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Sarayut Thaneerat via Getty Images (ROSWELL, NM) — Roswell, New Mexico, experienced an overnight “Flash Flood Emergency” on Saturday, the National Weather Service reported — the highest tier of flash flood warning. Between 4 and 9 inches of rain fell in parts of the state, prompting the NWS to declare a “Particularly Dangerous Situation” alert […]
ABC News (MEXICO CITY) — Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world, yet it is running out of water. It’s a slow-motion disaster decades in the making, caused by a litany of issues including human-induced climate change. Residents are deeply concerned about the impending water crisis. In Mexico City, many treat […]
Buena Vista Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected president of Mexico, marking the first time a woman has been chosen to lead the country, Mexico’s election institute said early Monday. “For the first time in 200 years of the Republic, there will be a woman president and she will be transformative,” […]
Getty Images – STOCK (SANTA FE, N.M.) — A New Mexico man has died from plague in the state’s first human fatality since 2020, according to health officials. The man lived in Lincoln County — located in the southeastern part of the state — and was hospitalized from the disease before dying, the New Mexico […]
amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Three New Mexico police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Robert Dotson while responding to the wrong home’s address will not be charged, according to a letter from the New Mexico Justice Department. The shooting took place on April 5, 2023, when Farmington police officers, Daniel Estrada, Dylan Goodluck […]
ABC News (TULAROSA, N.M.) — The Trinity Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945, was a technical success — the gadget, as it was codenamed, generated 18 kilotons of force, and the explosion set off the nuclear age. But many New Mexico residents consider it the beginning of a decades-long disaster. Families […]
Adria Malcolm/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has amended her emergency public health order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque, days after a judge temporarily blocked its enforcement. During a press briefing on Friday, Lujan Grisham announced that the amended order allows […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Yet another heatwave is warming waters off U.S. coasts as oceans all over the world endure warmer-than normal temperatures, according to experts. The Gulf of Mexico has become the latest region to experience a marine heatwave, in addition to the Northern Atlantic and the Atlantic waters off the coast of […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (FARMINGTON, N.M.) — At least three people were killed and six others, including two police officers, were wounded on Monday when a gunman “randomly” opened fire at cars and homes in Farmington, New Mexico, authorities said. The unnamed 18-year-old suspect, who was shot dead by authorities, fired at least three different weapons, […]
Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s administration said it’s reached a critical agreement with Mexican officials to address the “humanitarian situation caused by unprecedented migration flows” as Title 42 restrictions end. After U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday, Mexican officials confirmed they […]
