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Utah Headlines

Political news

• Utah advocates worry about potential Medicaid cuts’ impact on kids (KSL TV)

Municipal news

• Ogden eyes major change to Wall Avenue by Union Station to bolster downtown activity (KSL)
• Family, community members trying to save beloved Wilkerson Farm from development (Fox13)

Utah

• One-of-a-kind stained-glass dome will top Utah’s new North Capitol building (Deseret News)
• The Art of Sound: Two artists who see what they hear (KSL TV)
• Honoring Major Brent Taylor’s legacy with a new flag (ABC4)
• Supreme Court ruling paves way for deportation of Venezuelan immigrants; Impacted woman in Utah reacts (KSL TV)

Biz/Tech

• Biotechnology company Regeneron buying 23andMe for $256M (KSL)
• Summer jobs are opening up for teens as school ends (KSL Newsradio)
• Utah craft beer likes to flirt with global flavors. Tariffs will cramp their style (KUER)

Community/Culture

• Photo gallery: Food, dance, music help brighten weekend at Living Traditions Festival (Deseret News)
• Utah’s Olympic organizers kick off ‘listening tour’ in Ogden. Here’s what they heard (Deseret News)
• Perspective: Why I don’t want to watch the ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.’ It isn’t what you think (Deseret News)
• First Presidency sends ‘warmest regards’ to Pope Leo XIV following Mass of Inauguration (Deseret News)
•  Church of Jesus Christ sends representative to inauguration mass for new pope (KSL)

Crime/Courts

• Teen arrested for murder at Kearns High School parking lot (ABC4)

Economy

• Here's how the U.S. credit rating downgrade could impact you (Deseret News)

Education - K-12

• Tiara Auxier: Let our kids eat — why we must rethink lunchtime in public schools (Deseret News)
• 4th-grade class at Utah school enacts change with essays (KSL)
• Voices: My Gen Z students aren’t hopeless or broken. They’re dealing with the world we made. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Education - Higher

• BYU announces site location for new School of Medicine (Deseret News)
• History made: Westminster University honors its Class of ’25 during school’s 150th anniversary (Deseret News)
• New Utah Tech president focusing on high-earning career paths for students (KUTV)
• US terminates $60 million in Harvard grants over alleged antisemitism (Reuters)

Environment

• Southern Utah is used to hot summers with little water. This year is shaping up to be especially bad. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Family

• Silver linings: How to fill your retirement years with ‘something meaningful, something that matters’ (Deseret News)

Health

• FDA approves blood test to detect Alzheimer’s disease (Deseret News)
• Death rates for prostate cancer in Utah hit number 4 in the US (KSL TV)
• Doctors urged to treat pain for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated (NPR)

National Headlines

General

• ‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams says he has the same kind of cancer as Biden and has only a few months to live (Deseret News)
• Shipment of thousands of chicks found abandoned in USPS truck now overwhelming an animal shelter (AP)
• More severe weather pummels the central US as thousands recover from deadly tornadoes (AP)
• How to get to Sesame Street? Kids can now head to Netflix as well as PBS (NPR)

Political news - Trump

• Laura Loomer swipes at Trump from the heart of MAGA (Reuters)
• Trump signs bipartisan bill criminalizing revenge porn, including AI-generated images (Deseret News)
• Pence: ‘I’ve never been a fan of American presidents criticizing America on foreign soil’ (Politico)

Other federal political news

• RFK Jr. demands healthier school meals as Trump cancels program that funded them (Reuters)
• US Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer proposes ban on foreign Air Force One planes (Reuters)
• Democratic Rep. McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says (AP)
• Senate confirms Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law, as ambassador to France (AP)
• White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working. (Washington Post)
• Judge says Trump lacked authority to dismantle U.S. Institute of Peace (Washington Post)

Immigration/deportation

• Trump administration fined this low-income migrant $1.8 million  (Reuters)
• US Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protection for Venezuelans (Reuters)
• Trump proposal to repatriate Ukrainians, Haitians would use foreign aid funds (Washington Post)
• At least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, Cato Institute finds (The Hill)

DOGE/Musk

• Why has Elon Musk disappeared from the spotlight? (Politico) 

Tariffs

• US tariffs dampen mood of global exporters, study shows (Reuters)
• Trump berates companies for warning about tariff price increases (New York Times)

Ukraine/Russia

• Trump says negotiations between Ukraine and Russia will ‘begin immediately’ following call with Putin (Deseret News)
• Russia is only playing for time in Ukraine peace talks, Germany says (Reuters)
• Trump backs off his demand that Russia declare a cease-fire in Ukraine (New York Times)

Middle East

• Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza as criticism of Israel grows (Reuters)

World news

• Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff (AP)
• Cambodia’s ‘Day of Remembrance’ marks the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge genocide (AP)

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Upcoming

• May 20-22 — Interim Days
• May 31 — Utah Democratic Party Organizing Convention, Ogden High School
• Aug 7 —  Titan of Public Service gala with Sen. Tom Cotton hosted by the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation at the Grand America Hotel. More Information Here

On This Day In History

• 325 - First Council of Nicaea
• 1506 - Christopher Columbus dies
• 1806 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist and utilitarian, is born in London 
• 1834 - Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot and French revolutionary, dies at 76
• 1867 - British parliament rejects John Stuart Mill's proposals on women’s suffrage
• 1862 - US President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for the settlement of the American West (80 million acres by 1900)
• 1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans
• 1927 - Charles Lindbergh takes off across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis
• 1932 - Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland on her journey to become the 1st woman to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic
• 1956 - United States drops hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
• 1975 - Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge begins

Quote of the Day

"The legal subordination of one sex to the other — is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement."

—John Stuart Mill

On the Punny Side

Why did the bee's hair smell sweet?

Because it used a honeycomb.

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