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The Senate parliamentarian ruled out Lee's proposal to sell federal land for housing and infrastructure from the Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill. The Senate is pushing hard to pass the "big beautiful bill" by July 4.
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Martha Harris/KUEREl gobernador Spencer Cox dejó pasar la fecha límite del 21 de junio para convocar una elección especial. El referéndum se realizará en las elecciones generales de noviembre de 2026. -
Morgan Lee/APNew Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says the approach is problematic while Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon voiced qualified support for plans to tap federal land for development.
Historian John Turner’s new biography, "Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet," offers a fresh take on Mormonism’s founder — neither the fraud of Fawn Brodie’s telling nor the saint of Richard Bushman’s. Turner doubts Smith found golden plates, but sees the Book of Mormon as a bold, imaginative feat. He portrays Smith as a brilliant religious innovator who captivated 19th-century Americans and left a legacy that still resonates today.
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So far, 13 homes have been lost. Larry Gardner has lived here for 75 years and says their pioneer heritage will help the community rebuild. -
Colorado River states appear to be coalescing around the early makings of a new plan to share water in a way that accounts for climate change. -
Gov. Spencer Cox let a June 21 deadline to call a special election pass and instead sent the referendum to the November 2026 general election. -
Financial details were not disclosed. Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould called it a “transformational partnership” that allows the Pac-12 to grow when it starts as a remodeled league in 2026-27. -
The Utah Investigative Journalism Project reviewed 174 reports made to the state spills database from 2019 through the first half of 2024 that specifically related to pollution of storm drains and some of the main surface waters that feed the Great Salt Lake. -
The strikes happened Saturday amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict. -
Colleagues have grown accustomed to Lee’s online persona, mostly brushing it off. That is, until this past week, after his posts about the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband incensed fellow senators. -
The Forsyth Fire started Thursday in the Pine Valley Mountains and has already burned about 2.3 square miles. It has forced people to evacuate from the Pine Valley community and nearby campgrounds. -
Gamboa’s attorney had sought his release because “he is being unlawfully detained in violation of his constitutional rights.”
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