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• 1 rescued in cold temperatures by Santa Fe Fire Department

  13-11-2022 23:51 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The cold temperatures contributed to some scary moments in Santa Fe. A person had to be rescued from a trail.The fire department posted pictures of a trail rescue in freezing conditions on their Facebook page. Household refill business nudges New Mexico towards greener futurePhoto courtesy of the Santa Fe Fire DepartmentPhoto courtesy of the Santa Fe Fire DepartmentThe post said they rescued one person from the top of Deception Peak with the help of Ski Patrol
  
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• 'Honor Camp' encourages Girl Scouts to see how women contribute to the military

  13-11-2022 23:33 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Girl Scouts in New Mexico got a chance to learn more about what it's like to serve in the U.S. military. The Girl Scouts' "Honor Camp" took place Saturday.
  The camp paired elementary and middle school-aged Girl Scouts with female veterans to learn more about the American flag and what it's like to serve in the military. Food, coats handed out at Mesa Verde Community CenterThey also had some fun and made patriotic crafts.
  "Matching female veterans and Girls S
  
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• Student loan relief: Biden senior adviser says 'we're going to prevail' after judge strikes down plan

  13-11-2022 22:47 via krqe.com
  
  (The Hill) - Anita Dunn, a senior adviser to President Biden, said on Sunday that the administration is going to win the legal battle over student debt relief after a federal judge struck down the administration’s initiative earlier this week.
  Texas district judge ​​Mark Pittman on Friday struck down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness initiative, saying that the proposed program is “an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power.
  
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• How much would Kevin's grocery order in 'Home Alone' cost today?

  13-11-2022 22:02 via krqe.com
  
  ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — It's been 32 years since Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, made a trip to the supermarket for supplies in the 1990 film "Home Alone."Kevin's outing cost him $19.83 for milk, bread, toilet paper, laundry detergent, fabric softener, cling wrap, macaroni-and-cheese, a turkey TV dinner, orange juice, and a bag of plastic Army men. Stimulus checks and other payments: IRS sending letters to millions as deadline loomsTikTok user Rochelle Chalmers decided t
  
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• Banksy art appears amid war ruins in Ukraine

  13-11-2022 21:41 via krqe.com
  
  BORODYANKA, Ukraine (AP) — Amid the ruins of war, the flowerings of art.A delicate painting of a gymnast doing a handstand has popped up on the wall of a wrecked building outside of Kyiv and appears to be the work of the British graffiti artist known as Banksy.Banksy posted photos on his Instagram page of the artwork in Borodyanka, northwest of Ukraine's capital. BioPark elephant is recovering after eye surgeryThe town was the target of shelling and fighting in the early stages o
  
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• Employee tracking: From your keystrokes to your emails, here's what your employer can see

  13-11-2022 20:02 via krqe.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) - At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many transitioned to working from home. This not only took them out of the office, it gave them a chance to wear their pajamas, tend to their children, and any number of other things around their home while on the clock. It also seemed to open the floodgates to new - sometimes unknown - surveillance by employers.Office workers, while in the office at least, were likely aware when their boss was observing them. They'd walk by your desk or be with
  
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• 16 injured after semi hits bus carrying high school hockey team from Chicago

  13-11-2022 18:37 via krqe.com
  
  WARSAW, Ind. (WANE) - Three student-athletes from a Chicago high school hockey team were critically injured when a semi-truck slammed into the school bus they were riding in Saturday evening, police said.In addition to the three students critically injured, 13 other people on the bus were also hurt, officials said.6 killed after vintage aircraft collision at Dallas air showPolice said the bus had 26 people on it, including two coaches, the bus driver, and the St. Ignatius College Prep high schoo
  
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• Why booking travel on your phone is a bad idea

  13-11-2022 18:02 via krqe.com
  
  Since the first iPhone launched 15 years ago, consumer shopping habits have slowly but relentlessly shifted toward mobile devices. According to a survey of 3,250 U.S. consumers from Pymnts.com, a website dedicated to analyzing the role of payments in new tech, the majority of travel service purchases (51.4%) were made on a mobile device in February 2022. Man who inspired ‘The Terminal’ dies at Paris airportThe trend is even starker among younger shoppers. About 48% of millennials age
  
