Deseret News

• Editorial: Congress won't acknowledge the deficit-sized elephant in the room
• 'Church ball' takes to a new court — the Utah Supreme Court
• Salt Lake City mayoral candidates pledge better Capitol Hill relationships in TV debate

Salt Lake Tribune

• Dashing Utah’s hopes, Bureau of Land Management will move headquarters from D.C. to Colorado
• ‘This is a moral issue’ — Salt Lake City’s eight mayoral candidates describe their plans for addressing homelessness

• Holladay planning commission approves conceptual plan for Cottonwood Mall site redevelopment (Deseret News)
• More technology apprenticeships coming to Utah, thanks to Weber State-led collaborative (Standard-Examiner)
• At Utah's Gateway mall, the literal art of retail resurrection (Deseret News)
• Utah launching 'sandbox' program for fintech innovators (Deseret News)

• The RNC Torches Ocasio-Cortez And Her 'Squad's' Presser (Townhall)
• The truth hurts? Ilhan Omar tapdances around question about her support for communism and terrorists (Twitchy)
• Trump Is Baiting Democrats (Atlantic)
• Cuomo rips de Blasio amid power outage fallout (New York Post)
• Journalism is becoming an elite profession—and that’s bad news (Noteworthy)
• Democrats’ hysteria over basic voting security undermining US democracy (New York Post)
• Living in California Is Living on the Edge (Atlantic)
• Peter Thiel says FBI, CIA should probe Google (Axios)
• Biden: If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep It (Free Beacon)
• Biden support slips below 30 percent in new poll (The Hill)
• China's Economy Falters; Slowest Growth In Nearly 3 Decades (NPR)

Good Guy and Bad
“Anyone can be a good guy. Anyone can be a bad guy. Not everyone can be both,” said the host. “He’s the kind of guy who sets the timer on the bomb, then turns around, and is like: ‘Jesus, this sicko only gave us three minutes. We have to get out of here.’”  Trevor Noah

Be Doing

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." Francis of Assisi

"Go back" day 2

• President Donald Trump doubled down on his racist attack on four Democratic congresswomen on Monday. He falsely claimed Rep. Ilhan Omar sympathized with Al Qaeda and said the four women should apologize to him for their foul language [NYT].
• The four congresswomen tore into Trump during a news conference on Monday, slamming the "bile of garbage" that comes from his mouth [Politico].
• The House is set to vote Tuesday on a resolution condemning Trump for his comments [CNN].
• Texas Democrat Al Green says he will force a vote on impeachment in the House over Trump's bigotry [The Hill].
• Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden slammed Trump's "flat racist" tweets, saying "he should go home" [Politico].

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Debt crisis. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shot down a White House plan for a short-term increase in the debt ceiling if Congress can't agree to a spending deal. Congress has just 7 working days left before leaving town for the August recess [WaPo].

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2020

• Nearly half of the Democratic presidential hopefuls spent more money than they raised during the last quarter, a reality that may end up winnowing the huge field [Politico].
• GOP mega-donors are pouring money into the Trump re-election effort [Politico].
• President Trump's re-election campaign is spending heavily to attract small donors [NYT].

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Immigration. A new Trump administration rule would block most migrants coming to the U.S. from seeking asylum [NYT].

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Boring but important. The White House says the federal deficit will pass $1 trillion this year. It will be the first time in the nation's history the deficit has exceeded that level [The Hill].

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White House vs. Congress. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway defied a congressional subpoena on Monday and refused to show up for a hearing with the House Oversight Committee. Conway ignored the summons at the direction of President Trump [Politico].

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Trade. The tariffs collected by the U.S. from China is not enough to cover the money the Trump administration is spending to bail out farmers who are impacted by the trade war [NYT].

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North Korea. Officials warned that country may resume missile tests in response to planned military exercises involving the U.S. and North Korea [WaPo].

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Climate. A terrifying new study says hundreds of U.S. cities could see an entire month each year with heat-index temperatures soaring above 100 degrees by 2050 if global warming continues unchecked [USA Today].