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A 39-year-old man died Saturday night after being shot during Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest while a crowd of about 10,000 people marched near 151 S. State Street, the Salt Lake City Police Department confirmed Sunday. Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, a Utah resident, was shot at the demonstration. Despite life-saving efforts from SWAT medics and Salt Lake City Fire, Ah Loo died at an area hospital. As of Sunday morning there were still unreleased details about the incident as the investigation is ongoing, Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd said in a news conference. A chaotic scene ensued...

It's a pure travesty for a state agency to lock in a future of high prices for millions of California consumers when its specific mission is to protect those consumers. Yet, that is just what a recent natural gas decision by the California Public Utilities Commission would do. Besotted by the idea of high-tech foreign liquefied natural gas entering California via a group of coastal receiving terminals, the commission has authorized the state's largest gas companies to give up their rights to a huge amount of reserved space on two of the three largest pipelines now bringing gas into the...