Jurors in September found Meta liable for over 43 million violations of New Mexico consumer protection laws when a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, harvested Facebook user data to generate targeted political ads for the 2016 election.
"Facebook promised users that they (the users) controlled their data. This was false," Judge Francis J. Matthew wrote in his judgement…
More Emissions: Three new data centers near the Texas-New Mexico border, including two in El Paso, could significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions in the region.
Across State Lines: Regulators have largely considered the environmental impacts of these data centers separately, partly because they are in two different states.
Conflicting Goals: Plans for these projects are moving forward even though both places had previously adopted strategies for reducing emissions...
https://elpasomatters.org/2026/10/14/el-paso-data-centers-meta-project-jupiter-climate-emissions/
Attorney Randi McGinn, representing New Mexico, told jurors that Cambridge Analytica had used Facebook profile data to target Democratic voters with messaging such as “Hillary’s got it, you don’t need to vote” in an alleged attempt to reduce voter turnout.
Cambridge Analytica’s clients included the 2016 campaign for Donald Trump. Cambridge Analytica closed in 2018 as a result of the scandal…
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/10/facebook-cambridge-analytica-new-mexico-trial
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/trump-oil-drilling-world-heritage-site-new-mexico
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/05/new-mexico-doj-epstein-files-01026071
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/trump-border-wall-new-mexico-wells
“It appears that the administration has been really focused on the management of communications around the Epstein case, rather than acting in a way that demonstrates a commitment to getting to the truth and getting to accountability,” said Torrez.
Especially frustrating, he told MS Now, was the conduct of the SDNY after the first, Balderas-ordered investigation was shelved. Torrez said: “We stood down that investigation at the explicit request of the southern district of New York, and so to have them fail to honor their agreement and then not give us access to this file is extremely unusual, and it’s complicating our ability to advance this criminal investigation.”
Blanche “has the authority right now, with the stroke of a pen, to grant us this access, to let us, our investigators and prosecutors, come and take a look at the files, identify co-conspirators, witnesses, corroborating evidence, identify new potential leads,” Torrez added.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/01/doj-new-mexico-epstein-documents
Indigenous and Hispanic students are suspended more often and for longer periods than their white classmates who commit similar infractions at Gallup-McKinley County Schools — a pattern of “substantial racial disparities,” an investigation by the New Mexico attorney general’s office found.
Indigenous students lose eight to 10 times more classroom days to suspensions than white students, while Hispanic students lose three to four times as many, according to the 47-page report released by the state’s Department of Justice last week…
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-ag-report-gallup-mckinley-schools
The New Mexico department of justice's announcement came less than two weeks after the Guardian reported that federal agents did not appear to have ever searched Zorro Ranch...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/new-mexico-epstein-zorro-ranch-investigation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/09/new-mexico-free-universal-childcare
Prosecutors says Solomon Peña showed no remorse for shootings on the homes of four Democratic officials in Albuquerque…
Private contractors at a federal detention facility delayed calling for an ambulance for hours during a man's health crisis the day before he died, video and records obtained by the Guardian can reveal…
"It will close hospitals — think something like 432 hospitals across the country are on the edge right now. About a third of their funding … or more, comes from Medicaid. So you have less providers who have fewer access points."
"No state, including this one — no state can take this kind of cost shifting. And you know, businesses then don't have employees because they don't have access to health care. It has a huge economic factor that they aren't talking about, which is outrageous," she said...
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5294811-new-mexico-governor-potential-gop-cuts-medicaid/
