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New Mexico
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 33 stories to New Mexico since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from New Mexico.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In New Mexico
10 storiesNew Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $567 million to abate youth harms, finding Facebook and Instagram created a public nuisance connecting predators to children.
$420 million earmarked for treatment
CBP halts new well drilling for border wall construction after New Mexico found contractors illegally drilled 8 wells pumping ranchers' groundwater during a drought.
200 gallons a minute, no permits
New Mexico's attorney general sues the state's own child welfare agency for telling a teen in its custody to walk alone into Mexico.
Agency asked feds to deny reentry
FAA declares "national defense airspace" over El Paso and grounds all flights for 10 days with no explanation, authorizing deadly force against aircraft that enter the restricted zone.
Closest comparison is 9/11 attacks
An Associated Press investigation finds the DEA let hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills reach New Mexico streets from 2023 to 2025 to build bigger trafficking cases.
DOJ loosened seizure rules mid-investigation
New Mexico orders JPMorgan, Google, and two dozen companies to preserve Epstein records, going around a Justice Department it says withholds unredacted files.
Feds dispute refusing to share files
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.'s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach "break it and see."
21 states sued, summary judgment granted
New Mexico investigators search Jeffrey Epstein's former Zorro Ranch as part of reopened criminal investigation into allegations of illegal activity including body burials.
State closed prior investigation in 2019
New Mexico orders investigation into forced sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service, which a 1976 federal audit found sterilized 3,406 women without informed consent before the government stopped counting.
Some patients were under 21
Pentagon lets CBP fire an anti-drone laser near Fort Bliss without FAA coordination, triggering a chaotic airspace shutdown the administration blames on a cartel incursion.
Coordination meeting had been scheduled
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesNew Mexico sues DOJ and acting AG Blanche for withholding unredacted Epstein files that reference Zorro Ranch more than 13,000 times.
DOJ has produced 31 pages
Twenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Courts uniformly rejected all prior challenges
New Mexico sues the US and border wall contractors over unauthorized wells in protected water basins, demanding double repayment for stolen groundwater.
Water meter tampering alleged
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