How to govern: Can Cox pull Utah through the pandemic?
Steve Griffin, Deseret News From death and disease to political rancor, Cox will be ‘put to the test right away’ SALT LAKE CITY — On day one of his term beginning Jan. 4, Gov.-elect Spencer Cox will be stepping into the vortex that is the COVID-19 pandemic as the...
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National dustup surrounds Utah helium extraction project near wilderness
The area in Utah’s Emery County where Colorado-based Twin Bridges wants to site a well pad to pursue directional drilling for exploration for helium. The project has come under fire by environmental critics who filed a lawsuit to prevent it from going forward because they say the drilling would...
Pelosi’s likely final term as speaker is set to begin with a scramble for votes
The speaker election, scheduled for Sunday, will be the first high-wire act of many Pelosi will face over the next two years, which she has signaled could be her last in the House. Mike DeBonis Link...
Pelosi’s likely final term as speaker is set to begin with a scramble for votes
The speaker election, scheduled for Sunday, will be the first high-wire act of many Pelosi will face over the next two years, which she has signaled could be her last in the House. Mike DeBonis Link...
‘Exercise in futility’: Republicans lambaste Hawley’s push to challenge election
Multiple Senate Republicans unloaded on an effort led by Sen. Josh Hawley to challenge Joe Biden’s election victory as the party hurtles toward its most consequential confrontation with Donald Trump of his entire presidency. Hawley (R-Mo.) denied that he was trying to overturn the election by challenging the certification...
Senate Democrats push for $2,000 stimulus checks as clock winds down on 116th Congress
Senate Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont pushed, without success, for a Senate vote on $2,000 stimulus checks Friday as the clock winds down on the 116th Congress. Link...
Utah starting to speed up vaccinations after slow start
Shixian Wang, a pharmacist with Red Rock Pharmacy, fills a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at The Ridge Foothill senior living facility in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Less than a quarter of the 127,375 doses...
Senate hands Trump his first veto override
The Senate handed President Donald Trump the first veto override of his presidency, passing the National Defense Authorization Act with a wide bipartisan majority over his objections. Trump vetoed the defense legislation last week after lawmakers didn’t include an unrelated repeal of legal protections for social media companies. He...
Ahead of runoffs, civic groups in Georgia mount ambitious campaign to mobilize Black voters
More than a dozen groups across the state are trying to drive up turnout among the reliably Democratic bloc. Cleve R. Wootson Jr. Link...