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• Puerto Rico’s governor signs much-debated labor reform law

  26-01-2017 21:56
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s new governor has signed a much-debated labor reform bill that targets the private sector and aims to stimulate the island’s economy amid concerns that it infringes on workers’ rights. The law approved on Thursday implements flexible scheduling, cuts the amount of a mandatory Christmas bonus, reduces vacation days […]
  
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• Updated: Court: ‘K-19: The Widowmaker’ sub must be removed from river

  26-01-2017 21:55
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island court has ordered a scrapyard to remove the remnants of a Russian submarine once used as a set for a Harrison Ford movie from the Providence River. The hull of the submarine, known as Juliett 484, rests mere feet from the shore in Providence. After the Cold War, the […]
  
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• Updated: Rights advocates warn of backlash if Trump pursues torture

  26-01-2017 21:54
  
  LONDON — It took more than a year’s worth of beatings, sleep deprivation, psychological abuse and threats to his family before former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg said he cracked and confessed to being a member of the al-Qaida terror network. The only problem, he said, was that it was a lie. It was only […]
  
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• Updated: Birthplace of the CIA, American spycraft just made the National Register of Historic Places

  26-01-2017 21:53
  
  WASHINGTON – For a few former spies, it was one last mission: protecting the birthplace of the country’s modern intelligence apparatus from being bulldozed by Washington’s pell-mell development. This month, they pulled it off when a small cluster of Foggy Bottom buildings, where early agents invented the pencil pistol and other tricks to bedevil Hitler, […]
  
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• In sudden change, a business group opts to rent event space at a Trump hotel

  26-01-2017 21:53
  
  The American Chamber of Commerce in Canada had long planned to hold a meeting Thursday night at the Vancouver home of a U.S. diplomatic official to talk about trade relations in the Donald Trump era. Then, two days ago, the group suddenly switched its plan – choosing instead to rent space for 2,500 Canadian dollars […]
  
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• Big Mac fans queue up for sauce

  26-01-2017 19:47
  
  Big Mac fans queued up Thursday morning at the McDonald’s store at Lomas and Juan Tabo to grab a bottle of McDonald’s “Special Sauce.” The giveaway was part a national promotion in which 10,000 “limited edition” bottles of the iconic sauce were being given away to patrons who could provide the code phrase, “There’s a […]
  
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• Updated: Slow fix: VW diesel owners complain of buyback delays

  26-01-2017 19:09
  
  DETROIT — Volkswagen’s efforts to do right by owners who unknowingly purchased cars and SUVs that cheat on emissions tests have run into some speed bumps. Owners say the company isn’t delivering on a promise to quickly buy back their vehicles. Some complain about multiple requests for paperwork, even after being told their application was […]
  
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• Updated: Trump to GOP lawmakers: ‘Our chance to achieve great change’

  26-01-2017 19:03
  
  PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump on Thursday rallied fellow Republicans who control the White House and Congress for the first time in more than a decade, telling lawmakers they will be busier than they have been in decades helping him implement a broad agenda. “Think of everything we can achieve and who we can achieve […]
  
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• Updated: Iranian actress boycotts Oscars to protest Trump

  26-01-2017 19:03
  
  NEW YORK — Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-nominated “The Salesman,” says she won’t attend the Academy Awards in protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Alidoosti called plans for a temporary visa ban of Iranians “racist” in a message posted Thursday on Twitter. “The Salesman,” directed by Asghar Farhadi, was on Tuesday […]
  
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• Trump adviser Gary Cohn is leaving Goldman Sachs with a $123 million payout

  26-01-2017 19:02
  
  Another potential member of President Trump’s inner circle is set to leave his current job and join the government with a plush payout. Weeks after news that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson would receive a nest egg valued at more than $180 million, Goldman Sachs said in a filing that Gary Cohn, the firm’s president and […]
  
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• Updated: Tribal leader asks Trump to reconsider pipeline action

  26-01-2017 17:45
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. — The leader of the Standing Rock Sioux is urging President Donald Trump to reconsider his push for completion of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. Tribal spokeswoman Sue Evans says Chairman Dave Archambault requested a meeting with Trump in a letter sent Wednesday, warning that relations between the new administration and the […]
  
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• Colorado regulators say ski lift can reopen after inspection

  26-01-2017 17:45
  
  GRANBY, Colo. — Colorado regulators say that a ski lift involved in the fall that killed a Texas woman can reopen after passing an inspection. The lift at Ski Granby Ranch was first closed Dec. 29 after 40-year-old Kelly Huber of San Antonio and her two daughters fell after it lurched because of a problem […]
  
