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Mixed Feelings For Vatican Rescinding ‘Law Of Colonization'
The Catholic Church has credited “dialogue with Indigenous peoples” in repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
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The Catholic Church has credited “dialogue with Indigenous peoples” in repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
As of April 16, face masks will become optional for patients, visitors and health care workers at New Mexico's four major hospital systems.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the bill should serve as a model for other states and the federal government.
Starting next year, all K-12 public school students in NM will get healthy meals. But food insecurity in the Southside is more complicated.
WASHINGTON — "Social Security will no longer be able to pay full benefits in 2033, a year earlier than previously expected," per a report.
Prescribed burns have escaped there in the past, and the forest sits close to where some of New Mexico’s most massive wildfires occurred.
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On the penultimate day of the Legislative session, HB 43 sat as the final item on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s agenda.
House Bill 5 would’ve updated the Governmental Conduct Act, which sets ethical and legal requirements for public officers and employees.
It opened 9 months after Supreme Court decision that removed federal right to an abortion and forced the closure of 4 of its TX facilities.
N.M. increased its oil production tenfold since 2010 and was the first major oil-producing state to surpass its pre-pandemic output levels.
WASHINGTON — Congress' Joint Economic Committee released a report detailing the economic repercussions of defaulting on the nation's debt.
With Gov. Grisham’s signature on March 17, N.M. became the 27th state to abolish life without parole as a sentencing option for children.
Former Navajo Nation President and Council Delegate Ben Shelly died on March 22 from a long-term illness at 75.
After months of delays, federal officials released proposed rule last week that would curb levels of toxic “forever chemicals” in water.
The groups, called abortion funds, stopped paying for abortion procedures and travel to out-of-state clinics after overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Community members already thinking ahead to how they could try to improve conditions inside of N.M. juvenile and adult prison systems.
It would also allow sovereign nations and private schools within the state to opt in to offer free, high quality meals regardless of income.
WASHINGTON — Indigenous leaders at the U.S. Senate hearing lobbied for increased sovereignty and social justice in the coming farm bill.
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan momentum is building in Congress to restrict China and other foreign adversaries from purchasing U.S. farmland.