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• Trump staffer Omarosa Manigault to appear on ‘Say Yes to the Dress’

  11-01-2017 23:00
  
  You can take the girl out of reality TV … or can you? Omarosa Manigault, the former “Apprentice” star turned communications director for the Trump White House’s Office of Public Liaison, is returning to her reality-show roots. The 42-year-old bride, who got engaged last summer, will appear on Season 14 of TLC’s “Say Yes to […]
  
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• The vast majority of these counties voted for Donald Trump – even if they had backed Democrats for years

  11-01-2017 23:00
  
  A new analysis of labor data offers insight into why Donald Trump delivered surprise wins in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Yes, he swept the Rust Belt. But more specifically, he won over voters in counties that were most dependent on blue-collar work – including hordes of longtime Democratic voters. The report from Emsi, a labor […]
  
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• Palestinians call for Muslims to pray that Trump doesn’t move embassy to Jerusalem

  11-01-2017 23:00
  
  JERUSALEM – As inauguration day draws near, U.S. allies in the Middle East, alongside Palestinian leaders and American diplomats, are warning President-elect Donald Trump to forget his campaign promise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. A top government minister in Jordan, Israel’s pro-Western neighbor, said the embassy move from Tel Aviv to […]
  
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• Trump team pulls Mattis from hearing focused on his need for a waiver to be Pentagon chief

  11-01-2017 22:59
  
  The House Armed Services Committee has canceled a hearing Thursday in which retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis was to address the unconventional nature of his nomination for defense secretary because President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team decided against him appearing, two congressional staff members said. Mattis was to testify in the afternoon on his need […]
  
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• Reddit’s UpliftingNews helps raise nearly $160,000 for victim of Facebook Live attack

  11-01-2017 22:59
  
  When Razor Sheldon saw the sickening news last week that a Chicago teen with a mental-health condition was violently attacked on Facebook Live, he was reminded of the last time a viral video moved him to act on behalf of the victim. Then, as now, he noticed how the rush to denigrate the perpetrators, while […]
  
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• New: Key NM legislative panel unveils $6.1 billion spending plan

  11-01-2017 20:47
  
  SANTA FE — A budget battle could be brewing at the Roundhouse, as an influential New Mexico legislative panel unveiled a nearly $6.1 billion spending plan today that contains some key differences from a proposal released yesterday by Gov. Susana Martinez. Like the governor’s plan, the Legislative Finance Committee’s budget recommendation would extend sweeping spending […]
  
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• Cop gets surgeon, liver to emergency transplant after crash

  11-01-2017 20:00
  
  A police officer responding to a crash wound up driving a surgeon, an assistant and a donated liver to a…
  
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• Alaska Airlines adds ABQ-Portland flight

  11-01-2017 19:46
  
  Alaska Airlines is adding a daily non-stop flight between Albuquerque and Portland, Albuquerque officials announced Wednesday. Service begins Aug. 18 but the flights became available for sale Wednesday, according to a news release from the city. The flights between Portland and Albuquerque will be operated by Horizon Air. The route will be served with the […]
  
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• Updated: Dubai’s DAMAC confirms offering $2B in deals to Trump

  11-01-2017 19:39
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai-based developer DAMAC Properties said Wednesday it recently offered $2 billion in deals to President-elect Donald Trump’s company, which rejected them. The developer already has partnered with the Trump Organization to manage and run two golf courses in the glamorous city in the United Arab Emirates. One will open just […]
  
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• Trump wants out of Paris climate deal. That’s not what his secretary of state pick is saying on Capitol Hill today.

  11-01-2017 19:39
  
  WASHINGTON – Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson on Wednesday said he believes “the risk of climate change does exist, and the consequences could be serious enough that action should be taken.” But while the Obama administration and other world leaders have aggressively pursued efforts to slash carbon dioxide emissions and stave off global warming, […]
  
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• We need to talk to kids about suicide without glamorizing it. Here’s how.

  11-01-2017 18:51
  
  I was 13 years old when “Dead Poets Society” came out; my friends and I spent copious amounts of time analyzing it. Yes, I adored Robert Sean Leonard, but it was his character’s suicide, because he felt misunderstood by his father and hemmed in by an already-scripted future, that remains most clearly emblazoned on my […]
  
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• Updated: Chief defends cop after Steeler coach’s arrest is questioned

  11-01-2017 18:49
  
  PITTSBURGH — The city’s acting police chief is defending an officer who arrested Steelers assistant coach Joey Porter outside a bar after the independent Citizens Police Review Board confirmed it’s investigating the incident. “I have concluded the officer’s account of the incident is accurate and our officer conducted himself in the professional manner that is […]
  
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• On eve of Trump, Obama’s Energy Department leaves behind new ‘scientific integrity’ policy

  11-01-2017 18:49
  
  Speaking at the National Press Club Wednesday, outgoing Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced a new “scientific integrity” policy for an agency recently wracked by concerns about how an administration led by President-elect Donald Trump will treat employees who worked on climate change and other sensitive energy-related issues. “It’s part of establishing the environment that allows […]
  
