In a big win for gay rights and common decency, a federal appeals court has pronounced California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional, arguing that there's no "legitimate reason for the...

The Lake Vostok drilling site in 2001. Outer space is not the only frontier. There is also inner space, pockets of unexplored regions within our own Earth. Granted, they are becoming very scarce,...

("We Are All Khaled Said"). Ghonim identified himself only as "administrator" on the Kullena Khaled Said page, and he used a proxy program called Tor that constantly changed his...

The Arab Spring's message of freedom through nonviolence has isolated Iran and Syria, helped elevate moderate Islamists, and pushed radical groups to weigh...

Barack Obama is proving to be one of the most puzzling presidents. He bravely took out Osama bin Laden but hasn't had the courage to tackle the deficit. And now he's picked a fight with...

It seems like America's political parties have never been more polarized. But when it comes to state-regulated gambling, they're often playing the same hand. Unfortunately, it's a...

My global collection of towel cards tells guests how to be green (and save the hotel money) in a dozen instructive, chic, bossy, relieving, euphemistic, paranoid, minimalistic, and earnest...

To see the December protests in Russia as primarily a political wave is to miss a more fundamental leaven at work in Russian society: a moral awakening akin to the American civil rights movement. An...

Trenton, N.J. o Just three months before the world's second-best-selling drug gets U.S. generic competition, a generic company has paid nearly $445 million to finally end a decade-long,...

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York rejected arguments by John Campos, the former vice chairman of Sun First Bank in St. George, and Chad Elise that the law under which they were charged...

A woman holds up a "Aero Shot" caffeine device in Boston, Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012. The lipstick-sized product went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and is also...

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) The store will feature trained chefs such as Adalberto Diaz, who will teach cooking classes. The store also has obtained a limited liquor license to teach wine-...

A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for eligible Delta Air Lines passengers flying out of Salt Lake City International Airport will start next week, the Transportation...

Product o Child Bicycle Trailers and Conversion Kits, sold by Thule Child Transport Systems Ltd. at specialty bicycle stores nationwide and on various websites from December 2005 through August 2010...

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Merit Medical Systems Inc., a South Jordan-based company that makes and markets disposable medical devices, said it has received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over...

Amazon.com Inc. entered an agreement with Viacom Inc., the owner of the Nickelodeon and MTV cable networks, expanding its online video library to 15,000. Amazon Prime members, which get free...

Usana Health Sciences Inc. is reporting sales during the fourth quarter of its 2011 fiscal year increased 6.1 percent to $145.9 million, compared with $137.5 million in the same period of the prior...

The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the U.S. government has signed a joint agreement with France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom to intensify their efforts to fight...

New York o Stocks staged an afternoon-long rally and closed higher Wednesday as Greece appeared to close in on the cost-cutting deal it needs to keep from defaulting on its national...

Fracking opponents last month demonstrated during the Winter X Games in Aspen. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) We've been fairly insistent that regulation of hydraulic fracturing is and should...

Pamela Anderson makes an appearance on behalf of PETA in front of the Department of Health in Washington, DC. in 2008 to protest animal testing techniques. (Melissa Golden, Getty Images) When it...

Anne Arundel County . That would make perfect sense if English weren't already, for all practical purposes, the county's official language. When was the last time you heard someone complain...

withering attacks from Romney and legions of veteran Republicans. It stands to reason that as Santorum's fortunes rise as Gingrich's fall. That's what happened in Iowa. It is unclear,...

He was old, but not ancient, the man next to us at the delicatessen. It was 1973. My then girlfriend (now wife) and I had ordered dinner and this old guy, sitting by himself, seemed lonely, so we got...

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks to supporters as his son, John and wife, Karen look on Feb. 7, 2012 in St. Charles, Missouri. Santorum defeated his challengers in Missouri,...

Getty Images Republican presidential hopeful and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum speaks to supporters, flanked by his daughter, Elizabeth (left), and wife,...

, is one of them. Broad started doing yoga as a freshman in college in 1970 and has been practicing ever since. "I can't imagine doing [my] job without it," he...

Energy costs for U.S. households will be almost double this year from 2001 although Utah residents haven't seen nearly the cost increases over the past decade as many of those living in the rest...

Besides fashionable clothes and shoes, the Nordstrom store in the soon-to-open City Creek Center also will feature a contemporary diner called Sixth and...

New York o U.S. stock futures advanced Wednesday on hope that a long-awaited deal to allow Greece to claim its second bailout was near despite another delay in discussions between the country's...

(AP Photo/Richard Drew) A 10 percent surge may seem like a lot, but it's really not. The Dow has gained almost 15 percent since Nov. 25, just 10 weeks...

Washington o Arizona, Michigan and Florida, three of the states hit hardest by the housing crisis, will join a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses, officials with direct knowledge say. They...

Walmart Stores Inc. said it's reducing the fat, sugar and sodium in some of its private-label foods and will more aggressively market other healthy grocery items starting in...

The company logo is displayed at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. Yahoo Inc., confirmed Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, it has picked PayPal chief Scott Thompson as its next...

Republic Airways Holdings Inc. has heard from potential buyers for Frontier Airlines and is close to naming an adviser on whether the unit will be sold or spun off to shareholders, Chief Executive...

Egypt's generals are playing a dangerous game. Facing angry protests and a sinking economy since the ouster of autocratic Hosni Mubarak a year ago, the army rulers have found scapegoats. The...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to help its customers figure that out by adding a new green icon that reads "Great for You" to packaging of some of its house-brand...

Monica Chacon and girlfriend Breana Hansen celebrate outside of City Hall, Tuesday February 7, 2012, after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the voter approved Proposition 8 measure...

The Holladay-based Jakob Marketing Partners has been named among the Best and Brightest Companies To Work for by the National Association for Business...

Thank you for your editorial regarding Bevan Dufty ("A new homeless czar for San Francisco," Feb. 4). You were correct in pointing out the feeling of futility that has arisen from the last...

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Loveland on Tuesday. Romney lost Colorado's GOP caucuses to former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. (Emmanuel Dunand, AFP/Getty...

Delaware's Elena Delle Donne, seen here during a game against Princeton, made headlines when she turned her back on the University of...

Curried goat, one of the national dishes of Jamaica, melds piquant curry with the slightly earthy taste of goat that has been marinated and cooked long enough to be meltingly...

I'd like to address some of the points mentioned in the opinion editorial published on Wednesday and titled "Where there's no smoke ...". First the Daily Herald mentioned...

In trying to recast Utah immigration law in his own image, Rep. Chris Herrod of Provo has cooked up an incomprehensible hash -- HB 300 -- that is nothing if not indefensible. Herrod and ...

This editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, Jan. 29: The Supreme Court has long struggled with the question of whether the First Amendment prohibits the display of religious ...

Denying the impact of taxes on the economy should be a lot harder for lawmakers, now that the Congressional Budget Office has spelled it out in the most precise terms.The nonpartisan CBO took a look...

A few weeks ago, a 22-year-old man named Jefferson Bethke produced a video called "Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus." The video shows Bethke standing in a courtyard rhyming about the...

Already this year, state lawmakers have opened brutal new fronts in the war on workers. And America's workers are fighting back as never before.In Michigan, anti-worker bills aimed at weakening...