Utah Headlines

Political news

• Widespread backlash killed Mike Lee’s plan to sell public lands. Utah state leaders are undeterred. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah to seek death penalty against Carter if he's convicted of murder again (FOX 13)
• Citizens group sues lieutenant governor over denied ballot initiatives (KSL)

Municipal news

• Lehi considers ordinance to ban jumping, lingering on bridges over safety concerns (KUTV)
• Falling Grand County tax revenue forces nearly $2M budget transfer (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Massive flag flies over downtown Ogden thanks to Major Brent Taylor Foundation (ABC4)

Utah

• EXCLUSIVE: Family of deadly West Jordan house fire victims speaks out (ABC4)
• Nursing shortage continues to grow in US and in Utah, echoing the doctor shortage (KSL)
• Wyoming jail tapped to hold out-of-state immigrant suspects, including some from Utah (Deseret News)
• Utah has lost 60% of its immigration judges in a matter of months, causing growing case backlog (KSL Newsradio)
• Costco stores in Utah begin rolling out a big change in the food court (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Salt Lake City attorney identified as man who died in Little Cottonwood Canyon rockslide (KSL)
• Airman stationed at Hill Air Force Base identified as person killed in cliff jumping incident (KSL TV)
• Utah County man killed in small plane crash near Yellowstone (Fox13)

Biz/Tech

• ‘Hustler’ to ‘entrepreneur’: What Utah women learn in prison business school (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Artificial intelligence disrupting job search process for both candidates, companies (KUTV)

Crime/Courts

• Midvale man arrested in fatal assault of his girlfriend (KSL)
• 2 drivers arrested minutes apart going over 100 mph in same area of Utah County (KSL)
• Man arrested after woman dies following assault in street near Midvale high school (KUTV)

Culture/Community

• Cattle drive through downtown Salt Lake kicks off week for Days of ’47 Rodeo (KSL TV)
• ‘I feel like a cowboy’: Downtown cattle parade, children’s rodeo encourage Western spirit (KSL)
• Photo gallery: Cattle drive through downtown signals Days of ’47 is here (Deseret News)
• How to score a sneak peak at this year's Days of '47 parade floats (Fox13)

Education

• 3-year bachelor’s degree programs on tap at Weber State, Utah Valley University (Deseret News)
• Former BYU basketball star Travis Hansen returning as associate AD (KSL)
• Utah Tech professor explains 'Bone Jovi,' the life-sized T. rex model at Red Cliffs Mall (St. George News)
• Davis school officials evaluating future of 2 dual-language programs due to low participation (KSL)
• New guardrails added to Utah’s school voucher program in response to transparency concerns (KUTV)
• Utah schools are entering their no-cellphone era. Here’s a ban breakdown (KUER)

Environment/Energy

• Opinion: Unleash Utah — A new coalition to help lead America’s energy future (Deseret News) 
• Lake Powell advisory issued as Western wildfires continue to burn (KSL)
• Deer Creek Fire determined to be human-caused, suspect identified (KSL TV)
• Utah's water storage drops 10% in a month (Fox13)

Faith

• First female prophet-president says her church is in a ‘financially strong position’ after selling the Kirtland Temple (Salt Lake Tribune)
• How the recent IRS filing challenges the boundaries between faith and politics (Deseret News)

Family

• TSA’s ‘Families on the Fly’ hopes to make traveling with kids easier. Will that happen? (Deseret News)

Health

• STD rates up nationally in last decade. Where does Utah stand? (Deseret News)
• Huntsman Mental Health Institute will soon open a new 24/7 youth crisis center (KUER)

National Headlines

General

• SkyWest pilot performs aggressive maneuver to prevent mid-air collision (Deseret News)
• Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ actor, dies in accidental drowning at 54 (Deseret News)
• Judge gives ex-officer nearly 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid, rebuffs DOJ call for no prison time (AP)

Political news 

• House won’t vote on releasing Epstein files even as pressure grows inside GOP (Deseret News)
• Wall Street Journal banned from Trump trip after Epstein story (Deseret News)
• As MAGA world focuses on Epstein, Trump seeks focus on anything else (Washington Post)
• Hunter Biden suggests Joe Biden's disastrous debate was due to Ambien (Reuters)
• As US wildfires rage, Trump staff cuts force firefighters to clean toilets, critics say (Reuters)
• Exclusive: Trump pledged to save Afghans. But UAE had already sent some evacuees back, cable shows (Reuters)
• Trump administration releases FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition (AP)

Immigration/deportation

• ‘Flood the zone’: Trump administration targets sanctuary cities after officer shooting in New York (Deseret News)
• Marines ending Los Angeles deployment, Pentagon says (Reuters)

Ukraine/Russia

• Russian attacks on Ukraine kill two, cause widespread damage (Reuters)
• Military bases in New Jersey, Indiana, to be expanded to detain immigrants (NPR)

Middle East

• Israel sends tanks into Gaza's Deir al-Balah, hostage families concerned (Reuters)
• Israeli fire kills 12 people in Gaza tent encampment housing displaced families, medics say (Reuters)
• A fragile ceasefire holds in southern Syria after hundreds of Druze civilians killed (Deseret News)
• Trump ‘caught off guard’ by recent Israeli strikes, White House says (AP)

World news

• Chinese Officials Helped Cover Up Lead Poisoning of Children, Report Says (New York Times)
• The UK says it will sanction those who enable migrant journeys across the English Channel (AP News)

Number of the Day

Tweets of the Day

Upcoming

• 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
• Aug 12 — Municipal primary
• Aug 19-21 — Interim Days
• Nov 4 — General election
• February 4-7, 2026 — Summit, with Silicon Slopes and Visit Salt Lake

On This Day In History

• 1849 - Poet Emma Lazarus is born.
• 1862 - Lincoln tells his cabinet that he will issue an Emancipation Proclamation but will wait until the Union Army has achieved a substantial military victory.
• 1890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy is born. An American matriarch, she was the mother of JFK, RFK & Ted.
• 1893 - Inspired by the view from atop Pikes Peak, American author and professor Katharine Lee Bates writes the lyrics to “America the Beautiful.”
• 1898 - Miriam Underhill is born. She became a mountaineer and environmentalist, was in the first all-women ascent of the Matterhorn in 1932, and developed “manless climbing,” which means all-women climbing groups.
• 1908 - Jane Bolin is born. She was the first African American woman judge in the United States. She was also the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department.
• 1910 - Ruthie Tompson is born. The American animator and artist worked nearly 40 years with the Walt Disney Company. Some of the animated films she worked on include Mary Poppins, Robin Hood, and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too. In 2010, she became one of America’s supercentenarians.
• 1926 - Dorcas Reilly is born. You may not know her name, but you almost certainly know her food. During her time working for Campbell’s Test Kitchen, she created the green bean casserole, a staple of an American Thanksgiving feast.
• 1937 - The US Senate rejects FDR's proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court
• 1942 - Deportations from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka begin.
• 1987 - Gorbachev accepts ban on intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
• 1991 - Cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is caught.
• 2013 - Prince George, first child of Prince William and Kate Middleton, is born.

Quote of the Day

"Adversity is the true school of the mind."

— Katharine Lee Bates

On the Punny Side

What has more lives than a cat?

A frog, because it croaks every day.

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