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Vance accuses Denmark of not keeping Greenland safe from Russia, China
Tom Little and Leonhard Foeger, Reuters | Posted March 28 - 6:03 p.m. | Save Story
U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday accused Denmark of not doing a good job keeping Greenland safe and suggested the United States would better protect the semi-autonomous Danish territory that President Donald Trump has pressed to take over.
David Childs, architect of One World Trade Center that rose on Twin Towers site after 9/11, dies
Dave Collins, Associated Press | Posted March 28 - 5:31 p.m. | Save Story
David Childs, the lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers collapsed in New York City during the 9/11 attacks, has died. He was 83.
Here are the hottest neighborhoods for homebuyers in the country
Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News | Posted March 28 - 2:47 p.m. | Save Story
Don't look for any Utah addresses in a new Top 10 list of the country's hottest neighborhoods for homebuyers.
Wall Street tumbles as fresh data fuels inflation fear
Pranav Kashyap and Johann M Cherian, Reuters | Updated March 28 - 2:29 p.m. | Save Story
Wall Street's primary indexes fell sharply on Friday as data underscored underlying price pressures, stoking fears of what the Trump administration's tariff maneuvers could do.
Musk's X back up after brief outage hits US users, Downdetector shows
Jaspreet Singh, Reuters | Posted March 28 - 2:08 p.m. | Save Story
Social media platform X on Friday recovered after a short outage that impacted thousands of users in the U.S., according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Mike Lee joins Vance's trip to Greenland amid Trump suggestions to take over
Cami Mondeaux, Deseret News | Updated March 28 - 9:55 a.m. | Save Story
Utah Sen. Mike Lee is traveling with Vice President JD Vance to Greenland on Friday, joining a small delegation amid suggestions from President Trump to acquire the territory.
US health department cutting 10,000 workers under Kennedy
Ahmed Aboulenein and Sriparna Roy, Reuters | Updated March 28 - 9:30 a.m. | Save Story
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will cut about 10,000 full-time jobs and close half of its regional offices, it said on Thursday, a major overhaul of the department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Sen. John Curtis asks Mike Huckabee to clarify feelings about Church of Jesus Christ in Senate hearing
Suzanne Bates, Deseret News | Posted March 28 - 7:38 a.m. | Save Story
At a Senate confirmation hearing for Mike Huckabee, nominated by President Donald Trump as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel, Utah Sen. John Curtis spoke about his time in Israel while he was a student at Brigham Young University, and asked Huckabee to clarify his feelings toward The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Pop star Selena's murderer denied parole in Texas, 30 years after shooting
Rich McKay, Reuters | Posted March 27 - 9:23 p.m. | Save Story
Yolanda Saldivar, the convicted murderer of Latin pop star Selena Quintanilla-Perez, known as the queen of Tejano music, was denied parole on Thursday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles announced.
US arrests El Salvadoran man on gun charge, alleges MS-13 ties
Julio Cesar Chavez and Brendan O'Brien, Reuters | Updated March 27 - 8:37 p.m. | Save Story
U.S. prosecutors charged an El Salvadoran man on Thursday with illegal possession of a firearm, hours after federal officials arrested him in an early morning raid in Virginia and alleged he was a leader of the MS-13 international criminal gang.
Man accused of setting fire to Tesla vehicles in Las Vegas arrested, police say
Rio Yamat, Associated Press | Posted March 27 - 8:33 p.m. | Save Story
Las Vegas police on Thursday said they arrested a man who allegedly set fire to Tesla vehicles in Las Vegas last week.
US senators from both parties urge formal probe of Signal chat attack plan
Patricia Zengerle, Reuters | Posted March 27 - 6:43 p.m. | Save Story
The top Republican and Democrat on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said on Thursday they had asked the Pentagon to investigate the Trump administration's use of the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive attack plans.
Justice Department considers merging drug and gun enforcement agencies in major shakeup
Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters | Updated March 27 - 4:31 p.m. | Save Story
The U.S. Justice Department is considering merging the lead agencies enforcing drug and gun laws in a major shakeup, according to a memo first reported by Reuters.
It was bacteria — not a miracle — on a Communion wafer in Indiana church
The Associated Press | Posted March 27 - 4:28 p.m. | Save Story
It turns out there's nothing miraculous about red marks found on a communion host at a Catholic church in Indiana.
Trump administration directs spy satellite agencies to surveil US-Mexico border
Marisa Taylor and Jeffrey Dastin, Reuters | Updated March 27 - 2:33 p.m. | Save Story
The Trump administration has directed two intelligence agencies to train their satellite surveillance capabilities on the U.S.-Mexico border region as part of a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration and drug cartels.
How clean energy tax credits could pose make-or-break moment for GOP reconciliation package
Cami Mondeaux, Deseret News | Posted March 27 - 11:18 a.m. | Save Story
A quiet feud over whether to preserve certain provisions in former President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act could endanger Republican efforts to pass their own massive budget reconciliation bill later this year.
Pilot rescued with 2 girls from icy Alaska lake was not authorized to have passengers, official says
Mark Thiessen, Associated Press | Updated March 27 - 6:51 a.m. | Save Story
A pilot rescued with two young family members after they survived a night on the wing of an airplane partially submerged in an Alaska lake is a student pilot who was not authorized to fly with passengers, according to aviation records.
Will the Trump administration make or break Social Security?
Brigham Tomco, Deseret News | Posted March 27 - 6:17 a.m. | Save Story
Utah Sen. John Curtis drew national attention Sunday with his promise to introduce changes to make Social Security more sustainable.
