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What We Know About the Mommy Vlogger Accused of Child Abuse In newly-released diaries, Ruby Franke called her children the “spawn of Satan” and details how she starved them as punishment.
ruby franke
Mar. 25, 2024
The Most Disturbing Details From Ruby Franke’s Diaries In newly released diary entries, the disgraced momfluencer repeatedly refers to her children as “demons” and details how she starved them.
law and order
Mar. 30, 2023
By Charu Sinha
rebecca is a food critic now
Dec. 1, 2022
By Rebecca Alter
early and often
Oct. 13, 2022
Trump Ally Mike Lee Begs for Mitt Romney’s Endorsement on TV “Please get onboard,” the Republican asked Romney in an appeal on Fox News after the race for Utah senator got tighter than expected.
By Matt Stieb
early and often
Aug. 18, 2022
Transphobic Utah Parents Launch Witch Hunt Against Teen When their daughter lost to another girl, the parents asked the teen’s school to investigate whether she was transgender.
By Sarah Jones
Alien Art (?) Object Disappeared From Utah Desert A tall metal monolith has vanished as suddenly as it appeared.
By Claire Lampen
Looks Like the Aliens Dropped Something A helicopter pilot has found a mysterious metal structure in the wilderness of Utah.
By Amanda Arnold
2020 elections
Aug. 5, 2020
Another Deep-Red State Votes to Expand Medicaid In a fairly close vote, Missouri became the 38th state to sign on, even as Republicans try to cripple the Affordable Care Act.
By Ed Kilgore
d.c. statehood
June 16, 2020
Congress to Vote on D.C. Statehood for the First Time in Decades It would likely take a Democratic Senate plus filibuster reform to become law, but the cause of making D.C. the 51st state remains alive.
By Ed Kilgore
mountain time zone
Nov. 16, 2019
By Devon Ivie
Somebody Explain to Trump That ‘Traitors’ Schiff and Pelosi Cannot Be Impeached Trump’s rage toward those pursuing his impeachment follows his M.O. of accusing his accusers of whatever he’s done, even if it’s unconstitutional.
By Ed Kilgore
Arkansas and Utah Have Passed 18-Week Abortion Bans If they’re signed into law, they could become the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country.
By Kimberly Truong
medicaid expansion
Feb. 11, 2019
Utah Republicans Move to Thwart Voter-Ordered Medicaid Expansion The bill substitutes a partial expansion with right-wing conditions they expect the administration to approve, in place of a voter-mandated expansion.
By Ed Kilgore
Mitt Romney Rips Trump’s Character in New Op-ed Romney loves the tax cuts, but he hates Trump’s tweets.
By Adam K. Raymond
2018 midterms
Nov. 26, 2018
Utah Republican Mia Love Fires Back at Trump in Concession Speech Trump mocked the defeat of the first black Republican woman in Congress. Love suggested he was part of her party’s minority outreach problem.
By Ed Kilgore
Mitt Romney Wrote in His Wife, Ann, for President in 2016 He may have voted for a woman, but it wasn’t Hillary Clinton.
By Adam K. Raymond
Virginia Is Giving Obamacare a Huge — If Belated — Win Democrats were able to wrangle a few GOP votes to expand Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of needy Virginians.
By Ed Kilgore
Maine’s Governor Defies the Law and Voters on Medicaid Expansion Republican Paul LePage plans to block a voter-sanctioned measure via stubborn defiance of the law.
By Ed Kilgore
Mitt Romney Announces U.S. Senate Run With Small Swipes at Trump “On Utah’s Capitol Hill, people treat one another with respect,” Romney says, an obvious reference to you-know-who.
By Adam K. Raymond
State Party Chair’s Attack on Romney Is Sour Grapes, Not a Threat Yes, there will be grumbling, but the 2018 Senate race in Utah is definitely Mitt Romney’s to lose.
By Ed Kilgore
health scares
Jan. 10, 2018
A 7-Eleven Worker Could Have Given Hepatitis to Thousands of Utah Customers Officials warn that a store’s sodas, hot foods, and bathroom all could’ve been infected.
