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Feb. 28—A woman suspected of using a pickup to run over and kill another woman in Española last week has surrendered to police. Española police Chief Mizel Garcia said in an interview Wednesday that Stephanie Renee Salazar, 34, turned herself in to one of the agency’s sergeants Saturday morning. Garcia said Salazar was still in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision to consider whether former President Donald Trump should be immune from prosecution in his federal 2020 election interference case could push a trial close to Election Day — or even beyond this year. The announcement Wednesday was a victory for Trump’s efforts to delay the criminal case charging […]

But their ties to Trump – whose grip on the Republican Party has strengthened through a wave of primary victories – vary. Senator Mitch McConnell and then-President Donald Trump in 2019. File photo: Reuters Barrasso, the No 3 Republican, backed Trump in early January, nearly a week before the January 15 Iowa caucus, and drew […]

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Feb. 28—SANTA FE — “We’ve gotta build houses.” That was the message from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham as she signed into law a bill geared at increasing the state’s low-cost housing stock. HB195 expands the Opportunity Enterprise Act, a bill passed in 2022 that created a revolving fund to provide loans, revolving funds and other […]

WASHINGTON — Bipartisan negotiators announced Wednesday they have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown this week, securing agreement on half of the dozen must-pass spending bills and extending a pair of fast-approaching funding deadlines deeper into March to buy Congress more time. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck […]

CANADIAN, Texas — A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches. An 83-year-old grandmother from the tiny town of Stinnett […]

WASHINGTON — After a convincing special election victory, New York Democrat Tom Suozzi was sworn into the House on Wednesday night to fill the vacancy left by last year’s historic expulsion of Republican George Santos. Suozzi’s swearing-in further reduces House Republicans’ razor-thin majority — one of the smallest ever — to 219-213 at a time […]

“We are appalled by the public executions of three people at sports stadiums in Afghanistan in the past week,” said Jeremy Laurence, spokesman for the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner in a statement on Wednesday. Afghan men leaving a football stadium after a public execution in January. Photo: AFP “Public executions are […]

Jaylin Todd, 16, was identified by police as the victim of a hit-and-run crash that involved a van that fled the scene on Saturday. Officers responded around 6:33 p.m. Feb. 24 near East 23rd Street and Chelsea Avenue, according to Sgt. Phillip DiMartino, a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department. Todd was riding a […]

The results of Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary were just messy enough that both sides could claim victory. But there was a clear warning for President Joe Biden from key elements of the Democratic coalition. More than 100,000 Michiganders took the time to vote for nobody instead of the incumbent president. In a battleground state Biden […]