A new bill allows Utah faith leaders from civil or criminal liability if they report ongoing child abuse based on information obtained from a perpetrator during a confession, but it stops short of requiring them to do so, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
Laurieann Thorpe, executive director of Prevent Child Abuse Utah, said her team was “supportive” of its passage but that she ultimately hopes to see reporting required in cases of sexual and physical abuse.
“When the information comes from the perpetrator, then we have 100% knowledge that the crime has taken place,” Thorpe noted. “In order to protect children and to make sure it doesn’t happen again, [the abuse] needs to be brought to light and handled through proper law enforcement channels.”
Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being defeated across the country on Super Tuesday. Donald Trump is now the last remaining candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination.
Haley didn’t endorse the former president in a speech in Charleston, South Carolina. Instead, she encouraged him to earn the support of the coalition of moderate Republicans and independent voters who supported her, according to the Standard Examiner.
“It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And I hope he does that,” she said. “At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people.”
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A group of lawmakers are introducing a bill to effectively ban Tiktok, according to ABC4 News. While the bill isn’t limited to TikTok, it would include the social media platform among entities that would be banned, including its parent company ByteDance.
The legislation makes it unlawful for American app platforms to offer any apps that are operated by foreign adversaries like China, Russia, North Korea or Iran. Lawmakers define this as one of these countries having at least 20% “operational authority” over the app, as well as if a company’s headquarters is within an adversary’s borders.
Support for a national TikTok ban is starting to wane, though: the percentage of U.S. adults taking part in a Pew Research Center survey who say they would support a ban declined from 50% in March to 38%. It’s even lower among teens, of which only 15% surveyed said they would back such legislation.
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As everyone knows the infamous walk to the gates at the Salt Lake City airport is truly well known by all but not well liked.
Shorter walks from security to your gate at the Salt Lake City International Airport are drawing closer as crews continue work on the central tunnel, according to KSL. Once complete, the 1,175-foot-long tunnel will connect concourses A and B with moving sidewalks and eventually, two trams. On Wednesday, airport officials said the tunnel is now slated to open on Oct. 22.
“The walking distances for the vast majority of passengers here are really going to go down,” Salt Lake City Department of Airports Executive Director Bill Wyatt said in a video describing the new airport design.
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Moab is known for its outdoor rock climbing: sandstone spires, right-off-the-road cragging on Wall Street, and splitter cracks at nearby Indian Creek. Some people move to Moab primarily for the climbing, and many devoted climbers have home training set-ups: hangboards, campus boards, or full-on bouldering walls in their garages.
But there hasn’t been an indoor community climbing gym in Moab until this winter. Climb Moab Gym, launched by two local climbers and their Las Vegas-based investment partner, opened in January of this year.
The idea of launching a climbing gym—where climbers could purchase day passes or memberships and enjoy continually updated routes with other climbers—had been floating around town for years. Local climber Britt Zale took it up and created a business plan in 2021, and she was joined by another Moab climber, Kaya Lindsay, in 2022. Soon after they partnered, they serendipitously met with an interested investor.
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