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• CDC map puts 7 states in worst category for flu activity

  13-11-2022 17:39 via krqe.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – The 2022 flu season is off to an early and vicious start, especially in the South, according to tracking by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  The CDC has seven states, plus Washington, D.C., in the highest category for flu activity, shown in purple on the map below. Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia are all categorized as "very high."
  It's not much better in Maryland and Texas, both of which are in the second-wor
  
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• Man who inspired 'The Terminal' dies at Paris airport

  13-11-2022 17:20 via krqe.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and whose saga loosely inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” died Saturday in the airport that he long called home, officials said.Mehran Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according to an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the offici
  
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• Paxlovid effective in reducing risk of long COVID symptoms: study

  13-11-2022 17:02 via krqe.com
  
  (The Hill) - A recent preprint study found that Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid may be effective in reducing the risk of developing long COVID in patients recovering from coronavirus infections.The study, funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), looked through the VA's healthcare databases and identified individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 between March and June 2022.This sample size was further narrowed to those who were not hospitalized on the day that they tested posit
  
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• Easing inflation isn't making these grocery items any cheaper, data shows

  13-11-2022 16:47 via krqe.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) - Though consumer prices rose again in October, the latest data from the Labor Department shows prices are rising at a slower rate. The annual inflation rate fell to 7.7 percent last month compared to 8.2 percent in September. Economists expected the annual inflation rate to fall to 7.9 percent, according to consensus projections.
  The Consumer Price Index shows prices rose 0.4 percent in October, slower than the 0.6 percent projected by economists. Cooling inflation is a promising sign
  
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• 6 killed after vintage aircraft collision at Dallas air show

  13-11-2022 16:02 via krqe.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Six people were killed after two historic military planes collided and crashed to the ground Saturday afternoon during a Dallas air show, officials said.“According to our Dallas County Medical Examiner, there are a total of 6 fatalities from yesterday’s Wings over Dallas air show incident,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted Sunday. He said authorities are continuing to work to identify the victims. Vandals break into Albuquerque church
  
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• 8 billion people: Four ways climate change and population growth combine to threaten public health, with global consequences

  13-11-2022 16:00 via krqe.com
  
  (THE CONVERSATION) There are questions that worry me profoundly as a population- and environmental-health scientist.Will we have enough food for a growing global population? How will we take care of more people in the next pandemic? What will heat do to millions with hypertension? Will countries wage water wars because of increasing droughts?These risks all have three things in common: health, climate change and a growing population that the United Nations forecasts will reach 8 billio
  
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• How cancer cells can become immortal – new research finds a mutated gene that helps melanoma defeat the normal limits on repeated replication

  13-11-2022 15:15 via krqe.com
  
  (THE CONVERSATION) A defining characteristic of cancer cells is their immortality. Usually, normal cells are limited in the number of times they can divide before they stop growing. Cancer cells, however, can overcome this limitation to form tumors and bypass “mortality” by continuing to replicate.Telomeres play an essential role in determining how many times a cell can divide. These repetitive sequences of DNA are located at the ends of chromosomes, structures that contain
  
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• Native American children's protection against adoption by non-Indian families is before the Supreme Court

  13-11-2022 14:00 via krqe.com
  
  (THE CONVERSATION) During oral arguments about the constitutionality of a 1978 law enacted to protect Native American children in the U.S. and strengthen their families, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said:“[T]he policy is for Congress to make. And Congress understood these … decisions as integral to the continued thriving of Indian communities. And Congress had a different view of the costs and benefits of how these decisions were being made. And that&rs
  
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• State volleyball champions crowned on Saturday

