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After three strike teams consisting of 98 crew members departed Utah on Thursday, one team of 22 from Unified Fire Authority and West Valley City was assigned Friday to the Lilac Fire, north of San Diego.
President’s visit, national monument reduction spurs Utahns to make a statement.
Despite the hundreds of people voicing their opposition to shrinking the monuments, a few dozen showed up wearing Trump paraphernalia and held signs supporting the president’s decision.
President signs order reducing two national monuments.
Moments before President Donald Trump signed a proclamation gutting Utah’s two largest national monuments, he raved about the state’s stunning landscapes.
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Law Rocks
Being an attorney is stressful and time-consuming, so they need to blow off steam—a band, if they can squeeze such a thing into their lives, is a great way to do that. Law Rocks (www.lawrocks.org) is a band of lawyers that jams under the banner, “Rock Globally, Give Locally.” The idea is to give themselves a creative outlet while also raising money for non-profits that endeavor to do the same.
Thousands gather ahead of Monday's expected Bears Ears announcement.
Robbie Bond, a guest speaker at Saturday’s pro-national monument rally, had to stand on a chair to reach the lectern microphone as he addressed the sea of demonstrators at the Utah State Capitol.
It's an empty week for new wide-releases post-Thanksgiving, but a couple of new entries hit art houses, including the year's best animated feature. In The Breadwinner (pictured), fanciful animation mixes magnificently with stark violence to adapt Deborah Ellis' book about a young girl in Taliban-era Kabul forced to disguise herself as a boy to support her family.
