SAM METZ

FILE - Tunisia's President Kais Saied speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels, Feb. 18, 2022. Saied on Monday Oct. 2, 2023 accused the European Union of not following through on agreements made earlier this year to help Tunisia patrol its border, curb smuggling and balance its federal budget. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP, File)
Tunisia rejects European funds and says they fall short of a deal for migration and financial aid
Tunisia has announced it would reject an installment of funds sent by Europe to help the debt-ridden country patrol the Mediterranean Sea as migrant boat crossings spike to levels not seen in several years.
 
Children walk through the rubble of their town of Amizmiz which was damaged by the earthquake, outside Marrakech, Morocco, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
AP PHOTOS: Moroccan earthquake shattered thousands of lives
It could have been a scene like millions around the world that day.
 
A volunteer helps salvage furniture from homes which were damaged by the earthquake, in the town of Imi N'tala, outside Marrakech, Morocco, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. An aftershock rattled central Morocco on Wednesday, striking fear into rescue crews at work in High Atlas villages, digging people out from rubble that could slide. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Moroccans whose homes were destroyed by last week’s earthquake face daunting rebuilding decisions
Moroccan families whose homes were destroyed by last week’s earthquake face difficult decisions about whether to relocate.
 
A volunteer helps salvage furniture from homes which were damaged by the earthquake, in the town of Imi N'tala, outside Marrakech, Morocco, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. An aftershock rattled central Morocco on Wednesday, striking fear into rescue crews at work in High Atlas villages, digging people out from rubble that could slide. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Responders dig for bodies in Moroccan mountain villages devastated by last week’s earthquake
Moroccan rescuers have been joined by crews from Spain, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as they dig through rubble for bodies still buried in devastated communities in the Atlas Mountains.
 
Moussa Bouissirfane, a man who lost his parents and daughter in the earthquake, looks after their graves, in the village of Tafeghaghte, near Marrakech, Morocco, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. Rescue crews expanded their efforts on Monday as the earthquake's death toll continued to climb to more than 2,400 and displaced people worried about where to find shelter. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Earthquake robbed Moroccan villagers of almost everything — loved ones, homes and possessions
The toll of the earthquake that devastated Morocco is on stark display in dozens of remote villages across the North African county’s disaster zone.
 
A man on a scooter drives past rubble and a damaged road sign pointing to Marrakech in Talat N'yakoub, Morocco, Monday Sept. 11, 2023. More than 2,000 people were killed, and the toll was expected to rise as rescuers struggled to reach hard-hit remote areas after a powerful earthquake struck Morocco. (Fernando Sanchez/Europa Press via AP)
What to know about the Morocco earthquake and the efforts to help
 
Ella Branham, a seasonal vector control technician, examines a Culex tarsalis mosquito at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District on July 19, 2023, in Salt Lake City. Mosquitoes can carry viruses including dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika. They are especially threatening to public health in Asia and Africa but are also closely monitored in the United States. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Let skeeters feed on you for science? Welcome to front lines of mosquito control
At the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District, working on the front lines of mosquito control can be a prickly job. A technician volunteered to stick her arm into a glass tank to give scores of the insects a chance to feed on her blood.
 
People comfort each other while digging graves for victims of the earthquake, in Ouargane village, near Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the streets and toppling buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Moroccans sleep in the streets for 3rd night following an earthquake that took more than 2,100 lives
People in Morocco are sleeping in the streets of Marrakech for a third straight night as soldiers and international aid teams in trucks and helicopters begin to fan into remote mountain towns hit hardest by a historic earthquake.
 
Residents flee their homes after an earthquake in Moulay Brahim village, near the epicenter of the earthquake, outside Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 800 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. But the full toll was not known as rescuers struggled to get through boulder-strewn roads to the remote mountain villages hit hardest. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Moroccan villagers mourn after earthquake brings destruction to their rural mountain home
Moroccans living in the village of Moulay Brahim are mourning neighbors who perished after a 6.8 earthquake destroyed buildings and lives.
 
Moroccan boys, Rayan and Ali walk amidst the rubble of their home which was damaged by the earthquake, in Ijjoukak village, near Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the streets and toppling buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Powerful quake in Morocco kills more than 2,000 people and damages historic buildings in Marrakech
A rare, powerful earthquake has struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the darkened streets and toppling buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force. More than 2,000 people were killed.
 
