Thursday, May 8, 2025
⏰ Tick Tock
96 days to Utah's 2025 municipal primary elections (8/12/2025)
180 days until Election Day (11/4/2025)
544 days until the 2026 midterm elections (11/3/2026)
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Utah Headlines
Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy proposes selling 11,000 acres of public land in Utah and Nevada to fund President Donald Trump's tax cuts. [Utah Political Watch]
Utah quietly removes transgender kids' mental health reports from DHHS website. [Tribune]
"Compassion that kills": Cox says "sea change" in Utah's homeless system is coming. [Utah News Dispatch]
Utah Democrats launch campaign to recruit more party candidates in local elections. [Deseret News]
Weber State pauses tuition and fee increases for associate-degree students. [Fox 13]
National/International
The U.S. and Israel have discussed the possibility of Washington leading a temporary post-war administration of Gaza. [Reuters]
The Trump administration is expected to announce a "comprehensive" trade agreement with Britain. [New York Times]
The Trump administration says it won't lower tariffs on goods from China ahead of trade talks this weekend between U.S. and Chinese officials. [New York Times]
Vice President JD Vance says the Russians are "asking for too much" in negotiations to end the war with Ukraine. [CNN]
Ukraine is considering shifting away from linking its currency to the U.S. dollar and moving more closely to the euro. [Reuters]
The United States is pushing countries facing tariffs to approve Elon Musk's Starlink. [Washington Post]
Denmark's foreign minister says he will summon the U.S. ambassador to explain reports that the Trump administration has ordered spy agencies to focus on Greenland. [BBC]
Director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard used the same easily cracked password on several online accounts for years. [Wired]
- Some of the passwords Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used to register for websites were exposed in data breaches and are publicly available on the internet. [New York Times]
Briefly...
Voice of America will feature content from the pro-Trump network OAN. [New York Times]
A new study shows teenagers with mental-health issues spend more time on social media than their peers. [Nature]