Good Tuesday morning from Salt Lake City.
Stewart on North Korea. Utah County GOP suffers backlash from a Nazi joke. Microsoft foils Russian hackers targeting U.S. political institutions.
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HERE ARE THE STORIES YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO TODAY
Stewart speaks
Rep. Chris Stewart says the Trump administration is making progress with North Korea, but there’s still a long way to go. Stewart recently returned from a visit to the Korean peninsula. Stewart also made an eyebrow-raising claim about the media without offering any proof – http://bit.ly/2BvugPi
New podcast
Download the podcast of our full conversation with Rep. Stewart – http://bit.ly/2PrsmSW
Nazi joke fallout
The Utah County GOP has lost three high-profile donors for an upcoming fundraising dinner after it was revealed the party’s vice-chairman made a Nazi joke in a private Facebook group – http://bit.ly/2OPP2Le
GOP hardliners fall short
An effort by some members of the Utah GOP Central Committee to change the rules to boost convention-route candidates over opponents who gather signatures failed on Saturday – http://bit.ly/2nWomgl
OTHER UTAH HEADLINES
Salt Lake Tribune
Op-ed: Modern physicists are scientifically astute but philosophically naive
Why do Republican Mia Love and Democrat Ben McAdams have the same orange campaign imagery?
Deseret News
Editorial: What does Operation Rio Grande look like one year later?
Groups gear up to propose drastic changes to Pioneer Park
Feds order UTA to reinstate whistleblower, pay him $300K
Could Ogden be new home for BLM headquarters?
First TV commercial airs in Love-McAdams race
Other
NATIONAL HEADLINES
- Microsoft says they have foiled a Russian operation targeting political institutions in the U.S. A notorious hacking group linked to Russian intelligence aimed to hack into the computers of people who visited fake websites designed to look like legitimate public policy and U.S. Senate websites – https://wapo.st/2Bw0kCz
- In an interview with Reuters, President Trump said he is leaning against sitting down with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators for an interview because he’s worried it could turn into a “perjury trap” – https://reut.rs/2BvPZGP
- President Trump says he could run special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Russian attack on the 2016 election if he wanted to – https://wapo.st/2BvGdEx
- Democrats in Congress are questioning whether national security adviser John Bolton’s ties to Russia were properly vetted before he joined the White House – https://politi.co/2BxtDVA
- White House counsel Don McGahn says he does not believe he implicated President Trump in legal wrongdoing during his discussions with special counsel Robert Muller’s team – https://wapo.st/2Br318B
- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh urged prosecutors investigating Bill Clinton to ask graphic questions about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky – https://nyti.ms/2Bw0WrR
- Trump administration officials believe they have the upper hand with China in the growing trade war between the two countries as China’s economy is beginning to cool down – https://on.wsj.com/2BvZBBr
- President Trump taunted former CIA director John Brennan via Twitter on Monday, urging him to file a lawsuit against the president for revoking his security clearance – https://nyti.ms/2BuzD17
- White House budget director Mick Mulvaney suggests President Trump’s planned military parade was canceled for reasons other than the projected $92 million price tag, but would not elaborate – https://politi.co/2BvJYd7
- Former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt placed only one phone call from the $43,000 secure booth he had placed in his office – https://wapo.st/2BvoSf9
- She’s baaack. Hillary Clinton will fundraise for Democrats at three events this fall – https://nbcnews.to/2BuBBP3
- Immigration officials deported the last-remaining Nazi concentration camp guard in the U.S. on Monday – http://bit.ly/2BvzzOI
- Protesters at the University of North Carolina toppled a Confederate statue on Monday night – https://cnn.it/2BDWK9Q
- The EPA is expected to unveil a replacement for President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The new policy is said to include fewer restrictions on coal-fired power plants – https://abcn.ws/2BwWhG8
- Hospital emergency rooms are seeing a rash of injuries related to electric scooters that are popping up in cities across the U.S. – http://bit.ly/2Bvjybp
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
- 1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Virginia. Turner was later hanged.
- 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the U.S. is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
- 1897 – American automobile manufacturer Oldsmobile is founded.
- 1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
- 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
- 2017 – Millions watched the first total solar eclipse in the U.S. in 38 years.
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