FILE - A pumpjack dips its head to extract oil in a basin north of Helper, Utah, July 13, 2023. A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday, Aug. 18, struck down a critical approval for a railroad project that would have allowed oil businesses in eastern Utah to significantly expand fossil fuel production and exports. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Appeals court strikes down Utah oil railroad approval, siding with environmentalists
A U.S. Appeals Court has struck down a critical approval for a railroad project that would have allowed oil businesses in eastern Utah to significantly expand fossil fuel production and exports.
 
FILE - Law enforcement investigate the scene of a shooting involving the FBI, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Provo, Utah. Craig Robertson, the 75-year-old man shot by officers trying to arrest him for social media threats he made against officials including President Joe Biden had a history of "exercising his 2nd Amendment rights, albeit a little recklessly,” according to Utah police records. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP, File)
Armed Utah man shot by FBI last week carried AR-15 in 2018 police encounter, records show
Police records show a Utah man killed by officers last week as they tried to arrest him for social media threats he made against President Joe Biden and others had a history of frightening people with firearms.
 
FILE - Law enforcement investigate the scene of a shooting involving the FBI on Aug. 9, 2023, in Provo, Utah. The Utah man accused of making violent threats against President Joe Biden before a western states trip last week pointed a handgun at FBI agents attempting to arrest him, the agency said on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP, File)
Utah man accused of threatening president pointed gun at agents, FBI says
The Utah man accused of making violent threats against President Joe Biden before a western states trip last week pointed a handgun at FBI agents attempting to arrest him, the agency said on Monday.
 
Destroyed homes and cars are shown, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Hawaii officials urge tourists to avoid traveling to Maui as many hotels prepare to house evacuees and first responders on the island where a wildfire demolished a historic town and killed dozens. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Maui officials and scientists warn that after the flames flicker out, toxic particles will remain
Officials in Maui are warning residents that it remains too early to return to some parts of the island where firefighters have extinguished flames.
 
Flowers laid by firefighters are seen in front of the home of Craig Robertson, Thursday, Aug 10, 2023, in Provo, Utah. Robertson was killed by FBI agents Wednesday during a confrontation after making violent threats against President Joseph Biden and other public officials. (AP Photo/Sam Metz)
Utah man killed after threats against Biden believed government was corrupt and overreaching
Family members of an armed Utah man who was killed by FBI agents after making threats against President Joe Biden are describing him as a gun enthusiast who was worried about “a corrupt and overreaching government.”
 
A train transports freight on a common carrier line near Price, Utah on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Uinta Basin Railway, which would connect to common carrier lines, could be an 88-mile line in Utah that would run through tribal lands and national forest to move oil and gas to the national rail network. Critics question investing billions in oil and gas infrastructure as the country seeks to use less of the fossil fuels that worsen climate change. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Utah’s multibillion dollar oil train proposal chugs along amid environment and derailment concerns
One of the United States’ biggest rail investments in more than a century could be an 88-mile line in Utah that would run through tribal lands and national forest to move oil and gas to the national rail network.
 
FILE - Brittany Tichenor-Cox holds a photo of her daughter, Isabella "Izzy" Tichenor, during an interview on Nov. 29, 2021, in Draper, Utah. The family of the Black fifth grader, Izzy, who died by suicide after being bullied by her classmates, will be paid $2 million by the Davis School District in a settlement announced on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
A Utah district will pay $2 million to the family of a bullied Black girl who died by suicide
A school district in Utah will pay $2 million to the family of a Black, autistic 10-year-old girl who killed herself after being harassed by her classmates.
 
Law enforcement investigate the scene of a shooting involving the FBI Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023 in Provo, Utah. A man accused of making threats against President Joe Biden was shot and killed by FBI agents hours before the president was expected to land in the state Wednesday, authorities said. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP)
Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant
An armed Utah man accused of making violent threats against President Joe Biden was shot and killed by FBI agents hours before the president landed in the state Wednesday, authorities say.
 
Alice Wang, a Center for Reproductive Rights attorney who is helping Kansas abortion providers challenge a new state law over how providers dispense abortion medications, talks to reporters following a hearing in Johnson County District Court, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, outside the county courthouse in Olathe, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
In Utah and Kansas, state courts flex power over new laws regulating abortion post-Roe
Abortion providers faced off against attorneys for Utah and Kansas in state courts Tuesday, part of the ongoing fight after last year’s Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
 
Bruce Hough and Celeste Maloy speak after the 2nd Congressional District Republican primary debate for outgoing Rep. Chris Stewart's seat Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Farmington, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Republican
Trump indictment emerges as central GOP concern at Utah special election debate
Republican anger over the U.S. Justice Department’s indictment of former President Donald Trump was on stark display at a special election debate on Friday in suburban Salt Lake City. Two of the three Republicans vying to succeed resigning U.S. Rep.
 