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• Updated: A look at the stakes if US moves Israel embassy to Jerusalem

  11-01-2017 18:45
  
  RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians are ringing alarm bells over Donald Trump’s stated intention to relocate the U.S. Embassy in Israel to contested Jerusalem, fearing quick action once he takes office as U.S. president next week. They say an embassy move would kill any hopes for negotiating an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and rile the […]
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Child prostitution not legal in California

  11-01-2017 18:45
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A widely shared story that claims California has legalized child prostitution is false. The story shared by theredelephants.com is headlined “California Democrats Legalize Child Prostitution.” It and similar stories shared by other conservative outlets is based on a false column written by a Republican state lawmaker for the Washington Examiner in opposition […]
  
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• BuzzFeed crossed the line in publishing salacious ‘dossier’ on Trump

  11-01-2017 17:13
  
  Where does transparency meet irresponsibility? Right at the line that BuzzFeed’s editor Ben Smith approached on Tuesday and decided to step over in the name of serving citizens’ best interests. With caveats and explanations aplenty, Smith published a 35-page “dossier” – actually just a bunch of scurrilous allegations dressed up as an intelligence report meant […]
  
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• She shot up her father with heroin. Now he’s dead and she’s in prison.

  11-01-2017 17:07
  
  Police said 27-year-old Lindsay Newkirk told them she had done it before – shot a small amount of heroin into her own arm, then shot some into her father’s. That’s precisely what she said she did on a Friday in February at a motel in Columbus, Ohio. She said she passed out and, when she […]
  
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• In the Middle East, resisting intervention

  11-01-2017 17:07
  
  Preparing to go to war in 2011, President Obama laid out a case for involvement in the mounting crisis in Libya. Without strong Western action, he told Americans, the conflict in Libya would trigger a humanitarian crisis and destabilize a fragile region. Most acutely, the president’s senior aides worried that failing to launch military action […]
  
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• Updated: George Lucas’ $1 billion museum finally finds a home – and in our galaxy, too

  11-01-2017 17:00
  
  When a strange complex rises over Los Angeles in the coming years, the silvery structure will be neither moon nor space station but a $1 billion museum devoted to storytelling art. In his dogged quest to construct the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, it seems filmmaker and Star Wars creator George Lucas has finally found […]
  
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• More celebs coming to Washington for Inauguration Day – but not for Trump

  11-01-2017 17:00
  
  Filmmaker Michael Moore and actresses Ashley Judd and Amber Tamblyn are some of the boldfacers among the influx of crowds coming to Washington for Inauguration Day – although their mission isn’t entirely about hailing the new chief. They’re slated to take part in a day-long series of panels and programs put on by the Huffington […]
  
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• New: APD reports death in Southeast Heights

  11-01-2017 13:24
  
  Albuquerque police report a death near the intersection of Louisiana and Bell SE early Wednesday morning. Police were called at about 12:48 a.m. to check out a “down and out” subject, according to a police spokesman. When officers arrived, they found an individual with multiple injuries who was pronounced dead on the scene. No further […]
  
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• Updated: Families: Forgiving church shooter doesn’t mean sparing life

  11-01-2017 09:57
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Just because some of the families of the nine people killed and three people who survived a racist massacre in a Charleston church have forgiven the man convicted in the shootings doesn’t mean they think his life should have been spared. There are a broad range of feelings among the loved ones […]
  
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• Updated: Trump to face questions on Russia hacking, business ties

  11-01-2017 09:51
  
  NEW YORK — The last time Donald Trump held a news conference, he was plunging into a heated general election campaign with Hillary Clinton and suggested Russia could help dig up some of his rival’s emails. Nearly six months and a presidential campaign victory later, Trump will finally step before reporters again Wednesday to face […]
  
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• Updated: Trump blasts intel agencies over report on Russia ties

  11-01-2017 09:51
  
  NEW YORK — Hours before his first news conference as president-elect, Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted U.S. intelligence agencies, blaming them for leaking unsubstantiated reports on his relationship with Russia and demanding, “Are we living in Nazi Germany?” A U.S. official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that intelligence officials had informed Trump about an […]
  
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• Updated: Black lawmakers to speak out against Sessions in hearing

  11-01-2017 09:46
  
  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, used strong words in the first day of his Senate confirmation hearings to deny any hints of a racist past. On day two, a group of black lawmakers will speak out against his nomination — including New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker, who will take […]
  
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• Updated: Russia friend and sanctions foe, Tillerson gets his hearing

  11-01-2017 09:14
  
  WASHINGTON — Friend of Russia and foe of sanctions in his corporate life, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, is an unorthodox choice. He may feel at home in Trump’s iconoclastic administration. Tillerson is a break in a longstanding tradition of secretaries of state with extensive military, legislative, […]
  
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• Prep hoops: Cleveland beats Eldorado with wild finish in third overtime

  11-01-2017 08:05
  
  Eldorado probably should have won in regulation.And the first overtime, too....
  
