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12/11/2025

"The expanded version of SAVE will introduce unnecessary and unwarranted reliability, privacy, and security issues into the sensitive voter information data we are entrusted to protect." NM Secretary of State signs onto a federal comment with a dozen other secretaries of state.

Republicans in Congress want to give states more authority to remove ineligible voters — including noncitizens and people who have moved or died — from voter rolls, seeking to reinforce the Trump administration’s own push to scrub the lists.

12/10/2025

That Torrance County Detention Facility would lose detainees as it operates without a contract is “striking,” said Zoe Bowman, an immigration attorney. "The Trump administration is doing absolutely everything they can to detain as many people as possible and fill ICE detention beds,” she said.

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The apparent decline coincides with an expired contract at the facility and bucks the norm of ICE facilities nationwide seeing increases.

12/10/2025

A public lands advocacy group sued the Trump administration in federal court Wednesday over the inclusion of President Donald Trump’s face on the forthcoming National Park annual pass.

WASHINGTON — A public lands advocacy group sued the Trump administration in federal court Wednesday over the inclusion of President Donald Trump’s face on the forthcoming National Park annual pass. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of...

12/10/2025

“I’m incredibly proud of this department,” Department Secretary Rodriguez told lawmakers. “Oftentimes you hear we’re last in education. That is not the case for higher education, adult education and early childhood education.”

The New Mexico Higher Education Department asked lawmakers to fund free high school equivalency testing and loan repayment programs.

12/10/2025

New Mexico has the highest share of kinship—other family members besides parents raising children. In response, the state's new universal childcare program applies to grandparents. Read a deep dive published in partnership with The 19th.

New Mexico’s new universal child care program could include some of the state’s most vulnerable caregivers: grandparents.

12/10/2025

Kind of a good news/bad news situation:

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson committed Wednesday to hold a vote next week on a package of bills that he said would lower health insurance premiums for hundreds of millions of Americans, not just those enrolled in Affordable Care Act plans.  But the Louisiana Republican’s promise...

12/10/2025

The mediation talks have the potential to bring an end to the first of several state lawsuits and investigations concerning Shepard, his use of taxpayer dollars and the former regents’ decision to award him nearly $2 million in severance.

Mediation talks to start nearly a year after the state attorney general first sued ex-Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard.

12/09/2025

County tax assessors classify New Mexico’s roughly 14,000 short-term rental properties differently across the state, according to a legislative study released this week. The “assessment confusion is harming homeowners,” the report says, and should be made uniform.

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Report authors detailed the results of their months-long study or the first time Monday during a presentation to an interim legislative committee.

12/09/2025

Going, going...

12/09/2025

NM AG Raúl Torrez is one of several Democratic AGs supporting the immigrant rights groups in this case.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Tuesday defended the merits of its fast-track deportation policy before a panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, saying immigrants who have been in the country for less than two years without legal authorization are not guaranteed d...

12/09/2025

A Manhattan federal judge granted an order today to unseal grand jury records in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell. Soon.

WASHINGTON — A Manhattan federal judge granted an order Tuesday to unseal grand jury records in the case of Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of s*x trafficking minors among other offenses in 2021. Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote in a 24-page order that unsea...

12/09/2025

Whether Trump will fire his FDA chief remains to be seen.

WASHINGTON — The head of one of the country’s largest anti-abortion organizations wants President Donald Trump to fire U.S. Food and Drug Administrator Marty Makary over access to medication abortion.  Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, expressed frustration ...