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• New Mexico lawmakers prepare lawsuits on vetoes

  13-04-2017 23:47 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico lawmakers have authorized legal challenges to vetoes by Gov. Susana Martinez that could otherwise defund the Legislature and state universities and colleges.
  Leading lawmakers on Thursday directed attorneys to proceed with lawsuits that challenge vetoes that affect core state functions.
  Lawmakers on the Legislative Council also directed staff to begin collecting signatures to call an extraordinary session of the Legislature, potentially upstaging the govern
  
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• New Mexico lawmakers consider litigation in budget standoff

  13-04-2017 23:47 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Negotiations over a possible solution to New Mexico’s state budget crisis have been set in motion as lawmakers receive legal advice on how to respond to major taxation and spending vetoes by Gov. Susana Martinez.
  Democratic Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth said Thursday he had received a text message from the governor’s office asking to meet. Leading state lawmakers consulted with attorneys and staff behind closed doors Thursday afternoon about vetoes th
  
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• US indictment charges man with murder in killing of officer

  13-04-2017 23:29 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Navajo Nation man has been charged with murder and other crimes in the March 11 killing of a tribal police officer.
  A federal indictment announced Thursday charges 32-year-old Kirby Cleveland with three types of murder plus escape and firearms counts.
  The murder and weapons charges stem from the killing of Officer Houston James Largo. He was gunned down after he stopped a vehicle on a dark road while responding to a domestic violence call in rural New Mexico.
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• NMSU Chancellor reaches out to students after departure of Coach Weir

  13-04-2017 23:24 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico State University chancellor is reaching out to students after the uproar over the departure of head basketball coach Paul Weir.
  Weir announced this week that he was leaving NMSU for the University of New Mexico. While he was head coach for just one year, he spent nearly 10 years at NMSU.
  Wednesday, Chancellor Garrey Carruthers sent an email to students explaining what the university did to try to keep Weir.
  “We gave Paul his first head coachin
  
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• NMSU Chancellor reaches out to students after Coach Weir’s departure

  13-04-2017 23:24 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico State University chancellor is reaching out to students after the uproar over the departure of head basketball coach Paul Weir.
  Weir announced this week that he was leaving NMSU for the University of New Mexico. While he was head coach for just one year, he spent nearly 10 years at NMSU.
  Wednesday, Chancellor Garrey Carruthers sent an email to students explaining what the university did to try to keep Weir.
  “We gave Paul his first head coachin
  
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• Engineering firm enjoying fast growth

  13-04-2017 23:06
  
  Verus Engineering is shooting for the stars in Albuquerque’s high-flying technology research and development community and loving every minute of it. “Our vision statement has the word ‘joy’ in it, because we’re earnestly trying to enjoy our time,” said Verus CEO Wheaton Byers.”We’re not chasing dollar denominations, but creating technology opportunities for all of us.” […]
  
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• Albuquerque BioPark breaks ground on new otter exhibit

  13-04-2017 22:54 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The otters’ new home at the Albuquerque BioPark is taking shape.
  Ground was officially broken Thursday on the new otter exhibit at the BioPark aquarium. It will be located where the lagoon used to be.
  The two level exhibit will allow visitors to see the North American river otters both above ground and as they swim.
  The county, which typically spends its money in unincorporated areas, contributed the most.
  “How can you turn down an otter? I mean, they
  
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• Updated: Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney dies at 84

  13-04-2017 22:38
  
  Dan Rooney, the powerful and popular Pittsburgh Steelers chairman whose name is attached to the NFL’s landmark initiative in minority hiring, died Thursday. He was 84. The team announced his death but details were not immediately available. Rooney took over operation of the team in the 1960s from his father, Art, who founded the franchise. […]
  
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• Updated: Mike Tyson thanks Christie for work on prisoner re-entry

  13-04-2017 22:35
  
  JERSEY CITY, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s efforts to halt drug addiction now include a chapter with former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Christie has accepted a champion’s belt from Tyson for his efforts on prisoner re-entry. The presentation came Thursday at an annual conference in Jersey City where they were featured speakers. The […]
  
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• Updated: Family of boy killed on Kansas waterslide reach settlements

  13-04-2017 22:34
  
  OLATHE, Kan. — The family of a 10-year-old boy who died while on a waterslide at a Kansas water park has reached settlements with a general contractor and a consulting company involved in building the towering ride. Kansas state Rep. Scott Schwab’s son, Caleb, died Aug. 7 while riding on the Verruckt waterslide, a 17-story […]
  