  13-11-2022 06:05 via krqe.com
  
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – The high school volleyball season wrapped up on Saturday. The state championships took place at the Rio Rancho Event Center, and the day was filled with plenty of excitement.Story continues below:
  New Mexico: Salvation Army lends helping hand to Acoma Pueblo communityCrime: Truck stolen from Los Ranchos roofing businessKRQE Investigates: AR-15, $21,000+ worth of gear stolen from unlocked State Police patrol carAlbuquerque: Study: Albuquerque ranks 29th in nat
  
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• Corrales residents worry about possible assisted living facility opening in residential home

  13-11-2022 04:56 via krqe.com
  
  CORRALES, N.M. (KRQE) – One Corrales neighborhood may be getting new neighbors. That's because a resident is trying to open a small, assisted living facility in her home. However, not everyone is on board.
  "I believe the Department of Health realizes we do need some assisted living homes. We just don't have that many facilities to take them. People can live longer in assisted living with people looking after them," said Huan Hill, with Loving Hands Supportive Living.First-of-its-kind
  
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• What is a flash drought? An earth scientist explains

  13-11-2022 04:20 via krqe.com
  
  (THE CONVERSATION) Many people are familiar with flash floods – torrents that develop quickly after heavy rainfall. But there’s also such a thing as a flash drought, and these sudden, extreme dry spells are becoming a big concern for farmers and water utilities.Flash droughts start and intensify quickly, over periods of weeks to months, compared to years or decades for conventional droughts. Still, they can cause substantial economic damage, since communities have less time
  
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• Hundreds of New Mexico kids gifted chance to see Black Panther sequel

  13-11-2022 03:44 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Hundreds of local kids got a chance to see the new Marvel movie "Wakanda Forever." They were given the opportunity thanks to a group of generous community members.Food, coats handed out at Mesa Verde Community CenterTen community members got together and rented out three theaters for 450 kids to see the movie for the first time. They also got free snacks and a t-shirt. One organizer explained that it's important for kids to see themselves represented on the
  
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• Autopsies released in helicopter crash that killed 4 Bernalillo County first responders

  13-11-2022 03:31 via krqe.com
  
  NEW MEXICO (AP/KRQE) – Officials have released the autopsies of four Bernalillo County first responders that died in a helicopter crash over the summer. Vandals break into Albuquerque church leaving thousands of dollars in damagesBernalillo County Undersheriff Larry Koren, Lieutenant Fred Beers, Deputy Michael Levinson, and Bernalillo County Fire Rescue Specialist Matthew King were killed when Metro Two went down south of Las Vegas in July while they were helping with wildfire efforts
  
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• Food, coats handed out at Mesa Verde Community Center

  13-11-2022 01:32 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Hundreds of families in Albuquerque got Thanksgiving meals Saturday. It was a part of a giveaway meant to do good in the community.
  Healthcare provider "Western Sky Community Care" gave out 300 grocery bags to families at the Mesa Verde Community Center. The grocery bags were filled with ingredients to make a Thanksgiving meal and with gift cards for turkeys.
  The non-profit 'Bus of Hope' was also there handing out coats.Story continues below:
  New Mexico: Sal
  
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• First-of-its-kind esports competition comes to Albuquerque, organized by teen gamers

  13-11-2022 01:08 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Hundreds of people from all over the state came to compete in a unique type of sports tournament Saturday. The event was held at the Albuquerque Public Schools Berna Facio Professional Development Center.A total of 350 people were in attendance at New Mexico Championship Series which is believed to be the first official esports tournament in the state. It was all organized by teens at Albuquerque Public Schools (APS).“An event where all teams can play
  
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• Holiday arrival: Rockefeller tree ushers in Christmas season

  13-11-2022 00:38 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — An iconic sign of Christmas arrived in New York City on Saturday as a crane hoisted an 82-foot (25-meter) Norway spruce into place at Rockefeller Plaza, where the 14-ton tree will be festooned with thousands of lights and topped with a star encrusted with millions of crystals.The Christmas tree will be officially lit on Nov. 30. What does ‘CVS’ stand for?The approximately 90-year-old tree was cut Thursday then lifted onto a flatbed truck for its 200-mile (322-ki
  
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