FILE - Republican state Sen. Todd Weiler looks on as he sits on the Senate floor on March 2, 2023, at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. A judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, that was brought by adult entertainers, erotica authors and sex educators challenging Utah's law requiring porn and other adult websites verify user ages. Sen. Weiler, the age verification law's Republican sponsor, said after the dismissal that he was unsurprised that the lawsuit was dismissed. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Utah law requiring age verification for porn sites remains in effect after judge tosses lawsuit
A Utah law requiring adult websites to verify the age of their users will remain in effect after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality.
 
This undated image provided by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, pinyon pine and juniper trees grow on a mountain range north of Sevier Lake in Millard County, Utah. Environmentalists filed a lawsuit on Monday, July 31, 2023, to prevent the construction of a new potash mine that they say would devastate a lake ecosystem in the drought-stricken western Utah desert. (Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance via AP)
Environmentalists sue to stop Utah potash mine that produces sought-after crop fertilizer
Environmentalists have filed a lawsuit to prevent the construction of a new potash mine they say would devastate a lake ecosystem in the drought-stricken western Utah desert.
 
FILE - Workers stand near train tracks, Sept. 27, 2021, next to overturned cars from an Amtrak train that derailed near Joplin, Mont. On Thursday, July 27, 2023, federal investigators renewed their recommendation that railroads equip every locomotive with the kind of autonomous sensors that they believe could have caught the track flaws that caused the fatal 2021 Amtrak derailment in northern Montana. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Montana train derailment report renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems
The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana.
 
FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2021, file photo, workers stand near train tracks next to overturned cars from an Amtrak train that derailed near Joplin, Mont. A derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana that killed three people in 2021 was caused by a railroad track that was bent along a curve near the accident site, federal investigators said Thursday, July 27, 2023 in a final report. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Investigators say poor track conditions caused a 2021 Amtrak derailment in Montana that killed three
A derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana that killed three people in 2021 was caused by a poor track conditions at the accident site, federal investigators said in a final report.
 
Three found dead at campsite were members of Colorado Springs family who planned to live ‘off grid’
The decomposed and partially mummified bodies of three people who were recently found at a remote western Colorado campsite were two adult sisters and one woman’s 14-year-old son.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at an event on July 18, 2023, in West Columbia, S.C. DeSantis is taking his presidential campaign to Utah, prioritizing a state where rival Donald Trump has struggled in the past.(AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)
DeSantis, in deeply conservative Utah, says he’s driven more by faith in God than by politics
Ron DeSantis is rebuffing concerns about trailing rival Donald Trump and boasting about endorsements and support in Utah as his campaign looks toward states later in the election calendar and aims to reset.
 
Candidates to replace Utah Republican Chris Stewart in Congress head to ballot
Republicans and Democrats have finalized the candidates slated to appear on the primary ballot on Sept. 5, when voters decide who should replace outgoing U.S. Rep. Congressman Chris Stewart.
 
Attorney Taylor Meehan talks with Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson during a break in oral arguments for a case challenging the state's congressional districts before the Utah Supreme Court in Salt Lake City, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool)
Utah high court scrutinizes process that sliced state’s most Democrat-heavy county into 4 districts
The Utah Supreme Court grilled attorneys representing the state over their claim that courts shouldn’t intervene in the Republican-controlled Legislature’s decision to carve up Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County into four congressional districts.
 
Bob Derby, right, and Randy Atkin, left, adjust sails to turn their boat through the Great Salt Lake on June 14, 2023, near Magna, Utah. Sailors back out on the water are rejoicing after a snowy winter provided temporary reprieve. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Sailors rejoice after snowy winter raises Great Salt Lake
After years of sailboats being hoisted out of the shrinking Great Salt Lake amid fears they might not return, sailors are back this summer. That’s thanks to an abnormally wet winter that has raised the lake 6 feet from last November’s historic low.
 
Jana Brough walks across pink-hued snow at Tony Grove Lake on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, near Logan, Utah. The snow's color has piqued the curiosities of hikers and campers throughout Utah this summer (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
‘Watermelon snow’ piques curiosities in Utah after abnormally wet winter
The presence of pinkish snow in the Rocky Mountains is piquing the curiosities of hikers, campers and photo-seekers this summer and raising a host of questions about nature, health and climate.
 
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