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• GOP’s Obamacare repeal effort monstrous disgrace

  11-01-2017 08:02
  
  Republicans have one goal: Spend a whole lot less money helping Americans get health coverage
  
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• Editorial: Jail transition center right for inmates and taxpayers

  11-01-2017 08:02
  
  Over half of the people booked into MDC receive psychiatric services, and then they are released without treatment and a safe place to go
  
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• APD: Crash involving pedestrian shuts down Gibson at Carlisle SE

  11-01-2017 06:53
  
  Officers are investigating a crash involving a pedestrian at Gibson and Carlisle SE Tuesday night, according to a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department. Officer Fred Duran said the motor unit team is investigating and the investigation has just begun. He did not give any details about the pedestrian, including what condition he or she […]
  
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• Updated: Trump news spreads faster than reporters can verify

  11-01-2017 06:10
  
  PASADENA, Calif. — The spread of a report about supposed damaging information about President-elect Donald Trump collected by Russia became a public test of journalistic standards Tuesday but burst into public consciousness even as those standards were being debated. Hours after news reports circulated that Trump had been briefed by intelligence officials about the existence […]
  
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• Asian stocks mostly higher as dollar strengthens

  11-01-2017 05:58
  
  TOKYO — Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday on the back of a strengthening dollar and quiet trading ahead of remarks by President-elect Donald Trump. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.3 percent to 19,352.47. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.1 percent to 5,765.80. South Korea’s Kospi was up 1.4 percent at 2,074.56. Hong Kong’s […]
  
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• Updated: Lobo men drop another one

  11-01-2017 05:01
  
  The bank wasn’t open Tuesday night. And there was no miraculous comeback. It wasn’t needed. Three days after finding itself on the wrong end of one of the biggest, and most improbable, comebacks in college basketball history, the University of New Mexico looked to still be in shock in a largely lifeless performance in a […]
  
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• Updated: UConn routs USF, ties own record with 90th straight win

  11-01-2017 04:22
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. — UConn coach Geno Auriemma calls it a once-in-a-lifetime thing that his Huskies have now done twice. Top-ranked UConn tied its own NCAA record with its 90th consecutive win, routing No. 20 South Florida 102-37 on Tuesday night. “Some things you just can’t really explain; you just have to enjoy it.” Auriemma said. […]
  
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• New: Gov. Martinez calls for more belt-tightening

  11-01-2017 02:35
  
  With New Mexico still reeling from a prolonged revenue slump, Gov. Susana Martinez outlined a spending blueprint today that relies on more state government belt-tightening — and no tax increases — to fix a projected $69 million deficit for the current budget year and carry the state through the fiscal year that starts in July. […]
  
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• Breaking: FBI finds 2 more bodies, totaling 5, on Santa Ana Pueblo

  11-01-2017 01:57
  
  The FBI has confirmed they have found five bodies — two women and three children — on the Santa Ana Pueblo since Sunday. Frank Fisher, an FBI spokesman said “foul play by another party is not suspected,” but the Office of the Medical Investigator will determine their cause of death. Fisher didn’t say if they […]
  
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• Homeland Security nominee said southwest border might not ‘be built anytime soon’

  11-01-2017 01:32
  
  President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for homeland security secretary struck a markedly different tone from the president-elect on some of Trump’s signature issues on Tuesday, calling for increased outreach to Muslims and saying the controversial southwest border wall might not “be built anytime soon.” Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly made the remarks at his confirmation hearing […]
  
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• Santa Fe councilors debate defending city’s “values,” criticizing Trump

  11-01-2017 01:25
  
  SANTA FE – Anticipating the inauguration of Donald Trump as president next week, the Santa Fe City Council tonight will consider a resolution reaffirming the city’s commitment to its values and those established in the state and U.S. constitutions. This is different from another pending resolution reaffirming Santa Fe’s status as a so-called “sanctuary city” […]
  
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• Southwest makes executive changes with an eye on succession

  11-01-2017 01:16
  
  DALLAS — Southwest Airlines Co. is making changes in the front office that could offer clues as to who will eventually succeed Gary Kelly as CEO and chairman. The company said Tuesday that it promoted Thomas Nealon, 55, to president, a title that Kelly had held. Nealon is a former Southwest chief information officer and […]
  
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• Rubio is the man to watch in Tillerson’s confirmation hearing

  11-01-2017 01:11
  
  The most interesting person to watch in ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson’s confirmation hearing for secretary of state Wednesday – after Tillerson himself – is without question Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. The Florida Republican is likely to reveal what kind of future he wants in President-elect Donald Trump’s Washington, and there are two broad possibilities. He […]
  
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• Updated: Cabinet picks must do more than Trump to avoid conflicts

  11-01-2017 01:09
  
  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump and his pick for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, have much in common. Both are wealthy, long-time business leaders with broad international interests. But they’ve taken far different approaches to preparing for government service. Tillerson has severed his business ties. Trump has not. As the president-elect prepares to announce his […]
  
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