As the Deseret News celebrates its 175-year milestone, we’re looking at prominent arts and entertainment figures past and present who have graced the Beehive State with their talent. It’s a robust roster that includes people who have left a big mark on the state’s culture — some born in Utah and others who arrived from…
Lots of factors play into how healthy someone is as the years pass, including genetics, habits, lifestyle choices and environment. That leaves a lot of room for folks to take some responsibility and control of their overall health as they go along. Even with genetics, there’s an opportunity. While genes are unchangeable, people who know…
I recently received the type of email I dread. Yet another price hike was coming for one of my subscriptions. Many companies are making pricey changes on a fairly regular basis. When is the last time you made a list of all your subscriptions? If it’s been a while, or if you have never done…
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…
Imagine a bank where children as young as 13 are allowed to sign contracts for car loans, high-limit credit cards, or even connect with risky foreign investors. This same bank hides the fine print, misleads young customers and profits by exploiting their personal data — including selling it to international adversaries. If parents step in,…
Hunter Biden received a “full and unconditional” pardon from his dad, President Joe Biden in December. But this gesture of love, one of President Joe Biden’s final acts while in office, came before Special Counsel Davis Weiss released the final report on his investigation into the president’s son. As Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chairman…
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…
President Biden has remained firm on not pardoning his son, reaffirming this stance post Election Day. Hunter Biden will face sentencing on Dec. 12 and 16 in two different criminal cases. His criminal charges include obtaining a gun while drug-addicted and substantive tax fraud amounting to $1.4 million. While outgoing President Joe Biden pardoned two…