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• Democratic Arizona lawmaker apologizes for punch threat

  13-04-2017 22:28
  
  PHOENIX — A Democratic member of the Arizona House has apologized to his colleagues for a Facebook post where he said he wanted to punch the Republican sponsor of a school voucher bill in the throat. Rep. Jesus Rubalcava told his colleagues Thursday that his post was “definitely unprofessional and unacceptable and I want this […]
  
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• UNM dropping men’s and women’s ski programs over budget cuts

  13-04-2017 22:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The University of New Mexico is dropping its men’s and women’s ski programs due to rising costs and impending budget cuts.
  UNM Vice President for Athletics Paul Krebs made the announcement Thursday.
  The decision will save the school’s athletic department about $600,000 per year in operating budget, scholarships and salaries.
  The cuts will reduce UNM’s sports programs from 22 to 20.
  School officials say skiing scholarships will be honored thr
  
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• Updated: Health inspectors ding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago eateries

  13-04-2017 20:29
  
  WASHINGTON — Unsafe seafood. Insufficiently refrigerated meats. Rusty shelving. Cooks without hairnets. Reports show Florida health inspectors cited President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with 15 violations in late January, days before the U.S. leader hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for a diplomatic visit. Still, the state inspectors allowed the luxury resort’s main restaurant and […]
  
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• Updated: Lawyer: Dragged passenger lost 2 teeth and broke his nose

  13-04-2017 20:28
  
  CHICAGO — The passenger dragged from a United flight lost two front teeth and suffered a broken nose and a concussion, one of his lawyers said Thursday, accusing the airline industry of having “bullied” its customers for far too long. “Are we going to continue to be treated like cattle?” attorney Thomas Demetrio asked. Dr. […]
  
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• Trump lets states block some Planned Parenthood money

  13-04-2017 20:24 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Further chipping away at his predecessor’s legacy, President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday that lets states deny federal family planning money to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
  Trump’s action erases a rule, finalized shortly before President Barack Obama left office in January, that said states could not block the money. It’s the latest Obama regulation that Trump has overturned.
  Undoing the prohibition also gives Republicans
  
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• US rig count rises 8 this week to 847; New Mexico up 7

  13-04-2017 20:23
  
  HOUSTON — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. rose by 8 this week to 847. A year ago, 440 rigs were active. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Thursday that 683 rigs sought oil and 162 explored for natural gas this week. Two were listed as […]
  
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• Updated: Iraqis in ‘liberated’ Mosul want services restored

  13-04-2017 20:21
  
  MOSUL, Iraq — The airstrike crater on a once-busy road in eastern Mosul is filled with murky water and lined with garbage, a nearby market shrouded in the stench. The fight for Iraq’s second largest city ended nearly three months ago, but little is back to normal. Iraq declared the eastern half of Mosul “fully […]
  
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• Crews begin work on Fourth Street Revitalization Project

  13-04-2017 20:04 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – More orange barrels and lane closures are coming to a busy street. Los Ranchos leaders say workers are digging up a stretch of Fourth Street to make the village more walkable.
  You’ll never be able to legally drive 25 miles an hour down this stretch of Fourth Street again.  Right now it’s due to construction, but when it’s done, this part of Fourth will be down to three lanes with a 25 mile an hour speed limit.
  Mayor Larry Abraham says the F
  
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• Colorado GOP endorses abortion waiting periods

  13-04-2017 20:01
  
  DENVER — Colorado’s Senate has tentatively approved a measure requiring waiting periods for women seeking abortions. The bill by GOP Sens. Vicki Marble and Kevin Lundberg would require doctors to offer women the chance to see ultrasound images, to explain abortion risks, and to review alternatives such as adoptions. A woman can decline that information […]
  
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• US hit IS with largest non-nuclear bomb ever used

  13-04-2017 19:09 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with “the mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said.
  The bomb, known officially as a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast weapon, unleashes 11 tons of explosives. When it was developed in the early 2000s, the Pentagon did a formal review of legal justification for its combat use.
  The
  
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• Pentagon: US dropped largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan

  13-04-2017 19:09 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military’s largest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan.
  Adam Stump is a Pentagon spokesman. Stump says it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, known as the GBU-43, which he said contains 11 tons of explosives. The Air Force calls it the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb. Based on the acronym, it has been nicknamed the “Mother Of All Bombs.”
  Stump says the bomb was dropped
  
