Barack Obama and John McCain clashed repeatedly over the causes and cures for the worst economic crisis in 80 years Tuesday night in a debate in which Republican McCain called for sweeping action by the government to directly shield many homeowners from mortgage foreclosure.
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Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months — about 20 percent of their value — Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday as lawmakers began investigating how turmoil in the financial industry is whittling away workers' nest eggs.
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Opponents of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s recently instituted four-day workweek for state employees outnumbered supporters by a 4-to-1 margin since July, records of calls to his office show.
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Until his senior year at Bountiful High School, Mike Wright was content to play basketball and baseball, a couple of sports he excelled at. He thought any future he had in athletics would be as a collegiate baseball catcher.
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At first glance, TT Yeung and Benjamin Ubah are as different as two adult men can be — the former an older, shorter Hong Kong native who is married with two older children, and the latter a younger, taller, single but engaged man with Nigerian roots.
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It's been six years since BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall worked as New Mexico's defensive coordinator. But whenever the Cougars and Lobos meet, as they will Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium, the ties between Mendenhall and his mentor, Lobo coach Rocky Long, are hard to ignore.
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The Utah Transit Authority had a $7.5 million budget shortfall for the first seven months of this year because of diminished revenue from sales tax, and the agency could be $14 million short by the end of the year.
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Congressional investigators are looking at the government's quick — and legal — approvals for oil and gas drilling in an investigation called long overdue by environmental groups. Industry executives condemn it as political.
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