that he helped hire for a special legislative project to appraise Utah’s public lands — an assignment that has evolved into a $700,000 state contract for the firm.
Washington - Because of the investigation led by three University of South Florida researchers, and because of exemplary journalism by the Tampa Bay Times, we now have an intensely discomforting but welcome enrichment of American literature. It requires artistry to write beautifully about children suffering at the hands of evil men, and from the riveting first sentence of his slender new novel “The Nickel Boys” -- “Even in death the boys were trouble” -- Colson Whitehead’s prose unfurls with controlled fury as he reimagines life at what was the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. The fact that Whitehead never raises his authorial voice enhances its wallop.
Salt Lake City’s downtown is thriving — and changing. Young, educated and tech-smart workers are moving into condos and apartments close to their jobs and a host of new restaurants, bars and theaters across the business core.
It isn’t hard to guess what Mike Pompeo, the hawkish congressman from Kansas, would say about the Afghan exit deal that Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, is negotiating with the Taliban.
If you’re planning to visit Yellowstone National Park this Labor Day weekend, I have good news: It is very, very, very unlikely that the supervolcano beneath it will erupt while you’re there.
Do you blame God for Donald Trump?
Denver • Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday that he will run for the U.S. Senate, becoming the immediate front-runner in a crowded Democratic field vying for the right to challenge Republican incumbent Cory Gardner.
Denver • Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday that he will run for the U.S. Senate, becoming the immediate front-runner in a crowded Democratic field vying for the right to challenge Republican incumbent Cory Gardner.
Utah lawmakers got their first look this week at a public relations campaign aimed at educating residents on “the three P’s” that can be flushed down a toilet.
A recession looms, and the nation’s CEOs are growing fearful.
I agree with the Aug. 18 commentary, “Ten reasons Republicans should vote Democrat,” by Bob Rees and Clifton Jolley.