The vote marked a rare bipartisan rebuke of the war, but is mostly symbolic. Democrats have been unable to pass a war powers resolution in the Senate, and even if they could it would likely be vetoed.
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Todd Garrison, Republican candidate for Doña Ana County Sheriff, outperformed 3 other candidates with 57% of the vote.
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New Mexico's Independent and "decline to state" voters had their first chance to vote in a primary; Cathy Stewart of Open Primaries and Let Us Vote says election officials have some work to do.
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Nick Seibel, publisher and editor of the Silver City Daily Press, covers top stories each week on the Silver City Report. This week we hear about Grant County election results, how Grant County compared to the rest of the state in voting and how the county clerk's office handled a power outage.
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Alamogordo News managing editor Adrian Hedden covers top stories from Alamogordo and Otero County each week.
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The next governor will succeed Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, who reached her term limit. Democrats have won every statewide elected office since 2017.
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For the first time, the primary will be open to voters who are independent. The semi-open primary system signed into law by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham last year allows the roughly 23% of New Mexico voters who are not affiliated with a political party to vote.
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Patrols on Tuesday showed that the new line from Monday’s burning operation is secure. Some white smoke can be observed from burning dead and down timber from the 2022 Peppin fire.
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The settlement calls for reducing groundwater pumping along the dwindling river and retiring water rights from irrigated farmland in southern New Mexico.
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The Senate voted along party lines to start debate on a Republican bill to fund immigration enforcement through the end of President Trump's term.
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President Trump signed an executive order that puts some 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into a new category of employees who can be fired for any reason.
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The president also acknowledged that he cursed at the Israeli leader in a heated phone call in which he told Benjamin Netanyahu not to bomb the Lebanese capital Beirut.
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Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.