This is the aptly named Parowan Gap, which is located about 20 miles from my hometown of Cedar City. (Photos by the author) Ten years ago, doctors removed my left kidney – and the golfball-sized tumor attached to it. To mark a decade of being cancer-free, I rode my Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail on a Utah motorcycle ride across the West Desert to Great Basin National Park in Nevada. Had the procedure not been successful, I would’ve only had a 10-15% chance of survival. After my first follow-up appointment, when the surgeon told me I wasn’t going to die, I gained a new appreciation for living in the moment. Riding is the ultimate practice in mindfulness, staying focused on the immediate and appreciating what is around you. Scan QR code above or click here to view the route on REVER I left early on a cool September morning, taking Utah Route 130 and catching the sunrise at one of my favorite places. Parowan Gap, located just off SR-130 about 20 miles north of Cedar City, has an amazing collection of petroglyphs dating back at least 1,000 years. I highly recommend stopping to read – and feel – the history. Back on SR-130, I continued north to Minersville, a “sneeze and you’ll miss it” town. Over the next 20 miles, I only saw maybe three vehicles. Smoke from California wildfires obscured the mountains in the distance, painting them in layered shades of blue and purple. Parowan Gap has many fascinating petroglyphs, rock carvings that were created more than 1,000 years ago. State Route 21 took me northwest towards Milford, a small town with deep roots in mining, agriculture, and the railroad. It once served as the terminus for a Union Pacific-controlled company that served southern Utah, southern Nevada, and northern Arizona. Past Milford, the next 80 miles are mostly long straights across desert valleys, interrupted by occasional sweepers as you traverse a few mountain passes. This is basin-and-range country, and it’s cool to ride over a pass and see the ribbon of highway stretching for miles through an empty valley before rising to the mountains in the distance. Western Utah is a wide-open, desolate region with few signs of civilization. This is also open-range BLM land, which means no fences but occasional cattle and deer. You might also see antelope, and a couple road signs warn of wild horses. With all this potential livestock and wildlife, long sightlines are appreciated, but riding at night is risky. I saw evidence of this: long skid marks followed by a maroon smear on the highway. See all of Rider‘s Utah Motorcycle Rides here. I only passed a few homesteads. Most were a good distance off the highway, and I might’ve missed them except for the clumps of trees in an otherwise barren landscape. Great Basin National Park’s Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive lives up to its name. Life in the desert follows water, and there isn’t much out here. About 10 miles from the Utah-Nevada border, I noticed a trail of green vegetation not far off the road that told me there was a creek out there. In Nevada, SR-21 becomes Nevada Route 487, and 6 miles later in Baker, a left on Lehman Caves Road (SR-488) took me to Great Basin National Park. The two highlights of the national park – which doesn’t require an entrance fee – are the caves and Wheeler Peak. Milford, Utah, is home to only 1,431 residents but was once the terminus for a major Union Pacific rail line. Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive climbs 4,000 feet in just 12 miles, topping out at 10,000 feet. Here’s where you’ll finally get to lean your bike over a little. The speed limit is 35 mph with no passing. Traffic was light, so I could push my speed a little. But honestly, it’s a ride I didn’t mind taking slow considering how much there was to see over such a short span, with the muted grays and greens of desert sagebrush at the bottom giving way to the autumn reds and yellows of an alpine forest at the top. The scenic drive is a seasonal road past mile marker 3, so check before you go. Parking is sparse at the top, but from there you can hike up another 3,000 feet to the summit of Wheeler Peak or hike among the Bristlecone pines, which are some of the oldest living things on earth. Stalagmites and stalactites inside the Lehman Caves. I stretched my legs hiking for about 30 minutes before winding my way back down the scenic drive to the visitor center to make my Lehman Caves tour reservation (something else to plan in advance). The ride down offered great opportunities to take in the amazing view for miles across the Great Basin Desert. See all of Rider‘s West U.S. Motorcycle Rides here. The cave tour was a pleasantly cool reprieve from the warmer temps on the bike. If you’re claustrophobic, you’ll probably want to skip this one, as there are several passages where you must hunch over to walk through. The caves are worth a visit, but they’re not particularly dramatic. At 13,065 feet, Wheeler Peak is the second tallest mountain in Nevada. As I made my way home, the smoke had mostly cleared, and as the sun started to dip, I could see farther into the distance. When I set out that morning with 10 years in my mirrors, I thought I would have some great revelation along the way about life and what it means to have come so close to death, but the truth is, I ended up doing exactly what I should’ve been doing – not thinking about much at all and just enjoying the ride. See all of Rider‘s touring stories here Utah Motorcycle Ride Resources Utah Tourism Cedar City, Utah Parowan Petroglyphs Nevada Tourism Great Basin National Park Paul Dail, who was on Rider’s editorial staff from 2022 to 2024, was born again into riding when his brother held up his end of a deal, dropping off a Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail at his doorstep. Since then, he has enjoyed riding it around southern Utah and beyond. The post Utah Motorcycle Ride to Great Basin National Park | Favorite Ride appeared first on Rider Magazine.