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• Updated: Minneapolis native recalls watching Mary Tyler Moore promo

  26-01-2017 17:44
  
  DALLAS — A Minnesota native now living in Texas has fondly recalled standing in downtown Minneapolis to watch Mary Tyler Moore shoot an iconic intro for her TV show. Martha Rogers of Dallas on Thursday said she was 10 years old in 1970 when she and her mother learned of the Moore promotion and decided […]
  
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• Updated: Authorities link 5 killings from 1980s to dead inmate

  26-01-2017 17:44
  
  CONCORD, N.H. — Authorities in New Hampshire are linking five deaths from the 1980s to a man who died in a California prison in 2010 while serving a sentence for killing and dismembering his wife. State police and the attorney general’s office said Thursday they believe the killer was a man known as Bob Evans. […]
  
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• Updated: Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested on camera during NYC livestream

  26-01-2017 17:27
  
  NEW YORK — Actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested in New York City early Thursday after he got into an altercation with another man during a performance art project that has seen him chanting “He will not divide us” in front of a live camera since Donald Trump’s first day as president. Police said LaBeouf pulled […]
  
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• Updated: US unemployment claims tick up to 259,000, but remain low

  26-01-2017 14:36
  
  WASHINGTON — More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but jobless claims remained low enough to suggest that most Americans enjoy job security. The Labor Department says weekly claims for unemployment aid rose by 22,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 259,000. The less volatile four-week average was 245,500, down by 2,000 and lowest […]
  
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• Updated: Blackjack player pleads guilty to leaving casino to rob bank

  26-01-2017 14:06
  
  A West Virginia man has admitted to leaving a casino to rob a bank before returning to continue gambling. The…
  
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• Updated: Florida woman accused of throwing tampon at police officer

  26-01-2017 13:42
  
  A Florida woman has been charged after police say she hit an officer with a tampon. Local news outlets report…
  
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• Updated: Thief in Germany drives tractor through wall, steals safe

  26-01-2017 12:58
  
  Police in northwestern Germany are searching for a brazen thief - or thieves - who knocked down the wall of…
  
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• Updated: UK govt gives lawmakers only 3 days to eye bill on Brexit

  26-01-2017 12:14
  
  LONDON — The British government on Thursday introduced the long-awaited bill that will launch Britain’s exit from the 28-nation European Union, offering lawmakers a very tight timetable to consider the most influential government decision in decades. Brexit secretary David Davis urged lawmakers not to attempt to thwart the will of the people who voted in […]
  
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• UK official won’t make promises on timing of Brexit plan

  26-01-2017 12:14
  
  LONDON — Britain’s government is not making any promises on when it will give lawmakers a plan for leaving the European Union outlined in a formal document. Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to reveal the details of her negotiating objectives for Brexit in a so-called White Paper. But Brexit secretary David Davis refused to […]
  
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• Updated: Chinese send fake Trump tweets as jokes, New Year wishes

  26-01-2017 11:35
  
  In China, Twitter is blocked but fake tweets by @realdonaldtrump look set to become the latest internet sensation. Online users…
  
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• Updated: Trump’s immigration actions mark sharp shift in US policy

  26-01-2017 10:00
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging executive actions tightening border security– and the prospect of additional measures restricting refugee flows — mark a sharp shift away from Washington’s elusive efforts to forge comprehensive immigration legislation. “We do not need new laws,” Trump said Wednesday during remarks at the Department of Homeland Security. “We will work […]
  
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• Updated: Analysis: Trump’s border wall faces reality check

  26-01-2017 09:58
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s vow to accelerate construction of a “contiguous, physical wall” along the Mexican border is slamming into a Washington reality — who’s going to pay for it and how? Not us, say the Mexicans. U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill, starting with existing money in the Department of Homeland Security account […]
  
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• Updated: Congressional Republicans prepare to hear from Trump

  26-01-2017 09:28
  
  PHILADELPHIA — Congressional Republicans are about to find out whether Donald Trump can stay focused on their goals in his first appearance before them as president. Trump will speak Thursday to House and Senate GOP lawmakers in Philadelphia for their annual policy retreat. Despite a rocky start to Trump’s administration, many lawmakers remain optimistic at […]
  
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• Updated: Asian stocks up after Dow breaks through 20,000 milestone

