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A two-year-old looking for her recently deceased father at her birthday party.

During the 196th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Dallin H.

Roughly 200 people are under observation in Russia’s Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia after a laboratory worker died of what’s suspected to be plague, which was being handled in the lab where she worked.

A House-passed bill to make daylight saving time permanent has stalled in the Senate, leading to a public clash between President Donald Trump and Republican Sen.

First, a Utah court decided to release convicted murderer Douglas Stewart Carter.

Out of the blue, my granddaughter Cali called my wife to talk about sewing.

BYU’s biggest game of the season finally has a start time.

Oct. 5 is officially known as Global James Bond Day, which marks the anniversary of the 1962 world premiere of the first 007 feature, “Dr.

“Gilmore Girls” premiered 26 years ago, pulling fans into the unique world of Stars Hollow, where Lorelai Gilmore chose to start anew after giving birth to her daughter, Rory, at the age of 16.

This article is an excerpt from the weekly ChurchBeat newsletter.

A nationally representative survey released last week found that 71% of Americans say “being a child of God” is moderately, very or extremely important to them.

The Supreme Court’s 2026 term doesn’t start until the gavel bangs in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning.

This article was first published in the On the Hill newsletter.

FORT WORTH, Texas — After now-No. 8 BYU held off TCU 17-10 at misty Amon G.

The Utah Jazz opened what many are considering a new era for the franchise with a 109-97 win over the Denver Nuggets Sunday night in their 2026-27 preseason opener in Boulder, Colorado.

For the first time ever, the Utah Mammoth have lost a game in the state of New York.

Korey Wright is a Utah rancher with a rather ambitious goal: He’d like Utah cows to be eaten by Utah people.

BYU sophomore Kihei Akina fired a final round 6-under par 65 Sunday to carve out a solo ninth-place finish (-20) at the Bank of Utah Championship at the Black Desert Resort Golf Course in Ivins, marking his best finish on the PGA Tour in three starts.

The 196th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is complete.

Puka Nacua made his presence routinely felt as he returned to the field Sunday after being sidelined two weeks with a hip/groin injury.

President Dallin H.

In the final moments of the 196th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Dallin H.

The 196th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being held at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City.

Playing in wet circumstances that are more ideal for Frogs than Cougars, BYU (4-0, 2-0) leaped from TCU’s Fort Worth pond with a clutch 17-10 victory on Saturday night to remain unbeaten in the Big 12.

Some of my favorite childhood memories are remarkably ordinary: conversations around the dinner table, long road trips and family walks.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s (FIRE) new College Free Speech Rankings tell a now all too familiar story about American campuses.

The Book of Mormon is a great witness that God loves all people and that the gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Sunday morning at the faith’s 196th Semiannual General Conference.

Most people associate the worldwide General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with iconic images of the vast Conference Center in Salt Lake City — a 21,000-seat auditorium that hosts an estimated 100,000 people over the two-day…

With TCU’s loss to BYU on Saturday, Sonny Dykes’ seat keeps warming up.

The September heat on set of “The Chosen” in Midlothian, Texas, felt almost personal in the way it pressed down.

Monday, Oct. 5, 2026 TELEVISION MLB White Sox at Guardians, TBS, 3 p.m.

FORT WORTH, Texas — BYU could have defeated TCU by a single point in triple overtime and it wouldn’t have mattered to the thousands of Cougar fans who descended on soggy and foggy Amon G.

The Deseret News is providing live coverage of Saturday’s game between BYU and TCU.

For the last four-and-half months, Steve Pearce has led the Bureau of Land Management.

Students across the state joined with Gov.

A new law in Montgomery County, Maryland, quickly sparked three federal lawsuits within a matter of days of being enacted.

When the Utah Jazz traded for Jaren Jackson Jr. during the 2025-26 season, the assumption was that when the Jazz started to care about winning again in the 2026-27 campaign after four years of rebuilding, their starting lineup — especially their frontcourt

Major League Baseball scrapped a proposal to build a stadium in Grand Teton National Park for a regular season game amid backlash from local Wyoming leaders and residents.

The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments on whether state courts can push the price of climate change onto energy companies — which will influence environmental lawsuits across the country.

In the late 1800s, a Harvard-educated physician led an anti-abortion crusade seeking “the suppression of this abominable, unnatural, and yet common crime.”

Junior safety Faletau Satuala was running a shuttle drill with some of his teammates at BYU’s Indoor Practice Facility last June when he felt something pop in his right foot.

Paid leave, child care support, Medicaid coverage for doula services and higher wages are among the investments some states have made to ensure families with young children — ages 0 to 3 — get off to a healthy start.

President Dallin H.

There’s no such thing as a perfect game in hockey, but the Utah Mammoth had the closest possible thing in their season opener Thursday evening.

Ridgeline’s Noah Fiefia is inevitable.

As a way to inject a little fun into practice this week, Springville coach Todd Hollingshead had his players work on their diving headers.

The best the locals had to offer in first round play were middle-of-the-pack performances at the Bank of Utah Black Deseret PGA Tour event in Ivins on Thursday.

As the opening of the ski season moves closer, the predicted Super El Niño continues to gain strength.

I served in Iraq as a lieutenant in 2004 and 2005.

British authorities arrested a sixth suspect Thursday as they tried to answer the central mystery surrounding an alleged terrorist plot near RAF Fairford: If three vans carried fuel but no bombs, what were the men allegedly preparing to do?