New Mexico

Trump Says Hispanic Adviser Steve Cortes ''Looks More Like WASP Than I Do''

World News | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday September 17, 2019

US President Donald Trump returned to New Mexico for a wide-ranging campaign rally, courting Hispanic voters in a state he lost in 2016, and said that his Hispanic Advisory Council member Steve Cortes looked "more like a WASP than I do".

Virgin Galactic Unveils New Mission Control for Space Tourism

Agence France-Presse | Friday August 16, 2019

Space tourism moved a step closer to reality Thursday as Virgin Galactic unveiled its new Mission Control at a spaceport in New Mexico and the schedule for final test flights before taking paying customers into the final frontier.

Former World War 2 Navajo Code Talker And Lawmaker John Pinto Dies At 94

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday May 27, 2019

John Pinto, a Navajo code talker during World War II who went on to a long career as a Democratic state lawmaker in New Mexico, has died at age 94, his party announced.

Virgin Galactic Plans First Commercial Space Flight for This Year

Justin Bachman, WP Bloomberg | Saturday May 11, 2019

Virgin Galactic could actually start flying customers later this year. Branson has said he will be among the first passengers.

Gay, Transgender Detainees Allege Abuse At US Border Detention Centre

World News | Robert Moore, The Washington Post | Tuesday March 26, 2019

Gay and transgender people held at a large Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in New Mexico have faced physical and verbal abuse and were placed in solitary confinement after complaining about it, according to a complaint civil rights groups sent to the US agency Monday.

Trump "Wall" In Desolate Stretch Of New Mexico Has Some Asking: Why Here?

World News | Reuters | Friday March 15, 2019

The barrier, completed last year, provides an early peek at the administration's efforts to provide the layer of national security President Donald Trump's supporters demand. Although the fence does not break new ground - it replaces less formidable vehicle barriers - it is the longest section erected to date under Trump, who has said generally tha...

Migrant Child Dies In US Custody On Christmas, Second Death This Month

World News | Lenny Bernstein, Philip Rucker, Robert Moore, The Washington Post | Wednesday December 26, 2018

An 8-year-old Guatemalan child detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection died early Tuesday at a hospital in New Mexico, the agency reported, the second migrant child to die in government custody this month.

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration In US Border Control Custody

World News | Nick Miroff, Robert Moore, The Washington Post | Friday December 14, 2018

A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Thursday.

In A First, 2 Native American Women Elected To Congress In Midterm Polls

World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday November 7, 2018

Democrat candidates Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland broke new ground on Tuesday, becoming the first Native American women elected to Congress, US networks projected. Davids, 38, of Kansas, is an attorney by training and a former mixed martial arts fighter. She is also openly lesbian, in a state that is traditionally conservative. She defeated Republ...

Netflix, Already a Studio in All but Name, Is Buying a Studio

Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg | Tuesday October 9, 2018

Netflix is buying its first production studio - ABQ Studios - the New Mexico facility used to make The Avengers and Sicario.

US Observatory Shut For 11 Days Over Child Porn Probe, Not UFO Sighting

World News | Reuters | Thursday September 20, 2018

The mysterious 11-day closure of a New Mexico solar observatory stemmed from an FBI investigation of a janitor suspected of using the facility's wireless internet service to send and receive child pornography, federal court documents showed on Wednesday.

Mother's Boyfriend Trained 13-Year-Old For "Jihad", Wanted "An Army": FBI

World News | Reuters | Sunday September 2, 2018

A 13-year-old boy who was part of group taken into custody at a squalid New Mexico compound last month has told FBI agents his mother's boyfriend was training him to conduct "jihad" against non-believers, according to federal court documents.

At Least Seven Dead In New Mexico Bus Crash With Truck

World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday September 1, 2018

At least seven people were killed when a large tractor-trailer blew a tire, jumped a highway median into oncoming highway traffic and slammed into a Greyhound passenger bus, New Mexico State Police said.

Family Of Boy Buried In New Mexico Believed He Would "Come Back As Jesus"

World News | Reuters | Tuesday August 14, 2018

A 3-year-old boy found buried at a New Mexico desert compound died in a ritual to "cast out demonic spirits," but his extended family believed he would "return as Jesus" to identify "corrupt" targets for them to attack, prosecutors said on Monday.

Off-The-Grid Dream Becomes Nightmare In New Mexico Compound

World News | Reuters | Sunday August 12, 2018

One of the leading members of a group prosecutors accused of abusing children at a New Mexico compound struggled with his plan to live off the grid after he underestimated a harsh mountain desert climate and settled on the wrong plot of land.