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Report: More oversight needed for rising New Mexico election costs
Tri City Record - New Mexico
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June 27, 2025
Voters enter the Doña Ana County Government Center to cast their vote for the local 2023 elections on Nov. 7. Danielle Prokop/Source NM × Secretary of State Toulouse Oliver pushes back against some of report’s findings A new report issued by...
State borders may determine whether children born in the U.S. to immigrants are citizens
Wyoming Public Media
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July 2, 2025
Laws could vary state to state regarding which babies born on U.S. soil qualify for citizenship. This comes after the Supreme Court reduced judicial powers last week. Federal district court judges previously blocked an executive order from...
A Slew of Blue States Are Suing Trump’s Department of Education
Townhall
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July 2, 2025
Sixteen Democrat-led states are suing the Trump administration over cuts the Department of Education (ED) made to mental health funding for schools. In April, the ED announced that it would slash $1 billion in funding, pointing out that “woke”...
AG Kaul Sues U.S. Department of Education Over School Mental Health Cuts
Urban Milwaukee - Wisconsin
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MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Josh Kaul announced that late Monday, Wisconsin joined a multistate lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education for illegally cutting congressionally approved funding for mental health programs in K-12...
20 States Sue Trump Administration Over Leaking Personal Data to Immigration Agency
teleSUR
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta, July 2025. X/ @sfchronicle July 2, 2025 Hour: 7:40 am On Tuesday, California, leading a multistate coalition, filed a lawsuit against the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over leaking citizens’...
How Immigrants and Other ESL Students Make American English Their Own
Literary Hub
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July 2, 2025
I was born in the United States and therefore speak American English, because, aside from a brief few years in my childhood when my father assured me that my first language was Mandarin Chinese (my mother’s native tongue), I was raised in an...
Church takes pride in inclusion, acceptance and diversity
KOAT 7 - New Mexico
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June 30, 2025
Pride Month is ending, but the Pride Flag is always welcome at the Monte Vista Christian Church."We have been trying to get the word out that Monte Vista is a safe space," said Dawn Rosignol, the church's senior minister. "Monte Vista celebrates...
Artist Frank Applegate’s Former Pueblo-Style Home in New Mexico Lists for $10 Million
Robb Report
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June 26, 2025
The Land of Enchantment has a remarkable pueblo-style estate up for grabs. Formerly the home of Spanish officer Francisco de la Peña, the New Mexico abode dates back to 1845. Pena bought it that year and lived there with his family until 1925,...
20 U.S. states sue Trump administration over leaking personal data to immigration agency
Xinhua News Agency
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LOS ANGELES, July 1 (Xinhua) -- California, leading a multistate coalition, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over leaking citizens' personal information. Charging the Trump administration with...
20 U.S. states sue Trump administration over leaking personal data to immigration agency
Xinhua News Agency
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LOS ANGELES, July 1 (Xinhua) -- California, leading a multistate coalition, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over leaking citizens' personal information. Charging the Trump administration with...
New Mexico Pride celebrations urge 'resilience' after U.S. v. Skrmetti ruling
Kiowa County Press - Colorado
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June 24, 2025
Click play to listen to this article. Amid concerns about the breakdown in protections for LGBTQ folks, a New Mexico advocacy group says resilience is needed to ensure their safety and freedom. The state has been a leader in protecting and...
Connecticut AG William Tong sues US Department of Education for cutting mental health funding
WTIC-TV - Connecticut
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July 2, 2025
Tong joined a coalition of 16 state attorneys general Tuesday, suing the U.S. Department of Education to stop cuts to congressionally approved mental health funding. HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is part of a 16-state...
Analysis: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ portends ‘unprecedented’ impact on immigrants
OSV News
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July 1, 2025
(OSV News) — It was one of the most contentious issues of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, and now it’s an estimated $170 billion component of the Senate version of the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: immigration...
State Police To Conduct Saturation Patrols & Sobriety, Registration, Insurance, Driver’s License Checkpoints Across New Mexico In July
Los Alamos Daily Post - New Mexico
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June 26, 2025
NMSP News: New Mexico State Police (NMSP) will conduct sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols; and registration, insurance, and driver’s license checkpoints in all New Mexico counties during July 2025. We are bringing awareness to these events...
‘Immediate harm’: Education Department withholds $6.2B from schools
K-12 Dive
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July 1, 2025
School districts will be forced to cancel after-school programming, services for English learners and professional development as a result of $6.2 billion in federal K-12 grant money that the U.S. Department of Education is withholding from states...
Wisconsin sues Education Department for canceling youth mental health funds
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wisconsin
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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined a multistate lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education after it abruptly terminated $1 billion in five-year grants, including $10 million in Wisconsin, meant to support school-based mental...
Nessel joins lawsuit against education department over mental health funding cuts
Great Lakes Wire - Michigan
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July 1, 2025
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, along with attorneys general from 15 other states, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education. The lawsuit challenges the department's decision to cut funding for mental health programs in...
AG Kwame Raoul joins suit against Trump administration over immigrant Medicaid data
Chicago Sun Times - Illinois
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July 2, 2025
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has once again joined a coalition of 19 other attorneys general in suing the Trump administration, this time over its sharing of immigrant health data with federal immigration enforcement agencies. The suit,...
ANALYSIS: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ portends ‘unprecedented’ impact on immigrant families, workers
The Catholic Spirit - Minnesota
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July 1, 2025
A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle patrols along the border wall, following the establishment of a 260-mile military zone along the southern U.S. border in New Mexico and Texas as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, in Sunland...
Colorado, 19 other states sue to stop transfer of Medicaid data to immigration agencies
The Colorado Sun
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July 1, 2025
Colorado is joining a multistate coalition in a lawsuit to block the mass transfer of individual personal data to the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol...