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Infamous: The Truth About Ruby Franke

Through a series of religious visions, Jodi and Ruby become convinced that there is a war between good and evil, and that Ruby's children are agents of the devil. They begin to treat the kids with a new level of cruelty. With Ruby’s husband Kevin estranged, who will save them?

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Imagining the Future of Downtown Salt Lake City

After Ryan Smith, the billionaire owner of the Utah Jazz, bought an NHL team, he needed a better place for them to play. His vision is for an improved arena surrounded by a robust mixed-use development. So he took a group of local and state elected officials to LA in an effort to sell his vision and hopefully win over a billion dollars in tax subsidies.

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A Voice Crying in the Desert

When state and federal negotiators met in 1922 to divide up the water in the Colorado River, they did so with a mistaken understanding of how much water there actually was in the river. But at the time there was one man who knew, with a surprising degree of accuracy, how much water the river held. The only problem: Nobody wanted to listen to him.

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'Wild New World' with Dan Flores

When they arrived in North America 13,000 years ago, humans entered an environment teeming with animal life. But their success here had a devastating effect on other creatures.

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The Huddled Masses

Immigration at the southern border has bedeviled Republican and Democratic presidents for decades. Has it reached a crisis point?

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Lost Boys

The internet is fertile ground for deadly racist ideology. Can parents protect their kids?

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How to Read a Taco

They may not seem like much, but those humble and colorful open-air taco carts you see scattered on roadsides and in parking lots across the country, they have an important story to tell.

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Extra Utah: A Journey To The Oldest Spot In The State

This summer, I traveled around Utah looking for places that are…extra. Extreme. In June I took my family on the road and went looking for the oldest thing in the state, and we found it. It’s a rock formation in northwestern Utah.

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Extra Utah: A Journey To The Darkest Spot In The State

This past summer, I traveled around Utah looking for places that are…extra. Extreme. My first mission: to find the darkest place — above ground — in the state. I just might have found it among the redrock spires of Kodachrome State Park.

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Ex-Mormons and Psychedelics

There’s a community of former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who believe they’ve found healing and discovered a new sense of spirituality in magic mushrooms.

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Why Are A Growing Number Of Ex-Mormons Using Psychedelics?

Over the past several months, I’ve spoken with more than a dozen individuals, all of them once devout, faithful and committed members of the LDS church. For various reasons, they fell away from the faith, and in time, they found psychedelics.

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Whispers of Wonderful Melodies

The door to the former bank vault is slightly ajar. In the adjoining, low-ceilinged room, Sohrab Mafi stands below a pair of light-box pictures of bright blue skies partly clouded, struggling to explain irfan, a nuanced mystical concept.

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A Journey Through Teddy Roosevelt's Wilderness

Earlier this summer we saw the removal of a statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. It put our 26th president back in the spotlight, but then again, he never really left it.

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A Perfect Storm of Learning

Almost 667,000 students in Utah are stuck at home. More than 36,000 educators are trying to teach those kids remotely. And hundreds of thousands of parents are caught in the middle. Nobody saw this coming. Now everybody is trying to figure out, on the fly, how school happens online.

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