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• Suspect in red hat robs northeast Albuquerque bank

  13-04-2017 17:58 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The FBI is asking for your help in catching a man who robbed a bank in northeast Albuquerque.
  A man wearing glasses, a red hat and a portfolio allegedly robbed the Bank of the West on Eubank Wednesday. He is described as a light-skinned Hispanic or black male in his 20s or 30s, approximately 5’6″ to 5’7″ tall, weighing about 130 pounds, with a slender build.
  The FBI says he verbally demanded money from a teller who then handed ov
  
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• Pope urges prisoners to serve 1 another in foot-wash rite

  13-04-2017 17:46 via krqe.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis washed the feet of a dozen inmates at a maximum security prison on Holy Thursday in a pre-Easter ritual meant to show his willingness to serve society’s most marginal and give them hope. Francis urged the prisoners to help one another out and similarly “be the servant of others.”
  Francis travelled to the Paliano detention center, located in a fortress south of Rome, to celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass at the only Italian prison dedicated t
  
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• Jury in ex-NFL player’s trial to deliberate for 5th day

  13-04-2017 17:46 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The jury in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez has begun its fifth day of deliberations.
  Deliberations resumed Thursday morning.
  The former New England Patriots tight end is accused of shooting two men in Boston in 2012. Hernandez’s lawyers say a former Hernandez friend shot the men over a drug deal.
  In court Thursday, the judge said a clerk received a call from Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s attorney asking if Belichick faces consequences for
  
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• Jury in ex-NFL player’s trial ends 5th day without verdict

  13-04-2017 17:46 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The jury in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez has completed its fifth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
  The former New England Patriots tight end is accused of shooting two men in Boston in 2012. Hernandez’s lawyers say a former friend shot the men over drugs.
  The jury has deliberated for 32 hours. Deliberations are set to resume Friday.
  In court Thursday, the judge said a clerk received a call from Patriots coach Bill Belichick&rsquo
  
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• Task force to review juvenile justice system in New Mexico

  13-04-2017 17:44 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Facets of New Mexico’s juvenile justice system will go under the microscope as part of a comprehensive review to be carried out by a special task force.
  New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Barbara Vigil and officials with the state’s child welfare agency plan to launch the task force during a news conference in Albuquerque Thursday.
  Nationwide, various states are looking for alternatives that both respond to youth crime while improving the outcome for thos
  
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• Breaking: Lawyer says airline has ‘bullied’ passengers

  13-04-2017 17:22
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the removal of a passenger who was dragged off a United Express flight in…
  
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• Topeka firefighters rescue cat caught in tree and its owner

  13-04-2017 17:10
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. — Firefighters in Kansas rescued a cat from a tree. They also rescued its owner. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2or19ma ) reports that the woman climbed the tree Wednesday trying to get to her cat but she wasn’t able to get back down. Topeka Fire Department Shift Commander Todd Williams says the woman and […]
  
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• Woman injured by discus at school track meet wins lawsuit

  13-04-2017 17:09
  
  OMAHA, Neb. — A woman who was struck in the head by a discus at a 2014 state track meet in Nebraska has been awarded $350,000 in a settlement. The Omaha World-Herald (http://bit.ly/2o9FmOR ) reports that 83-year-old Bernice Gorecki filed a lawsuit in 2015 after being hit by a student-athlete’s discus while standing in the […]
  
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• Updated: Jury about to get Nevada ranch standoff case in Vegas

  13-04-2017 17:09
  
  LAS VEGAS — A federal court jury in Nevada will hear three more defense attorneys and a prosecutor before beginning deliberations in the trial of six men accused of wielding assault-style rifles in cattleman Cliven Bundy’s dispute with federal agents three years ago. Summations are due to finish Thursday in Las Vegas in the first […]
  
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• Misdirected US strike killed 18 allied fighters in Syria

  13-04-2017 17:09
  
  BEIRUT — A misdirected airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition earlier this week killed 18 allied fighters battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, the U.S. military said Thursday. U.S. Central Command said coalition aircraft were given the wrong coordinates by their partner forces, the predominantly-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, for a strike intended to target […]
  
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• New Mexico nonprofit gets homeownership grant

