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• Fewer U.S. vote monitors to be more spread out on Election Day

  07-11-2016 23:29
  
  The Justice Department will deploy 500 personnel to polling stations on Election Day to help protect voters against discrimination and intimidation, down from 2012 as the result of a Supreme Court ruling that gutted part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The monitors, down from about 780 who were sent out in 2012, will be […]
  
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• Single California mom cited with selling home-made ceviche

  07-11-2016 23:27
  
  STOCKTON, Calif. — A single mother of six in California says she could go to jail for selling homemade ceviche through a Facebook group she created as a hobby. Prosecutors say, however, that Stockton resident Mariza Ruelas did not have the proper business permits required of restaurants that protect people from eating food prepared in […]
  
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• Sometimes even the best Senate candidates can’t win

  07-11-2016 23:26
  
  MEDIA, Pa. — It’s a bipartisan axiom among campaign operatives that campaigns and candidates matter. But the other side of that principle is often a more painful reality: Sometimes you could also say political plate tectonics determine the outcome of a race. Ask any Republican who’s run the best race of their Senate incumbents this […]
  
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• Updated: IMF chief: Equal pay for men and women boosts growth

  07-11-2016 23:25
  
  WASHINGTON — The chief of the International Monetary Fund on Monday called on governments and businesses to do more to promote the same economic opportunities for men and women and to fight discrimination that interferes with those goals. Speaking at a conference in Washington, the fund’s managing director, Christine Lagarde, said that ensuring equal pay […]
  
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• Updated: New York heir Durst pleads not guilty to murder in LA court

  07-11-2016 23:19
  
  LOS ANGELES — Real estate heir Robert Durst pleaded not guilty to murder Monday in the death of a friend who authorities said Durst wanted to keep from talking to investigators looking into the disappearance of his first wife. The 73-year-old Durst, wearing a neck brace and seated in a wheelchair, entered the plea during […]
  
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• US consumer borrowing rose in September

  07-11-2016 21:34
  
  WASHINGTON — American consumers boosted their borrowing in September, a potential sign that recent job growth and wage gains have left them slightly more comfortable with holding debt. The Federal Reserve said Monday that total consumer borrowing rose $19.3 billion in September to $3.7 trillion outstanding. Consumer debt has climbed at an annual pace of […]
  
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• UNM to host forum on Presidential search

  07-11-2016 21:32
  
  The University of New Mexico’s governing body will hold a special meeting Friday to solicit public input in selecting the next president of the school. The meeting is from 9 to 10:30 a.m., Friday. The next president will be UNM’s 22nd since the school’s beginning in 1889. And it has been roughly two decades since […]
  
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• UFC’s Jon Jones gets 1-year doping suspension

  07-11-2016 21:21
  
  UFC interim light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will serve a doping ban until next July after an arbitration panel denied his appeal of a positive test. Widely considered the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter, Jones was pulled from a July bout against Daniel Cormier shortly after news about the positive drug test. Jones claimed to have […]
  
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• Court reverses murder conviction over lost trial transcript

  07-11-2016 21:20
  
  ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court says a man who’s already served nearly two decades of a life sentence for a murder conviction is entitled to a new trial. An opinion published Monday reverses Elliot Sheard’s 1998 conviction in the stabbing death of Charles Elder. The court says critical parts of the trial transcript have […]
  
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• Updated: ABC rally makes evening news race competitive

  07-11-2016 21:19
  
  NEW YORK — More than one competition has tightened with the approach of Election Day. Anchors David Muir and Lester Holt are in the midst of a spirited competition for first place in television’s evening news ratings. After several years in second, ABC’s “World News Tonight” with Muir has lately pulled even with NBC’s “Nightly […]
  
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• The rise of backsplashes

  07-11-2016 19:51
  
  The home is an extension of who we are, and what better room to express ourselves than in the kitchen. Backsplashes are very popular right now. There is a wide variety of tiles, designs and materials that can give your kitchen the feel you want. Rita Stump from Interior Specialists, Inc. (ISI) has been working […]
  
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• Breaking: Judge unseals videos from fatal officer shooting

  07-11-2016 19:38
  
  A federal court judge unsealed video evidence used against Davon Lymon at trial and said the materials can be released next week. U.S. District Court Judge Christina Armijo announced the ruling Monday morning. She said the portion of Albuquerque police officer Daniel Webster’s lapel camera video that was played during trial, and three other videos […]
  
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• Updated: High court raises doubts about temporary presidential picks

  07-11-2016 19:36
  
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday raised doubts about the temporary appointment of a former labor official in a case that could limit the president’s power to fill top government posts. The justices considered whether Lafe Solomon was allowed to serve as acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board while he was […]
  
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• Updated: How long did it take for life to rebound after the death of the dinosaurs?

  07-11-2016 19:31
  
  It doesn’t take a very long time to irreversibly change the planet. In just a few dozen millennia – a geologic blink of an eye – three quarters of Earth’s living things went extinct 66 million years ago. The cause was probably a massive asteroid impact, possibly accompanied by colossal volcanic eruptions. The consequences of […]
  
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• Think your vote doesn’t count? Then why are people trying to suppress it?

