(Salt Lake City, UT) — Lawmakers are seeking to streamline the removal of certain kinds of books from the state’s public school library shelves. The House Education Committee on Tuesday voted ten to two recommending approval of HB29. This bill clarifies and updates how officials are to determine what books […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Big changes have been made to Utah’s controversial “trans bathroom bill”. House Bill 257 originally banned people from using public restrooms that don’t align with the gender on their birth certificate, but this is no longer the case. The current version of the bill allows […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A possible path to protecting the Great Salt Lake may be stopped before even being considered. A bill banning personhood to various non-human entities like bodies of water, land, artificial intelligence, weather, plants and animals will be presented on the house floor. Republican Representative Walt […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Ute Tribe students are in jeopardy of losing their University tuition waivers. This comes as the Utah Legislature considers a bill banning diversity, equity and inclusion on publicly funded college campuses. Senate bill sponsor Republican Keith Grover said in a quote to the Salt Lake […]
SasinT Gallery/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Spain’s former soccer chief, Luis Rubiales, may stand trial for a nonconsensual kiss at the Women’s World Cup, a Spanish judge said Thursday. The former Spanish soccer federation president was banned in October from national and international soccer activities for three years, after the […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial this week in New York City to determine whether he will have to pay former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll additional damages for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual abuse. Last […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Communities in the southern and eastern United States are grappling with dangerous floods from heavy rainfall, while dense fog envelops a swath of the country. Major flash flooding on Wednesday affected areas from Louisiana to Mississippi, where localized rainfall totals ranged from 5 to 9 […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Communities in the South are grappling with dangerous flooding from heavy rainfall, while dense fog envelops a swath of the U.S. Major flash flooding struck Wednesday from Louisiana to Mississippi, where rainfall totals ranged from 5 to 9 inches. Over the past few days, heavy […]
EllenMoran/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Federal Aviation Administration released final instructions to airlines to begin conducting inspections of their 737 Max 9 planes Wednesday — a move that will eventually allow them to fly again. The agency had grounded nearly 200 of the planes after an Alaska Airlines flight […]
AO Architects (NEW YORK) — The United States could soon have a new — and surprising — location for the tallest building in the country and, if approved, it won’t be anywhere near New York. In a new proposal set out by AO Architects and real estate developer Matteson Capital, […]
