A Secret Service agent ‘choke slammed’ him at a Trump rally. DHS said it was fine.
During a presidential campaign that took acrimony with the press to unprecedented heights, the violent encounter between a Secret Service agent and a photographer at a Donald Trump rally at Radford University in southwest Virginia in February 2016 still manages to stand apart. Viral videos of the confrontation show...
Tent city? Tiny homes? What’s the solution to Salt Lake’s homeless camp cleanups?
Ray Wilkerson hugs Jonni Olson as Salt Lake County Health Department crews clean around homeless camps, including theirs, near 200 East and 700 South in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. Both Wilkerson and Olson helped the crews pick up trash. They were allowed to continue camping...
‘I didn’t lie’: A subdued but defensive Trump denies he misled despite tape
President Donald Trump, subdued but sharply defensive, insisted Thursday he hadn’t lied to the American public about the severity of coronavirus even though he told a journalist on tape he was downplaying it to avoid panic. Link...
Fact check: Trump lies that he didn’t lie about the coronavirus
President Donald Trump was asked directly on Thursday why he lied to the American people about the coronavirus pandemic. Link...
Biden and Trump mark Sept. 11 — and are marked by it
Joe Biden and President Trump visit Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, highlighting the clashing lessons they learned from the attacks: Biden emphasizes alliances, Trump wants to go it alone. Matt Viser Link...
Biden and Trump mark Sept. 11 — and are marked by it
Joe Biden and President Trump visit Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, highlighting the clashing lessons they learned from the attacks: Biden emphasizes alliances, Trump wants to go it alone. Matt Viser Link...
Could resuming nuclear weapons testing lead to new arms race?
Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, visits the Salt Lake County Public Health Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — There’s no good reason for the United States to start testing nuclear weapons again, and if it did,...
Vulnerable Dems anxious over stalled Covid talks
Moderate House Democrats are growing increasingly alarmed about stalled coronavirus relief negotiations, with vulnerable members starting to privately push Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other party leaders to take action to break the stalemate. Those anxieties — particularly among the Democrats in GOP-leaning districts known as frontliners — have spiked...
CNN Exclusive: Biden says Trump has ‘no conception’ of national security
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said President Donald Trump “seems to have no conception of what constitutes national security” after Trump revealed in interviews with Bob Woodward the existence of a classified nuclear weapons system. Link...
Utah eliminates backlog of thousands of untested rape kits
Utah State Crime Lab Director Jay Henry holds a sexual assault evidence collection kit following a committee meeting at the Utah Capitol, in Salt Lake City in 2017. Utah has worked its way through a backlog of more than 3,000 sexual assault kits, state leaders and public safety officials...