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Nov. 4, 2016

Good morning from Washington, where the next president will inherit a national debt topping $20 trillion. Neither major candidate has a plan, one budget expert tells Fred Lucas. Democrats' campaigns are boosted by donations linked to Planned Parenthood, which wants more taxpayer money, Leah Jessen reports. In Kansas, conservatives hope to reform the state's highest court. Josh Siegel has details. What do Belgian deaths by euthanasia mean for America? Read the latest from Kelsey Harkness. Plus: Daren Bakst on the tyranny of soda taxes.

OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HOLDS THIRD ANNUAL GALA SPONSORED BY J. WILLARD AND ALICE S. MARRIOTT FOUNDATION

  Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes To Be Honored For Contribution To Anti-Trafficking

Utahns Urge Senator Mike Lee to Oppose Bayer-Monsanto Merger

UTAH -- In a new letter organized by SumOfUs, an international consumer watchdog, more than 1000 Utahns are urging Senator Mike Lee to publicly oppose and help prevent a proposed Bayer-Monsanto merger. The letter argues that the merger would be a nightmare for farmers giving the newly formed company a dangerous level of control over the global food supply. It would also violate antitrust merger review laws, enabling the new behemoth company to set prices and limit innovation.

Nov. 2, 2016

Here in the nation's capital, the D.C. Council just voted to allow physician-assisted suicide. If the council makes that decision final, Ryan T. Anderson argues, we'll be worse off. How could the government grab a family's savings? Melissa Quinn has that story. The Supreme Court will take up a case involving the Obama administration's transgender bathroom mandate for schools, but lots of similar cases are out there. Kelsey Harkness reports. Plus: Beverly Hallberg on talking about assisted suicide, and Fred Lucas on the first October surprise.

Hatch Praises Utah Law Enforcement in Visit to Chiefs of Police Association

SALT LAKE CITY—This afternoon, Senator Hatch praised police officers and expressed his gratitude for Utah’s law enforcement community in an address to the Utah Chiefs of Police Association at the organization's Mid-Winter Conference.  

USD ANNOUNCES NEW CENTER TO EMPHASIZE THE VALUE OF THE HUMANITIES

Unique Center will focus on undergraduate student and faculty engagement

SAN DIEGO –  Preparing students for purposeful lives and successful careers, the University of San Diego has opened a centrally located Humanities Center. The Humanities Center provides a space for the campus and the San Diego community to study and explore the human condition and the limitless ways human beings understand and interact with the world. 

Unseen Treasures on Display for two days only during the Natural History Museum of Utah’s annual Behind the Scenes Event, Nov. 12 - 13

The Museum celebrates five years at the Rio Tinto Center with the unveiling of a re-designed three-story collections wall