Staff report The Sandoval County Spring Craft Fair is returning May 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The seventh annual event will take place in the lobby of the Sandoval County Administration Building, located at 1500 Idalia Road, Building D, in Bernalillo. Hosted by the Sandoval County Employee Appreciation Committee (SCEAC), the craft fair […]
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‘Star Wars Fest 2025: Rise of a Thousand Vaders’ descends upon Rio Rancho
Staff report Star Wars fans of all ages gathered at Rio Rancho’s Loma Colorado Main Library for “Star Wars Fest 2025: Rise of a Thousand Vaders,” which offered a dive into the Star Wars universe. The free event on April 26 allowed attendees to meet characters from the 501st and Rebel Legions, test their skills […]
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Elon Musk had the government in his grasp. Then it unraveled.
By Dan Diamond, Faiz Siddiqui, Trisha Thadani, Jeff Stein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Elon Musk had tried to go over the head of a Cabinet secretary – again. The billionaire leader of the U.S. DOGE Service helped install Gary Shapley, a mid-level IRS official, as the agency’s acting commissioner last week. But the […]
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Many Jews say Trump is politicizing the fight against antisemitism
By Naftali Bendavid · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Trump administration declared last week that “harassment of Jewish students is intolerable” as it suspended $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University. The school’s president, Alan Garber, fired back Monday that “as a Jew and as an American,” he is well aware of rising antisemitism but that defunding […]
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ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around US, lawyer says
By JANIE HAR and KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the U.S. after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, a government lawyer said Friday. The records in a federal student database maintained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
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AmeriCorps shaped these lawmakers’ careers. They’re fighting to save it.
By Mariana Alfaro, Tobi Raji, The Washington Post (c) 2025 Before Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) became a politician, he was an AmeriCorps member. Thirty years ago, fresh out of college, Fetterman was sent to Pittsburgh’s Hill District as part of the program’s second class. He spent his days helping young mothers and fathers earn their […]
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Trump aides look at shrinking at least 6 national monuments for mining, oil
By Jake Spring, Dino Grandoni · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Trump officials are analyzing whether to remove federal protections for national monuments spanning millions of acres in the West, according to two people familiar with the matter and an internal Interior Department document, in order to spur energy development on public lands. Interior Department aides are looking at […]
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Teachers union president warns of dangers of federal education cuts at technical school opening
By Kevin Hendricks Over 200 students, friends, families, educators, legislators and community leaders gathered Wednesday outside of RioTECH, a new high school focused on skilled trades, to celebrate the opening of the Rio Rancho school that has been years in the making. Among those celebrating the opening was Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation […]
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Rio Rancho Public Schools unveils state-of-the-art RioTECH Career Technical Education high school
By Kevin Hendricks A crowd of over 200 students, parents, educators, and community leaders gathered in Rio Rancho on April 23 to celebrate the grand opening of RioTECH, a state-of-the-art Career Technical Education (CTE) high school designed to prepare students for high-demand careers in skilled trades and technology. Rio Rancho Public Schools hosted the grand […]
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Hegseth defended his Signal leak. Others lost clearances for similar lapses.
By Evan Hill · The Washington Post (c) 2025 One U.S. defense contractor set up a way to remotely access an office computer. Another forwarded 37 sensitive but unclassified work emails to a personal account. A third sent three emails with classified information to co-workers on an unauthorized system. They all lost their federalsecurity clearances as a result […]