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• Trump announces he will leave business ‘in total’ – leaving open how he will avoid conflicts of interest

  30-11-2016 23:29
  
  President-elect Donald J. Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that he would soon leave his “great business in total” to focus on the presidency, a response to growing worries over the businessman-in-chief’s conflicts of interest around the globe. Shortly after, the official Twitter account of the Office of Government Ethics, the traditionally staid federal agency that often […]
  
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• 2 found dead in Gilbert home in an apparent murder-suicide

  30-11-2016 23:25
  
  GILBERT, Ariz. — Police in Gilbert say a man and woman are dead in an apparent murder-suicide. They say officers responded to a home about an unknown trouble call last Wednesday about 11:45 p.m. Police say they were told that an armed man was acting irrationally inside the house. He was later identified as 27-year-old […]
  
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• Updated: Rare ferrets settling in, making babies at new Colorado home

  30-11-2016 23:24
  
  DENVER — Dozens of slinky, ferocious and rare ferrets are settling in and making babies at their new home in Colorado, one year after they were released at a wildlife refuge outside Denver. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service counted 47 endangered black-footed ferrets last month at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. That […]
  
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• Let the shopping begin

  30-11-2016 23:19
  
  Shoppers and walkers unite: a series of holiday-themed, neighborhood-specific retail events begin Thursday, with the Nob Hill Holiday Shop and Stroll, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Next up are the Old Town Holiday Stroll and Pueblo Shop & Stroll on Friday, and the North Fourth Holiday Stop & Shop in the Village Los Ranchos […]
  
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• Updated: Lawsuits challenge abortion restrictions in 3 states

  30-11-2016 23:17
  
  NEW YORK — Taking the offensive after Election Day setbacks, Planned Parenthood and its allies filed lawsuits Wednesday in North Carolina, Missouri and Alaska challenging laws that they view as unconstitutional restrictions on abortion. “We are going to fight back state by state and law by law until every person has the right to pursue […]
  
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• Updated: OPEC agrees on oil output cuts as Saudis soften stance on Iran

  30-11-2016 18:56
  
  OPEC clinched a deal to curtail oil supply, confounding skeptics as the need to clear a record global crude glut — and prove the group’s credibility — brought its first cuts in eight years. Crude rose as much as 8.8 percent in London. OPEC will reduce output to 32.5 million barrels a day, Iranian Oil […]
  
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• Trump Tower elevator cam has officially become reality TV

  30-11-2016 18:56
  
  Donald Trump may be officially out of the reality TV business, but it seems the “Celebrity Apprentice” host-turned-president-elect never really left the game. After all, what unfolds before the live-stream cameras at Trump Tower has all of the elements of a Kardashian-worthy unscripted drama. The camera feed of the downtown Manhattan building’s lobby, which C-SPAN […]
  
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• People in gorilla costumes photobombed a police camera meant to track a cougar

  30-11-2016 18:56
  
  Trail cameras, also known as remote camera traps, are like candid cameras for animals. Scientists and other curious people place the motion-activated devices in outdoor areas to know what wildlife lives where, how many animals there are, how they behave and what they eat. When the police department in Gardner, Kansas, recently deployed trail cameras […]
  
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• Coming soon to Indian movie theaters: court-mandated displays of nationalism

  30-11-2016 18:56
  
  Per supreme court orders, cinema halls across India will soon be required to play the national anthem before every screening, accompanied by an image of the Indian flag. Moviegoers must stand for the anthem, and theater exits should be shut for its duration so as to avoid “disrespectful milling.” The ruling by the two-judge bench […]
  
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• Apple wants everyone seeing RED for World AIDS Day

  30-11-2016 18:56
  
  Apple fans, get ready to see red: Apple is using its ubiquitous presence to raise awareness and money for the AIDS awareness campaign Red on World AIDS Day. Expanding on the growing attention the company has paid to charitable events under chief executive Tim Cook, the company on Thursday will release several products to raise […]
  
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• Who guards the guardians: a 5-part series by Diane Dimond

  30-11-2016 16:09
  
  Investigative journalist Diane Dimond, whose weekly syndicated column on crime and justice appears in the Journal, is preparing a book on the nation’s elder guardianship system. It’s a system designed to protect the elderly from the unscrupulous. But as Dimond discovered, it can be dominated by a core group of court-appointed, for-profit professionals who are accused of isolating family members and draining the elders’ estates. New Mexico is no exception.
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Merkel sends condolences to Brazil over crash

  30-11-2016 15:56
  
  LA UNION, Colombia — The Latest on the aftermath of Colombian plane crash that killed members of Brazilian soccer team (all times local): 7:30 a.m. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says it was with great dismay that she learned about the tragic plane crash in Colombia. The chancellor expressed her condolences Wednesday in a letter to […]
  
