Utah Headlines

Political news

• 'We ... have to stand up': Utahns plead for change at downtown protest (KSL)
• Federal funding cuts affect Utah’s independent filmmakers (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah company among five companies across US suing Trump administration over tariffs (KUTV)
• Elizabeth Rasmussen: To protect democracy, we must fight for fairness (Deseret News)
• Mike Lee wants to make it easier for Trump to appoint U.S. attorneys. Here's how (Deseret News)

Municipal

• Lehi hopes for $2.5M in federal funding for transportation study (KSL)
• UDOT reveals new details of massive pedestrian plaza planned for downtown SLC sports district (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah County sheriff speaks out against ICE's efforts to recruit local deputies: 'This needs to be fixed' (Daily Herald)

Utah

• Should colleges pay their athletes? Here's what Utahns think (KSL)
• Ogden townhouse fire causes $1.6 million in damages (KSL TV)
• Crews recover body of man who went missing during windstorm at Willard Bay State Park (KUTV)
• 'The race of our lifetimes': Here's what Trump's AI Action Plan means for Utah (KSL)
• Will Utah lead or be left behind by the AI revolution? (Deseret News)
• Opinion: For the future of Utah’s economy, we must get AI policy right (Deseret News)
• Living donor could save KSL team member's life — here's how to help (KSL)
• Driver attempting speed record crashes, dies at Bonneville Salt Flats (KSL)

Biz/Tech

• Jonathan Freedman, Derek B. Miller: How Utah businesses are responding to tariffs, and what they need next (Deseret News)

Crime/Courts

• Sandy man charged for beating 2 sons with metal rod claims they were being disciplined (KSL)
• Maurine Hunsaker's son frustrated over commutation hearing for convicted killer Ralph Menzies (KSL)

Culture/Community

• Ogden woman changing how men view themselves — 1 toupee at a time (KSL)
• Utah's Native American Summit: Bringing the state's tribes together (KSL)
• Slain Utah designer’s creations on display thanks to others who helped finish his work (KSL TV)
• Frank Layden never stopped giving back (Deseret News)
• TREASURE FOUND: Married couple finds $25,000 treasure at Temple Quarry Trail in Sandy. (ABC4)
• Neighbors, including NFL player, rally to save homes from brush fire in Utah County (Fox13)

Economy

• The latest financial numbers offer some warning signs on the economy (AP)

Education

• Serving immigrants with ‘confidence and compassion’: BYU introduces immigration law course for non-lawyers (Deseret News)
• Readers’ Forum: Fixing Utah schools in 3 easy steps. (Deseret News)
• NBA star Damian Lillard is taking a job with Weber State basketball (Salt Lake Tribune)

Environment/Energy

• Sen. Mike Lee: It’s time to return to a balanced energy strategy (Deseret News)

Faith

• A complete timeline of the Salt Lake Temple renovations (Deseret News)
• Why this Utah influencer wasn’t afraid to share her Latter-day Saint mission announcement (Deseret News)
• Church donations seek to benefit more than 18,000 students in Central America (Deseret News)
• Perspective: The horizon is bright for the future of global faith (Deseret News)
• Commentary: For 150 years, Utah’s Catholic schools have been teaching the three R’s and a whole lot more (Salt Lake Tribune)

Health

• How to protect yourself from the bad air caused by wildfires (KSL Newsradio)
• What we can learn from Deion Sanders and his cancer journey (Deseret News)
• 3 new facts about Alzheimer's disease (Deseret News)
• Whooping cough mysteriously packing a wallop in southern Utah in big numbers (Fox13)
• Report: More help needed for Utah's 'sandwich generation' caregivers (St. George News)

Housing

• More U.S. home sellers are reducing prices than ever. Here's where that's happening the most (Deseret News)
• Has housing become a luxury? Utah Housing Coalition highlights alarming findings in new report (Deseret News)
• Report: People who move are looking for affordability, making smaller cities more popular (Deseret News)

National Headlines

General

• A lightning strike that was 515 miles long just set a new world record (Deseret News)
• Beef prices are at a record high. How a ‘perfect storm’ led to the increase (Deseret News)
• Popular 80s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series 'WKRP in Cincinnati' has died (AP)
• Former US soldier suspected of killing 4 in Montana remains at large (AP)

Political news 

• Trump fires official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report (AP)
• Trump fired America's data collector. History shows the perils (New York Times)
• Her nomination to head the BLM ended abruptly. Here’s how she would have approached the job (Deseret News)
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it will shut down after Congress strips funding (Deseret News)
• The Justice Department seeks voter and election information from at least 19 states, AP finds (AP)
• David Brooks: Trump is a big-government populist who has destroyed small-government conservatism. (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Texas Democrats arrive in Illinois to block vote back home on redrawn House maps sought by Trump (AP)
• ‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds (AP)

Immigration/deportation

• Appeals court keeps order blocking indiscriminate immigration sweeps (NPR)
• DOJ is walking back the White House’s goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day (Politico)

Ukraine/Russia

• Top Trump aide accuses India of financing Russia's war in Ukraine (Reuters)
• 3 people die in overnight Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia (AP News)

Middle East

• Khosrow B. Semnani, Amir Soltani: We cannot ignore starvation in Gaza any longer (Deseret News)
• Israel's Netanyahu urges Red Cross to aid Gaza hostages (Reuters)
• Hamas says it will allow aid for hostages if Israel halts airstrikes, opens permanent humanitarian corridors (Reuters)

World news

• Long-Dormant Russian Volcano Erupts for the First Time in Centuries (New York Times)
• ‘Just a jumble of bones.’ How a baby grave discovery has grown to haunt Ireland (AP)

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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 18-20 — Interim Days
• Sept 11-12 — Women in the Money Conference, Sheraton Hotel and online, Register here
• Sept 15-17 — Interim Days
• Oct 6-8 — One Utah Summit, Cedar City, More information here
• Oct 13-15 — Interim Days
• Nov 4 — General election
• Nov 17-19 — Interim Days
• February 4-7, 2026 — Summit, with Silicon Slopes and Visit Salt Lake

On This Day In History

• 1790 - The US Coast Guard is established.
• 1821 - The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first edition.
• 1870 - Red Cross forms in Britain as the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War.
• 1890 - Barbara Armstrong is born. A lawyer and the first female law professor at a law school of a major university, she advocated social insurance throughout her career. She is considered the architect of the US Social Security system.
• 1914 - US proclaims neutrality in WWI
• 1942 - US and Mexico sign the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement, also known as the Bracero Program. The largest guest worker program in US history, the Bracero program lasted until 1964.
• 1944 - Anne Frank and her family captured
• 1955 - Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
• 1961 - Barack Obama is born in Hawaii
• 1964 - The remains of three slain civil rights workers found in Mississippi.
• 1977 - President Carter establishes Department of Energy
• 2020 - Huge explosions at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, kill more than 200 and leave over 6,000 thousand people injured

Quote of the Day

"The opportunity that Hawaii offered — to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect — became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear."

— Barack Obama

On the Punny Side

Why shouldn't you tell secrets in a cornfield?

Because there are too many ears around.

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