Utah Headlines

Political news

• ‘Utah needs you’: National election commission urges Utahns to volunteer as poll workers (Utah News Dispatch) 

Municipal

• Foreigners don’t want to ‘come here and give any of their money to our economy’: Moab restaurants feel the pinch of fewer visitors (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Water rates to rise for nearly 800,000 Utahns after board votes in favor of tax increase (KUTV)
• St. George breaks ground on the control tower that’ll keep its airport growing (KUER)

Utah

• Utah teen wins ‘nail-biter’ race on ‘American Ninja Warrior’ to keep his season alive. His older brother is up next (Deseret News)
• Can this crosswalk change improve safety? New study yields promising results (KSL)
• Domestic violence survivor organization needs school supply donations (KSL TV)

Biz/Tech

• Security experts concerned about deal to sell U.S. microchips to China (Deseret News)
• Opinion: Data centers are eating the economy — and we’re not even using them (Salt Lake Tribune)
• ‘It’s like your baby’: St. George baker turns passion for sourdough into business success (St. George News)
• Mothers are leaving the workforce, erasing pandemic gains (Washington Post)

Crime/Courts

• ‘I was numb and scared’: Woman testifies about the night she says a man who later changed his identity raped her (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Woman charged in connection with fatal West Valley auto-pedestrian crash (KSL)
• Orem woman charged with taking sports cards, hitting employee with her car (KSL)
• Man facing several charges after Cache County crash kills woman, 9-month-old baby (KSL TV)
• Rachel Morin’s family speaks at killer’s sentencing (Deseret News)

Culture/Community

• Obsessed with ‘KPop Demon Hunters’? This Utah KPop store is hosting an event for you (ABC4)
  

Economy

• Car insurance premiums projected to increase if tariffs continue (KSL Newsradio)

Education

• Utah launches community-based initiative to battle chronic absenteeism in schools (Deseret News)
• Southern Utah leads armed guardian implementation as new school year kicks off (KSL)
• 3 Utah charter schools awarded up to $2M each in federal funds (KSL)
• Retaining wall under construction after quickly weakening at new Provo elementary school (KUTV)
• Thousands of Alpine School District educators attend ‘Stop the Bleed’ training (ABC4)
• School year begins in southern Utah with security, kindness front and center (Fox13)
• With the bell set to ring, Utah teachers prep classrooms for new school year (Fox13)
• Understanding Utah's new cellphone policy in classrooms (Fox13)
• Utah health leaders work to prevent the spread of measles as students start going back to school (Fox13)

Environment/Energy

• Campgrounds and trails close as wildfire in the Uintas rages out of control (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah could bring bighorn sheep back to another Great Salt Lake island (KSL)
• Utah narrowly missed its driest July on record. Can this week break its dry stretch? (KSL)
• Trump EPA claws back $7B in solar funding already promised to states (Utah News Dispatch)

Faith

• Learn the new hymns from other Christian traditions, part 2 — as sung by the Tabernacle Choir (Deseret News)
• Ahead of his retirement, Rev. Carter of Morehouse College reflects on ‘shattering stereotypes’ with the Church of Jesus Christ (Deseret News)

Family

• Committed romance is scary — or secondary — for many young adults (Deseret News)

Health

• What effect does Ozempic have on muscles? (Deseret News)
• Utah health clinic to resume screening and helping downwinders apply for compensation (Utah News Dispatch)
• Former BYU football star helps pioneer breakthrough in brain injury treatment and recovery (KSL TV)
• Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study (Reuters)

Housing

• U.S. permits to build single family homes are down. Is Salt Lake part of the national trend? (Deseret News)
• Joseph Grenny, Preston Cochrane, Tim Stay: How to fix the chronic homelessness problem (Deseret News)
• Utah advocate doubts long-term effectiveness of Trump’s homeless actions in D.C. (KSL Newsradio)

National Headlines

General

• Explosions at US Steel plant leaves two dead, 10 injured (Reuters)
• Shooter kills 3 in a Target parking lot in Austin, Texas, before being captured, police say (AP)
• Colorado wildfires burn more than 120,000 acres as firefighters await better weather (NPR)

Political news 

• Trump takes over DC police in extraordinary move; deploys National Guard in capital (Reuters)
• Trump’s moves toward taking over Washington are unprecedented. Here’s what the law says (AP)
• Washington mayor calls Trump’s police order ‘unsettling and unprecedented’ (Politico)
• Gov. Newsom says he’ll back down from redistricting threats if Texas throws out new maps (Deseret News)
• Trump signs 90-day extension on tariff truce with China (Deseret News)
• Trump confirms administration is 'looking' at possibly reclassifying marijuana (Deseret News)
• Trump nominates Bureau of Labor Statistics critic, and contributor to Project 2025, to replace fired agency head (Washington Post)
• Trial starts over Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard to Los Angeles (AP)
• Judge denies release of Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts (NPR)

Immigration/deportation

• How Trump’s immigration policies are affecting caregivers and nursing homes (PBS)

Ukraine/Russia

• Trump says both sides in Ukraine war will need to cede territory (Reuters)
• Trump says he will 'feel out' Putin in Alaska on ending the war in Ukraine (AP)
• Russia Has High Hopes for Trump-Putin Summit. Peace Isn’t One of Them. (Wall Street Journal)
• Foreign Recruits in Ukraine Are Killed in a Strike on a Training Camp (New York Times)

Middle East

• Syria vows to investigate footage of Sweida hospital killing (Reuters)
• Increasing the danger: Journalist killing in Gaza sends a chilling message (AP)

World news

• Swarm of jellyfish shuts French nuclear plant (Reuters)
• Miguel Uribe, Colombian Senator Shot at Campaign Event, Dies at 39 (New York Times)

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On This Day In History

• 30 BC - Cleopatra dies
• 1851 - Isaac Singer’s first patent for a commercial sewing machine is granted.
• 1898 - Hawaii is formally annexed to the US
• 1908 - Henry Ford’s company builds the first Model T car
• 1922 - Frederick Douglass’ home in Washington, D.C. is dedicated as a national shrine.
• 1939 - “The Wizard of Oz” movie premieres.
• 1955 - US President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
• 1972 - Wendy Rue founds the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), the largest businesswomen’s organization in the United States.
• 1981 - The personal computer (PC) comes to market for the first time when IBM releases its Model 5150.
• 1985 -The world’s worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people. Four passengers survived.
• 1990 - Sue Hendrickson discovers Tyrannosaurus rex remains in South Dakota. One of the most complete skeletons in the world, it was named Sue in honor of Hendrickson.
• 1994 - Professional baseball players strike, bringing Major League Baseball’s season to an end. The World Series is canceled.
• 2014 - Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall dies at age 89.
• 2021 - Britney Spear's father says he will step down as her conservator after the singer called his conservatorship abusive, amid a #FreeBritney campaign

Quote of the Day

“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
— Frederick Douglass

On the Punny Side

What did the duck say when she purchased new lipstick?

Put it on my bill!

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