  07-11-2016 19:31
  
  I find myself in a troubling space, concerned about young people’s apathy in voting. College students and young people within my circle of family and friends don’t like either candidate and have decided that their votes do not count. As a scholar of African American and U.S. religious history I am compelled to reflect on […]
  
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• Seeker Aircraft names new president

  07-11-2016 18:27
  
  Ed Lundeen has been named president of Seeker Aircraft, Inc. and managing director of Seabird Aviation Australia. Seabird Aviation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seeker Aircraft whose parent company is CSI Aviation, Inc. of Albuquerque. Before joining Seeker Aircraft, Lundeen served as executive vice president, business operations for Eclipse Aerospace, Inc. He has more than […]
  
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• Police shoot, injure man after he kills sheriff’s deputy

  07-11-2016 18:24
  
  BYRON, Ga. — Georgia authorities say a police officer shot and injured a man after he used a handgun to kill a sheriff’s deputy and injure a second deputy. Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent J.T. Ricketson said Monday that the suspect began shooting at the two deputies Sunday after they responded to a call […]
  
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• Another Harvard team lewdly rated female athletes. This time, with spreadsheets.

  07-11-2016 18:24
  
  The first to fall was the Harvard men’s soccer team, the remainder of their fall season canceled after the student newspaper reported last month that the team creates lewd, annual “scouting reports” of female soccer recruits based on their physical appearance and sexual appeal. Among the most egregious – from a 2012 report – was […]
  
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• Updated: ‘Zero Days’ director Alex Gibney on cyberwar, Russian interference in the election and secrecy

  07-11-2016 18:23
  
  When Alex Gibney released “Zero Days,” his movie about the Stuxnet program that slowed Iran’s nuclear development, this year, his portrait of the unsettled state of cyberwarfare was already unnervingly relevant. But in the months since, the Democratic National Committee suffered a severe hack, a massive distributed denial of service attack shut down many internet-based […]
  
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• Updated: Janet Reno, former U.S. attorney general, dies at 78

  07-11-2016 18:23
  
  Janet Reno, the strong-minded Florida prosecutor tapped by Bill Clinton to become the country’s first female U.S. attorney general, and who shaped the U.S. government’s responses to the largest legal crises of the 1990s, died Nov. 7 at her home in Miami. She was 78. The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, her goddaughter, Gabrielle […]
  
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• Updated: Heavy turnout in Nevada after long push to drive Latino vote

  07-11-2016 16:41
  
  LAS VEGAS — Long lines of voters outside a Mexican grocery store polling place in Las Vegas were a welcome sign for groups that have labored for months to translate Nevada’s high Latino population into voting power. Democrats have notched a 6-percentage-point turnout lead in the two-week early voting period that ended Friday. A patchwork […]
  
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• Updated: Deadly police response to medical alert focus of trial

  07-11-2016 16:41
  
  NEW YORK — When Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.’s medical alert pendant accidentally went off five years ago, the 68-year-old told police who showed up that he was fine, barred them from entering his apartment and repeatedly asked them to go away. They didn’t. That set off a tense, 90-minute standoff that ended with the mentally ill, […]
  
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• Updated: Montenegro: Russians behind coup attempt, plot to kill PM

  07-11-2016 16:40
  
  PODGORICA, Montenegro — Russian nationalists were behind an alleged coup attempt in Montenegro that included plans to assassinate the pro-Western prime minister because of his government’s bid to join NATO, the Balkan country’s chief special prosecutor said Sunday. Milivoje Katnic said the investigation leads to the conclusion that “nationalists from Russia” organized a criminal group […]
  
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• Updated: If elected, Clinton has a lot of promises to keep

  07-11-2016 16:40
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — If Hillary Clinton makes it to the White House, a whole lot of eyes will be on her list of do’s and don’ts. Throughout the presidential campaign against Donald Trump, Clinton has made some very specific pledges about what she would and wouldn’t do. Those could come back at Clinton if […]
  
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• Video shows suspect take century-old scepter from cathedral

  07-11-2016 14:44
  
  Police are searching for a suspect they say walked out of a cathedral in Brooklyn with a 4-foot tall gold…
  
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• Updated: Aussie police search of woman yields a baby koala

  07-11-2016 12:30
  
  Australian police have made an unusual find while searching the bag of a woman who was being arrested: a baby…
  
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• Updated: Quake near Oklahoma oil hub prompts infrastructure concerns

  07-11-2016 08:30
  
  CUSHING, Okla. — A magnitude 5.0 earthquake centered near one of the world’s key oil hubs brought down building facades and shattered windows, triggering fears the temblor may have damaged key infrastructure and rendered century-old buildings unsafe in the latest Oklahoma town rattled by increasingly strong quakes. Cushing Assistant City Manager Jeremy Frazier told a […]
  
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• Updated: Prosecutor: LA airport gunman lacks remorse, holds to views

  07-11-2016 08:30
  
  LOS ANGELES — The gunman who killed a federal security officer and wounded three other people during a rampage at Los Angeles International Airport has shown no remorse and clings to the beliefs that led to the violence in 2013, prosecutors said in advance of his sentencing Monday. Paul Ciancia, 26, faces a mandatory life […]
  
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• Crisis teams to help police with mentally ill, addicts

  07-11-2016 08:05
  
  City, county working together on behavioral-health program
  
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• Americans really need unity after Election Day

  07-11-2016 08:05
  
  No matter who wins, the time is coming to stop giving cultural cancer a platform
  
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• A bug’s life offers new insights

  07-11-2016 08:05
  
  Northern NM insects help UNM continue decades-old study on how climate change affects trees and arthropods
  
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• Rachel’s Challenge comes to Clovis

  07-11-2016 08:02
  
  Clovis News JournalCLOVIS — Students, parents and educators gathered at the Gatt ...
  
