New Mexico Music Legend Al Hurricane, Jr passes away at 66

The United States Senate on Monday voted 46-43 to confirm Republican Steve Pearce, a former New Mexico congressman, to lead the federal Bureau of Land Management agency.

Nearly half of all New Mexico renters and 20% of homeowners statewide are “cost-burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on rent, mortgage payments and other housing expenses.

In an effort to address forthcoming freshwater scarcity, New Mexico water and environment officials announced the award of three contracts totaling $13 million for mapping, testing and treating brackish water, on Monday.

Today in History: May 19, West Virginia's Matewan Massacre

Georgia is a swing state where both Democrats and Republicans are deciding the direction their parties will take in the fall in races for the senate and the governor's mansion.

As part of the settlement agreement, the U.S. is "forever barred and precluded" from examining or prosecuting President Trump, his sons and the Trump organization's current tax issues, according to a document posted to the DOJ website.

In a major victory for President Trump, his hand-picked challenger, Ed Gallrein, beat out U.S. House Rep. Thomas Massie in a Kentucky House GOP primary, ending Massie's reelection bid.

The novel is the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the award, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

Ward learned the term "respair" — meaning the recovery of hope after despair — during the pandemic. Her new book On Witness and Respair is an essay collection on grief, motherhood and survival.

President Trump has endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas GOP runoff for U.S. Senate, one week before voting ends in the contentious and expensive primary.