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Month: November 2020

Cog rail line, gondola considered to ease canyon congestion

Cog rail line, gondola considered to ease canyon congestion

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Because of public feedback, two additional alternatives will now be studied as possible solutions to traffic congestion in Little Cottonwood Canyon: a new cog rail line plus a longer version of a proposed gondola that would begin in the valley below the mouth of the […]

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Rain, snow and ice for parts of Midwest to the East Coast

Rain, snow and ice for parts of Midwest to the East Coast

ABC NEWSBY: BRITTANY BORER, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — A cold rain will spread out along a cold front as a low pressure system makes its way across the Midwest today. By the afternoon some light snow could mix in with the rain for northern Ohio, eastern Michigan and parts […]

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How activists are navigating the US immigration system

How activists are navigating the US immigration system

Evgenia Parajanian/iStockBy MARWA MOUAKI, ABC News (NEW YORK) – For years, thousands of immigrant parents and children have been separated at the border between the United States and Mexico. Most recently, news broke out revealing  the parents of more than 500 children separated at the border cannot be found. Justice […]

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New satellite that tracks ocean level rise lifts off

New satellite that tracks ocean level rise lifts off

janiecbros/iStockBY: CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC NEWS (LOS ANGELES) — A SpaceX rocket launched a new American-European satellite that will monitor global sea levels and help our understanding of climate change on Saturday. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, lifted off at 12:17 p.m. […]

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Exclusive: Quawan Charles’ mother on the investigation of son’s death

Exclusive: Quawan Charles’ mother on the investigation of son’s death

ABC NewsBY: JANAI NORMAN, SABINA GHEBREMEDHIN AND MEREDITH DELISO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Quawan Charles, a Black teen who was found dead in a Louisiana sugar cane field earlier this month, will be laid to rest on Saturday. But his family is still seeking answers around the death of […]

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Coronavirus live updates: Donald Trump Jr tests positive for COVID-19

Coronavirus live updates: Donald Trump Jr tests positive for COVID-19

Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO, ERIN SCHUMAKER, IVAN PEREIRA, JON HAWORTH and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 1.3 million people worldwide. Over 57 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused […]

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2 more Utah inmates die as COVID-19 hospitalizations surge

2 more Utah inmates die as COVID-19 hospitalizations surge

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two more Utah inmates have died after testing positive for COVID-19. Prison officials said Friday that makes a total of six inmates who have died throughout the pandemic, and there are 780 active cases in the Utah prison system. In Utah, 1 in 141 people […]

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Mormon president urges gratitude to deal with trying 2020

Mormon president urges gratitude to deal with trying 2020

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is calling on members to flood social media over Thanksgiving week with messages of gratitude in what he hopes will serve as a healing tool as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, racism […]

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Coronavirus live updates: 23-year-old college student dies from COVID-19

Coronavirus live updates: 23-year-old college student dies from COVID-19

Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO, ERIN SCHUMAKER, IVAN PEREIRA, JON HAWORTH and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 1.3 million people worldwide. Over 57 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused […]

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Heading home for the holiday? Get a virus test, colleges say

Heading home for the holiday? Get a virus test, colleges say

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As college students prepare to go home for the holidays, some schools are quickly ramping up COVID-19 testing to try to keep infections from spreading further as the coronavirus surges across the U.S. Thousands of cases have been connected to campuses since schools opened their […]

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