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(Tierney L. Cross | The New York Times) Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks at a news conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act outside the Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., fourth from right, and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., right, join him. The House was expected to vote overwhelmingly on Tuesday to demand that the Justice Department release all files related to its investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an action that Republicans worked for months to avoid.

With Trump’s blessing, Utah’s congressional delegates vote to release the Epstein files

By Addy Baird | Nov. 19, 2025, 3:08 a.m.

(Eric Gay | AP) The State Capitol is seen in Austin, Texas, on June 1, 2021.

Federal judges block Texas redistricting effort in major blow to Trump

By Tyler Spence | NOTUS | Nov. 18, 2025, 8:03 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Federal Trade Commissioner Melissa Holyoak speaks as state and federal officials announce a settlement in a lawsuit against Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, during a press conference at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025.

Trump administration appoints Melissa Holyoak, ‘a fearless champion,’ to be Utah’s next U.S. attorney

By Emily Anderson Stern | Addy Baird | Nov. 17, 2025, 11:08 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Judge Dianna Gibson holds a hearing on UtahÕs congressional maps process, in Salt Lake City on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. Judge Gibson previously ruled Ñ based on a decision last year by the Utah Supreme Court Ñ that the Legislature had violated votersÕ constitutional right to make laws when legislators repealed Proposition 4, the citizen-passed Better Boundaries initiative.

‘Unacceptable’ and ‘dangerous’: Utah courts rebuke threats against judge in redistricting case

By Addy Baird | Nov. 17, 2025, 10:54 p.m.

(Jeremy Harmon | The Salt Lake Tribune) An empty playground in 2020 at Hawthorne Elementary, one of four Salt Lake City School District elementary schools to close last school year.

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Utah charter schools would get first dibs on buying closed district schools under this proposal

By Carmen Nesbitt | Nov. 17, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A presentation on Congressional redistricting is shown during a meeting of the Legislative Redistricting Committee at the Capitol in Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.

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Analysis: How blue is red-state Utah’s new congressional district, really?

By Robert Gehrke | Nov. 17, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

(August Miller | Utah Valley University) Utah Senator John Curtis and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly attend a CNN Townhall hosted by Dana Bash in the Noorda Concert Center on the Campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah on Wednesday, November 12, 2025.

Epstein files should be released, Sen. John Curtis says, as ‘an exercise in transparency’

By Addy Baird | Nov. 13, 2025, 9:34 p.m.

(Alex Kent | The New York Times) The outside of the Capitol is seen as the House chambers remain closed despite the possibility of a government shutdown Tuesday night in Washington D.C. on September 29, 2025.

Utahns will get November’s SNAP benefits by Saturday

By Megan Banta | Nov. 13, 2025, 8:48 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ben McAdams on election night in 2020. The former congressman announced his intention to run for Congress in 2026 on Thursday.

Ben McAdams makes it official — the Democrat is running again for Congress in Utah

By Robert Gehrke | Nov. 13, 2025, 4:09 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A truck drives past a sign, seen here along South Guardsman Pass Road near Brighton on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, that opposes the requested 593-space parking lot for Solitude Mountain Resort that would be in an aspen grove across SR-190 from the ski area's main village. The lot would require steep retaining walls and the removal of hundreds of trees, could also damage Salt Lake City's watershed, further snarl traffic in the canyon and be a visual blight. Solitude officials say it would help move parking off the roadside.

Brighton council draws the line on Solitude resort boundaries, stalling parking lot plan

By Julie Jag | Nov. 13, 2025, 1:00 p.m.