Deseret News

• Op-ed: What COVID-19 has taught us about short-term rental regulations
• New efforts to get voters to switch to GOP for primary underway — including an unlikely new Republican
• Coronavirus concerns led to Jeremy Johnson’s early prison release
• Utah County attorney says officials were wrong, businesses didn’t force sick employees to work
• Utah coronavirus death toll tops 100 with 3 more fatalities reported Tuesday
• First look at proposed state budget cuts deemed potentially ‘detrimental’ to public health
• Lunch ‘heroes’: 5,000 daily deliveries becomes vital part of education in hard-hit San Juan County

Salt Lake Tribune

• 18 members named to newly formed Utah Board of Higher Education
• Utah is sending its most vulnerable coronavirus patients to a care center in Salt Lake City
• Some Utah Democrats and independents are switching parties to vote in the GOP primary
• Utah County attorney says officials got it wrong — two businesses didn’t flout coronavirus guidelines
• Utah downwinders denounce Trump’s talk of restarting nuclear tests

Other

• Leavitt walks back Utah County claim that businesses ignored COVID-19 guidelines (Daily Herald)

• More Utahns are dropping unemployment claims than filing new ones, as economy ramps up (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Undaunted by COVID-19, developer plans new business parks in Taylorsville, Springville (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah Inland Port Authority releases long-awaited business plan (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Utah business activity hits record $25 billion in 2019 (Deseret News)
• Electric trucks, ‘clean cargo’: Utah Inland Port unveils 5-year business plan (Deseret News)
• Ogden City hopes to start implementing sweeping 'Make Ogden' plan by August (Standard-Examiner)
• With BDO district expiring, Ogden's redevelopment arm expecting significant revenue decline (Standard-Examiner)

• Joe Biden questions my blackness one moment, defends racist 1994 crime bill the next (USA Today)
• Ex-IG 'Weaponized' Whistleblower Law to Impeach Trump, CIA Agent-Turned-Whistleblower Says (PJ Media)
• Liberal Media Scream: Media bigs tell Kayleigh McEnany don’t you dare challenge us (Washington Examiner)
• The New Deal Made the Great Depression Worse. Let's Not Repeat It (FEE)
• When powerful people think the rules aren’t for them (Politico)
• The Mainstream Media’s Malignant Moral Narcissism (Epoch Times)
• Ronan Farrow tried to kill New York magazine story on Woody Allen’s wife, Daphne Merkin claims (New York Post)
• Biden Reelected Trump Last Friday (American Spectator)
• Joe Biden’s campaign has set feminism back decades (Spectator)
• Back to the future (Spectator)
• Dim lights, big city (Jewish Big City)

"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." George William Curtis

Fact check

Twitter labeled tweets from President Trump as "potentially misleading" for the first time. The offending tweets from Trump claimed using mail-in ballots in November would lead to massive voter fraud [The Verge].

Trump vs. Biden on masks

President Trump said wearing a mask in public is "politically correct," while presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Trump was a "fool" for mocking their use [WaPo].

Space oddity

SpaceX will attempt to deliver two astronauts to the International Space Station Wednesday morning in the first manned commercial space launch in history [CNN].

Here's how you can watch the historic launch, which is scheduled to take place at 10 am Salt Lake Time [Space.com].

Coronavirus

Experts warn the U.S. is entering a "slow burn" phase in the COVID-19 pandemic, with cases and deaths down from their peak, but still taking a heavy toll [The Hill].

Antibody tests for the virus may be wrong up to half of the time according to the CDC [CNN].

Only half of Americans say they would get a coronavirus vaccine when one becomes available according to a new poll [AP].

Stepping up

The Republican governors of Georgia and Florida offered to host the Republican National Convention in August as President Trump threatened to pull the event out of North Carolina unless that state's Democratic governor lifted coronavirus regulations [CNN].

President Trump said he wants to know "within a week" whether North Carolina's coronavirus restrictions will be reduced enough for the Republican convention to go on as planned [WaPo].

2020

Two of President Trump's key political advisers from his successful 2016 run warned him that his campaign was in deep trouble in several key swing states that would be crucial to him winning another term [Politico].

Economy

New home sales in the U.S. rose slightly in April despite the coronavirus pandemic [AP].

Fitness clubs are facing a $10 billion revenue shortfall as users cancel their memberships because of the COVID-19 outbreak [Bloomberg].

Hmmm...

The Justice Department is no longer looking into suspicious stock sales by three U.S. Senators following a private briefing early during the coronavirus crisis [Bloomberg].

Crime

Four Minneapolis police officers were fired on Tuesday after video showed one of them kneeling on the neck of a black man who later died [BBC].