On the campaign trail, Joe Biden's moderate approach to governing often fails to excite his party's most passionate voters. But on the debate stage Sunday night, as the nation grappled with the consequences of a frightening pandemic, Biden's pragmatism shined.
A clinical trial evaluating a vaccine designed to protect against the new coronavirus will begin Monday. A government official says the first participant in the trial will receive the experimental vaccine that day.
Senior members of the White House Coronavirus task force updated Americans on test kit availability and the importance of prioritizing who gets tested.
Mitchell is one of two players in the NBA to have tested positive. The other is his Jazz teammate Rudy Gobert, who was the first player to test positive and turned to social media to apologize publicly for being careless.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday that the league’s hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic will likely last at least a month, or roughly what would have been the remainder of an uninterrupted regular season.
Utah lawmakers have passed new regulations on abortion, including a measure approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature Thursday that would ban most abortions if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike acknowledges that the World Health Organization's declaration that the coronavirus is a pandemic could impact the Tokyo Olympics. But she says “I believe cancellation is impossible.”
The world's sports schedule is cratering at warp speed due to coronavirus. College sports officials called off the NCAA basketball tournament, making it the biggest event to be canceled since the virus started spreading.
The coronavirus pandemic has lent a surreal quality to the lives of millions of people around the globe. It has disrupted daily routines, overwhelmed hospitals, shuttered schools and offices and halted many sporting and entertainment events.
American officials say the U.S. has launched airstrikes in Iraq against a Shia militia believed responsible for an attack against American and British troops in Baghdad.
Voters could soon be asked to change the Utah Constitution to allow a major shift in education funding after a deal announced Wednesday with the state’s largest teacher’s union.
House Democrats are pushing an economic assistance plan to confront the spread of coronavirus. It would include free testing nationwide and emergency funding to reimburse lost paychecks for those in self-quarantine, missing work or losing jobs.
The league has been shut down for the foreseeable future, which could cost teams well into the hundreds of millions of dollars depending on how long the shutdown lasts.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced he is staying in the presidential race, despite the losses in Super Tuesday last week and the Democratic primaries Tuesday night.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America in Utah says it is merging three councils into one as the organization adapts to a future without thousands of members that were sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Utah-based faith removed 400,000 young people from Scouts nationally on Jan. 1, […]
Vast areas of U.S. life are being impacted by the spreading coronavirus outbreak, from bans on large public gatherings to empty stadiums at sports games.
