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Maxine Waters cancels events over 'very serious death threat' By Jacqueline Thomsen - 06/28/18 08:06 PM EDT Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has canceled a pair of public events after she received a “very serious death threat,” CNN reported Thursday. The congresswoman said in a statement that she had seen an increase in threats after she called for protestors to publicly confront Trump officials. "As the President has continued to lie and falsely claim that I encouraged people to assault his supporters, while also offering a veiled threat that I should 'be careful', even more individuals are leaving (threatening) messages and...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has canceled a pair of public events after she received a “very serious death threat,” CNN reported Thursday. The congresswoman said in a statement that she had seen an increase in threats after she called for protestors to publicly confront Trump officials. "As the President has continued to lie and falsely claim that I encouraged people to assault his supporters, while also offering a veiled threat that I should 'be careful', even more individuals are leaving (threatening) messages and sending hostile mail to my office," Waters said in the statement, according to CNN. She said there...

Having grown up Mormon in Colorado, I recognize that Mormons are "marginalized" in some places, as Dennis Clayson argues in "Bigotry against Mormons apparently acceptable in Utah," (Opinion, March 21). As a teenager, I regularly had to explain myself to people who had no idea what a Mormon was. However, one would be hard pressed to imagine that Mormons are marginalized in Utah. So although Clayson makes an important point (that some people say stupid and hurtful things about Mormons), he ignores the chief context of the issue: the reality of power in Utah. In Utah, Mormons dominate both politics...