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• Updated: Someday soccer will return to Chapecoense, as at Man Utd

  30-11-2016 15:56
  
  LONDON — Someday, somehow, soccer will likely return at Chapecoense. Through the grieving and after the funerals of the 19 team members who died in a plane crash, soccer will probably be played again, just as it was at Manchester United and Torino following similar tragedies. “For so many years I was at the heart […]
  
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• Updated: Former FIFA secretary general is suspect in criminal case

  30-11-2016 15:56
  
  BERN, Switzerland — Swiss authorities say their criminal investigation into FIFA has expanded and former secretary general Urs Linsi is a suspect. The case relates to Germany’s staging of the 2006 World Cup and a suspicious payment of 6.7 million euros ($7 million) that went through FIFA in 2005 when Linsi was its top administrator. […]
  
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• Get Started: Workers may get raises after overtime ruling

  30-11-2016 15:55
  
  OVERTIME RULING AFTERMATH Employees at some small businesses can still expect changes in their pay or work hours starting Thursday, even though a federal judge has blocked the Labor Department’s overtime rules from going into effect. At other companies, meanwhile, owners have put raises and new schedules on hold as they wait to see how […]
  
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• Warming cars, hacked cards and other hard lessons

  30-11-2016 08:05
  
  Some simple precautions can help avert trouble
  
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• Winter: Voter fraud not an issue in NM elections

  30-11-2016 08:02
  
  Secretary of state lauds system that backs up tally on paper ballots
  
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• Uranium mining near park assailed

  30-11-2016 08:02
  
  Several environmental groups and more than 100 small businesses statewide have signed letters urging ...
  
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• Plea deal in 2015 crash sets 18-month sentence

  30-11-2016 08:02
  
  A man who admitted fleeing the scene of a wreck that seriously injured an off-duty police officer wi ...
  
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• Get rid of the dog

  30-11-2016 08:02
  
  Members of Blair Darnell's family also reported conflicts with attorney
  
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• Updated: Thousands squeeze into church, stadium to mourn tragic crash

  30-11-2016 06:56
  
  CHAPECO, Brazil — Thousands squeezed into Chapeco’s cathedral and even more packed a stadium to mourn the death of 71 people in a plane crash, 19 of them members of the Chapecoense club who had been on the brink of soccer greatness. “To lose (almost) all of them in such a tragic way, totally destroyed […]
  
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• Updated: Enraged Rivers ejected after technical for crossing midcourt

  30-11-2016 06:55
  
  NEW YORK — Doc Rivers had something to say and wanted to make sure he was close enough to be heard. Too close, according to NBA rules. Rivers was given a technical foul for crossing over midcourt, then another and ejected for his tirade that followed in the Los Angeles Clippers’ 127-122 loss in double […]
  
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• Updated: California mother was ‘branded’ and covered in bruises after apparent abduction, husband says

  30-11-2016 06:11
  
  Keith Papini says his wife, Sherri, weighed less than 90 pounds when he saw her in the hospital. Sherri Papini, who earlier this month was the victim of an apparent abduction, was covered in bruises, her husband said in a statement released to ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “Her now emaciated body of 87 pounds was […]
  
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• Updated: 15 awaiting verdict in Air France bosses’ ripped-shirt case

  30-11-2016 06:11
  
  BOBIGNY, France — Fifteen current and former Air France workers are awaiting a verdict in a case of alleged violence during a union protest last year at the airline’s headquarters that saw two company executives flee over a fence with their shirts ripped off. The images of the shirtless managers spread around the world and […]
  
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• NBA Capsules

  30-11-2016 05:54
  
  MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo tied a career high with 34 points and the Milwaukee Bucks stunned the Cleveland Cavaliers 118-101 on Tuesday night. Antetokounmpo added 12 rebounds and five assists while Milwaukee ended Cleveland’s four-game winning streak. Jabari Parker had 18 points and Michael Beasley had 17 off the bench for the Bucks. LeBron James […]
  
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• Updated: Mexican airline loses dog, launches FindMika campaign

  30-11-2016 05:05
  
  MEXICO CITY — The Mexican airline Interjet has launched a campaign dubbed #BuscandoMika (FindMika) after an 8-year-old mixed-breed female dog apparently escaped her cage and got lost at Mexico City’s airport. The airline posted photos of the search effort and flyers with a picture of Mika with a pink neckerchief around her neck. The flyer […]
  
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• Let it snow

  30-11-2016 04:49
  
  As forecast, a storm moved through Lincoln County late Sunday and hung around through Monday, dropping about two inches of snow in Ruidoso and icing over roads, resulting in a rash of minor traffic accidents and a few more serious. Lt. Lawrence Chavez with the Ruidoso Police Department said it was “pretty quiet” in the […]
  
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• Mesilla trustees take action on water system improvements

