AI data centers got the “Weekend Update” treatment on “Saturday Night Live” this week. Comedian James Austin Johnson portrayed “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary on the sketch comedy show, during which he addressed the dispute over the real O’Leary’s proposed data center in Utah, known as the Stratos Project. “It’s very simple. All I want
An independent review has pointed to a number of security shortcomings at the Utah campus where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead last year. The report said Utah Valley University (UVU) did not carry out a proper written security assessment nor prepare an event action plan, deferring key decision-making about the event to Kirk’s
Utah prosecutors are dropping their plan to seek the death penalty in an upcoming retrial of a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing in which newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him. Douglas Stewart Carter was sentenced to death in 1985 after a jury found him guilty of
Charlie Kirk’s family has accused the Utah Valley University and state officials of “stunning failures and reckless decisions” that they say led to the conservative activist’s 2025 assassination during a campus event. In a legal notice, lawyers for the family say Kirk’s Turning Point USA event at the university campus was not properly secured or
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Braydon Barrett, 32, who moved to Asia with his family in 2024 but moved back to Utah eight months later. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Living abroad was never really on my radar until I got married. My wife had always wanted to travel
Scientists have long known that volcanoes can launch large quantities of particles into the stratosphere. In the past few decades, it has become clear that wildfires do this, too, by generating towering, smoke-infused pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds. The largest pyroCbs are stunning weather-making features that generate massive thunderheads capable of unleashing lightning, hail, and heavy rain.
