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A radical, Israel-hating California teacher claimed she married a Gaza resident online to help him gain American citizenship — and push her pro-Palestinian agenda. Laura Pinho, a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School in California, announced her nuptials in a wild June 16 CODEPINK Zoom webinar called “Challenging Zionism In Our Schools.” When CODEPINK activist Marcy Winograd congratulated her on her marriage and asked her to share details about her life, Pinho, 51, launched into a pedantic monologue about how she only married Salem S.E. Abu Amra to advance “Palestinian rights and freedoms.” “I have power as an...

The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City issued a red flag warning Friday morning as emergency workers continued to battle one of the state’s largest wildfires in its history. The red flag warning, issued when critical fire warnings are occurring or imminent, was to be in place through midnight Saturday. “This is the FIRST Particularly Dangerous Situation Red Flag Warning issued in NWS Salt Lake City history. This is an exceptionally rare event,” the federal agency said in its warning. A map of the area under the warning covered much of central and southwest Utah, with an area of...

ransomnote: Sergeant at Arms Matt Bruner is shown on the left, wearing a cowboy hat in the clip below.https://x.com/Rashid971x/status/2070549837674631218 🇦🇪 Rashid Al Mansoori راشد المنصوري@Rashid971x🚨 Here is the exact sequence of what happened in Rapid City in 12 hours..June 25.. Scott Presler shows up to a South Dakota GOP event with a ticket in hand..Thune's team had already printed a poster with his face on it to make sure he couldn't get in..Sergeant at Arms Matt Bruner met him at the door.. said "get the hell outta here"..Presler pulled out his phone.. stayed calm.. recorded everything.. posted it..and here's what...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander attend an election night party in New York City on June 23. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesHouse Democrats were left stunned on Tuesday night after two of their colleagues — including the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus — lost primaries to left-wing challengers.Why it matters: The New York primary results are poised to double the bloc of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in Congress, something that is not sitting well with some moderates."People who do not support the DSA wring their hands at cocktail parties, while the DSA...

Republican voters ousted Utah’s most powerful lawmaker, state Senate President J. Stuart Adams, Tuesday after a series of controversies and mounting criticism for his role as one of the key decision-makers advancing a proposal to build a controversial data center in Box Elder County. Two other key GOP lawmakers — Sen. Daniel McCay and Rep. Trevor Lee — were voted out as well. Hundreds of thousands of dollars poured into the competition pitting Adams of Layton against Weber State University’s ex-general counsel, Stephanie Hollist, and former Legislature attorney Braden Hess. Hollist held the lead around 11:30 p.m. with 43% of...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) didn’t mince any words Tuesday in calling out what he characterized as the “bulls—” arguments of fellow Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) on social media, revealing the tensions within the Senate Republican Conference over how to push forward on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. Tillis said Lee’s push for Republicans to force Democrats to actively hold the floor in continuous debate to block the bill — in other words, to force Democrats to employ a talking filibuster — is “goofy.” “I think it’s silly. All of it’s just goofy stuff,” he said. “It’s...

Tyler Robinson’s lover, Lance Twiggs, has been granted limited “use immunity” to testify in person at an upcoming hearing in the Charlie Kirk murder case. Prosecutors said in a court filing that they want to cross-examine Lance Twiggs. The prosecutors plan to present Lance Twiggs’s text exchanges with Robinson and recorded statements during next month’s preliminary hearing. LA Magazine reported: The murder case against Tyler Robinson, the Utah man accused of fatally shooting Turning Point USA founder and conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is heading towards the highly-anticipated preliminary hearing. And prosecutors have scored a big win with a significant witness....

Two Utah court clerks have been accused of flipping off surveillance cameras as they snuck illegal migrants out of a courthouse to help them evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, according to federal officials. Jennifer Joma, 27, and Lauren Kelsey Morrow, 26, were indicted on June 3 after they allegedly carried out the sneaky scheme at Logan City Municipal Justice Court in Salt Lake City on April 9, court documents stated. The clerks were working at the courthouse when they saw an ICE Enforcement and Removal Officer (ICE-ERO) enter 'to arrest an illegal alien for immigration related charges,' the...

It's the summer of 2026, and Europeans are coming to America to watch their teams compete in the World Cup. Bosnia wrote a song about it and it's a certified banger. Bosnia’s got the song of the summer pic.twitter.com/mKLKqR3DEM— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) June 12, 2026That song's gonna be stuck in my head all day now! Bosnia is in Canada on Friday, but played a friendly down in St. Louis over the weekend. Needless to say, they'll be more than ready to leave Canada behind and head out to Los Angeles and Seattle for their second and third games of the...

NATURITA, Colo. — The future of nuclear power in America is back on the table, with all its vast implications, as global warming revives the search for energy sources that produce less greenhouse gas. But in this depressed corner of western Colorado — one of the first places in the world that uranium, nuclear energy’s primary fuel, was ever dug from the ground in industrial scale — the debate is both simpler and more complicated. A proposal for a new mill to process uranium ore, which would lead to the opening of long-shuttered mines in Colorado and Utah, has brought...

