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Utah
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 34 stories to Utah since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Utah.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Utah
10 storiesJustice Department warns 29 states and DC of criminal sanctions if they destroy 2024 election records, after repeated court losses over demands for their voter data.
Utah Republican official told "under investigation"
U.S. measles cases hit 2,295, the most since 1991, passing last year's record total with more than five months left in the year.
90% of infections among unvaccinated people
Trump shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante again, cutting 3 million acres and leaving the Utah monuments below a tenth of their size.
Native tribes excluded from decision
Energy Secretary Wright tells Utah summit that global warming is real but "no big deal," not among the world's top 5 or 10 problems, urging Americans to drop "doomster" climate views.
EPA's Zeldin: "step on the gas"
Trump praises Louisiana primary suspension and says Tennessee Governor Lee will "correct" the state's map as Speaker Johnson urges all states to gerrymander before midterms.
8 states redistricted outside normal cycle
FTC forces ad firms Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP to settle, barring brand-safety standards conservatives say hurt Breitbart and Musk's X.
Settlements include DEI in protected criteria
Utah governor signs bill expanding state Supreme Court from five to seven justices after legislature suffered court defeats on redistricting, abortion and school vouchers, giving him five of seven appointments.
Chief Justice said court has "essentially no backlog"
Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expire overnight, with 20 million subsidized enrollees facing average 114% premium increases in 2026.
Federal grand jury indicts Utah postal worker accused of dumping over 300 mail ballots in a church parking lot dumpster before June's primary.
Route's turnout remarkably low, clerk found
Justice Department sues Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah and DC over in-state tuition for undocumented students, completing suits against every state with such laws, 25 total.
Arkansas agrees its law is preempted
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesSalt Lake City and county sue to stop ICE from turning an 830,000-square-foot warehouse into a 10,000-bed detention center.
ICE wrote "TBD" on water-needs form
Utah judge rejects GOP legislature's gerrymandered map and chooses plaintiffs' version that could deliver House seat to Democrats after voters banned redistricting manipulation in 2018.
All 4 House seats Republican
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
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