Sen. Evan Vickers from Cedar City is set to be the next president of the Utah State Senate, the first from southern Utah in 70 years. He is now running unopposed after Sen. Kirk Cullimore has lost his seat. Sen. Don Ipson, from St. George, called Vickers an inclusive leader who brings people across the Senate together, not just the majority party. The formal election for the leadership positions is scheduled for this evening.

The BYU-Utah rivalry game deserved a better kickoff time (it’s 10 am tomorrow!), but it doesn’t diminish its enormity; Urban Meyer shares a story about an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ before BYU-Utah rivalry game; and why does the BYU-Utah rivalry game trigger such deep emotions??

Marci Houseman submits 'bittersweet' resignation after 7 years on Sandy City Council (KUTV)

Utah Republicans confront a new political reality after Election Day (KUER)

Rep. Blake Moore wins reelection in Utah's 2nd Congressional District race (KUTV)

Curtis blames GOP losses on policies he voted for (Axios Salt Lake City)

Rigby sought to discredit Wasatch County sheriff's race opponents, indictment says (KPCW)

Utah House Democrat gains slip slightly as 2 races flip, but GOP still pacing to lose 15 seats (Utah News Dispatch)

4 Ogden women among the wave of Democrats poised to flip seats in the Utah Legislature (KSL)

Moore, Kennedy win reelection; Utah voters back top Supreme Court justice (KSL)

From Tonga to Utah's Capitol: Doug Fiefia celebrates historic Senate election (KSL)

Utah’s state school board just appointed a Republican to a seat a Democrat won — for 2 months (Salt Lake Tribune)

Check out the map: Here’s how Utah’s 2026 midterm turnout compared with past elections (Salt Lake Tribune)

Bird flu death in Washington state renews concern as virus spreads unchecked at Utah mink farm (Salt Lake Tribune/New York Times)

Utah pilots fly critical supplies to flood isolated communities in southeast Utah (Fox13)

Inside Salt Lake City airport's Christmas makeover (Axios Salt Lake City)

Major Investors Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5 Trillion Valuation (Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI kicks off charm offensive to change voters' view of data centers (Reuters)

LDS Church joins the tech gold rush, leasing some of its ranchland for a data center (Salt Lake Tribune)

AI stock selloff fuels questions about Utah's data center future after midterms (KUTV)

Tesla to pull the plug on Cybertruck after years of poor sales (Reuters)

We studied 1,584 data centers and found the buildings full of machines are tied to modest job growth (Utah News Dispatch)

Weber County agreed to help ICE on ‘worst of the worst.’ Now it has questions (KUER)

Victims urge parole board to keep woman convicted in fraud case behind bars (KSL)

State argues it alone should investigate leftover evidence after overturned 1985 murder conviction (KSL)

San Juan County man sentenced after series of assaults on several victims (KUTV)

Suspect charged with murder after father shot, killed in front of children in West Valley (KUTV)

Caught on camera, counted in crime: Documented fights cause concern in SLC (Fox13)

Gold exchange burglars crash truck through store, smash and grab coins, jewelry (Fox13)

Search warrants reveal Cedar City authorities reopened infant death investigation tied to abuse case (St. George News)

Utah woman builds community with in-person singles events (Deseret News)

Whitney Leavitt’s life beyond ‘Secret Lives’ is coming to Hulu (Deseret News)

Local nonprofit calls for coats to help Navajo Nation after severe floods (KPCW)

Advocates bring new food security network to rural Utah communities (Utah News Dispatch)

Bountiful Food Pantry prepares for holiday rush as community need continues to skyrocket (Fox13)

Utah Food Bank faces growing challenges as holiday demand rises (KSL)

Reeling Provo anti-poverty center had salary growth amid red ink (KUTV)

A brutal sell-off for AI stocks sends Wall Street reeling, and the S&P 500 tumbles 4.4% (Associated Press)

Wall Street set to stabilise after multi-trillion dollar tech plunge (Reuters)

Employers added a surprising 165,000 jobs in October; unemployment rate dipped to 4.1% (AP)

After Utah’s 2027 Teacher of the Year died unexpectedly, state officials have named a new one (Salt Lake Tribune)

