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The State Department called on the socialist regime in Venezuela to release Joshua Holt on Tuesday, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen whose health has deteriorated considerably in the year and a half that he has spent behind bars on highly suspicious charges of weapons stockpiling.

Staff for Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are not outright denying a new report from The Atlantic magazine that Hatch, another ally of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, plans to retire at the end of his current term—another death blow for the failing Senate Majority Leader.

A Utah police officer who forcibly arrested a nurse for refusing to let him draw blood from an unconscious patient has been fired.

A group of students chanted “build the wall” at a Utah high school football game over the weekend and some people are not happy about it. In a 10-second video, students from Woods Cross High School, a school located just

A Utah man has been charged with 12 counts of alleged rape of a teen he took to Planned Parenthood for an abortion in order to conceal his actions, court documents say.

Students at Utah Valley University, a public institution in northern Utah, have been instructed to report “argumentative” peers to the school’s “behavior assessment team.”

A nurse in Utah says she was assaulted and illegally arrested when she told a Salt Lake City police detective she could not take a blood sample from an unconscious patient. Nurse Alex Wubbels, a former Winter Olympian, told Detective Jeff Payne that

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court by the girls parents, claims the students have been discriminated against due to their gender, according to Title IX.

Even as he serves his last days in Congress after announcing his retirement, Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz is calling for the government to give another $2,500 per month to each member of Congress to help them with housing costs.

Failed 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney offered lukewarm praise for President Trump over the weekend at his annual E2 summit — an appearance that included some rumblings of possibly yet another run for office from the former Massachusetts governor.

Former Vice President Joe Biden reportedly ripped into Hillary Clinton’s handling of her presidential campaign at a closed-door meeting with a group of donors Friday.

Authorities believe that one of the alleged drug traffickers –Raul Enrique Lizarraga Lopez, aka “Maestro” – is a key player in the drug cartel that smuggles narcotics from Mexico into the United States.

It’s really all about corporations hoping for more cheap imported labor.

The Utah state legislature has passed a joint resolution calling for a return to federalism in general, and, in particular, the end of the federal Education Department.

Two teenage boys allegedly planned to “get rid” of a 14-year-old girl because one of the boys was annoyed by her Snapchat messages, police say.

PARK CITY, Utah — At the close of the Sundance Film Festival, those standing in solidarity with protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline met in Park City, Utah.

A dash cam video shows a semi truck sideswiping a snow plow in Utah, sending it across oncoming traffic, through a guard rail, and over a 300 foot embankment.

As president, Barack Obama became the biggest land grabber in U.S. history by decreeing from Washington D.C. that millions of acres of land are now the property of the federal government.

“The midnight move is a slap in the face to the people of Utah, attempting to silence the voices of those who will bear the heavy burden it imposes,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz about the area in southeastern Utah dominated by two large, iron-red buttes, carved out over the centuries by the Colorado River.

The holiday season is a season of charitable giving for many Americans, but those in Utah are more likely to give than other states, according to WalletHub’s ranking of the most charitable states.

Election officials say voting machine problems in southern Utah are forcing poll workers to use paper ballots, potentially affecting tens of thousands of people.

Thirty-two refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) in Utah between 2011 and 2015, according to the Utah Department of Health. During that five-year period, a total of 172 cases of active TB were diagnosed in the state. Seventy-seven percent of those cases, 132 out of 172, were foreign-born. In contrast, during that same five-year period, 66 percent of all active TB cases in the United States were foreign-born.

An 85-year-old Utah man and his wife were robbed of their possessions while at a funeral Saturday.

Rallygoers were packed into the Infinity Event Center, with those on the floor were asked to squish together so more people could get in. Ultimately the fire marshal told a Trump-Pence campaign official that the limit had been reached with about 1,300 people packed in the building and another 1,000 outside hoping to get in.

Per a PIX 11 report, Utah police are looking for answers after a father left his five-year-old daughter in the middle of the night and left her in the cold. A security guard found the little girl in at a doorway on

While several recent polls from Utah have suggested Donald Trump is recapturing his lead there, an astounding new survey from CBS News and YouGov finds him with a 17-point lead over Hillary Clinton, far beyond what other polls suggest.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) revoked their support of Donald Trump after The Washington Post released a tape from 2005 containing lewd remarks Trump made about women, according to KUTV.

Mike Lee is dominating in virtually every demographic, according to the survey. When sex is a factor, men prefer Lee 60-25 percent, and women prefer Lee 59-21 percent.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — One of the largest oil producers in the U.S. is purchasing a privately-held New Mexico company and some of its subsidiaries in a $2.5 billion deal that will expand its footprint in major energy-producing basins in the West.

OREM, UTAH — Washington insiders would pick America’s next President under the dream scheme of the #NeverTrump movement. Their plan is sinister: If even one state backs a third-party candidate, it could enable Congress to pick the next President instead of the voters.

A new Public Policy poll shows Donald Trump with a 15 point lead in Utah — a state where the Republican nominee previously had an “amazingly bad” showing, according to the Washington Post in June.

Utah has not voted for a Democratic candidate for president since 1964, when Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater there by a 55 percent to 45 percent margin, on his way to a 486 to 52 Electoral College landslide.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz visited the Laredo Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border and did not contact Border Patrol agents to discuss their needs. According to the agents, Senator Cruz has yet to contact them through his freshman term in the U.S. Senate.

A club to worship Satan may be coming to a Utah elementary school, KUTV reports. The Satanic Temple is seeking equal treatment as Good News Clubs, which is a group that teaches Christianity in an after school program. Granite School District may have

Meet URL — the Electronic Detection, or “porn-sniffing”, black Labrador who can sniff out child pornography and help catch the culprits.

The recent increase in the number of active TB cases reported in the United States is driven by increases in the foreign born population with high rates of active and latent TB, as Breitbart News reported last week.