Oil-rich Guyana is enjoying red-hot growth. But the boom is magnifying tensions over corruption, inequality and strained ties with Venezuela.

Artificial intelligence (AI) firms are exploiting loopholes and lax air pollution enforcement in a race to build new on-site fossil-fuel power plants for data centres across the USA. Concerns over air...

For decades, the Mexican authorities have sacrificed a rural valley to flush away the capital’s waste and power the economy. Now, local communities are paying for that decision — often with peoples’ l...

For decades, the Mexican authorities have sacrificed a rural valley to flush away the capital’s waste and power the economy. Now, local communities are paying for that decision — often with peoples’ l...

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

When Thaddeus “Tuk” Koslik arrived at an Albuquerque assisted living facility one Saturday morning in late August 2024, he tried to wake his dad, but couldn’t. Three days later, his father was dead. A...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the public should not expect to quickly see footage of every critical incident.

Federal prosecutors seek to dismiss convictions of two officers found guilty in the death of Hector Nava, who was tased 14 times.

When Thaddeus “Tuk” Koslik arrived at an Albuquerque assisted living facility one Saturday morning in late August 2024, he tried to wake his dad, but couldn’t. Three days later, his father was dead. A...

Between 2025 and 2026, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs slashed reimbursement rates for home health care in New Mexico by nearly 20%.

Days that are both extremely hot and polluted come with higher risks of respiratory ailments and other health hazards.

The first hundred days of the second Trump administration was unprecedented, with the administration taking remarkably aggressive, often questionably legal actions across health policy. This article u...

On May 5, the White House overruled objections from US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Marty Makary and ordered the agency to authorise sales of two fruit-flavoured e-cigarette product...

Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very...

Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, ...

Gaps in patient data reported to the US National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database by some rural, safety-net, and community hospitals could skew cancer rat...

The annual federal "point-in-time" homelessness count is used in California to determine funding and gauge progress in getting people off the streets.

Federal charges tied to a church protest have left journalist Georgia Fort unable to interview key Minnesota sources, raising new alarms over press freedom.

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One in five cancer clinical trials in the USA fail due to insufficient patient enrolment, according to a report from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Recruitment challenges are pushi...

In this week's STATus Report, hear from six former FDA officials on why they left the agency.

The Navajo Nation report echoes a 2022 investigation by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica that found Indigenous students were punished more harshly than other students in the state’s Gallup-McKinley ...

A report released Tuesday by the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission (NNHRC) describes harsh discipline of Navajo students, pervasive discrimination and a climate of fear and retaliation in the Gall...

A coalition of 13 Democratic state attorney generals is urging the Trump administration to drop a “dangerous and scientifically unsupported” revision to a federal formaldehyde-inhalation risk assessme...

Despite worsening ozone air pollution in much of the country, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to weaken a key safeguard against cross-state emissions that fuel it. The announcemen...

Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials case

“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...

New federal staffing standards meant to improve the care of millions of Americans in nursing homes could go into effect in as soon as two years. New Mexico’s nursing homes aren’t ready. Not even close...

A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health worker...

Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina testified under oath that he and other high-ranking APD officials have been routinely deleting text messages about official business since 2018, violating state ...

The parents of a three-year-old boy born with a devastating, life-limiting genetic condition say they are now excited for his future after he received a revolutionary stem cell gene therapy treatment ...

Scientists used CRISPR to disable the NRF2 gene, restoring chemotherapy sensitivity in lung cancer cells and slowing tumor growth. The technique worked even when only a fraction of tumor cells were ed...

Could a microbe that can smuggle antigens into the immune system of the gut provide a simple way to treat cancers?