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Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

U.S. Senate passes defense bill that bars gender-affirming care for service members’ kids

By: Ashley Murray – December 19, 20243:04 am The Pentagon is seen during a military flyover on May 2, 2020. The U.S. Senate on Wednesday cleared...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Study: Utah is a big U.S. innovator and its higher education system is part of that success

By: Alixel Cabrera – December 19, 20243:04 am A student walks on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City in April. (Erika Bolstad/Stateline) Utah...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Utah’s old prison now gone, leaders break ground on ‘The Point,’ a huge state-run development

By: Katie McKellar – December 18, 20243:04 am A rendering depicts the first phase of The Point, a project state leaders have envisioned on 600 acres...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Huge spending bill unveiled in Congress provides more than $100 billion in disaster aid

By: Jennifer Shutt – December 18, 20243:04 am Congressional leaders unveiled a catch-all, year-end package Tuesday night that would provide disaster aid along with stopgap funding...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Navajo VP Richelle Montoya wants full report on sexual harassment investigation made public

By: Shondiin Silversmith – December 18, 20243:04 am Navajo Nation Vice President Richelle Montoya. (Photo Courtesy of April Hale) After the announcement that the preliminary investigation...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Immigrants and allies at U.S. Capitol urge Biden to act before Trump deportations begin

By: Shauneen Miranda – December 18, 20243:04 am Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, left, speaks at a press conference hosted by immigrant youth, allies and advocates...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Trump at press conference backs polio vaccine but won’t commit to others, attacks media

By: Jennifer Shutt – December 17, 20243:04 am U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on Dec. 16, 2024 in...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Navajo Nation Council removes AG Ethel Branch from her post

By: Shondiin Silversmith – December 17, 20243:04 am Navajo Attorney General Ethel Branch Ethel Branch. (Photo by Pauly Denetclaw/ICT) The Navajo Nation Council fired Navajo Nation...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Investigation finds Navajo Prez Nygren didn’t sexually harass his VP

By: Shondiin Silversmith – December 17, 20243:04 am Navajo Nation President Buu Nygran and Vice President Richelle Montoya in 2022 during their campaign to lead the...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

As he leaves office, Romney says GOP policies don’t always align with the working class

By: Kyle Dunphey – December 14, 20243:00 am Outgoing Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney speaks to reporters at the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in Salt...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

U.S. House Republicans settle on committee chairs for 2025

By: Shauneen Miranda – December 14, 20243:00 am The U.S. Capitol pictured on Nov. 26, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — House Republicans...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Sen. Hawley blasts rumors of expanding payments for Utah downwinders only

By: Kyle Dunphey – December 13, 20243:00 am U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is proposing to add a bill on radiation exposure compensation that he has...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

After audit found 2 ‘deceased’ voters, Salt Lake County officials say they’re investigating

By: Katie McKellar – December 13, 20243:00 am Eva Przybyla, front, and Nicholas Wells process ballots at the Salt Lake County Government Center in Salt Lake...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Biden commutes sentences of nearly 1,500 people, pardons 39 in historic clemency action

By: Ariana Figueroa – December 13, 20243:00 am President Joe Biden on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people and granted pardons...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Utah’s statue of Martha Hughes Cannon, first woman state senator, finally unveiled in D.C.

By: Katie McKellar – December 13, 20243:00 am Utah’s congressional delegation and state officials unveil the statue of Martha Hughes Cannon during a dedication ceremony at...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

As destructive wildfires grow, Western states face a home insurance crisis

By: Jeniffer Solis – December 13, 20243:00 am A helicopter carries a water bucket to fight a wildfire near Richfield, Utah. (Getty Images) In the coming...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

U.S. Capitol Police chief details 700 threats against members of Congress in one month

By: Jennifer Shutt – December 13, 20243:00 am U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch hearing at...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Wildland firefighter pay raises could vanish without action by Congress within days

By: Jacob Fischler – December 12, 20243:04 am Federal wildland firefighters earn as little as $15 per hour, with entry level positions earning just less than...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton blocks press freedom bill Trump said GOP ‘must kill’

By: Shauneen Miranda – December 12, 20243:04 am President-elect Donald Trump, at the time the GOP nominee, participates in a Fox News Town Hall with Sean...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

U.S. Senate GOP wants mass deportations to ‘start early’ next year, Graham says

By: Ariana Figueroa – December 11, 20243:01 am Immigrant farm workers harvest broccoli on March 16, 2006, near the border town of San Luis, south of...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Biden launched a national plan for Indigenous language protection and revitalization

By: Shondiin Silversmith – December 11, 20243:01 am An app to teach students the Navajo language. (Photo by Cronkite News) To support the revitalization, protection, preservation...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Utah election audit finds no ‘significant fraud,’ but raises concern over voter roll maintenance

By: Katie McKellar – December 10, 20243:00 am Ballots await processing at the Salt Lake County Government Center in Salt Lake City on Election Day, Tuesday,...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Even if he’s deemed competent, more appeals could delay Ralph Menzies’ execution

By: Kyle Dunphey – December 10, 20243:00 am Ralph Leroy Menzies appears for a competency hearing in 3rd District Court in West Jordan on Monday, Nov...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Despite doubts on legality, Trump pledges to sign order revoking birthright citizenship

By: Ariana Figueroa – December 10, 20243:00 am President-elect Donald Trump was interviewed for the edition of NBC News’ “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” that...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

No expansion of military IVF coverage included in final defense policy bill

By: Jennifer Shutt – December 10, 20243:00 am Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth speaks about access to in vitro fertilization on the steps of the Capitol...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Greater Idaho movement asks Trump for his support

By: Mike McInally – December 9, 20243:05 am The Greater Idaho movement calls for several eastern Oregon counties to secede and join Idaho. (Courtesy of GreaterIdaho.org)...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Upper and lower basin states hit tough impasse at annual Colorado River conference

By: Jeniffer Solis – December 9, 20243:05 am The Colorado River is pictured near Moab on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Nez Perce Tribe receives $1.9 million grant to restore creek near abandoned mine

By: Mia Maldonado – December 8, 20243:00 am A Chinook salmon leaps through white water on May 17, 2001, in the Rapid River in Idaho as...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Got an idea to make government more efficient? ‘DOGE Caucus’ wants to hear from you, Moore says

By: Kyle Dunphey – December 7, 20243:06 am Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, and Rep. Blake Moore, R-UT, pose for a picture...
Utah News Dispatch1 year ago

Federal appeals court upholds rapidly approaching TikTok ban

By: Jacob Fischler – December 7, 20243:06 am A U.S. law that would force the Chinese parent company of social media giant TikTok to either sell...

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