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Utah exported more than $18B in goods last year. Here's how leaders are thinking about tariffs
Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL.com | Posted May 8 - 9:04 p.m. | Save Story
Utah exported over $18 billion in goods in 2024, supporting 70,000 jobs, according to a new economic report from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.
Why these Utah legislators traveled to Washington to address key Western issues
Amy Joi O'Donoghue, Deseret News | Posted May 8 - 8:33 p.m. | Save Story
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz and House Majority Assistant Whip Casey Snider were among a contingent of Utah lawmakers who were in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to discuss important issues to the state and elsewhere in the West.
New York man charged after nearly 70 live cats and two dozen dead kittens are found in his home
Associated Press | Posted May 8 - 7:46 p.m. | Save Story
A suburban New York man has been charged with animal cruelty after authorities say they found nearly 100 cats in his home, including about two dozen dead kittens in a freezer.
Breaking with tradition, Senate panel backs Trump nominees despite Democratic boycott
Patricia Zengerle, Reuters | Posted May 8 - 5:37 p.m. | Save Story
Republicans on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed five nominees for diplomatic positions on Thursday despite a Democratic boycott, underscoring deep divisions between members of President Donald Trump's party and lawmakers from the minority.
Republicans advance bill to formally rename 'Gulf of America'
Cami Mondeaux, Deseret News | Posted May 8 - 5:17 p.m. | Save Story
The House advanced a proposal to formally rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in all federal documents, marking the first of President Donald Trump's executive orders to be voted on by Congress.
Trump calls for 30-day Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, warns of more sanctions
Kanishka Singh, Reuters | Posted May 8 - 5:13 p.m. | Save Story
U.S. President Donald Trump called on Thursday for a 30-day unconditional ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, warning that Washington and its partners would impose further sanctions if the ceasefire is not respected.
Merz, Trump agree on need to resolve trade disputes, Germany says
Sarah Marsh, Reuters | Posted May 8 - 5:09 p.m. | Save Story
Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on the need to quickly resolve trade disputes in their first phone call since Merz took office earlier this week, a German government spokesperson said.
Trump says China tariffs will come down from 145%
Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason, Reuters | Posted May 8 - 5:05 p.m. | Save Story
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he expects there to be substantive negotiations between the United States and China on trade this weekend and predicted that punitive U.S. tariffs on Beijing of 145% would likely come down.
US plans to spend billions to update air-traffic control system
David Shepardson, Reuters | Posted May 8 - 3:05 p.m. | Save Story
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy unveiled a plan on Thursday to modernize the aging U.S. air traffic control system at a cost of tens of billions of dollars.
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow revocation of migrants' legal status
Andrew Chung, Reuters | Updated May 8 - 2:37 p.m. | Save Story
President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in its bid to revoke the temporary legal status granted by his predecessor Joe Biden to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States.
He was killed in a road-rage shooting. AI allowed him to deliver his own victim impact statement
Matt York, Rio Yamat and Sejal Govindarao, Associated Press | Updated May 8 - 1:47 p.m. | Save Story
In what's believed to be a first in U.S. courts, a family used artificial intelligence to create a video using a dead man's likeness to give him a voice in a victim impact statement.
Bill Gates to give away fortune by 2045, $200B for world's poorest
Jennifer Rigby, Reuters | Updated May 8 - 11:45 a.m. | Save Story
Bill Gates pledged on Thursday to give away almost his entire personal wealth in the next two decades and said the world's poorest would receive some $200 billion via his foundation.
Britain set to strike first deal to cut Trump tariffs
Alistair Smout, Andrew MacAskill and Andrea Shalal, Reuters | Updated May 8 - 10:24 a.m. | Save Story
The United States and Britain will announce a deal to lower tariffs on some goods on Thursday, the first such agreement since President Donald Trump sparked a global trade war with universal levies.
An alligator kills a Florida woman after tipping over her canoe, investigators say
Curt Anderson, Associated Press | Posted May 8 - 9:40 a.m. | Save Story
An alligator killed a Florida woman after tipping over a canoe she and her husband were paddling, which investigators say appeared to be an accidental encounter.
US weekly jobless claims fall more than expected
Lucia Mutikani, Reuters | Updated May 8 - 9:38 a.m. | Save Story
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, suggesting the labor market continued to chug along, though risks are mounting from tariffs.
New report shows NYC helicopter breaking apart in midair before crash that killed 6
Philip Marcelo, Associated Press | Posted May 8 - 9:37 a.m. | Save Story
Federal officials on Wednesday released images of a doomed New York City sightseeing helicopter as it broke apart in midair last month, killing six people.
More older Americans worry Social Security won't be there for them, a poll finds
Fatima Hussein and Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, Associated Press | Updated May 8 - 9:11 a.m. | Save Story
An increasing share of older Americans — particularly Democrats — aren't confident the Social Security benefits will be available to them, a poll shows.
What Trump's former secretary of state says about his tariff plans
Art Raymond, Deseret News | Posted May 8 - 8:35 a.m. | Save Story
Longtime public servant and former Congressman Mike Pompeo spoke about President Donald Trump's tariff plans at a trade summit in Utah on Wednesday.
