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Albuquerque group aids aging LGBTQ+ community
KOAT 7 - New Mexico
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June 26, 2025
CODE ON YOUR SCREEN. WELL, IT IS PRIDE MONTH AND ONE THING MANY SAY CAN BE OVERLOOKED IS HOW DIFFICULT IT CAN BE FOR LGBTQ PLUS PEOPLE AS THEY AGE. SOME SUFFER A LIFETIME OF DISCRIMINATION, AND NUMBERS SHOW THEY’RE MORE LIKELY TO BE IN POORER...
Rabbi Larry Karol, former Topeka rabbi known for his leadership and songwriting, passes away
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle - Missouri
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July 7, 2025
Rabbi Lawrence “Larry” Karol, leader of Topeka’s Temple Beth Sholom for more than two decades, died on July 6. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, he was an active member at The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah. After graduating from the...
In Albuquerque, developers are turning old motels into affordable housing
High Country News - Colorado
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June 30, 2025
Stay informed about the West. Sign up for our email newsletter to receive in-depth, independent reporting that illuminates our region. As a housing crisis pummels the West, from Sun Valley, Idaho, to Tucson, Arizona, there’s a dull irony in the...
Top U.S. Hotspots for Skinwalker Encounters
AOL
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Skinwalker legends trace back to Navajo culture, where they’re described as witches with the power to transform into animals. Over the years, these stories have taken on a life of their own across the American West. Reports continue to surface in...
‘Exodus’: Major reason stars are fleeing US city
Townsville Bulletin
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Los Angeles has always been the home of movie stars and blockbuster shoots, but now, it seems many people are running for the hills — and we don’t mean Beverly Hills. Once the epicentre of the worldwide film industry, La-La Land now seems more...
California, 17 other states challenge ‘suspicionless’ stops by masked ICE agents in L.A.
Los Angeles Times
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July 7, 2025
California and a coalition of 17 other states threw their support Monday behind a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of recent federal immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles, asking a federal court to issue a temporary restraining...
Pueblo Republican Pushing Charter School to Replace Recently Closed Chávez Huerta
Colorado Times Recorder
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July 7, 2025
Former Colorado Board of Education member and Republican Senate candidate, Stephen Varela, is hoping to launch a new charter school in Pueblo’s District 60 at the site of the former Chávez Huerta Preparatory Academy (CHPA). In order to launch the...
Albuquerque Museum hosts German modernism exhibit spanning empire to dictatorship
ABQ Times - New Mexico
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June 24, 2025
The Albuquerque Museum will host the exhibition "Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin" from August 23, 2025, to January 4, 2026. This exhibit explores the evolution of German modern art...
New Mexico’s Investments in Early Care and Education Begin to Show Progress
The 74
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June 17, 2025
As soon as Sandra Parra walks into her pre-K classroom at the Christina Kent Early Childhood Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, three children begin vying for her attention. One boy says he has a toy for her, a girl tells her she plans to bring in...
Catholic bishops try to rally opposition to Trump’s immigration agenda
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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The image in Los Angeles and elsewhere of ICE agents seizing people in Costco parking lots and car washes “rips the illusion that’s being portrayed, that this is an effort which is focused on those who have committed significant crimes,” said...
First Baptist Church Vacation Bible School Begins July 7
Los Alamos Daily Post - New Mexico
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June 29, 2025
Children participating in a previous Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Church. Courtesy/FBC First Baptist Church News: First Baptist Church invites children ages 4-12 to attend a free Vacation Bible School, 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through...
Religion news 25 June 2025
Religion Media Centre
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June 24, 2025
Board of Deputies suspends five after public letter criticised Israel The Board of Deputies has suspended five Deputies and sent a letter of criticism to a further 31, after an investigation into a letter sent to the Financial Times in April which...
US measles cases reach 33-year high as outbreaks spread
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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The nation surpassed infections reported in 2019, reaching the largest number of cases since 1992, when officials recorded more than 2,100 infections, according to data published Friday from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Outbreak...
Concerns grow over dire conditions in immigrant detention
West Hawaii Today - Hawaii
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June 29, 2025
Far from public view, the toll of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration is unfolding in overcrowded detention facilities across the country. Some immigrants have gone a week or more without showers. Others sleep pressed tightly...
Expansion for New Mexico Transgender Resource Center
KOAT 7 - New Mexico
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June 20, 2025
The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico is a one-of-a-kind building that just moved to a new location.The center was established in 2007 with the goal to support transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming communities. Their new location...
Timeless Waters: Acequia Culture In New Mexico
Los Alamos Daily Post - New Mexico
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June 20, 2025
Courtesy photo HSF News: Historic Santa Fe Foundation announces the exhibition, Timeless Waters: Acequia Culture in New Mexico. The show features two projects by artist Sharon Stewart: El Cerrito: A Village Life Portrait, and FIRESCAPE. Stewart’s...
New Mexico Marks 'No Kings' Day
KSFR - New Mexico
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June 16, 2025
Thousands of New Mexicans took to the streets on Saturday to participate in nearly 20 protests…it was part of the nationwide “No Kings” day of action. In Santa Fe there were estimates of more than 3,000 people at the State Capitol to protest the...
Campus minister reflects on 40 years of mobilizing students to reach nations
The Pathway - Missouri
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July 7, 2025
By Kristen Sosebee David Englehart, the campus director of New Mexico State University’s Christian Challenge, was moved with emotion as he recalled a quiet, but stunning moment in his life some 30 years earlier during a trip to Central Asia. “We...
The US’ happiest shift workers sell weed and e-cigs — see where your industry ranks
New York Post
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July 7, 2025
They’re high on life. America’s most cheerful hourly employees aren’t sitting behind a computer, it seems — they’re at the counter selling vapes, weed and smokes, according to a new report from workplace management platform Deputy. Over 1.51...
After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surge
El Paso Matters
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June 20, 2025
News that matters to El Paso, delivered to you. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter. By Uriel J. García/The Texas Tribune, Patrick Lohmann/Source New Mexico, Yuriko Shumacher/The Texas Tribune Editor’s note: This story includes images of...