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By Mariana Alfaro, Tobi Raji, The Washington Post (c) 2025 Before Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) became a politician, he was an AmeriCorps member. Thirty years ago, fresh out of college, Fetterman was sent to Pittsburgh’s Hill District as part of the program’s second class. He spent his days helping young mothers and fathers earn their […]
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By Jake Spring, Dino Grandoni · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Trump officials are analyzing whether to remove federal protections for national monuments spanning millions of acres in the West, according to two people familiar with the matter and an internal Interior Department document, in order to spur energy development on public lands. Interior Department aides are looking at […]
By Lily Alexander, The Daily Lobo Changes to two Regents’ policies on affirmative action at the University of New Mexico went into effect Tuesday, April 15. The revisions largely remove UNM’s commitment to affirmative action from the policies. This comes amid proposed changes to similar policies in the University Administrative Policies manual. This story originally appeared at The Daily […]
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By Evan Hill · The Washington Post (c) 2025 One U.S. defense contractor set up a way to remotely access an office computer. Another forwarded 37 sensitive but unclassified work emails to a personal account. A third sent three emails with classified information to co-workers on an unauthorized system. They all lost their federalsecurity clearances as a result […]
By Andrea Vasquez The Town of Moriarty opened the doors of City Hall for a town hall meeting on April 17 to chat with Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury about federal policy issues and their effects on the community. This marked the 13th town hall for Stansbury and her team in the state. She began by thanking […]
By Rodd Cayton Albuquerque City Councilors are continuing to try to reduce a housing shortage in the city that has reached the level of thousands of units. Monday night, the council approved more than $9 million for the Somos and Farolito Senior Community housing developments as construction costs increase. Most of the money, $6.1 million, […]
By Rodd Cayton The impending deployment of National Guard troops on the streets of Albuquerque has drawn questions from some city councilors, including two who represent areas in which they will be deployed. Councilor Nichole Rogers said her phones and emails have been “blowing up” about the National Guard, after New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan […]
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By Aaron Blake · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Trump administration on Tuesday offered its latest tone shift on President Donald Trump’s tariffs, in an apparent attempt to steady an increasingly rocky economic picture. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled that there could soon be a de-escalation in the huge and growing trade war with China. Meanwhile, Trump […]
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By Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (New York) and four other Senate Democrats are urging the Social Security Administration’s inspector general’s office to investigate the impacts of the U.S. DOGE Service’s dramatic restructuring and sweeping cuts to the government agency. The letter sent to the inspector general’s office […]
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By Meryl Kornfield, Lisa Rein, Hannah Natanson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 When Richard VanMetter tried to buy a sandwich, he didn’t realize he was dead. The 76-year-old retired physicist, on vacation in Boca Raton, Florida, in February, assumed there might have been a fraudulent charge that caused his credit card to be declined for a $6 Italian sub […]
