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Deseret News

Pignanelli and Webb: Kavanaugh, Trump's coattails & wildfires

Op-ed: This bill streamlines the deployment of high-speed internet across Utah

Op-ed: A vision that elevates Utah's education system? It already exists

Editorial: Should Las Vegas pump water it doesn't own?

Utah tops in job growth in U.S., jobless rate flat in August at 3.1%

Regents to ask lawmakers for $6M to place college advisers in every Utah high school

Utah Supreme Court weighing Cottonwood Mall project referendum

Couple supporting McAdams says Love misused their images for her TV commercial

Downtown soup kitchen getting $1.5 million remodel, new work training program

Utah takes more steps to tether parole, probation lengths to offenders' progress

13 things voters should know about Utah's medical marijuana initiative

Salt Lake Tribune

Stuart Reid: Jumping into medical marijuana debate has discredited LDS Church

Editorial: Don't let fees ruin public education in Utah

Editorial: Pole Creek fire second guessing only adds political haze

A Utah high school student was happy working at KFC. But with this program's help, he's a pre-med senior in college.

Mormon church takes another step in its anti-Prop 2 push, invites female bloggers to meeting about medical marijuana

Utah's economy added 55K jobs in past year, up 3.5% - again ranking No. 1 in America

Utah legislator files bill to close a 'loophole' he says led to the release of one of Elizabeth Smart's kidnappers

Other

John Curtis, local leaders, talk aftermath of Pole Creek and Bald Mountain fires (Daily Herald)

Group proposes changes to cut Utah prison population in half, save $250 million (Standard-Examiner)

Forum panelists support medical marijuana, but some not in favor of Utah's Prop 2 (Park Record)

 

  NATIONAL HEADLINES  

• Trouble brewing for Brett Kavanaugh's nomination:
  
  
  • Another woman has stepped forward, alleging Kavanaugh exposed himself to her while they were students at Yale. However, there are no eyewitnesses to Deborah Ramirez's account of the incident. Kavanaugh calls her allegations a "smear." Republican staffers allegedly learned of Ramirez's allegations last week and attempted to accelerate the pace of Kavanaugh's confirmation in response - http://bit.ly/2PWdRpo
    
    
  • Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, announced on Twitter Sunday night he represents a group of people who have "credible information" that Kavanaugh would "participate in the targeting of women with alcohol/drugs" - https://politi.co/2PZpM5W
    
    
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein is calling for a delay in any further consideration of Kavanaugh's nomination in light of the new allegations against him - https://wapo.st/2Q1wf09
    
    
  • Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman to allege Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday of this week - https://nyti.ms/2PXfTFV
    
    
  • Kavanaugh has calendars from the summer of 1982 he's planning to hand over to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he says do not show he attended a party consistent with the allegations from his accuser Christine Blasey Ford - https://nyti.ms/2PZs5FU
    
    
  • White House aides are helping Kavanaugh prepare for Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the sexual assault allegations against him. Kavanaugh reportedly grew frustrated with questions about his drinking and sexual habits during the practice runs - https://wapo.st/2Q2NpdW
    
    
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham says Christine Blasey Ford's testimony will not change his decision to vote in favor of Kavanaugh's confirmation - https://politi.co/2PZtRqy
    
    
• President Trump reportedly polled aides aboard Air Force One on how to deal with the bombshell revelation that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had suggested wearing a wire to record Trump and raised the idea of using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office - http://bit.ly/2Q0O7bE
  
  
• President Trump speaks at the U.N. General Assembly meeting this week. Aides fear Trump will be too conciliatory toward countries that are traditionally America's adversaries - https://nyti.ms/2Q0UTOn
  
  
• The House is pushing to pass an $854 billion spending bill prior to Friday to prevent a government shutdown. However, President Trump called the bill "ridiculous" - http://bit.ly/2Q2WV0F
  
  
• A new Trump administration rule would deny green cards to immigrants if they have ever used certain public benefits, like Medicaid or food stamps - https://nbcnews.to/2Q0UJXl
  
  
• A new poll shows Democrats have a 12-point lead on the generic congressional ballot, but Republicans enthusiasm about the upcoming election is increasing sharply - https://nbcnews.to/2Q0QACF
  
  
• A Fox News poll finds voters, by a wide margin, are seen as the party that would better handle healthcare - https://fxn.ws/2PYR2la
  
  
• The U.S. and China dropped another round of tariffs on each other Monday. China is approaching the point of running out of U.S. goods to target - https://wapo.st/2Q2PMxm
  
  
• Longtime Trump political ally Roger Stone allegedly sought contact with Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange just nine days after Wikileaks published the first batch of stolen Democratic Party documents -https://abcn.ws/2Q17Pnz
  
  
• Federal investigators have stepped up their investigation of Gregory Craig, a White House counsel for President Barack Obama, for work he conducted on behalf of the Ukranian government in 2012. The investigation is an offshoot of the Mueller probe - https://wapo.st/2PWjfc6

  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY  

• 1789 - Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and the federal judiciary system.
  
  
• 1846 - General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey during the Mexican-American War.
  
  
• 1869 - Gold prices plummet after President Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
  
  
• 1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
  
  
• 1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
  
  
• 1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock Arkansas to enforce desegregation.
  
  
• 1996 - Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

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Woman doesn't recall party, 'does not know' Kavanaugh despite accuser's claim, lawyer says (Washington Times)

Dem Sen. Mazie Hirono says abuse allegations against Keith Ellison should be investigated (CNN)

Top Democrat cites Kavanaugh's 'outcome-driven' legal philosophy as reason to deny him due process (FOX News)

The Rebellion at Justice (Wall Street Journal)

Next crash will be 'worse than the Great Depression': experts (New York Post)

Russia and Iran, Military Allies, Are Fast Becoming Economic Rivals (Wall Street Journal)

As aid checks go out, farmers worry bailout won't be enough (PBS)