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Trump shrinks sizes of Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments — again
Carter Williams, KSL | Updated July 13 - 6:12 p.m. | Save Story
President Donald Trump has once again ordered the sizes of two monuments in southern Utah to be reduced, but his new order will shrink them beyond his first order nearly a decade ago.
Houthis fire missiles at Saudi Arabia, breaking years of calm
Mohammed Ghobari, Tala Ramadan and Timour Azhari, Reuters | Updated July 13 - 5:30 p.m. | Save Story
Yemen's Houthi movement fired missiles at Saudi Arabia after accusing the kingdom of bombing an airport under their control on Monday, breaking a four-year truce in the conflict.
Mike Lee urges Congress to pass the SAVE America Act after Lindsey Graham's death
Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL | Posted July 13 - 3:03 p.m. | Save Story
Sen. Mike Lee is repeating calls for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act over the weekend, saying it would be "one of the best ways" to honor Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died Saturday.
Darline Graham Nordone, sister of Lindsey Graham, picked to fulfill remainder of his US Senate term
Meg Kinnard And Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press | Posted July 13 - 2:31 p.m. | Save Story
Lindsey Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as her late brother's temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate.
Lindsey Graham, Republican senator and Trump ally, dies at 71 from heart ailment
Steve Holland, Akanksha Khushi, Thomas Derpinghaus and Tim Reid, Reuters | Updated July 12 - 6:01 p.m. | Save Story
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham died late on Saturday from a heart ailment caused by hardening of the arteries, his office said on Sunday. He was 71.
McConnell says a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking weeks of silence about health condition
Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press | Updated July 12 - 6:00 p.m. | Save Story
Sen. Mitch McConnell revealed that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about his condition after weeks of mounting speculation about the Kentucky Republican's health.
Why's the US military hitting its 2026 recruitment goals months ahead of schedule?
Jason Swensen, Deseret News | Posted July 12 - 9:36 a.m. | Save Story
Uncle Sam's call to action remains, "I Want You" — and legions of his "nieces" and "nephews" are heeding the exhortation to put on a uniform and serve.
Trump says he will not sign 'big yawn' bipartisan housing bill
Reuters | Updated July 11 - 4:06 p.m. | Save Story
President Donald Trump said on Friday he would not sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill that he had called "a big yawn," but the measure can become law without his signature.
Utah senator renews calls for forest management after touring recent fires
Carter Williams, KSL | Posted July 11 - 9:37 a.m. | Save Story
Utah Sen. John Curtis renewed his calls for his colleagues to pass a bill to modernize forest management as he toured fire sites in Utah.
President Trump expected to reduce the size of Utah monuments
Eva Terry, Deseret News | Posted July 10 - 8:15 p.m. | Save Story
President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Monday afternoon shrinking the size of two national monuments in Utah, which currently cover a combined 5,094 square miles, the Deseret News confirmed on background with a Utah source.
At least 1 million women have lost access to aid after funding cuts, UN says
The Associated Press | Updated July 10 - 7:30 p.m. | Save Story
At least 1 million women have lost access to humanitarian and other critical support as a result of budget cuts over the last 18 months, the U.N. agency focusing on women said Friday.
Kirk family, friends react following Tyler Robinson's preliminary hearing
Daniel Woodruff, KSL | Updated July 10 - 6:30 p.m. | Save Story
The family of Charlie Kirk says the conclusion of a weeklong preliminary hearing in the political activist's murder case "marks an important step forward in the pursuit of justice."
Crews are draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool again as part of Trump's troubled revamp
Will Weissert, Associated Press | Updated July 10 - 4:00 p.m. | Save Story
Crews are again draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as President Donald Trump's problem-plagued efforts to revamp the waterway pushes well past his initial goal of having it ready by July 4.
Burgess Owens, Celeste Maloy dismiss their lawsuit over Utah's new congressional map
Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL | Posted July 10 - 2:08 p.m. | Save Story
Several politicians voluntarily dismissed their federal lawsuit that sought to prevent Utah's new congressional map from taking effect for this year's midterm elections.
Trump says US agreed to Iran's request to continue talks, but ceasefire is over
Ahmed Elimam, Eman Abouhassira and Andrew Mills, Reuters | Updated July 10 - 11:27 a.m. | Save Story
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran had asked to continue talks and the U.S. had agreed, but that the June ceasefire was "over".
Here's when Utah's congressional candidates will debate ahead of the fall elections
Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL | Posted July 9 - 8:02 p.m. | Save Story
The Utah Debate Commission on Thursday announced this year's slate of four congressional debates ahead of the fall general election.
Trump's plan for a triumphal arch in DC wins early approval from a key federal agency
Darlene Superville, Associated Press | Posted July 9 - 4:22 p.m. | Save Story
President Donald Trump's plans to build a skyline-altering arch in the nation's capital won initial approval Thursday from a key federal commission.
Commission pushes private jail ban in Salt Lake City amid ICE facility concerns
Carter Williams, KSL | Posted July 9 - 4:05 p.m. | Save Story
Utah's capital city could tweak its zoning code again to potentially thwart the construction of an immigration detention facility, after the concept received a key endorsement.
