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Oppenheimer the actor: the curious 1946 film Atomic Power featuring the scientist as himself

Atomic Power, a groundbreaking 18-minute black-and-white film about the Manhattan Project which created the world’s first atomic bomb, may not be as famous as Christopher Nolan’s 2023 epic, Oppenheimer. However, this largely overlooked 1946 cinematic experience was pioneering in communicating the history behind the nuclear detonation in the New Mexico…

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Poetry academy announces more than $1 million in grants for US laureates

A digital poetry archive in Utah, slam poetry workshops in South Carolina and creative writing programs in New Mexico are among the initiatives being supported by more than $1 million in grants from the Academy of American Poets

The Independent UK

US Forest Service burn started wildfire that nearly reached Los Alamos, New Mexico, agency says

The U.S. Forest Service says its own prescribed burn started a 2022 wildfire that nearly reached Los Alamos, New Mexico

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How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb'

“Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who built the world’s first atomic bomb. It’s not a documentary, but it gets the big historical…

The Conversation

After Roe v Wade fell, this father-daughter duo left Texas to go on providing abortions

Last year’s US Supreme Court ruling left women struggling to find abortions

The Independent UK

85-year-old arrested in New Mexico after DNA links him to 1986 Texas homicide cold case

An 85-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in New Mexico after police alleged he killed a woman almost 37 years ago in Garland.

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‘Nothing feels like enough’: surviving the heat in a New Mexico homeless encampment

Residents of Camp Hope in Las Cruces are more equipped to deal with the staggering heat than people living on streets, but residents and staff stress that it’s no substitute for housing

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A Texas energy company will pay $1.3 million over pollution in the Permian Basin, EPA says

The EPA last year announced aerial surveillance of “super-emitters.” At least one other company in New Mexico faced a similar fine.

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'Oppenheimer' stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders

An upcoming movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster

The Independent UK

Pilot dies as small plane crashes into unoccupied home in New Mexico

Authorities say a pilot died Tuesday after a small propeller plan crashed into an empty New Mexico home shortly after takeoff

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At least one dead after plane crashes into New Mexico home after taking off from local airport

The plane had just the pilot aboard

The Independent UK

'Lord, these affairs are hard on the heart': How Manhattan Project scientists reacted to the world's first atomic bomb test

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic bomb in New Mexico.

LiveScience

New Mexico’s top election official met with federal prosecutors for special counsel probe

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver has spoken with federal prosecutors as part of the special counsel’s probe into the 2020 election

The Independent UK

The Navajo farmer taking a traditional approach to making baby food

Zachariah and Mary Ben were struck by the absence of fresh, local and traditional baby foods available near the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, so they began growing their own crops

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New Mexico abuse case ends with prison sentences for 2 women accused of chaining children

Prosecutors say two women in eastern New Mexico have been sentenced to prison in a case in which they were accused of beating children in their care and chaining them to their beds

The Independent UK

New Mexico's top election official met with federal prosecutors for 2020 special counsel probe

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver has spoken with federal prosecutors as part of the special counsel’s probe into the 2020 election

The Independent UK

Trump prosecutors met with Pennsylvania and New Mexico officials in 2020 election probe

Prosecutors have spoken to or issued subpoenas to top elections officials from swing states won by President Joe Biden and targeted as part of Donald Trump’s effort to remain in office despite having lost the 2020 election

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Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Developers tout hydrogen as a clean energy source; Navajo opponents say it is another way outsiders will profit by harming their environment and health.

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Senate confirms Torres Small as deputy secretary at USDA - Roll Call

The Senate confirmed Xochitl Torres Small, a former member of Congress from New Mexico, as the deputy Agriculture secretary.

Tribune News Service

Another case of HIV linked to vampire facial offered at New Mexico medical spa

Former clients of a medical spa in New Mexico have been urged to to get tested for blood-borne infections after another case of the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, was linked to a vampire facial treatment offered at the now-shuttered business.

Capital & Main

How the Oil and Gas Industry Is Quietly Thwarting Progress on the Climate Crisis, Yet Again

From California to Pennsylvania to New Mexico and beyond, lobbyists and their lawmaker allies have used a variety of tactics, including alleged deception.

The Independent UK

US senators seek expanded compensation for those exposed to nuclear fallout

U.S. senators from New Mexico and Idaho are making another push to expand the federal government’s compensation program for people exposed to radiation from uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out during the Cold War

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States enact the most new extreme risk protection order laws since 2020

So far this year, two states, Michigan and Minnesota, have enacted extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs). They became the first states to enact new ERPOs since New Mexico and Virginia did so in 2020. The new laws in Michigan and Minnesota raise the total number of states with ERPOs to…

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State governors issue 53 executive orders from June 19-July 2

Nationally, state governors issued 53 executive orders from June 19-July 2. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) led the field with 34, followed by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) with three. Governors in 35 states issued the fewest orders with zero.

The Independent UK

US judge recommends settlement over management of the Rio Grande

A federal judge is recommending that the U.S. Supreme Court approve a settlement among three Western states over the management of one of North America's longest rivers

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