Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The watchdog report released Tuesday that revealed how some $200 billion in COVID-19 aid was potentially misspent threw into sharper relief how one pandemic-era program emerged above all others as a magnet for fraudsters: the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, or EIDL. […]
Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (BOSTON) — Shockwaves from the gruesome home-invasion slayings in the Boston area of three elderly members of a devout Catholic family have reached Pope Francis at the Vatican, a priest told grieving parishioners at a service held for the victims. During a Tuesday night Mass […]
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Wednesday announced a nationwide health care fraud crackdown that resulted in charges against 78 defendants in separate schemes that totaled more than $2.5 billion in alleged fraudulent billings, marking what Attorney General Merrick Garland called “one of the largest health […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada are continuing to cause poor air quality conditions for millions of residents in the U.S. On Wednesday, the National Weather Service issued air quality alerts for at least 20 states from Minnesota and as far south as Georgia. The […]
Rep. Tory Marie Blew/Facebook (TOPEKA, Kan.) — While the mysterious white powder inside scores of envelopes sent to Republican lawmakers and officials in at least three states has been deemed harmless, investigators say the mailings could still get someone killed. “This isn’t just a statement that somebody is trying to make. […]
(Undated) — Utah gas prices are inching down. Triple-A reports the state average for regular was four dollars a gallon Tuesday, a penny lower than on Monday. Gas prices have been slowly deflating over the past month. The statewide average was four-oh-three a gallon last week and four-oh-seven a month […]
(Washington, DC) — Congressman Burgess Owens is hiring a member of Senator Mike Lee’s staff and giving him a promotion. The Utah Republican announced yesterday that Lee Lonsberry will be his new chief of staff. Lonsberry has served as Senator Lee’s director of communications since 2021. The Fourth District congressman […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Disability Law Center is calling on lawmakers to better regulate long-term care facilities in Utah. The nonprofit organization recently put out a new report that highlights a pattern of neglect and mistreatment at long-term care facilities across the state. It says urgent reform is […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published the final volume of the Joseph Smith Papers on Tuesday, the 179th anniversary of the church founder’s death. The 27-volume collection has been called the “lunar mission” of historical church research, reflecting 22 years of documenting, […]
Marcus Ingram/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Simone Biles is set to return to gymnastics competition for the first time since the Tokyo Olympics. Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and 2016 Olympic individual all-around champion, was announced as a competitor at the U.S. Classic in Chicago on Aug. 4 and 5, according […]
