Former Las Cruces Police officer Brad Lunsford looks toward the gallery during his trial in the fatal shooting of Presley Eze, in Las Cruces, N.M., on Feb. 4. Justin Garcia/Pool Las Cruces Bulletin hide caption
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This combination of file photos shows Vice President Harris speaking during a campaign rally in Kalamazoo, Mich., on Oct. 26, and former President Donald Trump during a rally Oct. 22 in Greensboro, N.C. AP/AP hide caption
Gabriel Vasquez speaks at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus event welcoming new Latino members to Congress at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18, 2022. Vasquez is locked in a tight reelection fight against his GOP challenger, Yvette Herrell. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Fidel Martinez raises a quarter-acre of chile at his ancestral home in Chimayo, but he only gives it away to family and friends. John Burnett/NPR hide caption
A rare treat getting rarer: Chimayo Red, New Mexico's 'holy chile'
A car rides on the road to Roswell, N.M., as smoke from a wildfire partially blocks the sun near the village of Ruidoso, N.M., on Tuesday, June 18. Thousands of southern New Mexico residents fled the mountainous village as a wind-whipped wildfire tore through homes and other buildings. Andres Leighton/AP hide caption
This electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health shows a human T cell, in blue, under attack by HIV, in yellow, the virus that causes AIDS. Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer, Austin Athman/AP hide caption
Melissa Wyaco supervises about two dozen public health nurses who search for patients across the Navajo Nation who have tested positive for or have been exposed to syphilis. Navajo Area Indian Health Services hide caption
The road to the city-run gun range in Albuquerque, N.M. Police think the local culture around guns has changed, and one undercover cop estimates half the cars on the road now carry a firearm. Martin Kaste/NPR hide caption
The governor tried banning guns in Albuquerque. The public health emergency continues
Reva Stewart preparing to meet people without housing at a park in Phoenix Alice Fordham/KUNM hide caption
Fake 'sober homes' targeting Native Americans scam millions from taxpayers
Xochitl Torres Small is sworn in as the Department of Agriculture's deputy secretary at USDA in Washington, D.C., on July 17. She was sworn in by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack. Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
USDA brings on Xochitl Torres Small, the first Latina deputy secretary
Movie-goers evacuate the Century Rio movie theater as officers respond to a shooting at the theater located at 4901 Pan American freeway in northeast Albuquerque, N.M., on Sunday, June 25, 2023. Chancey Bush/AP hide caption
Motorcycles line Main Street in Red River, N.M., on Sunday. Chancey Bush/Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP hide caption
Jade Vandiver holds her son Ezra at home in Clayton, New Mexico. Vandiver joined a federally funded rural maternity program while pregnant with Ezra. Joe Garcia III/KFF Health News hide caption
This telehealth program is a lifeline for New Mexico's pregnant moms. Will it end?
Jonathan Mitchell, pictured on April 27 inside the statehouse in Austin, Texas, is credited with devising the legal strategy behind the near-total abortion ban in Texas known as S.B. 8. Sarah McCammon/NPR hide caption
He helped craft the 'bounty hunter' abortion law in Texas. He's just getting started
Police work outside of a home in Albuquerque, N.M., on Feb. 23. Critics say problems with training are attributed to higher levels of police killings in New Mexico. Susan Montoya Bryan/AP hide caption
During rehearsals on the set of Rust in October 2021, actor Alec Baldwin, here pictured in 2015, fired a gun with a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. He now faces involuntary manslaughter charges. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Police say that Solomon Peña, left, sent a co-conspirator this image showing himself in a car with José Trujillo, an accused gunman in several drive-by shooting attacks on Democratic officials' homes in Albuquerque. Albuquerque Police Department hide caption
A losing Republican candidate in N.M. is charged over shootings at homes of Democrats
"We're worried and concerned that these are connected and possibly politically motivated or personally motivated," Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, left, said of a string of shootings. He's seen here alongside Police Chief Harold Medina during a press conference via the Albuquerque Police Department's Facebook livestream. Screenshot by NPR hide caption
This photo released Aug. 9, 2022, by the Albuquerque Police Department shows Muhammad Syed. Syed. AP hide caption
A young unidentified man bows during the Dhuhr afternoon prayer at the Islamic Center of New Mexico on Aug. 7, 2022, after the fourth Muslim man was killed in Albuquerque. Adolphe Pierre-Louis/AP hide caption
Clinic escorts use party horns and whistles to counter the presence of anti-abortion activist Gabriel Olivier, right, outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., on July 6, 2022. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption
Mississippi's last abortion clinic shuts down. The owner promises to continue working
A plume of smoke from the Black Fire rises over the Gila National Forest. Philip Connors watched the fire grow and creep closer to his fire lookout post. Philip Connors/Philip Connors hide caption
A New Mexico firewatcher describes watching his world burn
Smoke from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire drifts over Las Vegas, N.M., on Saturday. Robert Browman/The Albuquerque Journal via AP hide caption
A slurry bomber dumps the fire retardant between the Calf Canyon/Hermit Peak Fire and homes on the westside of Las Vegas, N.M., Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Eddie Moore/AP hide caption