The National Health Service (NHS) has rolled out a new ‘super-jab’ that thousands of patients will receive monthly. NHS claims the ‘super-jab’ can treat 15 types of cancer. “Thousands of patients will benefit from a new cancer jab for more than a dozen types of the disease, with the NHS the first in Europe to offer the new injection,” NHS stated. “The health service is rolling out an injectable form of immunotherapy, nivolumab, which means patients can receive their fortnightly or monthly treatment in 5 minutes instead of up to an hour via an IV drip,” it added. Thousands of patients in England are set to benefit from a new five-minute ‘super-jab’ that can treat 15 types of cancer that will ‘transform lives’. The NHS is the first health service in Europe to offer the injection, which will save around a year’s worth of treatment,… pic.twitter.com/tvrU5kzgXr — “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) May 2, 2025 Per NHS: The roll-out will save over a year’s worth of treatment time for patients and NHS teams annually – enabling patients to spend less time in hospital while freeing up staff capacity to deliver more appointments and treatments. The new jab can be used to treat 15 cancer types, including skin cancer, bladder, and oesophagus, and it is estimated around 1,200 patients in England per month could benefit. This follows approval from the UK’s medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) today. In clinical trials, patients were highly satisfied with the under-the-skin injection, which takes 3-5 minutes to administer, and preferred it to the IV form of the drug which takes 30 to 60 minutes every 2 weeks or four weeks, depending on the cancer type. Around 2 in 5 patients who currently receive IV nivolumab, which is one of the most widely used cancer treatments, should be eligible for the new jab. NHS staff administering the jab could save around 1,000 hours of treatment time for patients and clinicians every month – the equivalent of more than 1 full year of time annually. Most eligible new patients are also expected to begin on the injectable form of nivolumab. NHS cancer services will now be preparing to treat the first patients with the new treatment next month when supplies of the product are received in the UK, helping to free up valuable resources in nursing and pharmacy teams, as well as helping with capacity demands in cancer day units, where the drug is currently administered. This is the latest in a series of NHS cancer treatment innovations introduced to save patients time and improve access, including the rollout of new injections for breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, and blood disorders. The NHS is introducing a new five-minute injection for 15 types of cancer, including skin, bladder and oesophageal. NHS staff administering the jab could save around 1,000 hours of treatment time for patients and clinicians every month. https://t.co/gMCtLD3vrZ pic.twitter.com/6iUazTT1jF — NHS England (@NHSEngland) April 30, 2025 WATCH: The United Kingdom's National Health Service, the NHS, has rolled out a super jab that can treat up to 15 types of cancers, drastically cutting down treatment time from an hour to just 5 minutes@MollyGambhir reports pic.twitter.com/k3Bwvzjb9Q — WION (@WIONews) May 1, 2025 Daily Mail reports: It comes amid a disturbing rise in cancers including skin and bowel in the under 50s, which has baffled doctors around the globe. Professor Peter Johnson, NHS England National Clinical Director for Cancer, said: ‘Immunotherapy has already been a huge step forward for many NHS patients with cancer, and being able to offer it as an injection in minutes means we can make the process far more convenient. ‘This treatment is used for 15 different types of the disease, so it will free up thousands of valuable clinicians’ time every year, allowing teams to treat even more patients and helping hospital capacity. ‘And this is just the latest development in the NHS’s ongoing commitment to provide patients with the latest cancer therapies and treatment options that truly transform lives.’ Ashley Dalton, the public health minister who announced earlier this year that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer for a second time, added: ‘Britain is a hotbed of innovation, masterminding the newest tech and medical inventions to help people navigating illness. ‘A new jab that fastens up cancer treatment is a prime example of this, so it’s fantastic to see cancer patients in England will be among the first in Europe to benefit.

Paul Kamenar, Counsel for the National Legal and Policy Center, asserts that a Texas District Court Judge erred in disregarding the Trump administration’s definition of a “predatory incursion” in a case involving President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). 

Oman's government, which has been mediating discussions between the two parties, has announced that the United States and Iran have canceled their planned talks this weekend regarding Tehran's nuclear program.

A Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien who was deported to a Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration over his MS-13 ties, was likely engaged in human trafficking in a newly released body camera video. The illegal alien, infamously and inaccurately referred to as a “Maryland man,” was pulled over by Tennessee Highway Patrol Officers in 2022 after the law enforcement agents suspected that he could be smuggling people. One officer is heard in the body camera footage saying that Abrego Garcia was “hauling these people for money.” Abrego Garcia, who was driving a car with eight other people in it, had an invalid Maryland driver’s license, while none of the other men had licenses. “He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say,” the officer said of Abrego Garcia, who changed his story during his interaction with the law enforcement agents. “Sometimes they come in with dope,” the officer added, while a different member of the Tennessee Highway Patrol pointed out that the vehicle Abrego Garcia was driving appeared to have an extra row of seats added to it. BREAKING: Body cam footage obtained by Tennessee Star shows Tennessee Trooper saying Kilmar Abrego Garcia “hauling these people for money” pic.twitter.com/4FHWOIjSz5 — Tennessee Star (@TheTNStar) May 2, 2025 The illegal alien first told law enforcement that he and the other men were “going back to work” in St. Louis, Missouri, where the men worked construction. Later in the encounter, Abrego Garcia said he was going to Maryland, where he lived, but that he and the other men would then return to St. Louis, Missouri, for a construction job. Abrego Garcia also said that he was driving his boss’ car from Houston, Texas. The law enforcement officers asked Abrego to sit in the back of their patrol car, but did not handcuff him. The officers called the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one source told Fox News, but they did not receive a response from ICE and were advised by the Biden-era FBI not to detain Abrego Garcia despite their suspicion that he was trafficking illegal aliens. The footage emerged after Abrego Garcia was sent to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, a massive prison designed for members of criminal gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18. His deportation became a political flashpoint, with Democrat politicians traveling to the Central American country to visit the illegal alien and call for his return to the United States. Newly released court documents indicate that Abrego Garcia bragged that he could murder his wife and get away with it. “Me and my kids are afraid now. He kicked me, pushed me, slapped me in the face and threatened me,” the illegal alien’s wife said, according to the document. “I also have a [recording] that [he] told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him.” The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration has to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States, but Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele quashed any speculation that he would send the man back to the United States in a meeting at the oval office last month. “The question is preposterous, how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”