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U.N.: ‘Alarming number’ of 270,000 Rohingya in Myanmar exodus
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh • The U.N. said Friday that an “alarming number” of 270,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar by crossing into Bangladesh in the last two weeks.The new figure...
View ArticleGeorge Pyle: Tribune letter goes viral. In a good way.
I’m old enough to remember when to hear that something had ”gone viral” was a frightening expression. It meant the rapid spread of disease and death. You know. Like a virus.Now, of course, it means...
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Chef Alice Waters’ memoir tells tales of her youth and loves
Berkeley, Calif. • There’s something you need to know about Alice Waters, the celebrated chef who changed the way America eats.She grew up eating frozen peas, frozen fish sticks and canned fruit salad...
View ArticleSeptember weather will make or break Utah’s water prospects; forecasters...
Utah’s water reserves are still holding up thanks to last winter’s spectacular snowpack, but if September continues the more recent trend, the state could start losing ground.Annual precipitation...
View ArticleState gives Pluralsight a $21.5 million incentive to expand in Utah
State officials have offered Pluralsight a $21.5 million state tax incentive to relocate its headquarters from Farmington to “a much larger home south of Salt Lake City,” one capable of holding nearly...
View ArticleCommentary: Choosing ethical medical treatments as the options narrow
My path to the Egress from my brain cancer may be a bit shorter than I’d hoped even a few weeks ago. But I figure I can still complain about the way some human research makes me feel like a rat in a...
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Scott D. Pierce: HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ is all about porn, but the intent is not...
HBO’s new series “The Deuce” is about pornography, but the intent was not to make something pornographic. It is to porn what “The Wire” was to drugs — it’s about the industry, not the morality. “I’m...
View ArticleThe U.S. West had a snowy winter, so why the fiery summer?
Denver • Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to...
View ArticleIn football rivalry, Utah and BYU take turns streaking
Nothing lasts forever in sports, but it can feel that way sometimes — especially for a team on the wrong end of a winning streak in a rivalry.Beginning with the University of Utah’s early domination in...
View ArticleIn new book, Hillary Clinton compares Utah's Jason Chaffetz to villain from...
Washington • On Inauguration Day, then-Rep. Jason Chaffetz earned a social media rebuke for posting a picture showing him shaking hands with Hillary Clinton, noting he was “so pleased she is not the...
View ArticlePope visits former Colombia war zone to preach forgiveness
Villavicencio, Colombia • Pope Francis traveled Friday to an area once besieged by leftist rebels to pray with victims of Colombia’s long conflict and urge them to overcome their grief by forgiving...
View ArticleVigil planned for chickens killed in egg-farm fire
Erda, Utah • Animal rights activists are planning vigils this weekend to honor the lives of more than 100,000 chickens that were killed when egg farm caught fire in Tooele County.Authorities say an...
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As Ken Burns' 'Vietnam War' prepares to air, a look at how the conflict...
In the 1960s, the relatively new medium of television brought the war in Southeast Asia into living rooms across the United States like never before. And, this month, TV is once again at the center of...
View ArticleState money will pay for public defenders to represent those arrested in...
Utah’s Indigent Defense Commission will help foot the bill for additional public defenders needed for those arrested in Operation Rio Grande, the commission announced Friday.Salt Lake County was...
View ArticleFinancial technology company AvidXchange gets Utah tax credit
The state’s embrace of the financial-technology industry expanded Friday when the Governor’s Office of Economic Development gave North Carolina-based AvidXchange a $359,247 post performance tax credit...
View ArticleWestminster College president to retire
Westminster College President Stephen Morgan announced Friday he will retire at the end of the 2017-2018 school year.Morgan, 63, became the private Salt Lake City college’s 18th president in 2015, but...
View ArticleUtah-BYU: Cougars stumble into rivalry game, while favored Utes look to...
Provo • Winless against rival Utah since 2009, BYU was supposed to finally break through this year. That’s how the thinking went in the offseason among those who favor blue in the state’s most intense...
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Monson: Utah will beat BYU, again, because Provo is not Hollywood
Utah will beat BYU for the seventh straight time on Saturday night at LaVell Edwards Stadium, and for the 12th time in 15 games.Why?You know the answer.Talent.It’s not that complicated. Of all the...
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Kragthorpe: BYU will stop Utes' run in the rivalry, because we're not living...
Fairly soon after getting the football for the first time Saturday night, the BYU Cougars will face a fourth-down situation. That means the drive will have lasted longer than their first possession of...
View ArticleDeath toll rises to 35 in powerful Mexico earthquake
Mexico City • One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in Mexico struck off the country’s southern coast, toppling hundreds of buildings, triggering tsunami evacuations and sending panicked...
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