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OTHER UTAH HEADLINES

Deseret News

• Editorial: From the Constitution to the border, we have a crisis of crises
• Utah joins nationwide lawsuit alleging generic drug price-fixing conspiracy
• New study sheds more light on wintertime pollution
• Utah's Gail Miller to receive same congressional award as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Mariah Carey
• Residents excited, concerned about planned large trail in southern Salt Lake County
• Latter-day Saint leaders call for 'fairness for all' while opposing the Equality Act
• U.S.-China trade dispute likely to bring higher prices to Utah consumers
• Utah Rep. Ben McAdams: Equality Act 'step in direction we need to take,' but religious concerns must be heard

Salt Lake Tribune

• Utah's only 'Zion Ceiling' will fall this summer when Tin Angel opens a restaurant in Salt Lake City's Eccles Theater
• LDS Church comes out against Equality Act, saying LGBTQ rights bill doesn't ensure religious freedom
• The new Utah Republican chairman talks about party unity, Democratic 'socialism' and paying the phone bill

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NATIONAL HEADLINES

Trade war

• The Dow had its worst day since January, falling 617 points after China retaliated against the Trump administration by announcing they would raise tariffs on billions of dollars worth of goods - https://cnn.it/2Q5yWiv
• Senate Republicans are bemoaning Trump's protectionist policies, but have little appetite for trying to stop the president from escalating the trade war with China - https://politi.co/2Q1KMdD
• President Trump is threatening to raise tariffs on nearly every product China sends to the U.S. - https://nyti.ms/2PZUfls

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Supreme Court

• The court's conservative justices overturned a 40-year-old precedent on Monday, ruling states may not be sued in the courts of other states. The ruling has the liberal justices on the court worried about the other long-standing precedents the conservative majority on the court could overturn - https://nyti.ms/2Q5tVGU
• The judges ruled a class action against Apple could proceed under antitrust laws. Consumers are suing the tech giant for unlawfully monopolizing the sale of iPhone apps - http://bit.ly/2Q5TsiX
• Justice Stephen Breyer sounds the alarm that the court's conservative majority is eager to overturn Roe v. Wade - http://bit.ly/2Q5u11e

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Iran

• U.S. military officials are mulling a plan to send as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East if Iran attacks American forces or accelerates work on their nuclear weapons program - https://nyti.ms/2Q5rfck
• The rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran has experts worried the two countries might be on the brink of war - https://econ.st/2Q2A9XQ

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Immigration

• The Trump administration was pushing a secret plan to arrest and deport thousands of migrant parents and children in 10 U.S. cities. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other top immigration officials stopped the administration from implementing the plan before their ouster by Trump - https://wapo.st/2Q1JPlz

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The investigations

• Attorney General William Barr assigned the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut to probe the origins of the Russia investigation - https://nyti.ms/2QbYLh7
• A federal judge is fast-tracking a ruling on the House Oversight Committee's subpoena requesting eight years of President Trump's financial records. The judge will decide on Tuesday aboutTrump's lawsuit seeking to block the subpoena - https://politi.co/2Q6oEii
• Top Republicans say the subpoena for Donald Trump Jr. from the Senate Intelligence Committee was prompted by Trump's stonewalling on testifying before the committee. The younger Trump had agreed twice to testify before the committee in recent months, then later backed out - https://nyti.ms/2Q2CD8v
• Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein unloaded on former FBI Director James Comey during a speech on Monday evening, slamming Comey as a "partisan pundit" - https://fxn.ws/2Q1LM1n

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2020

• Democratic presidential hopefuls are chasing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement - https://politi.co/2Q1LUOp
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren is vowing to replace Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with a former public school teacher if she wins in 2020 - http://bit.ly/2Q2CMJa
• A group of women is suing the Trump campaign alleging they were underpaid compared to their male counterparts by 20%. Former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman is requesting to join the lawsuit - https://wapo.st/2PZTcSL

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Congress

• The Trump administration wants to take $1.9 billion in surplus Pell Grant money to boost NASA's budget - http://bit.ly/2Q5k6bR

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1787 - In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.

1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.

1800 - The process of moving the U.S. capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. begins.

1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois.

1878 - The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.

1948 - Israel is declared to be an independent state, and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the decision, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1984 Arab-Israeli War.

1973 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

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Policy News

Cicero Group welcomes newest partner
Cicero Group is pleased to announce the addition of Scott Neuner as the firm's newest partner.

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Utah joins lawsuit against Teva Pharmaceuticals and 19 generic drug makers in conspiracy to fix market pricing for drugs
Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined 44 states announcing a lawsuit against Teva Pharmaceuticals and 19 of the nation's largest generic drug manufacturers alleging a broad conspiracy to artificially inflate and manipulate prices as well as reduce competition for more than 100 different generic drugs.

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More National Headlines

• The Blue-Collar Jobs Boom Nobody Seems To Notice (Because It's Happening Under Trump) (Issues & Insights)
• The dark reason so many millennials are miserable and broke (MarketWatch)
• Demography is California's destiny (Sacramento Bee)
• The astonishing disappearing act of Beto O'Rourke (Guardian)
• 2020 hopeful Biden says he's open to breaking up Facebook (Associated Press)
• Bernie Sanders, a Front-Runner With Financing to Prove It, Struggles to Retain Outsider Status (Wall Street Journal)
• Raid on San Francisco reporter's home condemned as 'an attack' on 1st Amendment (Los Angeles Times)
• Will political correctness kill classic movies? (The Hill)

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