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…
Sen. Mitt Romney wants U.S. foreign development investments to better compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. A bill introduced by Romney would add the defense secretary to the board overseeing the institution making these investments. Romney said these investments need to take into account American national security interests. With just weeks left in his…
Tesla stock saw its biggest price jump since 2013 on Thursday with shares in the Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle company moving up 22% following a better-than-expected earnings report. The stock rise pushed Musk’s on-paper personal wealth up $26 billion, further cementing his status as the world’s richest individual. Musk’s real-time net worth as of midday…
As many as 80% of the more than half-million strokes in the U.S. each year could be preventable, according to the American Stroke Association’s new clinical guideline that calls for a combination of better primary care screening, evidence-based risk management and healthy life choices. The guideline also looks at the risks specific to women and…
The price of groceries increased by 9.9% in 2022 when inflation was at its most recent peak, making it the most elevated cost increase since 1979, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Inflation and supply chain disruptions made it so no one factor affected the price hike in goods. In 2023, prices…