The building is “an important step forward” in the city’s “progress as an urban center,” developer says.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Salt Lake City’s new airport encounters new kind of turbulence: a severe worker shortage
Food and retail outlets report as many as 50% of their jobs remain unfilled. That means longer waits and fewer options for passengers eager to return to the skies.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Why it took 100 years for America to learn about the Tulsa massacre
The long-hidden racist attack on “Black Wall Street” and its residents is finally in the open — and raising questions about all that Americans don’t know and have tried to hide.
Abbott orders child-care regulators to pull licenses of facilities housing immigrant children
Escalating his showdown with President Joe Biden, Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday ordered state child-care regulators to yank licenses from facilities that house minors who crossed the state's southern border without papers and were detained.
The origin of COVID
Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake
The potential consequences of the origins of the virus are shattering – if they can be proved
The lab-leak theory is everywhere. We have an explainer.
Members of the World Health Organization at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in February
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Zoomer’s a boy: Utah author announces her 5-year-old’s decision to use he/him pronouns
Sociologist Kyl Myers has chronicled her family’s ‘gender creative’ parenting online and in a book.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Leonard Pitts: The crisis that did not bring us together
(Richard Drew | AP file photo) In this Sept. 11, 2001, photo, smoke rises from the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center after hijacked planes crashed into the towers, in New York City.
Then She Asked Me About Benghazi
I went to Harpers Ferry seeking escape, and discovered how far our shared reality has fractured.
Can the News Be Fixed?
The movement to repair Americans’ broken relationship with the news media
(ADAM FERRISS)
Seriously, just tax the rich
A mobile billboard calling for higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy, to mark Tax Day, parked near the US Capitol on May 17.
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Secret Service seizes $2 billion in fraudulent Covid unemployment payments, returns funds to states
Checks are printed at the U.S. Treasury Philadelphia Finance Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Marty has a couple of questions. And a delusion or two to share with the rest of US…
Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
A quantum leap is a rapidly gradual process. Credit: Quanta Magazine; source: qoncha.
Millions Are Unemployed. Why Can’t Companies Find Workers?
Among the reasons potential workers are holding back: fear of getting Covid, lack of child care and enhanced unemployment benefits.
Credit: Keith Srakocic/Associated Press
Why People Are Fleeing Honduras For The U.S.: 'All That's Left Here Is Misery'
Photo - Tomas Ayuso for NPR
Hondurans represent the largest nationality crossing the southern U.S. border asking for asylum. Here’s why.
No restart yet for pipeline shut by cyberattack; gasoline prices climb
Colonial Pipeline said it had no estimate on when it could restart the 5,500-mile pipeline that it shut Friday after a cyberattack.
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The Myth Behind Defensive Gun Ownership
Guns are more likely to do harm than good.
What If Gravity Is Actually a Double Copy of Other Forces?
An enigmatic connection between the forces of nature is allowing physicists to explore the quantum side of gravity.
Illustration: Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine