(Salt Lake City, UT) — The University of Utah is set to host a presidential debate next year. The debate will be held at Kingsbury Hall on October 9th. It’ll be the final presidential debate before the general election. The Commission on Presidential Debates made the announcement earlier today.
ST. GEORGE, Utah-Monday, Utah Tech Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Ken Beazer announced the firing of Trailblazers head football coach Paul Peterson. Utah Tech’s season ended last Saturday evening with a 24-16 defeat to Southern Utah. Peterson went 2-9 as the Trailblazers’ head coach this season and 17-32 overall, including […]
Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Six members of Congress — five Democrats and one Republican — visited Parkland, Florida, on Monday to tour the site of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting. Seventeen students and staff were killed in the Feb. […]
David McNew/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Extreme wildfires that have been burning through the California landscape over recent decades are disrupting wildlife habitats within the state, new research shows. In the past two decades, forest fires in the U.S. have become progressively more intense, frequent and widespread, according to climate […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Washington, D.C., appeals court pressed prosecutors with the special counsel’s office and attorneys for Donald Trump over the viability of a limited gag order in Trump’s federal election interference case at a hearing Monday. The limited gag order, issued by U.S. District Judge Tanya […]
Carol Yepes/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sam Altman, a prominent executive behind the rise of artificial intelligence, was hired by Microsoft days after being ousted as CEO of OpenAI, eliciting a letter signed by nearly 600 employees at OpenAI calling for the resignation of the company’s board and the return […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A student group is speaking out against the University of Utah. The university withdrew its sponsorship of the group, called MEChA, after members allegedly disrupted an event on campus when they marched in support of Palestinians to show solidarity during the ongoing war between Israel […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Members of the LDS Church are paying their respects to the late president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, M. Russell Ballard. Funeral services took place Friday morning, followed by a private burial. Ballard died at the age of 95 last Sunday after recently […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — An online petition is calling on Utah Senator Mitt Romney and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin to launch a bipartisan presidential ticket. A group called the Draft Romney Manchin Committee put the petition up online, writing “Our country needs leaders who can bridge the divide […]
(St. George, UT) — Voters in Utah will be heading to the polls tomorrow. The state’s 2nd Congressional District seat will be on the line tomorrow as the two candidates in line for the position will be replacing former Congressman Chris Stewart, who resigned earlier this year. It will be […]
