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  • Stahl HamlitonPolitics

    ‘Shame! Shame!’ Arizona legislature devolves into chaos as Republicans shut down discussion of revived Civil War-era abortion ban

    By Anita Snow, Morgan Lee, and others
  • a freshman, sits at a desk in her dorm room as she participates in a Zoom meetingPolitics

    New Mexico wants to set aside over $1 billion to guarantee tuition-free college and support state spending in case its oil bonanza fades

    By Morgan Lee and The Associated Press
  • SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO – JULY 2, 2020: Construction workers build a cinder block foundation for a new home being built overlooking Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)Personal Finance

    ‘Truly, we’re in a crisis’: Santa Fe voters add momentum to ‘mansion taxes’ by approving levy on home sales over $1 million to fund affordable housing

    By Morgan Lee and The Associated Press
  • Santa FePolitics

    Santa Fe’s ‘mansion tax’ wouldn’t even touch the first $1 million on a sale price, but many realtors and residents still say it’s too extreme

    By Morgan Lee and The Associated Press
  • Pumpjacks outside Artesia, New MexicoFinance

    ‘We are living in unprecedented and historical times’: New Mexico’s surging oil production floods state coffers with $13 billion windfall

    By Morgan Lee and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Pump jacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., April 24, 2015. New Mexico oilfield and air quality regulators on Thursday, June 29, 2023, announced unprecedented state fines against a Texas-based oil and natural gas producer on accusations that the company flouted local pollution reporting and control requirements by burning off vast amounts of natural gas in a prolific energy-production zone in the southeast of the state. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)Environment

    New Mexico fines oil company $40 million for burning off massive amounts of natural gas

    By Morgan Lee and The Associated Press
  • Alec BaldwinLifestyle

    Alec Baldwin is off the hook for involuntary manslaughter charge after new evidence emerges about fatal shooting on movie set

    By Andrew Dalton, Morgan Lee, and others
  • FILE – Actor Alec Baldwin attends the 2019 PEN America Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, in New York. Prosecutors in New Mexico plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film “Rust.” Baldwin’s attorneys said in a statement Thursday that they are pleased with the decision to dismiss the case.(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)Finance

    Alec Baldwin’s manslaughter charge over ‘Rust’ fatal shooting will be dismissed

    By Andrew Dalton, Morgan Lee, and others
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 12: Actor Alec Baldwin watches the Men’s Singles final match between Daniil Medvedev of Russia and Novak Djokovic of Serbia on Day Fourteen of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 12, 2021 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)Arts & Entertainment

    Alec Baldwin fired prop gun that killed one, injured another on ‘Rust’ movie set

    By Morgan Lee, Walter Berry, and others
  • El Paso ShootingPolitics

    El Paso Shooting Death Toll Rises to 22

    By Cedar Attanasio, Paul J. Weber, and others