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Opponents in LGBT case agree: It’s not about wedding cake

Oral arguments before Supreme Court begin Tuesday

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Democrat Tim Keller takes helm as Albuquerque’s new mayor

ALBUQUERQUE – Democrat Tim Keller took over as mayor of New Mexico’s largest city Friday amid rising crime and a struggling economy. The former New Mexico state auditor officially...

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP nears Senate OK of tax bill after flurry of final deals

WASHINGTON – Republicans used a burst of eleventh-hour horse-trading Friday to edge a $1.4 trillion tax bill to the brink of Senate passage, as a party starved all year for a major legislati...

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Grand Junction VA hospital reduces methadone use after patient dies

Government investigators probing 2014 death

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New Mexico cities break temperature records for November

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque and Roswell have shattered records for November after logging high temperatures way above seasonal averages. The National Weather Service in Albuquerque ...

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Postal regulators move to let stamp prices jump higher

Businesses balk at added costs

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Flynn pleads guilty to lying

Former national security adviser cooperating in Trump-Russia probe

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Garrison Keillor firing prompts backlash from his fans

MINNEAPOLIS – Outraged Garrison Keillor fans deluged Minnesota Public Radio Thursday with complaints about the firing of the humorist over alleged workplace misconduct. Some say t...

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump tweets strain U.S.-Britain ‘special relationship’

LONDON — A few days after his inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump stood beside British Prime Minister Theresa May in the White House and proclaimed the strength of the “most special re...

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump lights National Christmas Tree for 1st time

WASHINGTON – Ringing in the holidays for the first time from Washington, President Donald Trump lit the National Christmas Tree Thursday evening, wishing the country “a Merry Christmas” – as...

DATE: Nov 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Biologists: Grizzly numbers hold steady around Yellowstone

BILLINGS, Mont. – Grizzly bear numbers in and around Yellowstone National Park are holding relatively steady, according to figures released Thursday, as state wildlife officials begin discus...

DATE: Nov 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Jury: Mexican man not guilty in San Francisco pier killing

SAN FRANCISCO – A jury on Thursday found a Mexican man not guilty in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier that touched off a fierce national immigration debate two years ago, rejec...

DATE: Nov 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World