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A 19 year-old Mormon collapsed and died of heart failure in front of his stunned family moments after telling them his first mission would be to his dream country - Japan. Liam Mildenstein was on his way to Provo from his home in Miami for a vacation when he got the call and began reading aloud his two-year missionary assignment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mildenstein collapsed suddenly, falling backward onto the floor and never regained his pulse. The family called for emergency paramedics but about an hour later, the 19-year-old was pronounced dead. Mildenstein's family...

Brigham Young, born on June 1, 18o1, lead his people to find a safe place for themselves in the Salt Lake Vally and found Salt Lake City. He said: "Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." "The biggest labor problem is tomorrow." "Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere." God Bless Brigham Young

Ed Smart, the father of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart, posted on social media Thursday that he is gay, divorcing his wife and doesn’t see a place for himself in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In “one of the hardest letters I have ever written,” Smart wrote in a Facebook message to family and friends that “I have recently acknowledged to myself and my family that I am gay.”

"My message right now goes to Sheriff War of Harney County...Sheriff David Ward you could have prevented the Hammonds from going to prison. They had to suffer for two and a half years because you would not look at the evidence, you would not look at the facts. The same facts that President Trump looked at and pardoned the Hammonds upon.... You wouldn't look at the abuses and you allowed federal agencies to come, the FBI and other agencies to come and influence you and convince you that we somehow were dangeorus and the Hammonds had to suffer for that....

US election 2012: Mitt Romney On Course For Historic Double Victory Mitt Romney could strike a decisive early blow in the contest to pick the Republican party’s presidential nominee by becoming the first candidate ever to win both the first two states to vote, opinion polls suggest. By Jon Swaine 01 Jan 2012 The former Massachusetts governor leads the party field both in Iowa, where tomorrow’s caucuses will give the candidates their first test, and in New Hampshire, where voters go to the polls next Tuesday. If successful, Mr Romney would become the first Republican challenger in the modern primary...

... [I]t’s now becoming clear that [Mitt Romney is] the man we have to thank for our new national health care law. “I mean, a lot of commentators have said this is sort of similar to the bill that Mitt Romney, the Republican governor and now presidential candidate, passed in Massachusetts,” President Obama told Matt Lauer recently on the “Today” show. Good work leading the way, Mitt! We did not actually hear a whole lot about how Obama’s health care bill was similar to Romney’s during its long, torturous struggle through Congress. Particularly not during the parts that involved placating...