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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, left, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright outside the West Wing at the White House on March 19.

Interior secretary gives DOGE aide sweeping powers to remake department

By Dino Grandoni, Maxine Joselow · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has given a former oil executive and aide to Elon Musk broad latitude to cut costs and consolidate work within his vast department, which oversees more than 500 million acres of land across the United States. In an order issued Thursday, Burgum put […]

Pope Francis waves to well-wishers from the House speaker's balcony after addressing a joint session of Congress in September 2015.

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Pope Francis, whose humility and empathy reshaped the papacy, dies at 88

By Anthony Faiola · The Washington Post (c) 2025 VATICAN CITY – Three days after white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in March 2013, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires greeted the international press inside a cavernous Vatican audience hall. As he rose from a richly upholstered armchair, a pair of well-worn black shoes […]

Albuquerque City Councilors in the Council chambers on Monday February 3, 2025. Photo by Roberto E. Rosales / City Desk Abq

Council to discuss money for senior housing project

The Albuquerque City Council will consider putting more money into an affordable housing project at its meeting Monday night. The $3 million would be used to close the financing gap caused by increasing construction costs for the Farolito Senior Community, which will consist of 82 units at 10501 Central Avenue NE. The city would extend […]

Uballez running for mayor, touts experience

Former U.S. Attorney Alex Uballez says his experience as a prosecutor on the state and federal level will help him be an effective mayor in Albuquerque. Uballez spoke to City Desk ABQ Friday about his campaign for mayor, as one of nine candidates seeking the position this fall. His main reason for running for mayor […]

President Donald Trump and Anthony S. Fauci, who was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, regularly briefed Americans about the coronavirus response in the early days of the pandemic. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post

White House embraces lab leak as ‘true’ pandemic origin, axes covid website

The White House on Friday launched a website deeming a laboratory leak as the “true” origin of the covid-19 virus, embracing a theory that has become a popular explanation for a pandemic that has killed more than 1 million Americans but remains divisive in the intelligence community and opposed by many virologists. The new website, […]

Tourists visit the National Mall in February.

Travel to the U.S. from almost everywhere is falling under Trump

By Anumita Kaur, Adrián Blanco Ramos · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Overseas travel to the United States has declined sharply since President Donald Trump returned to office. Industry experts say some of the reasons are plain to see: Reports of detentions and deportations, including the weeks-long lockup of European tourists, have sowed fears of bad experiences at the […]