Drinks can spike blood sugar and increase risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, doctors say The latest beverage trend is far from clean – and it’s raising red flags with doctors. Known as a "dirty soda," it’s a soft drink that also includes a combination of added ingredients, such as flavored syrups, creamers, fruit juices and other garnishes. The result is a sweet beverage that’s a combination of a soda, mocktail and dessert. Dirty sodas can easily deliver 250-400 calories and 55-70 grams of sugar in a single drink – which is often more than double the American Heart...

The Utah court overseeing the Tyler Robinson case held an evidentiary hearing on Friday regarding the defense’s claims that state prosecutors should be held in contempt over comments the Utah County Attorney’s Office has given to the press over an ATF ballistics report cited in a defense motion. In closing arguments, the defense said that the judge should block the state from seeking the death penalty in the case. Defense attorney Richard Novak said during his closing that "I think that the number one remedy in this case, your honor, is for this court to preclude the state from seeking...

‘The end of an era’: Salt Lake City vegan coffee shop, once a restaurant, to remain closedWhen Mark of the Beastro, a vegan coffee shop in downtown Salt Lake City, shut down in October, patrons held out hope that the business would return. This week, owner Andrew Earley said that the cafe won’t be coming back. “We made the decision that it was time to say goodbye to [Mark of the Beastro],” Earley said in an Instagram video he posted Tuesday. In the video, Earley said the cafe at 666 S. State St. — once a plant-based restaurant — had...

Two former Utah clerks were arrested and charged with helping illegal aliens evade ICE. Jennifer Joma, 27, and Lauren Kelsey Morrow, 26, both of Logan, Utah, were indicted June 3, 2026, the DOJ announced on Wednesday. "Joma and Morrow are charged with conspiracy to transport and harbor illegal aliens, harboring illegal aliens, and obstruction of proceedings before departments and agencies. Joma is also charged with transporting illegal aliens," the DOJ said. According to authorities, Joma and Morrow were working at the Logan City Municipal Justice Court when ICE agents arrived at the court to arrest an illegal alien. The two...

BREAKING: Two former Utah court clerks arrested for allegedly helping illegals evade ICE Jennifer Joma, 27, and Lauren Kelsey Morrow, 26, were working at the courthouse when they learned ICE was there to arrest an illegal. They then allegedly helped multiple illegals escape through a side door and flipped off the security camera on their way out before driving off with the illegals.

SALT LAKE CITY — Two former Logan Justice Court employees are facing federal charges for allegedly helping an immigrant sought by Immigration and Customs Enforcement evade authorities and sneak out of the court facility. "This case is about some state court clerks who abused their position of trust and took the law into their own hands by helping an illegal alien evade a lawful arrest by ICE," read court documents in the two cases. Federal officials filed charges against Lauren Kelsey Morrow, 26, and Jennifer Joma, 27, in U.S. District Court on June 3 and they were unsealed Tuesday. Both...

A hypnotherapist was charged with 20 felony sex crimes he allegedly committed against clients over ten years. William Del Draney was charged on Friday with nine counts of first-degree felony forcible sodomy and 11 counts of second-degree felony forcible sex abuse. Several victims had gone to Draney for an alternative form of therapy, according to a press release from the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office. The allegations against him date back to 2016. "During the therapy sessions, [Draney] would ask the clients to remove [all their] clothes or some of their clothes, after which he would allegedly sexually assault...

Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful@kevinolearytvWe uncovered something far bigger than I ever expected. After seeing coordinated false attacks against the Utah data center project, we brought in an advanced data science team to trace where the content was coming from and the results were shocking. What we found led back to organized networks, political activist groups, and funding trails tied to massive international entities. We dug through IRS 990 filings, tracked IP data from around the world, and uncovered what appears to be a coordinated campaign targeting energy and data center projects across multiple regions.I shared 90 pages of evidence...

We uncovered something far bigger than I ever expected. After seeing coordinated false attacks against the Utah data center project, we brought in an advanced data science team to trace where the content was coming from and the results were shocking. What we found led back to organized networks, political activist groups, and funding trails tied to massive international entities. We dug through IRS 990 filings, tracked IP data from around the world, and uncovered what appears to be a coordinated campaign targeting energy and data center projects across multiple regions. I shared 90 pages of evidence with federal law...

BOX ELDER COUNTY, Utah — Kevin O’Leary, an investor in the proposed 40,000- acre Stratos data centre campus in Box Elder County, accused two Utah groups opposing the project of being funded by the Chinese government. O’Leary made the accusation on Fox News, targeting Alliance for a Better Utah and Elevate Strategies. “Who would want us to stop building our electrical grid? Who would want to stop us from having compute capacity to develop AI? Which adversary would want that? There’s only one. It’s China.” O’Leary said. In a social media exchange, Gabi Finlayson of Elevate Strategies pushed back on...