Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ States ordered by U.S. Education Department to certify school DEI ban or lose funds—This story was updated at 1:47 p.m. EDT. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education demanded in a letter to state education leaders on Thursday th...

+ Social Security commissioner nominee advances to U.S. Senate floor amid DOGE questions—Frank Bisignano, Social Security commissioner nominee, at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on March 25, 2025. (Senate webcast)WASHING...

+ New Mexico to join other states to share best practices in mental health care—Only 34.8% of people in New Mexico with private insurance were able to get mental health care in 2021, along with about half of people on Medicaid, ac...

+ U.S. House Dems say NOAA cuts will harm weather forecasting, fisheries, Navy operations—A NOAA NO-XP radar antenna prior to operations in VORTEX 2 in Norman, Oklahoma, on Oct. 5, 2010.  (Photo credit NOAA)Democrats on the U.S. House ...

+ Senate GOP budget resolution sets stage for raising debt limit by as much as $5 trillion—The U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans released an updated budget resolution Wednesday that s...

+ Western NM University regents tasked with addressing previous allegations of financial malfeasance—Western New Mexico University campus pictured in Silver City, New Mexico. (Photo courtesy Western New Mexico University)Western New Mexico University’...

+ Vexed by judicial restraints on Trump, U.S. Senate GOP floats bill to undercut courts—Opponents of President Donald Trump’s executive order indefinitely halting refugee resettlement in the U.S. rally on the steps of the federal courthou...

+ Trump to impose 10% base tariff on international imports, higher levies on some nations—U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a chart while speaking during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the W...

+ Surprise guest shows up as U.S. House Dems slam education cuts: the Education secretary—From left, U.S. Reps. Frederica Wilson of Florida and Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon and U.S. Rep. Mark Takano of Cal...

+ Dems celebrate a Wisconsin rejection of Musk, while GOP keeps 2 House seats in Florida—Demonstrators protest outside the KI Convention Center before the start of a town hall meeting with Elon Musk on March 30, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsi...

+ NM wildfire outlook above normal for most of state—Crews work to secure containment lines on the Mogote Hill Fire near Wagon Mound in mid-March. Wildfire potential will be above normal in most of the s...

+ New Mexico reports childhood obesity improvements—The New Mexico Health Department released its most recent report on childhood obesity on April 2, 2025The New Mexico health department on Wednesday sa...

+ Judge orders fired federal probationary workers reinstated in 19 states, D.C.—Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland speaks at a rally in support of federal workers outside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Serv...

+ Trump administration targets Planned Parenthood’s family-planning grants—Federal health officials temporarily froze Title X family-planning funds for some Planned Parenthood clinics, which provide reproductive health servic...

+ Outlook for Mexican gray wolf still positive, despite recent death—A male Mexican gray wolf tries to elude capture inside an enclosure at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, Wednesday, November 8, 2017. ...

+ ‘These are not normal times,’ Sen. Cory Booker says in record-breaking Senate speech—Sen. Cory Booker's 25-hour-plus speech broke a record previously held by a South Carolina senator who tried to prevent passage of the Civil Rights Act...

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