Plus, Elder Gerrit W. Gong speaks at BYU graduation
Good morning! Here are today’s temperatures: 🌩️ 44 – 58° in Logan | 💧 80% 🌩️ 48 – 57° in Salt Lake | 💧 90% 🌦️ 56 – 64° in St. George | 💧 70% School lunches are about to get a makeover that includes less sugar and more flexibility with meal planning. Locally produced foods will be emphasized and sodium will be reduced slightly. Read more on the USDA’s announcement and the changing nutrition standards for school meals. Also on our minds: The precarious state of displaced people around the world, Mitt Romney’s YouTube interview and how to get free pretzels for National Pretzel Day. |
| What to expect at the Utah GOP Convention |
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| | Utah Republican candidates and delegates will convene Saturday at the sprawling Salt Palace Convention Center in downtown Salt Lake City to determine who will be on the primary ballot in June. Utah’s junior Senate seat, the state’s four House seats and numerous statewide offices, including governor and attorney general, are all up for grabs. Read more for a preview of the gubernatorial, congressional and attorney general races. We broke down the Senate convention competition here. |
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More in Politics: Mitt Romney profiled in YouTube series about inspirational people. Here’s what he says is important (Deseret News) What the Supreme Court said about former President Donald Trump’s presidential immunity claim (Deseret News) | The 2023-24 BYU school year began with new president Shane Reese declaring that the university’s challenge during his administration would be “to become the BYU of prophecy and promise,” at the same time a great institution of learning and “an anointed university of the Lord.” On Thursday, the school year culminated in commencement exercises for 7,198 graduates, who were invited to become their “best BYU gospel self” by Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “On a personal level, becoming BYU invites us to become our truest, best BYU self in lifelong faith, service and discipleship,” he said. Read more about Elder Gong's message to BYU graduates. | Faith Can’t make the Utah Area YSA conference? Here are other events happening around the world (Church News) At ‘Seder in the Streets,’ protesters in Brooklyn denounce US support to Israel (Religion News Service) Health U.S. birthrate hit new low in 2023 (Deseret News) Are multivitamins actually beneficial? (Deseret News) Sports The Denver Broncos drafted Bo Nix. What does that mean for Zach Wilson? (Deseret News) Is Ryan Smith now a power broker in the sports industry? (Deseret News) This former Utah State quarterback is headed to BYU (Deseret News) Why NFL commissioner Roger Goodell hugs NFL draftees — and why he may not this year (Deseret News) Utah For the first time in 15 years, a Utah singer has made the ‘American Idol’ top 10 (Deseret News) Holladay neighbors assess damage, begin cleanup after dynamite detonation (KSL) Democrat Brian King, who is challenging Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, appeals to faith in new ad (Deseret News) How much will the Great Salt Lake rise? State to offer a reward if you guess it correctly (KSL) The Nation Slow growth, inflation deliver economic double whammy to kick off ’24 (Deseret News) Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction was overturned (Deseret News) The World Immigration: The precarious state of displaced people (Deseret News) What to know about the crisis in Haiti after the prime minister's resignation (Axios) |
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