‘You know, I think Abraham Lincoln dealt with that kind of insanity,’ Romney said | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 1 year ago

Cuban missile crisis: The man who saw too much

Sixty years after Don Duff’s discovery helped pushed the world to the brink nuclear war, the effects linger. | Continue reading


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Is Fox News the ‘mainstream media’? Survey says yes (2021)

The conservative-leaning network is seen as mainstream by majorities of Republicans and Democrats | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 1 year ago

America’s most remarkable kid died in Newcastle, Utah

Kevin Cooper’s short life resembled the party game where someone starts with a paperclip and keeps trading up | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 1 year ago

Bones: Why Utah’s desert is a paleontologist’s playground

Fossils unearthed in the depths of the desert could change how we see the past — and the future | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 1 year ago

Starting today, all G-Suite free edition accounts will be billed or suspended

Starting June 27, for the first time ever, business owners will need to pay for Google services | Continue reading


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Ziggurats are temple platforms of ancient Mesopotamia

Elevated temple platforms exist worldwide. On the flood plains of Mesopotamia, ancient peoples built artificial divine mountains that represent human ascent to the world of the gods. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 1 year ago

Former Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator, dies at 88

Retired Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest serving Republican senator in U.S. history, died Saturday at age 88. “Senator Orrin G. Hatch personified the American Dream,” Matt Sandgren, executive director of the Hatch Foundation said in statement. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 1 year ago

When the need for affordable housing runs up against zoning laws

A new report from the Utah Foundation finds that affordable middle housing is tough to build because most residential zoning only allows for single-family homes. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 2 years ago

What ski towns tell us about the inequality crisis

Ski town economics are a harbinger for America’s struggling middle class | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 2 years ago

Daril Cinquanta Helped the FBI Nab Lawrence Pusateri. What Happened?

Fifty years ago, a police shooting set in motion a decades-long chase across the American West | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 2 years ago

You can help preserve the Beehive State's 1,100 bee species

Utah may have gotten its nickname for the importance it places on industry, but did you know the Beehive State has more than 1,000 species of bees — more than any other landmass east of the Mississippi River? And many of them can now be spotted at the University of Utah. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 2 years ago

Only in Florida does cocaine drop from the sky (1994)

It's a quiet Wednesday evening, and in a nice home in a nice residential area of northwest Homestead, Fla., a neighborhood Crime Watch group is holding its first meeting. Addressing the citizens are the Homestead chief of police, Curt Ivy, and the police department's Crime Pre … | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 2 years ago

Covid-19 outbreaks: Australia is back in lockdown. What went wrong?

Once praised for containing the spread of coronavirus, even Australia is going back on lockdown. How did this happen? | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 2 years ago

My Road to Cancellation

The road to cancellation for Stanford business school educator, successful CEO and entrepreneur Joel Peterson began in 1987. Now it’s time to say enough. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 2 years ago

Are children ‘dying like dogs’ in effort to build better batteries?

Slave labor, the Congo and big tech’s quest for cobalt | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 2 years ago

Majority of Americans think at least one of last two elections was illegitimate

Most Americans believe at least one of the last two presidents was illegitimately put into office. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 3 years ago

The Self-Silencing Majority

In red America and blue America, an epidemic of self-censorship is threatening democracy | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 3 years ago

North Idaho ISP blocks Facebook, Twitter due to censorship

North Idaho internet provider blocks Facebook, Twitter due to censorship. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 3 years ago

University Opensources Process to Make Cloth Masks More Effective Than N95 Masks

The Nanos Foundation, in collaboration with the BYU College of Engineering, has designed a cloth mask that is more effective than N95s. They augment these masks with membranes of electrospun fibers, which trap particulate matter. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 3 years ago

Banjo CEO steps down as fallout from revelations of past ties to KKK continues

Embattled event detection tech firm Banjo announced Friday that the company’s current CEO and founder, Damien Patton has resigned and the company will be transitioning to a new leadership team with current chief technology officer Justin R. Lindsey taking over the top position. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 3 years ago

Disrupting the $80B SEO Services Industry

On Tuesday, Utah tech startup Huckabuy announced it had closed a $2.3 million seed round in December, with funding led by Utah venture capital firm Album and including participation from Cottonwood Heights-based Kickstart Seed Fund. The company helps clients optimize their websit … | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 4 years ago

Clayton Christensen dies at 67 after lifetime of business, spiritual influence

Apple’s Steve Jobs, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Netflix’s Reed Hastings and Intel’s Andy Grove looked to influential management thinker | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 4 years ago

Clayton Christensen Dies at 67

Apple’s Steve Jobs, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Netflix’s Reed Hastings and Intel’s Andy Grove looked to influential management thinker | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 4 years ago

Tasmanians discover 43,000-year-old plant (1997)

The oldest living plant in the world - a self-propagating Tasmanian holly bush - has been growing for more than 43,000 years, scientists es-ti-mate. A cloned cutting of the specimen, originally discovered on Apple Island in the 1930s, has lived unnoticed for years in a pot at … | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 4 years ago

Wang Labs' New Freestyle Just May Suit Your Work Style (1989)

Millions of our readers have been saying, ``I'll get a computer when I find one that works the way I work.'' If you're one of them, Wang Laboratories has just called your bluff! Last week, we tested Freestyle at a Wang Labs office, and it knocked our socks off. It may be the f … | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 4 years ago

Millennials are sicker than Gen X, which bodes ill for the future economy

A report builds on earlier findings that millennials are more prone than Gen Xers to major depression, Type 2 diabetes, hyperactivity, high cholesterol and hypertension, among others. Just over half the growing health challenges are related to mental health. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 4 years ago

‘Horrific’ typo valued Wasatch County home at almost $1B

County officials apologize, say error ‘should have been caught’ | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 4 years ago

What’s an icicle? Patent case could hinge on definition

Federal judge in Idaho has not yet ruled on what counts as an icicle | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 4 years ago

How does an independent bookstore survive for 90 years?

As Weller Book Works celebrates its 90th anniversary — a millennia in bookstore years — on Aug. 17, its owners Tony and Catherine Weller look back on their bookstore’s history, how the store is doing now and their plans for the future. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 4 years ago

The Cosmic Crisp may be your new favorite apple

This new apple literally has a trailer. | Continue reading


@deseret.com | 4 years ago