Utah Headlines

Political news

• Inside the conflict over Utah candidate debates (Deseret News)
• Fired Utah National Guard commander sues Gov. Cox, other state leaders (Deseret News)
• Utah Democratic Party names new executive director, Jade Velazquez (ABC4)
• Utah tax incentive program fuels $6.7B in new investment, thousands of jobs (Cache Valley Daily)
• Rep Blake Moore, staff earn top honors for Constituent Service from Congressional Management Foundation (Cache Valley Daily)

Utah

• Corner Canyon siblings' hard work pays off with 3 state wrestling championships (KSL)

Biz/Tech/AI

• USU UWLP releases research on the status of women and entrepreneurship in Utah (Cache Valley Daily)
• ‘It saved my life.’ The people turning to AI for therapy (Reuters)

Crime/Courts

• Man accused of killing 2 police officers sobs during first court appearance (KSL)
• 'I get to go home and they don't': Tremonton man shares harrowing experience in deadly shooting (KSL)
• Chief sees a link between police shootings and a lethal form of domestic abuse (KSL)
• Utah's Cold Cases: Families, task force hope to identify gunmen in 2016 double homicide (KSL)
• Former Deseret News journalist facing charges for alleged enticement (Deseret News)
• Man’s death in S.L. County custody points to ‘alarming deficiencies’ in jail medical system, lawsuit alleges (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Doctor, anti-death penalty advocates say firing squad poses moral and practical problems (Utah News Dispatch)

Culture/Community

• Utah Food Bank launches UFB Diaper Program after acquiring Utah Diaper Bank (Deseret News)
• Box Elder County Fair attendees remember fallen Tremonton officers, pledge $260K to families (KSL)
• Teens hold lemonade stand fundraiser for fallen police officers (KSL TV)
• ‘CHiPs’ actor Erik Estrada posts heartfelt note about Utah officers killed in line of duty (KUTV)
• Young soccer players in Logan honor beloved coach, police officer Eric Estrada (KSL TV)
• Opinion: Time to lean into humankindness (Deseret News)
• What I learned about living from Caroline Klein, who has died at age 40 (Deseret News)
• New documentary goes behind-the-scenes in the Polynesian Cultural Center (KSL)

Education

• Spanish-language sessions at BYU Education Week bridge language, faith, culture (Deseret News)
• Students face new cellphone restrictions in 17 states as school year begins (KSL)
• It’s time for recess. Or is it? Schools struggle with keeping kids physically active (Deseret News)
• SafeUT: The lifeline Utah students — and families — need this school year (KSL)
• Editorial Board: Reviewing university offerings is always a good idea. But the humanities should never be forgotten. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Environment/Energy

• Opinion: A plan to solve the renewable energy and water resource problems in the Mountain West (Deseret News)
• Human-caused wildfires uptick in Utah with costs about $29M so far this year (KSL)
• Drought continues to plague Utah, officials stress conservation (Deseret News)
• Lightning ignites fire in Millard County, burning 500 acres in Fishlake National Forest (KUTV)
• A new tool to help map the Great Salt Lake (Fox13)
• Trump halts work on New England offshore wind project that’s nearly complete (AP)

Faith

• ‘Bula’: Members of Fijian ward in Orem feel sense of community (Deseret News)
• How conservative and progressive Ivy League professors became best friends (Deseret News)

Family

• Adults are now struggling to hit these 4 ‘milestones,’ Census says. (The Hill) 

Health

• New behavioral health center in Taylorsville to focus on children, families (KSL)
• The doctor can’t see you now (Deseret News)

National Headlines

General

• Fewer Americans are reading for fun. Here’s why it matters (Deseret News)
• How one family escaped their war-torn home and a group of U.S. neighbors embraced them (Deseret News)
• Great white sharks head north, following seals and alarming beachgoers (AP)

Political news

• Gorsuch calls out lower courts as Trump administration allowed to end NIH grants (Deseret News) 
• Ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton's home raided by FBI (Deseret News)
• The Supreme Court and the world of sports (Deseret News)
• Supreme Court lets Trump admin cut off health grants it says advance DEI or ‘gender ideology extremism’ (Politico)
• Trump's redistricting push could bring decades of Republican rule to the US House (Reuters)
• ‘Stay out of our city': Chicago officials slam Trump’s threat to target city in next crime crackdown (AP)
• Turnover among election officials reaches new high, report finds (Utah News Dispatch)
• Some National Guard units in Washington are now carrying firearms in escalation of Trump deployment (AP)
• Trump ran on a promise of revenge. He’s making good on it (AP)
• Republicans shift focus to states beyond Texas in redistricting fight (The Hill)
• Seven months in, Trump’s revolving door reaching full swing (Politico)

Immigration/deportation

• How language creates barriers for Mexican Indigenous community (Deseret News)
• US seeks to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he refused plea offer in his smuggling case (AP)

Ukraine/Russia

• Russia's Lavrov outlines terms for Ukraine peace: big power security guarantee and no NATO (Reuters)
• Russia’s top diplomat joins ‘Meet the Press’ to defend actions in Ukraine (Politico)
• Frustrated, Trump signals pause in his Ukraine peace effort (Washington Post)

Middle East

• Arguing over hunger in Gaza ‘kind of obscene,’ UNICEF official says (Politico)
• Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 15 people, including journalists (Reuters)

World news

• Bangladesh runs out of resources for Rohingya refugees (Reuters)

Number of the Day

News Releases

University of Utah Impact Scholar and best-selling author Dr. Arthur Brooks to keynote the Salt Lake Chamber’s 2025 Annual Meeting

Friday, the Salt Lake Chamber announced University of Utah Impact Scholar and best-selling author Dr. Arthur Brooks as the keynote speaker at this year’s Annual Meeting. In his keynote, “Leadership and Happiness in a Time of Rapid Change,” Dr. Brooks will share actionable insights on how leaders can cultivate happiness, resilience and purpose — both personally and professionally. The Salt Lake Chamber will host the Annual Meeting & Awards Luncheon on September 25, 2025, at the Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown at City Creek. (Read More)

Moore’s office receives Best of Congressional Constituent Service Award

Tweet of the Day

Upcoming

• 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

• 325 - Council of Nicaea concludes with the adoption of the Nicene Creed
• 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and philologist, dies at 55
• 1916 - National Park Service is founded.
• 1944 - Paris is liberated after four years of Nazi occupation
• 1945 - John Birch, an American missionary to China before the war and a captain in the Army during the war, is killed by Chinese communists
• 1950 - Truman orders army to seize control of the railroads
• 1952 - Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
• 1985 - Samantha Smith, the 13-year-old “ambassador” to the Soviet Union, dies in a plane crash
• 1990 - UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
• 2005 - Hurricane Katrina forms
• 2009 - Ted Kennedy, “liberal lion of the Senate,” dies at 77.
• 2018 - John McCain dies of brain cancer at age 81
• 2020 - The World Health Organization announces that Africa has eradicated polio (defined as four years since its last case)

Quote of the Day

"For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make."

— Ted Kennedy

On the Punny Side

What title do spiders put on their resume?

Web developer.

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