Author: Mariah Wheeler

UTAH – Democrats in Utah’s House of Representatives walked out in protest on Wednesday as the chamber considered a resolution rebuking critical race theory. The walkout allowed Republicans to adopt unanimously a resolution urging the state’s Board of Education to ensure that “certain concepts” the measure associated with critical race theory are not taught in schools. The resolution includes concepts that “one race is inherently superior or inferior to another race” and that “an individual’s moral character is determined by the individual’s race.” House Speaker Brad Wilson, a Republican, said in a statement that the resolution is meant to “ensure [Utah’s] public schools teach the important…

Provo, UT – According to the court documents, his name is Jordan Nathaniel Jensen and he was charged with three counts of human trafficking for labor exploitation and nine counts of unlawful possession of another’s identification documents. The 31-year-old man was illegally inducing more than 20 Mexican Nationals to work for his company’s traveling carnival. The suspect is accused of taking the passports of the workers, who were all in the U.S. legally, and keeping them so they would not leave his company, Midway West Amusements, Inc. The probable cause statement says the Mexican Consulate notified the Utah Attorney General’s Office…