WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. uranium mining companies and nuclear power plant operators are hoping for a bailout in the name of national security. President Donald Trump is scheduled to get recommendations Thursday from a federal task force studying ways to revive domestic uranium mining. The Nuclear Energy Institute representing uranium […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Monday stressed the importance of an independent central bank “absolutely free” from politics in the wake of increasing pressure from President Donald Trump urging the central bank to lower interest rates. Powell spoke to a crowd of hundreds in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the hours after President Donald Trump called on China to investigate his political foe — plowing through another political guardrail — Democrats and Trump critics looked for signs that his party would slap him back. Seeking foreign help in an election is illegal. Who […]
MIDVALE, Utah (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams of Utah said Friday he supports the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, a shift from one of a handful of undecided House Democrats. McAdams said he has not made a decision on whether the president should be impeached, but he […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump (all times local): 1:15 p.m. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida tells reporters he thinks Trump was just kidding when he publicly asked China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. “I don’t think it’s a real request,” […]
CORTEZ, Colo. (AP) — Finland has agreed to return Native American ancestral remains and artifacts that were taken more than a century ago from what is now Mesa Verde National Park in the Southwest United States. The White House announced the agreement during a news conference in Washington on Wednesday. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to dismiss lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of a 2017 decision to downsize two sprawling national monuments in Utah. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan’s written decisions issued Monday night means the legal challenges seeking to return […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams of Utah wants “all the facts” before deciding on whether to support impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. McAdams said in a statement Wednesday that the summary of Trump’s phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart suggests the president “was improperly […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s U.S. senators say about $54 million in funding for two projects at Hill Air Force Base has been diverted to aid construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee have expressed concerns over the decision after the Air Force alerted […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new U.S. government management plan unveiled Friday clears the way for coal mining and oil and gas drilling on land that used to be off limits as part of a sprawling national monument in Utah before President Donald Trump downsized the protected area two […]