By Clint Rainey
Orrin Hatch to Retire, Meaning We Might See Senator Mitt Romney in 2019 Having the GOP presidential nominee and anti-Trump firebrand in the Republican caucus would be interesting.
By Ed Kilgore
teens these days
Dec. 31, 2017
Angry Teen Walks 6 Miles Across Frozen Lake After Fight With Parents “I wouldn’t say walking six miles across ice is a normal teenage response.”
By Amanda Arnold
reading comprehension
Dec. 26, 2017
By Amanda Arnold
stuck in the mittle
Dec. 6, 2017
The Flaw in Strategic Genius Steve Bannon’s Effort to Sour Utah on Mitt Romney He said Romney hid behind Mormonism to avoid Vietnam, proving he has less integrity than alleged predator Roy Moore. That won’t go over well in Utah.
By Margaret Hartmann
Trump Triggers War for the Future of Land Conservation The president just stripped monument protections from 2 million acres in Utah. Now, a legal battle between oil companies and environmentalists looms.
By Eric Levitz
stuck in the mittle
Dec. 4, 2017
Trump and Bannon Don’t Want Senator Romney — But They Might Not Have Much Say Both the president and his former strategist seem to prefer incumbent Senator Orrin Hatch, and Utahns might not care.
By Margaret Hartmann
‘RINO’ Curtis Wins Utah GOP Special House Primary He finished fifth at the GOP district convention and was attacked by out-of-state conservatives as a RINO, but John Curtis prevailed in the primary.
By Ed Kilgore
In Utah Today, Voters Are Picking Jason Chaffetz’s Successor In a deep-red House district, the mayor of Provo is the front-runner but is under attack as a RINO.
By Ed Kilgore
the grub street diet
July 21, 2017
Ty Burrell Will Fight a Chipmunk for Cajun Cheese “Carrots, potatoes, kale, meatballs, and, I’m assuming, optimism wrapped in tinfoil.”
By Sierra Tishgart
The Democrats’ Losing Streak Will Likely End in November The party needs a win in a nationally significant and competitive contest. There is still hope this year.
By Ed Kilgore
Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz Will Not Seek Reelection The Republican whose indifference to Trump’s corruption put the “oversight” in House Oversight Chair is returning to the private sector.
By Eric Levitz
Mitt Romney Is Toying With a Senate Run From Utah He’ll only do it though if Senator Orrin Hatch retires and gives his blessing.
By Adam K. Raymond
gave him apizza her mind
Feb. 6, 2017
Voter Uses Pizza Order to Beg Senator to Reject Trump’s Cabinet Pick Orrin Hatch’s phone lines were busy, so a woman added a special message to her order.
By Clint Rainey
Thousands of Women Took Over the Utah State Capitol to Fight for Their Rights “I’m sick and tired of men making laws about our bodies and our choices and our lives without consulting us.”
By Claire Landsbaum
everyday sexism
Jan. 11, 2017
This Utah High School’s Class Assignment Is Ridiculously Sexist The date’s instructions for the female students included gems like, “Don’t waste his money.”
By Claire Landsbaum
5th-Party Candidate Threatening to Win in Utah It’s all part of Evan McMullin’s highly unlikely plan to become president.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Getting Thumped in Post-Tape-Gate Polls Trump’s 11-year-old endorsement of sexual assault has Ohio looking blue — and Utah and Georgia turning purple.
By Eric Levitz
Evan McMullin’s Unlikely Strategy to Win the White House: It’s All About Utah If the independent conservative candidate can keep Clinton and Trump from a majority of electoral votes and knock the race into the House.
By Ed Kilgore
crime scene
Aug. 10, 2016
By Clint Rainey
early and often
June 19, 2016
Utah GOP Asks Trump to Campaign in State Considering Trump’s unpopularity, especially with Mormons, the state’s Republican chairman is trying to prevent the state from becoming purple.
By Chas Danner
moral panics
May 24, 2016
What Is Utah’s Anti-Porn Craze Really About? One scholar doesn’t think it has much to do with actual public-health concerns.
By Jesse Singal
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