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Musical mastermind Danny Elfman to visit Salt Lake City as FanX guest
KTVX - Utah
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July 28, 2025
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Danny Elfman, the composer behind hundreds of iconic music scores both on TV and the silver screen, is coming to Salt Lake City as a guest at FanX. The legendary 72-year-old composer will be making his first appearance at...
Details unredacted in Utah's lawsuit against Snapchat, alleging exploitation of children
KTVX - Utah
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July 30, 2025
Editor’s Note: A lawsuit only portrays one side of a story. SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The majority of Utah’s lawsuit against Snap, Inc., the company that owns Snapchat, has now been unredacted, allowing the public to know more about what kind of...
Nationwide study cites wellbeing, quality of life makes Utah the fourth happiest state in the union
Cache Valley Daily - Utah
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MILTON, GA – A recent nationwide study has found Utah to be the fourth happiest state in the United States. Out of a possible Happiness Score of 100, the 2025 research by Your Law Firm ranked Utah at 69.38 on that scale, according to lead attorney...
CRH agrees to buy Eco Material Technologies
Global Cement
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US: CRH has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Eco Material Technologies, a leading supplier of supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) in North America, for a total consideration of US$2.1bn. The business will subsequently...
Utah ranks well in school systems, math test scores, median SAT scores in new study
KUTV - Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Utah ranked eleventh for "Best School Systems in the U.S." in a new study. The study, by WalletHub, analyzed performance, funding, safety, class size, and teacher credentials. Utah also ranked second in the highest math...
Newly unredacted details shed additional light on Utah’s Snapchat lawsuit
KSL TV 5 - Utah
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July 30, 2025
SALT LAKE CITY — Newly revealed details shed additional light Tuesday on Utah’s lawsuit against the owner of Snapchat, and officials said those details further outlined how addictive and potentially harmful the social media app is to children. The...
Utah scientists discuss dangers of Great Salt Lake toxic dust
KPCW - Utah
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July 29, 2025
As drought conditions persist and the Great Salt Lake hovers just above its record-low 2022 levels, scientists are keeping a close eye on the briny body of water. If the lake dries up, toxic dust storms could blow off the exposed lakebed and...
Utah nonprofit spent millions of taxpayer funds on private company, vacations, state auditor finds
Deseret News - Utah
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July 29, 2025
The Office of State Auditor identified nearly $3 million in wasted funds by Impact Utah. The nonprofit group transferred millions to a for-profit company, vacations and campaigns. Auditor Cannon called for increased oversight and recommended a...
Vote Save America sends $20K to Utah to recruit Democratic candidates for 2026
KUER - Utah
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July 30, 2025
A political consulting firm in Utah is getting a $20,000 cash infusion to recruit Democratic candidates for the 2026 elections. Vote Save America, a political action committee once part of Crooked Media, is investing the money in Elevate PAC....
CRH Strikes $2.1 Billion Deal for Eco Material Technologies
Transport Topics
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July 29, 2025
[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Building-materials provider CRH Plc has agreed to buy Eco Material Technologies for $2.1 billion in a major expansion in the cement-alternatives market in North America. CRH is paying...
SCIMaP Visualizes the True Cost of Science Funding Cuts
The Scientist Magazine
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Since early 2025, the Trump administration has disrupted science by freezing National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants and cutting research support, halting studies and threatening an infrastructure collapse. NIH funding supports a larger...
Utah Lake is a popular recreation draw. Here's how much economic weight it has
KSL - Utah
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PROVO — Utah Lake is a key water source and an environmental marvel, but a new report details how it also has a strong economic value within the Utah Valley. The lake generated 1.1 million visitor days from people outside of Utah County in 2024,...
Science National Geographic Velociraptor’s new cousin is a raptor unlike any seen before
Yahoo News
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Sometime before 2010, in the red sands of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert brimming with fossils, poachers excavated and stole the exquisite skeleton of a carnivorous dinosaur. They smuggled the fossil out of the country and onto the black market. It passed...
How To Protect Yourself From Mail Fraud In Southern Utah
KDXU - Utah
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July 29, 2025
Recently there have been several reported incidents of mail fraud in southern Utah. Most of the problems have to do with people stealing from mail cluster boxes, or in one case, actually stealing the boxes themselves. Other incidents include phone...
Imagine Life with No Internet or Smartphones in Idaho and Utah
98.3 The Snake - Idaho
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July 29, 2025
I think you could say a majority of living Americans were born after the advent of the Internet. Yesterday afternoon, I found myself thinking about the technology I had when I was a boy. We had a telephone hanging on the kitchen wall, a TV set in...
Judge sends ChatGPT-using lawyer to AI school with $5,500 fine after he's caught creating imaginary caselaw: 'Any lawyer unaware that using generative AI platforms to do legal research is playing with fire is living in a cloud'
PC Gamer
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July 29, 2025
As someone whose special interest is not going to prison, I'd be pretty keen on my lawyer not using AI to advise them in the courtroom. So I suppose I can be glad that I was not the debtor who enlisted the Semrad Law Firm in a bankruptcy case last...
Newly hired professor to implement digital technologies in wildfire recovery
The Record-Courier - Nevada
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July 29, 2025
University of Nevada, Reno Tuesday, July 29, 2025 After a decade of work in ecological consulting, applied research and stakeholder engagement, University of Nevada, Reno alum Lucas Phipps is trading his field hat for a faculty one. He joins the...
Utah hiker caught in flash floods at Zion National Park
KMYU - Utah
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ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (KUTV) — Monique Card is used to navigating tough trails and unpredictable weather, but the July 17 flash flooding at Angel’s Landing took even her by surprise. “I’m always that person and tell everybody, ‘Don’t go down...
University of Utah mascot gets keys to a new set of wheels
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah mascot Swoop during a men’s basketball game at the Huntsman Center on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. Get ready, Utes fans: Swoop will have a new set of wheels this fall. Its name is Red Betty, a bright...
This southern Utah community has dealt with contaminated water for years. Now the taps run clean.
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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(Brooke Larsen | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nate Wallentine, an engineer with Sunrise Engineering, explains the new pump station for a pipeline that delivers water to the Cedar Point neighborhood of Apple Valley on Monday, July 28, 2025. For years,...