  13-04-2017 15:55 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A nonprofit that works to boost homeownership in the state has been awarded a multimillion-dollar grant that will benefit residents in several counties in central and northern New Mexico.
  Homewise, Inc. says the grant will help provide $10,500 in mortgage down payment assistance to 300 low- and moderate-income prospective homebuyers through deferred loans.
  The nonprofit says that in 2015, 13 percent of home purchase loan applicants in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties
  
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• Uproar over United video imperils Chicago airport police

  13-04-2017 15:10 via krqe.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The video of a passenger being dragged by an officer from a United Express flight shined an unwanted spotlight on the little-known police force that guards Chicago’s two main airports and could threaten the agency’s future.
  Chicago’s aviation officers are not part of the regular police force, unlike in many other big cities. They get less training than regular officers and can’t carry firearms inside the airports. Three of them were put on leave amid
  
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• Lawyer: Dragged passenger lost 2 teeth and broke his nose

  13-04-2017 15:10 via krqe.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The passenger dragged from a United flight lost two front teeth and suffered a broken nose and a concussion, one of his lawyers said Thursday, accusing the airline industry of having “bullied” its customers for far too long.
  “Are we going to continue to be treated like cattle?” attorney Thomas Demetrio asked.
  Dr. David Dao has been released from a hospital but will need reconstructive surgery, Demetrio said at a news conference, appearing alongside on
  
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• Global stocks drop after Trump talks down dollar

  13-04-2017 15:10 via krqe.com
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets turned lower and the dollar was volatile Thursday after President Donald Trump withdrew a threat to declare China a currency manipulator and said the U.S. currency was “getting too strong.” Tensions over North Korea also weighed on investors ahead of a long weekend in many markets.
  KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, London’s FTSE-100 lost 0.6 percent to 7,307 and France’s CAC-40 shed 0.6 percent to 5,072. German’s DAX slid 0.4 percen
  
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• US jobless aid applications fell to 234,000 last week

  13-04-2017 15:08 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, which is evidence of a stable job market and greater security for workers.
  THE NUMBERS: Weekly applications for jobless aid dipped 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 234,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. Requests for benefits in the prior week were revised up 1,000 to 235,000. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell to 247,250 from 250,250.
  Over the past year, the number of people collecting unemploym
  
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• Rudi Foundation hosts Superhero Fun Run

  13-04-2017 15:08 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – One foundation is giving the community a chance to be someone’s hero in a unique way.
  The Kevin Rudi Foundation is hosting its third annual Superhero 5K Fun Run.
  The run is held each year in honor of Kevin Rudi, who passed away from Sarcoma at age 27.
  The event also helps raise money for Sarcoma Research at The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center.
  Runners of all abilities are welcome and costumes are encouraged.
  The run begins Saturday, Apri
  
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• Conservative group’s health ads slam top GOP lawmakers

  13-04-2017 15:08 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The conservative Club for Growth is targeting powerful committee chairmen and other top Republicans, part of an aggressive ad campaign to rally support for the GOP’s struggling health care overhaul effort.
  The television and digital ads, unveiled earlier this week, pressure Republicans to a back a revised version of the GOP health care bill that Speaker Paul Ryan abruptly withdrew last month because it lacked the votes. The Trump administration offered a new proposa
  
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• Thursday’s Morning Rush Video, 5 Facts: Motion filed to drop charges against Tai Chan

  13-04-2017 15:03 via krqe.com
  
  The 5 Facts You Need to Know
  1. Defense attorneys for the former Santa Fe County deputy charged with murder are trying to get the entire case dropped before trial. In 2014, Tai Chan shot and killed fellow Deputy Jeremy Martin at a Las Cruces hotel. Chan claims self-defense. Now his attorney says the state withheld evidence claiming an expert found a secret file on Martin’s cell phone with sexually suggestive texts and pictures. The defense is suggesting those who received the texts could h
  
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• Local theater group presents Evita

  13-04-2017 15:01 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A theatrical classic is coming to Albuquerque.
  Musical Theatre Southwest is proud to present Evita, the infamous musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
  Evita follows the early life, rise, and death of Argentina’s Eva Peron, wife and activist of President Juan Peron. Adored by her people as a champion for the poor, yet reviled by the aristocracy as “trash”, she became one of the most powerful women in the world.
  Audiences can enjoy the passionate and un
  
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• Kirtland Air Force Base takes an aggressive approach to diversity