Wasatch Back school enrollment continues decline; leaders hope to change that (KPCW)

El Niño has brought flooding. It's also slowly lifting Utah out of drought (KSL)

Natural gas is up in Utah. Here are 5 ways to cut your heating bill (KUER)

Democratic candidates put faith front and center on election night (Deseret News)

Dallas Jenkins responds to mixed reactions over angels in ‘The Chosen’ (Deseret News)

Rural Utah health care facilities set to receive $48.2M in federal funds (ABC4)

Young home shoppers still priced out without help, according to survey (Utah News Dispatch)

What’s happening with mortgage rates after the election? (Deseret News)

Trump administration holds up Utah as national example on homelessness (Deseret News)

Utah leaders discuss homelessness solutions at statewide summit (KSL)

Trump administration sues Penn State over in-state tuition for students in the US illegally (Associated Press)

‘ER’ and ‘The Pitt’ are similar enough for lawsuit to move forward, appeals court finds (Associated Press)

Some colleges reined in frats after rapes. Experts urge a bigger fix (Washington Post)

Jay Rockefeller, former West Virginia governor and US senator who was part of a dynasty, dies at 89 (AP)

Russell Brand Found Guilty of Rape, Sexual Assault Charges (Wall Street Journal)

House Republicans swing from "shock" to fury (Axios)

Everyone called it a blue wave. But were the midterms more about independents? (Deseret News)

Opinion: The voters who lent Democrats their power can easily take it back (Deseret News)

Religious "nones" shatter white evangelical dominance at the polls (Axios)

Justice Samuel Alito says he won’t retire from the Supreme Court despite midterm election outcome (Deseret News)

The biggest winners, losers and surprises from the 2026 midterms (Deseret News)

Idaho measure failed — with LDS Church help — but voters deliver abortion-rights wins in other states (Salt Lake Tribune)

How the Texas blue wave came crashing down on Republicans (Washington Post)

Rural voters in GOP strongholds helped carry Democrats to victories (Washington Post)

After sweeping midterm wins, here's what Democrats hope to get done in the majority (NPR)

Midterms upended Congress but Trump still commands foreign policy (Reuters)

Trump demands Sen. Sullivan be declared winner as Peltola leads in Alaska (Washington Post)

Democrats planning flood of AI bills when they take control of Congress (Reuters)

Trump ally Dhillon, who remade DOJ civil rights unit, resigns (Reuters)

Newsom says he will commute all 548 of California's death sentences to life without parole (PBS)

A judge blocks construction of Trump's arch moments after it won federal approval (NPR)

ICE arrests 23-year-old UC Berkeley student and asylum seeker at San Francisco airport (AP)

Trump meets with national security team, says Iran war decision coming ‘soon’ (Axios)

Israel's president pledges to pick candidate on Sunday to form government (Reuters)

AP Exclusive: Trump administration held talks with Iran on deporting Iranians during the war (AP)

Death toll from Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid point rises to 53, governor says (Reuters)

Nvidia CEO called in by lawmakers over ties to alleged Chinese spy (Axios)

New wave of bomb hoaxes hits dozens of flights across Europe (Reuters)

Hundreds of thousands march in France’s biggest day of protests in years. Here’s what we know (CNN)

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Jan 19 — General session begins

1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca lands in Texas 

1854 - John Philip Sousa, American march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), born in Washington, D.C.

1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States

1874 - Helen Thompson Woolley, American pioneer of gender studies, is born. Her 1903 dissertation, “The Mental Traits of Sex,” was among the first major research efforts that empirically challenged the “science” of the “weaker sex,” used as an argument to keep women at home. 

1905 - George Williams, English philanthropist and founder of YMCA, dies at 84

1917 - New York State adopts a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in state elections

1940 - Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s birthday

1955 - Maria Owings Shriver is born. An American journalist, author, former First Lady of California, she is also the founder of the nonprofit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement

1962 - UN condemns apartheid in South Africa

1977 - The Toccoa Falls Dam in Georgia gives way and 39 people die in the resulting flood.

1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini takes over in Iran

1986 - President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill

1991 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin outlaws the Communist Party