Emma Pitts
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- Aug 24, 2026
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Would you feel safer knowing an armed civilian was nearby? (opens the original)
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SALT LAKE CITY — Personal protection is the leading reason Americans give for owning a gun. The share of gun owners who cited protection as a major reason increased from 67% in 2017 to 72% in 2024, according to Pew Research Center. On another note, mass shootings have been steadily increasing in the United States since 1966. Mass shootings most commonly occur in crowded public settings, with workplaces accounting for 28% of incidents and schools for 22%, according to the Rockefeller Institute of
The president just got more powerful. Even conservatives see the risk (opens the original)
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SALT LAKE CITY — Melissa Holyoak, United States Attorney for the District of Utah, was a Republican commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission in 2025 when President Donald Trump sent a letter to her Democratic colleagues, Alvaro Bedoya and Melissa Slaughter, firing them. Slaughter sued the president and the remaining sitting FTC commissioners for firing her without statutory cause. The case ultimately reached the Supreme Court, where a 6-3 majority sided with Trump in June, but before that, l
A social media post. Thousands of teens. Then chaos (opens the original)
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SALT LAKE CITY — America recently turned 250, with parades, cookouts and fireworks. But in city after city, another kind of gathering was drawing thousands of teenagers, some with dire consequences. A 19-year-old was killed and many others were injured in Pensacola, Florida, during the Fourth of July weekend. In South Carolina, a female police officer was physically assaulted by multiple teens who only appeared to let her go after being restrained by law enforcement. And in Raleigh, North Caroli
'I would much rather our country look like this room': Erika Kirk reflects on Robinson hearing (opens the original)
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SALT LAKE CITY — After spending a week in a Provo, Utah, courtroom for the preliminary hearing of Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old accused of killing her husband, Erika Kirk stood in front of thousands of similarly aged Americans telling them they have a choice. "I just want to encourage you how important your choices are," Kirk said at the close of Turning Point USA's Chapter Leadership Summit on Sunday. "Lazy people attract lazy people. Driven and motivated people attract driven and motivated p
Utah joins multistate settlement with egg producers over alleged price-fixing (opens the original)
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SALT LAKE CITY — The state of Utah, along with the U.S. Department of Justice and more than a dozen other states, went after egg companies and reached a settlement. In a civil antitrust lawsuit, the plaintiffs accused some of the country's largest egg producers of conspiring to manipulate benchmark egg prices and drive up the cost consumers paid for eggs nationwide. The complaint and proposed final judgment, announced this week, were against Cal-Maine Foods Inc., Versova Holdings, and Hickman's
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