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Religion

Church leaders condemn violence and lawless behavior

By Kenzie Holbrook
January 15, 2021 12:00 AM
The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a statement on Jan. 15 condemning violence and urging members to obey, honor and sustain the law.
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Campus Events

Clayborne Carson defends human rights during BYU Forum

By Elizabeth Nelson
March 01, 2017 12:00 AM
Clayborne Carson shared stories from the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with BYU students. (Ryan Turner)
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Nation

Shooter caught at US Capitol, injuries unclear

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Law Enforcement and rescue vehicles are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2016, after a U.S. Capitol Police officer was shot at the Capitol Visitor Center complex, and the shooter was taken into custody. (Associated Press)
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World

Pakistan PM vows to fight terror after 70 died in Lahore

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Women try to comfort a mother who lost her son in bomb attack in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, March 28, 2016. The death toll from a massive suicide bombing targeting Christians gathered on Easter in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore rose on Monday as the country started observing a three-day mourning period following the attack. (Associated Press)
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Nation

Islamic State trains 400 fighters to attack Europe in wave of bloodshed

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 23, 2016 12:00 AM
Belgian Army soldiers patrol at Zaventem Airport in Brussels on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Belgian authorities were searching Wednesday for a top suspect in the country's deadliest attacks in decades, as the European Union's capital awoke under guard and with limited public transport after 34 were killed in bombings on the Brussels airport and a subway station. (Associated Press)
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World

Paris attacks fugitive shot, detained

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 18, 2016 12:00 AM
26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, is wanted by police in connection with recent terror attacks in Paris. Belgian prosecutors said Friday March 18, 2016 that fingerprints of Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam found in Brussels apartment that was raided earlier this week. (Associated Press)
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World

Ivory Coast: Extremists kill 14 civilians, 2 special forces

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 14, 2016 12:00 AM
Security forces gather around the scene were gunmen attacked people in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast. (Associated Press)
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Nation

Gunmen, 1 with rifle, worked as team to kill 5 at cookout

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 10, 2016 12:00 AM
A woman reacts at the scene of a deadly shooting in Wilkinsburg, Pa., Thursday, March 10, 2016. Police say multiple people were killed in the shooting late Wednesday and several were injured in suburban Pittsburgh. (Michael Henninger/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Local

Salt Lake City police battle rock-throwers after shooting

By Gianluca Cuestas
February 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Police stop a boy as he walks away from a crowd that formed after an officer-involved shooting at 200 South Rio Grande Street in Salt Lake City, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. Unrest broke out in a Salt Lake City neighborhood on Saturday night after what appears to be a shooting involving a police officer, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. (Associated Press)
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Nation

Univ. of Missouri fires instructor after student run-ins

By Gianluca Cuestas
February 25, 2016 12:00 AM
Melissa Click, right, an assistant professor in the University of Missouri's communications, is seen during a run-in with student journalists during protests on the Columbia campus. Top administrators at the school on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, announced they had fired Click. She was suspended after being videotaped calling for 'some muscle' to remove a student videographer during the protests. (Mark Schierbecker via AP, File)
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Nation

Gunman kills 6 in shootings at car dealership, restaurant

February 22, 2016 12:00 AM
Members of the community pray before the start of the Kalamazoo Community Prayer Service at Centerpoint Church on in Kalamazoo, Mich., Sunday, Feb 21, 2016. A gunman who seemed to choose his victims at random opened fire Saturday outside an apartment complex, a car dealership and a restaurant in Michigan, killing six people in a rampage that lasted nearly seven hours, police said. (Associated Press)
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Nation

2 students killed in shooting at Phoenix-area high school

February 12, 2016 12:00 AM
Parents and others wait near a high school in Glendale, Ariz., to be reunited with students after police say two female students died in a shooting at the school in a Phoenix suburb. (Associated Press)
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Opinion Outpost

Opinion Outpost Jan. 12

By Sarah Burchett
January 12, 2016 12:00 AM
Gun Control
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Movies & Television

BYU study shows people act unethically when exposed to violent media

By Jordan Hammond
December 15, 2015 12:00 AM
David Hoynacki, Jonathan Flint, Donald Scott, and Stacey Mawhinney play video games together. A recent study provides a correlation between unethical decision making and exposure to on-screen violence. (Andrew Van Wagenen)
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Religion

Names, details of more victims emerge from Paris attacks

November 16, 2015 12:00 AM
People pay their respect to the victims at the site of the attacks on restaurant Le Petit Cambodge (Little Cambodia) and the Carillon Hotel on the first of three days of national mourning in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015. Thousands of French troops deployed around Paris on Sunday and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth while investigators questioned the relatives of a suspected suicide bomber involved in the country's deadliest violence since World War II. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Nation

US attorney general praises police officers as peacemakers

August 10, 2015 12:00 AM
Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks in East Haven, Conn. Lynch is voicing her support for police officers in a speech before the National Fraternal Order of Police. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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Local

King's dream 50 years later

By Megan Looney
January 25, 2013 12:00 AM
Clarence B. Jones, civil rights adviser, attorney and speech writer to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., greeted a packed audience at UVU's Sorenson Center ballroom on Thursday by singing a verse of a post-Civil War freedom song.
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Movies & Television

How will 'Hunger Games' film translate the book's violence?

By Amberly Asay
March 22, 2012 12:00 AM
Reality television seems to have taken over the entertainment section in society. With shows like 'The Bachelor,' 'American Idol,' 'Survivor' and 'Keeping up with the Kardashians,' it seems there is nothing left to create a new show with -- nothing with too much violence, that is.
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