Saturday, November 16, 2024

Group seeks to combat misleading information online

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project they say will combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration, supporters announced Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

'Bad Hombres' film uses baseball to show the game of borders

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — People have always crossed borders to play baseball, and the sport routinely reaches across borders to fans. But rarely do players have to cross a border almost every day to participate in a game they love while dodging the tensions and rhetoric around this imaginary …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Group seeks to combat misleading information online

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project they say will combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration, supporters announced Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

'Driving While Black' shows history of US Black motorists

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new film examines the history of African Americans driving on the road from the Great Depression to the height of the Civil Rights movement.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

'Bad Hombres' film uses baseball to show the game of borders

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — People have always crossed borders to play baseball, and the sport routinely reaches across borders to fans. But rarely do players have to cross a border almost every day to participate in a game they love while dodging the tensions and rhetoric around this imaginary …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Group seeks to combat misleading information online

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project they say will combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration, supporters announced Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Group seeks to combat misleading information online

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project they say will combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration, supporters announced Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

'Driving While Black' shows history of US Black motorists

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new film examines the history of African Americans driving on the road from the Great Depression to the height of the Civil Rights movement.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

'Bad Hombres' film uses baseball to show the game of borders

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — People have always crossed borders to play baseball, and the sport routinely reaches across borders to fans. But rarely do players have to cross a border almost every day to participate in a game they love while dodging the tensions and rhetoric around this imaginary …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Black scholars form effort to fight trolls, disinformation

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project to combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration, supporters announced Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Black scholars form effort to fight trolls, disinformation

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project to combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration, supporters announced Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

'Driving While Black' shows history of US Black motorists

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new film examines the history of African Americans driving on the road from the Great Depression to the height of the Civil Rights movement.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

'Bad Hombres' film uses baseball to show the game of borders

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — People have always crossed borders to play baseball, and the sport routinely reaches across borders to fans. But rarely do players have to cross a border almost every day to participate in a game they love while dodging the tensions and rhetoric around this imaginary …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Close congressional race in southern New Mexico draws eyes

RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — Pockets in the Sierra Blanca mountain range are packed with tourists searching for an outdoor getaway of fishing, hunting, and eventually skiing. But this year the pandemic and New Mexico health orders have forced some shops and businesses in the New Mexico village of Ruidoso to …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

'Bad Hombres' film uses baseball to show the game of borders

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — People have always crossed borders to play baseball, and the sport routinely reaches across borders to fans. But rarely do players have to cross a border almost every day to participate in a game they love while dodging the tensions and rhetoric around this imaginary …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Close congressional race in southern New Mexico draws eyes

RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — Pockets in the Sierra Blanca mountain range are packed with tourists searching for an outdoor getaway of fishing, hunting, and eventually skiing. But this year the pandemic and New Mexico health orders have forced some shops and businesses in the New Mexico village of Ruidoso to …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

'Driving While Black' shows history of US Black motorists

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new film examines the history of African Americans driving on the road from the Great Depression to the height of the Civil Rights movement.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

New Mexico primary challengers face uphill fight amid virus

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — For weeks, Carrie Hamblen has knocked on doors, shook hands at festivals, and passed out campaign material in her effort to unseat Sen. Mary Kay Papen — one of the most powerful Democratic incumbents in the New Mexico Senate.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

New Mexico sees major jump in unemployment claims amid virus

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — More than 17,000 New Mexico residents have applied for unemployment benefits — more than 19 times the amount filed the previous week — amid the widespread economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus, officials said Thursday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

New Mexico rep faces heat for plugging Texas cafe amid virus

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — State Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero, one of the most liberal lawmakers in New Mexico and who has been dogged by allegations that she doesn't live in the state, is facing criticism for promoting a Texas cafe during coronavirus restrictions.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Selma Online offers free civil rights lessons amid virus

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — The first attempt of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, led to police violence against peaceful African American demonstrators. The beatings, known as “Bloody Sunday,” generated anger across the nation 55 years ago this month and prompted President Lyndon Johnson to …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Mathys says he has signatures for ballot in US House race

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Las Cruces businessman says he has collected enough signatures to qualify to be placed on the ballot in a crucial U.S. House race in southern New Mexico days after failing to obtain enough delegates at a statewide GOP convention.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

GOP hopeful: Republican Congress showed 'lack of leadership'

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Republican U.S. House candidate in a crucial New Mexico race said Monday the GOP-controlled Congress and the Trump Administration showed a “lack of leadership” during President Donald Trump's first two years in office.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

GOP unveils 'diverse' slate in move to take New Mexico House

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Republicans on Wednesday introduced the slate of candidates they hope will flip the Democratic-controlled New Mexico House amid rural anger over a new red-flag gun law and uncertainty over oil prices.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

New Mexico Super PAC forms with Massachusetts, oil ties

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new Super PAC with ties to a oil trucking company owner who lives in the northern part of New Mexico has been formed to likely target candidates in a district in the southwestern part of the state.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Bourdain admitsmistake on 'Frito pie'

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Insults dished out by food critic Anthony Bourdain on an episode of CNN's "Parts Unknown" have stirred up outrage in New Mexico - and now he acknowledges that he was wrong.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

New Mexico fire forces evacuation

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

'Day of the Dead' expanding in US

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS AGO

Bill Gates: Poverty not an excuse for no education

BOSTON - Microsoft founder Bill Gates told the National Urban League on Thursday that a child's success should not depend on the race or income of parents and that poverty cannot be an excuse for a poor education.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Earl's biggest damage in Northeast: business

YARMOUTH, Mass. - Earl's worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Napolitano tours flooded Rhode Island

WARWICK, R.I. - U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano took a helicopter tour over still-flooded Rhode Island on Friday, witnessing waterlogged shopping malls and homes with people's possessions laid out to dry in their yards, as residents and officials in the already economically troubled state pleaded for her …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Homeland Security secretary tours flooded areas

WARWICK, R.I. - U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano took a helicopter tour over still-flooded Rhode Island on Friday, witnessing waterlogged shopping malls and homes with people's possessions laid out to dry in their yards, as residents and officials in the already economically troubled state pleaded for her …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO