Utah & Courts: South Dakota Chief Justice Steven R. Jensen and Missouri court administrator Kathy S. Lloyd were elected to lead the Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ) and Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA), starting one-year terms after the annual meeting in Rapid City. Utah & Health: A CDC report details a Utah university lab incident where 32 people received preventive antibiotics for a bacterial exposure that turned out harmless—showing how medical responses can cause harm even when no germ spreads. Utah & Public Safety Tech: Flock is partnering with the Navajo Nation to deploy license plate reader cameras to support the Navajo Department of Criminal Investigation and police, aiming to close long-distance response gaps. Utah & AI Ethics: A Utah-linked consortium released the AllFaith Benchmark; Salt Lake City-based Aligned AI ranked least biased in an independent faith-and-ethics test. Utah & Business/Finance: Connect Credit Union (Florida) selected Appli’s AI-powered smart calculators for its redesigned website, a sign of how fintech is pushing interactive tools. Utah & Energy/Climate: Another heat-driven grid stress story warns of possible rolling blackouts across 17 states, with Utah in the broader Western heat risk picture. Utah Rankings: Utah placed No. 1 in US News Best States, while WalletHub ranked it No. 2 for independence behind Idaho. National Legal/Policy: New York sued Kalshi to halt prediction-market contracts, arguing they function as unlicensed gambling.