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• Early voting detracts from importance of elections

  07-11-2016 08:02
  
  As of this writing, more than 22 million people have voted already
  
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• River of lost souls runs through Colorado

  07-11-2016 07:45
  
  Along the Animas river, people are dying before their time, particularly women in midlife, succumbing not to diabetes or heart disease, but to suicide.
  
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• Health hotline NurseAdvice New Mexico at risk of going silent

  07-11-2016 07:45
  
  The nonprofit has provided residents across the state with free, 24-hour access to nurses by telephone for a decade, and saves the state's health care system some $5M a year. 
  
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• Updated: Magnitude 5.0 earthquake shakes central Oklahoma.

  07-11-2016 06:04
  
  CUSHING, Okla. — A sharp earthquake centered near one of the world’s key oil hubs Sunday night triggered fears that the magnitude 5.0 temblor might have damaged key infrastructure in addition to causing what police described as “quite a bit of damage” in the Oklahoma prairie town of Cushing. City Manager Steve Spears said a […]
  
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• Turning back the clock 1 hour takes a serious toll on your mental health

  07-11-2016 06:01
  
  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Daylight saving time should be a permanent, year-round phenomenon. Rather than turning back our clocks this weekend to extend our pre-election suffering by yet another hour, we should simply leave the hour hand where it is and pledge to never fiddle with it again. The social […]
  
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• Updated: Clinton has a lot of promises to keep

  07-11-2016 06:00
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — If Hillary Clinton makes it to the White House, a whole lot of eyes will be on her list of do’s and don’ts. Throughout the presidential campaign against Donald Trump, Clinton has made some very specific pledges about what she would and wouldn’t do. Those could come back at Clinton if […]
  
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• Updated: Protester in Trump rally scuffle denies being Clinton plant

  07-11-2016 05:58
  
  A protester involved in a scuffle at a Donald Trump rally in Reno, Nevada denied accusations Sunday that he is an operative for Democrats. “It’s absolutely ludicrous,” Austyn Crites said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “I stand by my principles, and that’s the reason why I felt compelled to go in there […]
  
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• Updated: Black pastors issue urgent plea to voters at Sunday services

  07-11-2016 05:56
  
  DETROIT — At Sunday services, in rallies and on social media, black pastors urged congregants to vote, hoping to inspire a late flood of African-American turnout that could help propel Democrat Hillary Clinton to victory in critical swing states on Tuesday. In Detroit, a pastor spoke of voting and citizenship. In Philadelphia, the minister reminded […]
  
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• UNM football continues to build winning attitude

  07-11-2016 03:41
  
  During Dakota Cox’s four years (2009-12) at Juan Diego Catholic High School in Draper, Utah, the Soaring Eagles went 47-5 and won two state championships. For Cox, winning was a habit. Then, “orphaned” by a coaching change at the University of Cincinnati, he wound up instead in the fall of 2013 at the University of […]
  
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• Cottonwood Mall area experiencing power outage

  07-11-2016 03:33
  
  PNM was reporting a power outage on the city’s west side in the Cottonwood Mall area at 7:02 p.m. Sunday that was affecting nearly 4,000 customers. The cause of the outage has not been determined, but was expected to be resolved about 9 p.m., according to the utility’s outage website, www.pnm.com/search-an-outage. PNM has assigned a […]
  
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• Updated: FBI gets stained by corrosive nature of 2016 presidential race

  07-11-2016 03:31
  
  The two sides in this bitter presidential campaign are likely to be arguing for years over the question of who was helped and who was hurt by the pair of political bombshells that FBI Director James Comey dropped into the final stage of the race. But one effect seems beyond dispute. An agency that, at […]
  
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• Prep volleyball: St. Pius, Sandia Prep earn No. 1 seeds

  07-11-2016 03:23
  
  St. Pius and Sandia Prep were among the No. 1 seeds announced on Sunday for this week’s state volleyball tournament. The Sartans (Class 5A) and Sundevils (4A) joined Centennial in 6A, Texico in 3A, Mesilla Valley in 2A and Elida in 1A as top seeds for the postseason, which begins Thursday morning in Rio Rancho […]
  
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• Scientists just can’t stop studying falling felines

  07-11-2016 03:00
  
  George Gabriel Stokes was a bushy-sideburned Irish physicist and mathematician who for half of the 19th century was the University of Cambridge’s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position held at
  
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