  26-01-2017 08:53
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — Shares advanced across Asia on Thursday, the last full trading day before many markets start Lunar New Year holidays, as investors cheered the Dow Jones industrial average’s first ever close above the 20,000 milestone. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 surged 1.8 percent to 19,402.39 and South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.8 percent […]
  
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• New Mexicans weigh in on wall

  26-01-2017 07:36
  
  Some praise Trump plan, but others say unneeded, costly project could hurt trade
  
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• Former Dem party chief enters ABQ mayoral race

  26-01-2017 07:36
  
  Brian Colón is seventh to join crowded field
  
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• Albuquerque counts the homeless

  26-01-2017 07:36
  
  Data from Point-in-Time Count is used to identify gaps in services
  
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• Six vying for APS District 6 seat

  26-01-2017 07:35
  
     Editor's note: This is the third in a series of stories on the candidates ru ...
  
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• Senate approves more than $900,000 for courts

  26-01-2017 07:35
  
  Bill includes $900,000 of emergency funding
  
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• MacDougall’s performance vs. Utah State is a bright spot for UNM

  26-01-2017 04:05
  
  The Mac is back.Or so the Lobos hope. ...
  
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• Updated: Trump sanctuary order ‘declaration of war,’ says Santa Fe councilor

  26-01-2017 03:56
  
  SANTA FE — Two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday drew strong opposition in Santa Fe, one of the so-called sanctuary cities subject to the loss of federal funding under one of Trump’s directives. “I think it’s a declaration of war on sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States,” City Councilor Joseph Maestas […]
  
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• Prep basketball: Rankings, statistics

  26-01-2017 03:56
  
  BOYS Class 6A    Pts.    Rec. 1    Oñate (9)    116    16-2 2    Las Cruces    98    15-3 3    Cleveland (1)    95    15-5 4    Rio Rancho    60    13-7 5    Hobbs (1)    56    14-5 6    Volcano Vista    54&n
  
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• Prep notes: West Vegas High loses appeal in video-taping ruling

  26-01-2017 03:51
  
  The New Mexico Activities Association refused Wednesday to overturn a ruling that docked the West Las Vegas boys basketball team four games after a coach was caught videotaping a game between two rivals. “I was really hoping that we wouldn’t hurt the kids any way for an adult error,” said West Las Vegas School superintendent […]
  
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• Different-looking signatures at issue in Española election case

  26-01-2017 03:47
  
  SANTA FE — Several absentee ballot signatures for the Española municipal election last year were called into question in District Court Wednesday in a legal challenge to results in a close city council race. One witness said it was not her signature on a ballot that was submitted, but others said their documents were authentic, […]
  
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• Longest-serving member of NM Legislature falls ill

  26-01-2017 01:39
  
  SANTA FE — State Rep. Nick Salazar — the longest-serving member of the current Legislature — was driven to the hospital and ended up in the emergency room after falling ill Wednesday, House Speaker Brian Egolf said. Salazar, 87, has served in the state House since 1973. He is a Democrat from Ohkay Owingeh. Egolf […]
  
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• Updated: This cat was weighed down by 5 pounds of matted fur; now he’s a rising Internet star

  26-01-2017 01:36
  
  When Sinbad the cat showed up at the Anti-Cruelty Society, an animal shelter in Chicago, he weighed more than 11 pounds. Five pounds of that was fur. The 8-year-old Persian’s hair was gray, matted and laced with excrement and maggots. It was a shocking and stinking sight, the result of years of lack of grooming […]
  
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• Trump and May: Odd couple that can sway future of West

  26-01-2017 01:36
  
  LONDON – When British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday becomes the first world leader to meet with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, the two will have much in common to discuss. Both were catapulted to power on the back of populist shocks in 2016. Both have promised to deliver radical change to […]
  
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• Updated: Website that advertised escort services sued in 4 states

  26-01-2017 01:35
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — New lawsuits were filed Wednesday in four states on behalf of women who say they were victimized as teenagers when they were sold for sex on an international website. The suits filed in Alabama, California, Texas and Washington are believed to be the first to individually name the operators of Backpage.com, Seattle […]
  
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• Trump’s intervention sets up showdown with America’s largest cities

  26-01-2017 01:35
  
  In the last 24 hours, President Donald Trump has signaled sweeping federal intervention in the way local and state officials carry out policing, treat immigrants and run elections, setting off a wave of defiance and apprehension from leaders of some of America’s largest cities. In an executive order signed Wednesday, Trump directed the Department of […]
  
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