Morning news brief - Sept. 16, 2024

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📰 Monday's headlines

• Former President Donald Trump is safe after what the FBI is calling a potential attempted assassination. Sunday afternoon, a man pointed a rifle through a fence at Trump's Florida golf course where he was playing. [WaPo]
• Trump's campaign wasted little time sending out fundraising appeals following the apparent assassination attempt. [Daily Beast]
• Gov. Spencer Cox, a longtime critic of Trump, introduced the former president when he attended a fundraiser in Salt Lake City on Saturday. [Deseret News]
• A new poll shows Vice President Kamala Harris has narrowed Trump's lead in Iowa to just four percentage points. Trump led President Joe Biden by 18 points in June. [USA Today]
• The Utah Supreme Court will take up the appeal of a lower court ruling that voided Amendment D. [Fox 13]
• The Cache County Council voted to fund a private defamation lawsuit two employees in the Cache County Attorney's Office filed against two members of the public. [KSL.com]

Whoops! Utah Hockey Club forward Clayton Keller may have leaked what the official nickname for the NHL team could be. "It sounds like it's going to be the 'Yeti,' but I don't know," Keller said during an interview with NHL.com.