Lebanese Catholic cardinal, at center of Muslim-Christian tensions, to visit...
Cardinal Moran Mor Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, the sometimes-controversial patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, will visit Utah on Friday.The 77-year-old Lebanese cleric is to meet with the Salt...
View ArticleCarrie Fisher's gross but supremely satisfying warning to a Hollywood sexual...
In the wake of Hollywood's Harvey Weinstein scandal, countless women across the world have stepped forward to share their stories of sexual abuse and harassment.Heather Ross, also known as Heather...
View ArticleJennifer Rubin: Sally Yates needs to be heard more often on Trump's unfitness
Former acting attorney general Sally Yates, who first alerted the White House to ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lies and who was fired for refusing to defend the first travel ban (which...
View ArticleMonson: In hushed tones, BYU looks for life anywhere it can find it
These are sad, gloomy days at BYU, dragging by under gray-blue October skies.Dark and morose times have descended, when people around the football program are wearing the darkest shades of blue, and...
View ArticleTrump mocked Pence, joked about him wanting to 'hang' gays in a New Yorker...
President Donald Trump and his administration are beset by controversies and scandals that refuse to go away. His list of critics is growing. Some of his allies are abandoning him. Others are calling...
View ArticleThe Tribune's NBA picks for 2017-18
MVPIn Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals last May, the San Antonio Spurs led the Golden State Warriors by 20 points in the third quarter with Kawhi Leonard on the floor.Without him — he injured...
View ArticleDoes new uptempo style fit Jazz? Early returns say yes
The last team to commit 31 turnovers in an NBA game was the Golden State Warriors in 2000. The 2017 Phoenix Suns ought to be glad that preseason stats don’t count or else they’d eclipse them.It says a...
View ArticleBomb kills investigative journalist in Malta who reported on Panama Papers
Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist and blogger from Malta who was known for her reporting on governmental corruption, was killed in a bomb explosion near her home on Monday, officials...
View ArticleUtah police officer accused of making fake 911 call involving his estranged wife
A Unified Police Department officer has been placed on leave after allegedly making a fake 911 call to report a possible burglary at a South Jordan home while knowing his estranged wife was inside.Lt....
View ArticleProvo Mayor John Curtis takes a big lead in newest poll
Provo Mayor John Curtis bagged another big lead — by a commanding 27 point margin — in the newest poll for the special election to fill Utah’s vacant congressional seat.The Republican candidate...
View ArticleSyracuse punches ticket to first girls' soccer state title game with win over...
Draper • The Syracuse Titans didn’t need to sift through the record books.When a postgame public address announcement rang out about them advancing to the state championship game, after a 4-1 win over...
View ArticleCommentary: Mormons and the Boy Scouts, once joined at the hip, are now...
It is a common stereotype, though one not far from the truth, that the average Mormon boy is an Eagle Scout.There are certainly a lot of them. Recent statistics suggest that The Church of Jesus Christ...
View ArticleGarrison Keillor: I look around and see the people in the obits are pals of mine
When I was 20, I dropped out of college and got a job with a morning newspaper whose city editor Mr. Walt Streightiff put me to work writing obituaries of ordinary men and women whose deaths were not...
View ArticleFor the first time ever, most Americans say a person can be good without God
For the first time, a majority of Americans (56 percent) say it is possible to be a good person without a religious belief.So says new Pew Research Center data drawn from two polls conducted among...
View ArticleJazz open season Wednesday against a Nuggets team they'll have to beat to...
Last season, the Jazz did something for which they received no trophy or banner — nor did they expect any spoils.It’s not that winning the Northwest Division of the NBA, edging the Oklahoma City...
View ArticleUtes receiving corps must step up even more with Darren Carrington II hurt
Plain and simple, wide receiver Darren Carrington II adds an explosive and dangerous element to the Utes offense. That’s no secret, particularly after he racked up 409 yards receiving and four...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan: From the pen of an 18-year-old Harvey Weinstein: An...
As credible allegations emerged over the past few weeks of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assaults, some observers marveled: It had been going on since the early 1980s.Weinstein, now 65, was...
View ArticleUtes leave door open for Tyler Huntley to potentially start this weekend
Neither Utah quarterback Tyler Huntley nor coach Kyle Whittingham ruled anything out or ruled anything in for this weekend. Huntley returned to the practice field in full pads and took snaps with the...
View ArticlePac-12 football: Washington schools share each other’s misery after falling...
Stanford coach David Shaw likes to say there are no upsets in Pac-12 football, because of the conference’s depth.Yet more of an explanation is necessary for what happened last weekend, when each...
View Article‘Mormon Land’ — Former LDS bishop, stake president and temple architect...
She served a mission. She designed Mormon temples. She led LDS congregations. And now she is on the outs with the faith she loves because she insists on living as a transgender woman.Hear Laurie Lee...
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