Duck Thurgood
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UPR
The northern Utah ski town has about 8,000 residents, but sees millions of visitors each year — creating unique problems when it comes to food waste.
Trent Nelson
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The Salt Lake Tribune
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The bipartisan bill would block companies from using auto-dialers to harvest private information about disabled veterans. The firms charge vets for a service lawmakers say is supposed to be free. -
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The United States will launch an effort on Monday to "guide" stranded ships from the Iran-gripped Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said, as two ships around the strait reported attacks. -
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U.S. gas prices were nearly $3 an average prior to the start of the war in Iran. -
The pellet "definitively" links the suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, to the attack, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro told CNN on Sunday.
