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More than a dozen protests took place June 14 across New Mexico as part of the nationwide No Kings protests.

For the first time in years, overdose deaths have been declining recently after reaching a peak of about 111,000 in 2022. However, advocates are worried about a backslide on that progress as federal grants are lost, and agencies like the the National Institutes of Health are crippled by drastic funding cuts.

A warming climate 鈥� fueled in part by the state鈥檚 oil and gas production 鈥� has parched rivers and turned forests to tinder.

U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan hosted a forum Wednesday with Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto spotlighting the local and national effects of President Trump鈥檚 tariff policies. The forum featured almost a dozen speakers including business owners and economic experts, who discussed the ways tariffs have contributed to economic instability, increased costs for working families and benefited special interests.

On Saturday, 鈥淣o Kings Day鈥� rallies are planned as a nationwide day of defiance against President Trump's administration. June 14th was chosen, in part because it is Flag Day 鈥� but also because it is President Donald Trump's 79th birthday.

Feeding America has released their annual, Map the Meal Gap study, that takes a look at food insecurity risk from 2023. According to the data, New Mexico ranked fourth in childhood hunger. Now with several funding cuts from the federal level to both assistance programs and food banks, the Roadrunner food bank told 九色网 what this could mean for local hunger relief.

Latine writer Estella Gonz谩lez, from East Los Angeles, is reading from her novel, Huizache Women at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Thursday evening. 九色网 spoke with Gonz谩lez, who said she wrote this book about her East Los Angeles community, but the theme of pursuing the American dream is recognizable anywhere in the country.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation released their annual Kids Count Data Report Monday. New Mexico remains last in child wellbeing and ranks at or near the bottom for several other crucial categories like education and health. 九色网 Taylor Velazquez has more on the challenges that persist for the state鈥檚 kids and families.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo recently published her latest children鈥檚 book titled 鈥淔or A Girl Becoming.鈥� 九色网 spoke with Harjo, who said she wrote the book as an advice poem for her first grandchild.

The results of a first-of-its-kind aerial survey of beaver dams in New Mexico, released this week, reveal a stark contrast between the northern and southern parts of the state.