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WASHINGTON Utah Rep. Burgess Owens is among a group of Republicans in Congress threatening to dissolve or replace the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee board of directors if it doesn t discipline athletes who engage in anti-American protests.
The letter, led by Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., asks the USOPC to enforce International Olympic Committee rules prohibiting any political, religious, or racial demonstrations or propaganda from Olympic sites, venues or other areas.
It goes on to remind Lyons and Hirshland that Congress has the power under the Empowering Olympic, Paralympic, and Amateur Athletes Act, passed last October, to dissolve the USOPC board of directors, terminate recognition of the USOPC as a national governing body of the U.S. Olympic teams, and replace it with a body that can adequately represent America and its athletes on the world stage.
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/ University of Utah Police Chief Rodney Chatman has been named vice president of campus safety at Brown University in Rhode Island. Chatman has been on leave at the U since December. This story and more in Tuesday evening s news brief.
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Approving Raise For Salt Lake City Police Officers
On Tuesday, the Salt Lake City Council is expected to finalize salary raises for police officers. But over the past year, some community members have called to defund the police. Salt Lake City Council Chair Amy Fowler said the city never supported defunding the police. But she said she is interested in creating alternative options to calling law enforcement. Meanwhile, the police and prison abolitionist group Decarcerate Utah feels their demands over the past year have gone ignored. A representative from the organization said they’ll continue to educate the publi
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has reversed its decision to exclude a Christian organization from tax benefits.
As previously reported in
Legal Newsline, the IRS denied 501(3)(c) status to Christians Engaged because it is allegedly involved in prohibited political campaign intervention.
“We re grateful that the IRS changed course to bring its decision into line with the U.S. Constitution and its own regulations and our hope is that no other religious group or church will have to go through this again,” said Lea Patterson, an attorney with First Liberty Institute, which represents Christians Engaged.
Although the organization’s mission is to educate and empower average Christians to pray for the nation and elected officials, to vote in every election, and to be civically engaged, the IRS categorized the group as operating for a substantial non-exempt private purpose and for the private interests of Republicans.