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The Story: In the final days of October public health officials announced that the average rate of new infection with Covid-19 per day in the...

The Story: In recent weeks Mitt Romney, a rookie Senator (elected from Utah in 2018) but long a prominent Republican and in 2012 that party's...

Salt Lake City District Attorney Sim Gill announces charges against suspect Ayoola Ajayi after the recovery of Mackenzie Lueck's remains. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7,…

A University of Utah student who disappeared after ordering a Lyft at Salt Lake City airport is still missing nearly a week after she was last seen; William La Jeunesse reports. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC),…

It said the other applicants are: Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.; Hartford, Conn.; Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. ; the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.; and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Three will be chosen for the highly watched events in the weeks leading up to the November election. [Trib][DNews][ABC4] -> Gov. Gary Herbert used a line-item veto to erase spending $800,000 that lawmakers had approved for a sound wall as a favor to homebuilder Bryson Garbett, a former legislator. [Trib][DNews] -> Utah Sens. @GarbettforMayor 's dad can easily get funding for a sound wall for his undeveloped land while the west side neighborhoods of SLC had to tirelessly fight for their own sound wall for years. [Trib] -> Early discussions are underway to revive a bill to ban conversion therapy, aimed at changing a persons sexual orientation or gender identity, on minors. [NYTimes] -> Some members of special counsel Robert S. Mueller’s team say Attorney General William P. Barr failed to fully disclose the gravity of certain portions of the Mueller report that covered investigations into the presidential campaign. [WaPost][NYTimes][Politico] -> House Democrats requested six years of tax returns for President Donald Trump, and are preparing to issue a subpoena for the full Mueller report from the Justice Department.

Kim Raff for The New York Times NEPHI, Utah — In the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Representative Ben McAdams, a freshman, was grilled by constituents about the “socialism” and “anti-Semitism” that they saw coming out of the new Democratic House. In Michigan, Representative Haley Stevens was asked about her ability to counter what one voter deemed the bigotry of some of her freshman colleagues — a concern fueled partly by remarks from her counterpart in nearby Detroit, Rashida Tlaib — and “the negative attitude they bring to Democrats.” And on a rainy Saturday in Spotsylvania County, Va., one woman stood up in a town hall to remind Representative Abigail Spanberger that while she was the first Democrat to hold that seat in nearly 50 years, the majority of the rural enclave had voted Republican. “Since the Democrats are now the party of death and taxes,” the woman said, as Democratic supporters scoffed and grumbled, “just how do you propose to effectively represent the taxpayers of Spotsylvania?” It was Democrats like Mr. McAdams, Ms. Stevens and Ms. Spanberger who secured the party’s House majority, political moderates who won districts often long represented by Republicans. Their talking points appear to be resonating with some voters the Democrats will need next year if they are to keep their majority — and the voters determined to flip the districts back. Richard Hansen, a Republican county commissioner and one of the two dozen constituents who attended the town hall in Nephi, a mountain town of 6,000, shared a wish with the Utah Democrat: “I hope they don’t corrupt you.” “They won’t,” Mr. McAdams pledged. I don’t know where the Democratic Party will go, but I tell you what, I will stay in the center. They also accuse Republicans of hypocrisy in their accusations of anti-Semitism in the Democratic ranks, set off by Twitter comments by Ms. Omar, who implied that American support for Israel was fueled by money from a pro-Israel lobbying group. “It didn’t come as a shock at all,” Ms. Stevens said in an interview after a town hall in Milford, Mich., a General Motors town, referring to the questioner who asked about anti-Semitic remarks. “We will see,” she added as she left. People can tell you anything.”

Women across the country were elected at a historic rate. At the national level, Jennifer Rubin summarized: “Women will hold at least 96 seats in the House, a record; at least 23 members of the U.S. Senate and nine governors will be women. In fact, the 2019 Legislature will see a record-number of women – 25 women will serve, 19 in the House and six in the Senate. Of course, most of those women were elected by Democrats — but I keep bringing that up and people keep shoo-shooing me, so it must not mean anything. There are seven newly elected female legislators this year — six are in the House, five are Democrats and five flipped a seat from a man to a woman. After the November election, Nevada became the first state with a female-majority Legislature. In fact, Utah’s history, as the Better Days 2020 campaign has so adeptly educated, is defined by strong, powerful, passionate women. Utah was home to some of the country’s first female legislators, female doctors and female poets. So let’s take the dirty out of the word feminism and embrace all the firsts yet to come. I think 2019 will be that year also.

Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) sharply criticized President Donald Trump during her concession speech in response to the President's attacks on Love for not embracing him as a campaigner. #CNN #News

Former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks after being elected to the U.S. Senate. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number…

When the massive Outdoor Retailer market moved to Colorado from Utah last year in a fight over public lands, the die was cast to mold together the business and the politics of getting outside. The ticketed summer show for retailers and vendors opened at the Colorado Convention Center Monday. At the top of the political list: The Boulder-based Outdoor Industry Association released its first congressional scorecard to coincide with the show. The report derived the grades from blending together votes on bills and advocacy positions the trade group supports, including opposition to methane flaring on federal lands, oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and leasing plans by the Bureau of Land Management. This year, because so many bills dealt with public lands, the results might appear skewed to the left, where Democrats have positioned themselves to protect national monuments and limit development. All of Colorado’s Democrats in Washington scored A’s. Republicans scored C’s, except for Rep. Ken Buck of Windsor, one of the most conservative members of Congress, who got a D. Unlike most advocacy groups that issue scorecards, the Outdoor Industry Association maintains that it is, on balance, bipartisan. Read more at Colorado Politics: https://bit.ly/2LLC68f