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After last summer, Utah organizers work to keep the momentum around racial equality going in this year’s Juneteenth festivities.
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Kate Groetzinger/KUERPark advocates and local officials say a reservation system is needed to deal with record visitation at Arches this year. But efforts to implement reservations have failed in the past. -
Laura Seitz/Deseret NewsDuring his monthly news conference Thursday, Gov. Spencer Cox underscored how bad the drought is in Utah and asked residents not to light fireworks.
Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant in April, 1865, but Confederate generals in Texas kept fighting for weeks, well into June. That’s when General Granger was sent to quell the unrest and tell the formerly enslaved that they were free. The date was June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation — a day that we now call Juneteenth.
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June 19 is a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Utah is in the midst of its worst drought in decades. State officials have focused on that to explain the water shortage the state is facing. But experts say there’s more to the story.
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One suggestion was to require testosterone testing. Another was to beef up enforcement of an existing policy. The idea was to balance “preserving female sports” and making sure transgender kids don’t feel excluded.
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High-elevation forests in the Rocky Mountain region are burning more now than at any point in the past 2,000 years. That's according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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After their more than 3-hour meeting in Geneva, the U.S. leader said he pushed his Russian counterpart on human rights and other administration priorities.
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Last summer, protesters were charged with felonies for painting the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office red. On Tuesday, four of the protesters pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.
This summer, KUER producer Benjamin Bombard is traveling around Utah looking for places that are…extra. Extreme. His first mission: to find the darkest place — above ground — in the state. He just might have found it among the redrock spires of Kodachrome State Park.
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President Biden and Russian President Putin have arrived at the Geneva villa where they will hold their first face-to-face talks as leaders. The two shook hands and ignored reporters' questions.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Mark Galeotti, senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, about the focus on cyber crime during the U.S.-Russia summit.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to retired Army General Wesley Clark, a former NATO commander, about President Biden's meeting with Russian President Putin, and about the challenges facing Biden and NATO.
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Rachel Carle got the ticket from a relative who purchased the Late Gate Ticket in 1983. The aquarium discontinued those tickets roughly 25 years ago, but says about each year a customer presents one.
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