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What’s the role of a nonpartisan news site in an era of hyperpartisan political division?
Searchlight New Mexico was founded to produce investigative journalism in the public interest. Whoever is in power — at any ...
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On the southern border, a brief moment of reunion
Behind a wall of razor wire on the United States side of the river, students from Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque ...
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Donald Trump’s victory puts all eyes back on the border
On October 31, Donald Trump landed in Albuquerque at a private aviation hangar, a location he chose for a rally in part because he owes the city half a million dollars from a 2019 event at the Santa ...
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Plutonium just had a bad day in court
Most Americans don’t seem aware of it, but the United States is plunging into a new nuclear arms race. At the same time that China is ramping up its arsenal of nuclear weapons, Russia has become ...
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How cyber soldiers at Kirtland Air Force Base safeguard the integrity of New Mexico’s vote
On an afternoon in early October, inside a bland, beige office on Albuquerque’s Kirtland Air Force Base, two uniformed servicemen are sitting at desks, their eyes scanning computer monitors. Both are ...