PBS Utah’s The Hinckley Report Returns for its 10th Season Tonight at 7 PM

The Hinckley Report brings top journalists, lawmakers, and policy experts together for a weekly roundtable discussion, providing insight and analysis into local and national political news. The Hinckley Report is a collaboration between PBS Utah and The University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics. Watch live Fridays at 7PM, or stream anytime. 

Utah Headlines

Political news

• Utah judge sets new timeline for congressional redistricting (Deseret News)
• Republicans, including Sen. Mike Lee, plan massive overhaul of D.C. crime policies (Deseret News)
• Sen. Mike Lee sponsors bill to roll back Washington's 2022 police reforms (KSL)
• Connecting people to Congress, 5 Calls app expands to cover Utah's legislature (Fox13)

Municipal

• Some clamoring for increased public access to city-owned Ogden lake used by ski maker (Deseret News)
• Water main break closes Herriman road, water shut off for customers indefinitely (Fox13)

Utah

• ‘Heroic’ husband killed after pushing wife out of way of DUI driver, police say (KSL)
• Superman cape draped over memorial for man who sacrificed himself to save wife (KUTV)
• Driver tested at six times over legal limit in fatal Springville DUI crash (KUTV)
• ‘They don’t come better than him’: Coach of Springville crash victim speaks on legacy, suspect arrested (ABC4)
• Utah roads prove dangerous for pedestrians — here’s how to keep students safe in crosswalks (KSL TV)
• Utah violinist released from ICE custody two weeks after detainment (KUTV)

Biz/Tech/AI

• Spirit Airlines to pull out of Salt Lake City amid bankruptcy restructuring plans (KSL)
• Utah women face one of the largest gender wage gaps in the nation (KSL Newsradio)

Crime/Courts

• Suspected gunman, girlfriend arrested in weekend shooting death during street race (KSL)
• Attorney General asks for expedited mental competency evaluation of death row inmate (KUTV)

Culture/Community

• First-edition Book of Mormon sells for $240,000 at auction (Deseret News)
• Giorgio Armani, who dressed the powerful and famous from boardrooms to Hollywood, dies at 91 (AP)

Economy

• US trade deficit grew in July as consumers raced the effects of Trump's tariffs (Fox13)

Education

• Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind mismanaged money, kept ‘unreliable’ student data, audit finds (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah’s higher education board adds new members amid disruptive period for state’s public colleges (Deseret News)
• Westminster University’s 19th president — Bethami Dobkin — announces retirement plans (Deseret News)
• A place to call their own: Jewish students at the University of Utah celebrate new gathering space (Deseret News)

Environment/Energy

• Utah has a new birding challenge as the fall migration season begins (KSL)
• Utah’s massive open-pit copper mine wants to expand. Here’s a look inside. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Faith

• What do the ‘nones’ actually believe? New report reveals spiritual diversity (Deseret News)

Health

• Kennedy's leadership criticized as states change vaccination guidelines (Deseret News)
• COVID vaccines harder to get in Utah this year, officials say (Fox13)
• Massachusetts orders insurers to cover state-backed vaccines, even without CDC support (Reuters)

Housing

• ‘I should have taken the misdemeanor’: SLC Council member apologizes over abrupt homeless campus location announcement (Salt Lake Tribune)
• North Salt Lake doesn't rule out legal challenge over new homeless campus (KUTV)
• West-side Salt Lake City neighbors air fears of planned 1,300-bed homeless campus (Utah News Dispatch)
• How developers turned a former Salt Lake steel factory into a 157-townhome complex (KSL)

National Headlines

General

• Are we witnessing a crisis of trust within the judiciary system? (Deseret News)
• Young man and the sea: Teen fishing off New England coast catches huge halibut bigger than him (AP)

Political news

• Trump will seek 'Department of War' rebrand for Pentagon (AP)
• Trump to impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from firms not moving production to US (Reuters)
• Washington DC sues Trump administration over deployment of National Guard (Reuters)
• Trump administration sues Boston over 'sanctuary' limits on immigration cooperation (Reuters)
• Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let him fire member of Federal Trade Commission (AP)
• Kennedy tries to defend COVID-19 vaccine stance in raucous Senate hearing (AP)
• Senators grill RFK Jr. over chaos at CDC: Takeaways from the hearing (Washington Post)
• GOP discontent with RFK Jr. is growing (Politico)
• Justice Department officials discussed banning transgender gun owners (Wall Street Journal)
• Congress not planning vote to extend Trump’s 30-day D.C. police takeover (Washington Post)
• Rubio says US will work with other nations to 'blow up' crime groups (New York Times)
• Kavanaugh acknowledges 'difficult job' of his lower-court colleagues (New York Times)
• Barrett: Supreme Court ‘should not be imposing its own values on the American people’ (The Hill)

Immigration/deportation

• ‘Their free stay in America is over’: DHS moves to strip Venezuelans of temporary protected status (Deseret News)
• Appeals court says 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center can stay open (New York Times)

Ukraine/Russia

• 26 nations vow to give Ukraine postwar security guarantees, Macron says (Reuters)
• In ruined Ukrainian cities, residents have tried to cling to hope but eventually they leave (AP)

Middle East

• US imposes sanctions on Palestinians who asked for Israel war crimes probe (Reuters)

World news

• Don’t overinterpret the Modi, Putin, Xi meeting, scholars say (Deseret News)
• Third quake strikes southeastern Afghanistan after series that killed over 2,200 (Reuters)

Number of the Day

News Releases

Treasurer Oaks invites Utah women to attend financial empowerment conference on September 11-12

Utah Treasurer Marlo M. Oaks invites Utah women to attend the seventh annual, hybrid Utah Women in the Money Conference. The conference will be held in-person at the Sheraton Salt Lake Hotel and virtually on Thursday, September 11 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. and Friday, September 12 from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Read More)

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 10 — Women & Business Conference and ATHENA Awards Luncheon with the Salt Lake Chamber, 8:00 am-3:30 pm, Register here
• Nov 17-19 — Interim Days
• February 4-7, 2026 — Summit, with Silicon Slopes and Visit Salt Lake

On This Day In History

• 1666 - The Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead
• 1774 - The first Continental Congress convenes
• 1836 - Sam Houston elected as president of Texas
• 1877 - Sioux military leader Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted by a US soldier
• 1882 - 10,000 workers march in the first Labor Day parade in New York City
• 1939 - FDR declares US neutrality at start of WWII in Europe
• 1972 - Massacre of Israeli athletes begins at the Munich Olympics
• 1975 - Gerald Ford survives the first assassination attempt on his life
• 1976 - Jim Henson's "The Muppet Show" premieres on television 
• 1994 - UN releases program to support women’s reproductive health
• 1997 - Mother Teresa dies
• 2016 - Phyllis Schlafly, American right-wing crusader, Eagle Forum President, dies at 92
• 2017 - Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185mph

Quote of the Day

“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.”

— Mother Teresa

On the Punny Side

Who makes money by driving their customers away?
Uber drivers

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