  30-11-2016 04:48
  
  MESILLA – More than six years after beginning efforts to seek funding through the Border Environment Cooperation Commission and the North American Development Bank, Mesilla is finally one step away from getting much needed improvements to the town’s water system. “It’s been a long time in coming,” Mayor Nora Barraza said. “We’re grateful to BECC […]
  
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• The Pit: Awesome from the start

  30-11-2016 04:21
  
  Albuquerque Journal sports editor LeRoy Bearman led his game advance story with the following: “You’re going to like the University of New Mexico’s new 14,800-seat basketball arena.” It wasn’t the venerable Bearman’s most fearless prediction, but one of his most accurate. On Dec. 1, 1966, a new era of UNM men’s basketball began. That night, […]
  
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• Footprints in the snow lead Santa Fe officers to alleged robber

  30-11-2016 02:25
  
  SANTA FE — Two Santa Fe convenience stores were robbed overnight Tuesday, and footprints one of the robbers left in the snow as he fled took police right to him. According to a Santa Fe Police report, a man later identified as Antonio Roybal, born in 1981, walked into the Giant gas station at Cerrillos […]
  
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• Oklahoma woman dead, Nevada man arrested after chase, crash

  30-11-2016 01:43
  
  CLOVIS, N.M. — An Oklahoma woman is dead and a Nevada man in custody after a stolen vehicle crashed in New Mexico following a police chase. New Mexico State Police say 29-year-old Kyle Mawhorter, of Las Vegas, was booked into a Texas jail after being released from a Lubbock hospital Tuesday. They say Mawhorter is […]
  
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• CMS nominee revamped Medicaid in Indiana

  30-11-2016 01:43
  
  A decade ago, when Indiana had one of the lowest rates of health insurance coverage in the nation, then-Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) turned to a health policy consultant named Seema Verma to help insure more of the state’s poor and working poor. Verma’s approach to expanding the state’s Medicaid program was unusual and somewhat controversial. […]
  
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• Retrial in triple homicide case starts in Santa Fe courtroom

  30-11-2016 01:42
  
  SANTA FE — The second homicide trial for Nicholas Ortiz, accused of killing three members of an El Rancho family in 2011 with a large digging tool, began in Santa Fe District Court Tuesday with a prosecutor giving a fresh jury a description of the murder scene and the defense shifting blame to a co-conspirator. […]
  
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• Updated: William Christenberry, artist of a crumbling, memory-haunted South, dies at 80

  30-11-2016 01:33
  
  William Christenberry, whose intimate photographs of crumbling rural buildings and almost violently verdant landscape of his native Alabama made him one of the most respected and influential artists of the modern South, died Nov. 28 at a nursing home in Washington. He was 80. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, said a daughter, Kate […]
  
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• New audit to look at how much insurance companies owe state

  30-11-2016 00:50
  
  The Office of the Superintendent of Insurance has agreed to an independent audit of premium taxes paid by health insurance companies in New Mexico, following several months of discord over how much money is really owed. A review by the private firm CliftonLarsonAllen, which was released in September, said the top five health insurers doing […]
  
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• Updated: Massive Chernobyl shelter safely put over exploded reactor

  30-11-2016 00:44
  
  CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Workers completed a massive shelter over the Chernobyl nuclear plant’s exploded reactor on Tuesday, one of the most ambitious engineering projects in the world that one expert said had closed “a nuclear wound.” The half cylinder-shaped shelter was locked in place over the plant’s reactor No. 4 after being moved in on […]
  
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• Coalition urges Obama to expand clemency initiative

  30-11-2016 00:41
  
  A coalition of criminal-justice-reform advocates asked President Barack Obama on Tuesday to expand the number of inmates eligible for clemency by granting commutations to broad categories of nonviolent offenders. Currently, inmates who meet certain criteria file individual clemency petitions that are reviewed by several layers of officials at the Justice Department and the White House. […]
  
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• 2 accused of making immigrants work in Halal slaughterhouse

  30-11-2016 00:41
  
  NEWARK, N.J. — Two New York men have been charged with forcing people in the country illegally to work at their Halal chicken slaughterhouse in New Jersey. Mohammad Abdul Wahid and Mohammed Iqbal Kabir were charged Tuesday by federal prosecutors in Newark. Prosecutors say they paid workers $290 for 70 to 100 hours of work […]
  
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• Updated: Woman accused of killing mom, taking baby fights extradition

  30-11-2016 00:27
  
  WICHITA, Kan. — Authorities say a Texas woman accused of faking a pregnancy before killing a mother and kidnapping her newborn daughter is fighting extradition to Kansas. The Sedgwick County district attorney’s office said Tuesday it has begun the process of obtaining a governor’s extradition warrant for Yesenia Sesmas. She has been held in a […]
  
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