  13-04-2017 14:11 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Kirtland Air Force base wants to look more like New Mexico.
  Representatives say their workforce is not representative of the people in the state. It’s why they’re devoting more resources to boosting diversity on base.
  Officials say they face a unique challenge at Kirtland. The Air Force operates on a federal recruitment system, which means there are a lot of strict qualifications that cannot be changed.
  “Our local applicant pool h
  
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• Trump reverses himself on NATO, China, Russia and more

  13-04-2017 14:09 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump hasn’t been in the White House for 100 days, yet he’s already reversed himself on many of his key campaign promises.
  In several interviews this week, the president has forged new positions on topics ranging from NATO to Chinese currency manipulation. They come as other campaign promises lag, including Trump’s vow to build a concrete wall along the length of the southern border and have Mexico pay for it.
  “One by one we are ke
  
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• British official: South Sudan violence is tribal genocide

  13-04-2017 14:09 via krqe.com
  
  ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) — South Sudan’s civil war is now genocide, with violence perpetrated along tribal lines, a senior British official said, urging African leaders to do more to end the conflict in which tens of thousands of people have been killed.
  Priti Patel, the U.K. secretary of state for international development, said there are “massacres taking place, people’s throats being slit” amid what she called a “scorched earth policy” in South Sudan&rsqu
  
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• Russia vetoes UN resolution to condemn Syria chemical attack

  13-04-2017 14:05 via krqe.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia vetoed a Western-backed U.N. resolution Wednesday that would have condemned the reported use of chemical weapons in a town in northern Syria and demanded a speedy investigation into the attack that killed nearly 90 people.
  The vote on the Security Council resolution drafted by Britain, France and the United States was 10 in favor, Russia and Bolivia against, and China, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia abstaining.
  Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov told th
  
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• Egypt beefs up security outside churches ahead of Easter

  13-04-2017 14:04 via krqe.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Outside of Cairo’s St. Mark’s Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope, a dozen high-ranking police officers are stationed on all entrances, searching cars and scanning the area, as security measures are visibly beefed up outside churches before Easter prayers on Sunday.
  The usually festive occasion is tainted with fearful apprehension after twin bombings in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria killed 45 people this week at churches on Palm Sunday, which marks
  
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• China’s exports accelerate in March, import growth moderates

  13-04-2017 14:04 via krqe.com
  
  BEIJING (AP) — China’s export growth accelerated in March in a positive sign for global demand, though import growth cooled.
  Exports rose 16.4 percent from a year earlier to $180.6 billion, up from 4 percent growth in the first two months of the year, according to customs data released Thursday. Imports rose 20.3 percent to $156.6 billion, down growth in January-February of 26.4 percent.
  The unexpectedly strong exports are a positive sign for Chinese leaders who want to avert job los
  
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• Kremlin: No positive shift yet on Russia-US ties

  13-04-2017 14:03 via krqe.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hasn’t produced any positive shift yet in Russia-U.S. relations, the Kremlin said Thursday.
  Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian leader on Wednesday gave Tillerson his view of the causes of the current “deadlock” in bilateral ties. “We hope that the U.S. president will become aware of that analysis,” he said Thursday.
  President Donald Trump decla
  
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• Elementary and Middle School students learn how to be financially responsible

  13-04-2017 13:59 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Local students as young as kindergarten will be learning about how money works and how to manage money responsibly.
  It’s part of Financial Literacy Month. Non-profit junior achievement of New Mexico has partnered up with area banks to provide this opportunity to students from Carlos Ray Elementary and Wilson Middle School.
  “Kids at a very young age think that you just whip out your credit card. at that age we try to teach them the difference between t
  
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• Highland High School breaks ground on new gymnasium

  13-04-2017 13:55 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One of the oldest schools in the Albuquerque Public Schools District is about to get a facelift. Highland High School has been open for nearly 70 years. But on Thursday morning, officials will break ground to make way for a new gymnasium.
  Students have been using the same gym since the high school opened in 1949. A $12.3 million project is going to give students there a state of the art gymnasium.
  Contractors will break ground on an 87,000 square foot gym that in
  
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• Highland High School breaks ground for new gymnasium

  13-04-2017 13:55 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One of the oldest schools in the Albuquerque Public Schools District is about to get a face lift. Highland High School has been open for nearly 70 years. But on Thursday morning, officials will break ground to make way for a new gymnasium.
  Students have been using the same gym since the high school opened in 1949. A $12.3 million project is going to give students here a state of the art gymnasium.
  Contractors will break ground on an 87,000 square foot gym that in
  
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