Tuesday’s Top Stories
- Man facing DWI charge for 2024 fatal crash
- Bennie Hargrove Park under construction
- AFR rescues two people trapped inside vehicle
- Big Jim Farms celebrates Labor Day with festival
- Two men charged with stealing bicycles in Santa Fe
- UNM Lobos look to build on season opener, create more opportunities against Mercyhurst
Tuesday’s Five Facts
[2] Trump signs order to determine if Mexican gray wolf protections are warranted – President Trump signed an executive order last week that gives the Secretary of the Interior 90 days to decide if the gray wolf and the Mexican gray wolf population has recovered enough to delist or downlist them under the Endangered Species Act. Some conservation groups are criticizing the order and believe it would negatively impact efforts to recover the wolf populations. Meanwhile, some ranchers believe the executive order could be a win for their way of life and may lead to better ways to evaluate whether cattle found dead were killed by wolves.
[3] Storms and hotter temperatures return around New Mexico – Monsoonal moisture will continue to stream into the region through the middle of the week bringing daily chances of showers and storms to parts of the state. Localized heavy rainfall could once again lead to flooding concerns in many locations, especially across burn scar locations. By the second half of the week, drier air will begin to make its way into the region. This will bring fewer shower and storm chances by Friday. Temperatures however will remain above average across the state.
[4] New Mexico takes Facebook back to court over data privacy violations – Jury selection is set to begin in the next trial between the state of New Mexico and Meta. This comes after Meta was ordered to pay $942 million after state prosecutors proved Facebook and Instagram were harmful to kids. The next legal battle is expected to start today. It stems from a 2019 lawsuit filed by former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas. It came after the Federal Trade Commission found they violated privacy policies by allowing personal data of its users to be accessed by a third party, then sold to a political consulting firm, “Cambridge Analytica,” and for not disclosing this to users for over two years…