New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Northern New Mexico is known for tourist attractions such as artsy Santa Fe, eclectic Taos and the healing dirt of El Santuario de Chimayó.

Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) announced Monday he would not seek a third term in the Senate and run for re-election in 2020.

Pro-life advocates and Republicans in New Mexico are thanking the Catholic Democrats and other “patriots” who joined them in ending what was referred to as the “Pro-Death” agenda in the state legislature.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signed legislation Friday to criminalize private gun sales in the state.

A student at Edmond High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was caught on video confronting a student wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and a “Trump 2020” banner as a cape. The student knocked the MAGA hat off of the other student’s head, before forcibly ripping the banner off and throwing it to the ground.

Fourteen of New Mexico’s 33 counties have adopted “Second Amendment Sanctuary” resolutions to make clear their sheriffs feel no pressure to enforce new gun controls being pushed by Democrats at the state level.

Six New Mexico counties are reacting to the state-level push for a red flag law and universal background checks by making clear they will not enforce the new gun controls.

The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, spent $133 million on a state-of-the-art electric bus system only to see it go bust, according to a report released Sunday.

“[The bill] compels doctors, nurses, hospitals to perform abortion,” said Republican state Rep. Rod Montoya, reported the Daily Caller. “We believe this bill if it passes will be challenged.”

A rancher in southwestern New Mexico is pleading for help from state and federal authorities after claiming migrants kidnapped one of her ranch hands. Others also expressed grievances suffered by the steady flow of migrants into the desolate border region.

The two top House Democrats said on Wednesday that Democrats will hold hearings in the next Congress on the deaths of migrant children after eight-year-old  became the second migrant child to die this month.

The United States is pumping record amounts of oil, vaulting over Russia to become the world’s biggest producer of crude.

An actor who has appeared on the television shows Better Call Saul and Longmire admitted to a local news outlet Monday that he severed his arm and lied about how it happened by posing as a war veteran.

Yvette Herrell, Republican nominee for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District, described the Central American migrant caravan approaching the U.S. border as a threat to American sovereignty.

Movie and television show streaming giant Netflix is set to open its first production studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in what Deadline described as a “snub” to Los Angeles. The production studio is expected to bring $1 billion to the New Mexico economy.

New Mexico is suing Google, Twitter, Tiny Lab, and other app developers for illegally gathering data on users under the age of 13 without parental consent.

Judge Emilio Chavez on Wednesday dismissed child abuse charges against three defendants found inside a desert compound in New Mexico.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys filed dueling motions in Taos County, New Mexico on Friday over the fate of Siraj Wahhaj and the four other members of his Islamist cult, arrested at a compound where they kept 11 starving children and buried the corpse of Wahhaj’s kidnapped 3-year-old son.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a statement on Wednesday explaining that Jany Leveille, the apparent spiritual leader of the New Mexico compound where a group of Muslim extremists held 11 starving children and evidently killed a small child, is an illegal alien from Haiti who overstayed her visa by over 20 years.

The New Mexico gubernatorial candidate seeking a ban on “high magazine cartridges” is now campaigning on firearm confiscation orders and universal background checks.

Jany Leveille, wife of Siraj Wahhaj and evidently the spiritual leader of his cult, was taken into custody by federal authorities on Tuesday just hours after a New Mexico judge controversially ordered all five members of the Muslim extremist group released on bond despite allegations of kidnapping, child abuse, and very likely killing a sick three-year-old child by withholding his medication.

Siraj Wahhaj and the four other adults arrested at a filthy New Mexico compound where 11 starving children were held and one apparently died were released with bond on Monday. The decision stunned many observers of the case, given the clearly abusive treatment of the children, the outstanding warrant from Georgia against Wahhaj for kidnapping his own son, and the fact that children rescued from the camp told police they were being trained to conduct terrorist attacks on schools.

Left-wing Islamic activist Linda Sarsour has ties to the father of the man arrested for allegedly training children to carry out school shootings on a New Mexico compound.

Court filings in the case of Muslim extremist Siraj Wahhaj and four accomplices, arrested Friday at a squalid New Mexico compound where 11 starving children were being trained to attack schools with firearms, reveal the rescued children have identified the remains of a child recovered from the site as the body of Wahhaj’s three-year-old son Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj.

An alleged Islamic extremist, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, planned to exorcise his son before he was arrested in a raid on a “filthy” New Mexico compound.

Horrifying details emerged on Wednesday in the case of Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, the son of an imam linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, who was arrested in New Mexico on charges of keeping 11 starving children in a filthy compound. According to court documents filed by prosecutors, Wahhaj was training the children to carry out school shootings.

The father of a missing three-year-old boy in Georgia trained children at a New Mexico compound to carry out school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents filed Wednesday.

While speaking to the Santa Fe County Federation of Democratic Women Gubernatorial Forum this month, New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) called for a ban on “high magazine cartridges.”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun a probe into the matter.

27-year-old Kiley Lane leaves behind a daughter of two years — the tragic ending to a prolonged battle with the vicious hantavirus.