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    Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001

    Published July 10, 2017 at 1140 × 969 in Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001

    The BADGER explosion on April 18, 1953, as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, at the Nevada Test Site

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    • Biden vetoes GOP-pushed resolution that would have stripped protections from endangered bird
      By Hannah Grover | 17 hours ago

      President Joe Biden vetoed resolutions on Tuesday that would have stripped protections from the endangered lesser prairie chicken in New Mexico as well as a bat found in the eastern United States.

    • ACLU-NM files complaint against CoreCivic over wrongful death claim
      By Susan Dunlap | 17 hours ago

      The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and a private Albuquerque attorney have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against CoreCivic, the for-profit company that operates the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia.

    • AG gathers law enforcement to discuss possible solutions to gun violence
      By Nicole Maxwell | September 27, 2023

      New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez opened a Law Enforcement Summit Tuesday to address gun violence.

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    • Indigenous Women Rising: Abortion fund budget has doubled since Dobbs
      By Susan Dunlap | September 26, 2023

      Representatives from the abortion fund provider Indigenous Women Rising told members of the Interim Indian Affairs Committee on Monday that their monthly abortion fund budget has doubled since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade.

    • Legislative Newsletter: The race to 2024, so far
      By Nicole Maxwell | September 25, 2023

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    About Laura Paskus

    Laura Paskus has been writing about New Mexico’s natural resources and communities since 2002, as an assistant editor of High Country News, a radio producer at KUNM-FM, managing editor of Tribal College Journal and a freelancer for a variety of publications including the Santa Fe Reporter, New Mexico In Depth and Indian Country Today. Her work has also appeared in Al Jazeera America, Ms. Magazine, National Geographic Online, The Nature Conservancy Magazine, The Progressive, Columbia Journalism Review, The Mountain Gazette, Audubon and Orion. She's a correspondent for New Mexico In Focus and a graduate student in the University of New Mexico’s Geography and Environmental Studies Department.

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