The U.S. saw a record number of pending home sales canceled in June. Sunbelt states saw the highest rates of failed sales. Would-be buyers backing off due to second thoughts, economic uncertainty. Almost 15% of all pending home sales nationwide were canceled in June, a record number for this time of year, a new Redfin…
Utah officials halted a Chinese corporation from purchasing land near the Provo Airport. Gov. Cox said China has used coercion in an attempt to obtain “leverage” in the state. Lawmakers announced legislation to restrict Chinese influence on Utah infrastructure. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox doubled down Tuesday on the state’s ban on land sales to foreign…
The youngest chief of staff in the U.S. Senate says he rocketed from Utah to Washington, D.C., relying on the principle, “Say yes to everything.” But when the office of Sen. Mike Lee first offered the then-22-year-old Mark Wait a fast-track to his dream Capitol career, he said “no.” Wait had already committed to finish…
“Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just literally 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it,” Benjamin Mee tells his son in “We Bought a Zoo.” This “embarrassing bravery” captures the new type of courage members of Generation Z need as they rethink dating…
Utah State University’s interim president acknowledges that job cuts are inevitable as school prepares its strategic reinvestment plan. The Logan university is offering voluntary separation options for eligible employees. All of Utah’s degree-granting public colleges and universities are preparing reinvestment plans in hopes of recovering millions in budget dollars. In a recent message to Utah…
Utah has often set the national standard in using legislative power to protect children online. The latest bill to pass, SB142, protects children from entering legal contracts. It may seem silly; you wouldn’t have an 8-year-old sign a binding legal agreement, yet children enter into contracts and share their information online daily. “Every time a…
International study sorts out how much of disease risk is tied to genes and how much to lifestyle. Socioeconomic factors like where you live, household income influence premature death risk. Of the factors that increase risk of aging badly, most can be changed. Is your ZIP code more important than your genetic code when it…
People worldwide for the most part like their food choices and consider their meals healthy. But that satisfaction is dropping, including in the United States — and that has ramifications for overall perceptions of well-being and quality of life. That’s according to the most recent Ando Foundation/Nissin Food Products study. The food satisfaction questions were…
China has blocked the sale of gallium, germanium, antimony, and super-hard minerals to the United States in response to the Biden administration’s efforts to block sales of advanced chips to China. China is the world’s largest source of these critical minerals used in commerce and national defense applications. Much of the U.S. shortfall is not…
A Delaware judge issued an opinion Monday upholding an earlier ruling that voided a $56 billion compensation package, proposed in 2018, for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Musk’s legal team challenged the January ruling by Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of Delaware’s Court of Chancery citing, in part, the outcome of a June vote by Tesla shareholders that…