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WASHINGTON (AP) — A rash of American combat deaths in Afghanistan puts a spotlight on a stalemated 17-year war that is testing President Donald Trump's commitment to pursuing peace with the Taliban. Trump has acknowledged that his original instinct was to withdraw from Afghanistan, but last week he suggested that he is willing to stick it out. That was before four U.S. combat deaths in a four-day span.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah businessman will challenge the Salt Lake City mayor in hopes of becoming the capital's first ethnic-minority leader. The Deseret News reports Democrat David Ibarra made the announcement Tuesday backed by Salt Lake County Attorney Sim Gill and former mayor Rocky Anderson. Ibarra's father was a migrant worker from Mexico, and he and his brother went into foster care after his parents divorced and his father was drafted into the military.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah police say they have charged two women in the 2009 death of a Native American spiritual leader after one of the women's story about the events recently changed. Authorities announced the charges on Tuesday, nearly 10 years after the body of 62-year-old Lester Lloyd Janise was found in an apartment in a Salt Lake City suburb. The 28-year-old Victoria Bigcrow Clown and the 29-year-old Jerah Jean Whipple Santos-Ramirez were charged with murder, robbery and obstruction of justice.

CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — A review is underway to determine if a potentially offensive mascot at a Utah high school should remain. The Spectrum reports Iron County school officials are considering changing Cedar High School's Redmen mascot. The Iron County School District said in a statement that the Redmen moniker was selected as a way of "representing the many Native Americans that lived and continue to live in this area." However, the term widely has become known as a racial slur.