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The LDS Church jumps into the medical marijuana issue. National Enquirer publisher gets immunity in the Cohen case. President Trump decries “flipping.”
TICK TOCK
- 46 days until the last day to register to vote by mail (10/9/2018)
- 53 days until mail-in ballots are sent to voters (10/16/2018)
- 60 days until in-person early voting begins (10/23/2018)
- 67 days until the last day to register to vote in person or by mail (10/30/2018)
- 69 days until in-person early voting ends (11/2/2018)
- 74 days until the 2018 midterm elections (11/6/2018)
- 157 days until the first day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (1/28/2019)
- 202 days until the final day of the 2019 Utah Legislature (3/14/2019)
- 802 days until the 2020 presidential election (11/3/2020)
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HERE ARE THE STORIES YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO TODAY
Church vs. state
Bob Bernick says the LDS Church’s unusual move to intervene in the fight over the medical marijuana ballot initiative puts voters in a bind – http://bit.ly/2w9DMlV
What a week!
Count My Vote, Gary Herbert vs. Jackie Biskupski, Utah’s members of Congress defend Trump, plus the GOP is choosing short-term wins over long-term growth. Plus, Utah Democrats are jacked up to vote in November. We break down the week in Utah political news – http://bit.ly/2wbZw0F
You can also subscribe to our week-in-review podcast if you prefer to get our news rundown that way – http://bit.ly/2PAcY6O
OTHER UTAH HEADLINES
Deseret News
Jay Evensen: Young people may not be the ruin of us, after all
A. Scott Anderson: How this landlocked state became a surprising global competitor
Editorial: Marijuana initiative needs real solutions, not smoke and mirrors
Salt Lake County rolls out a program to help more Utah residents to become U.S. citizens
Some staunch advocates of Utah medical marijuana initiative have change of heart
Utah’s ‘most exclusive club’: Governor celebrates state’s centenarians
Church sends email to Utah Latter-day Saints urging them to vote no on marijuana initiative
Utah Inland Port board to discuss opening closed-door subcommittee meetings after backlash
Utah public safety commissioner stepping down
FCC chairman, Rep. Mia Love say it’s time for Congress to act on net neutrality
Salt Lake Tribune
Utah’s top cop is retiring; governor picks Highway Patrol major to replace him
In Utah visit, FCC chairman says Congress – not his agency – should pass rules on ‘net neutrality’
Fate of official rests in Salt Lake County GOP’s hands after LGBTQ suicide remark
Who is on Drug Safe Utah’s list opposing the medical marijuana initiative – and who’s not?
Other
Editorial: Provo airport needs to expand to meet growing demand (Daily Herald)
New Ogden water plan in place, aged system will require new work and more funds (Standard-Examiner)
NATIONAL HEADLINES
- The publisher of the National Enquirer, David Pecker, has been granted immunity in the federal investigation into President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen – https://cnn.it/2w90OJZ
- The National Enquirer reportedly had a safe filled with documents and other information about damaging stories it killed to help Donald Trump – http://bit.ly/2wb56jL
- The Manhattan D.A. is considering criminal charges against the Trump organization in connection with Michael Cohen’s hush money payment to an adult film actress – https://nyti.ms/2wcsgGw
- President Trump said during an interview with Fox News that “flipping” in legal cases, should be illegal – https://cnn.it/2waUqSq
- President Trump says the stock market would crash if he were to be impeached. Experts say that’s not true – https://usat.ly/2w9BUtH
- President Trump reportedly asked his lawyers about possibly pardoning Paul Manafort, but they cautioned against granting clemency until special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe was finished – https://nyti.ms/2waDTxU
- The lone juror who prevented the conviction of Paul Manafort on all 18 criminal charges did not trust any of the government’s witnesses and frustrated other jurors with her reasoning – https://reut.rs/2whi8fZ
- The feud between President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions is heating up with Sessions saying the Justice Department will not be “improperly influenced by political considerations” – https://wapo.st/2w9Kh8q
- Republicans in Congress say they would be open to President Trump replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions following the midterm elections – https://politi.co/2w9DdZD
- Critics fear President Trump’s attacks on the justice system are doing lasting damage – https://wapo.st/2w9EWhh
- Rep. Duncan Hunter, who was indicted for misusing $250,000 in campaign funds, threw his wife under the bus on Thursday after pleading not guilty to federal charges – https://cnn.it/2waNtAV
- The attempted hack on the Democratic National Committee’s voter database was actually a false alarm – https://nyti.ms/2w9GnMH
- The White House is signaling an effort to overhaul the nation’s criminal justice system will be delayed until after the November election – https://abcn.ws/2wb5gaR
- Critics are hammering President Trump for promoting a white nationalist conspiracy theory involving farm seizures in South Africa – https://wapo.st/2wbdNuz
- The White House blocked a bill to shore up the nation’s defenses against foreign interference in elections – https://yhoo.it/2w7aDYI
- The Senate passed a massive $857 billion spending package to avoid a government shutdown in September – https://politi.co/2wb8JWV
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
- 79 – Thousands died and the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
- 1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
- 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn the White House and Capitol building.
- 1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
- 1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
- 1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop.
- 1949 – The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect.
- 1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
- 1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
- 1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
- 1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling.
- 2006 – Pluto was demoted to “dwarf planet” status when the International Astronomical Union adopted a new definition of “planet.”
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