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KPBS Midday EditionKJZZ Fronteras News Desk reporter Laurel Morales discusses how producing the "Earth + Bone" series changed the way she looks at what is sacred.
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KPBS Midday EditionNew Mexico has the highest rate of untested sexual assault evidence kits per capita in the nation.
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KPBS Midday EditionWe call the thousands of sexual assault evidence kits in New Mexico a backlog. But as the state Auditor’s Office pointed out in an audit last week, it’s not like there’s just a long line of envelopes at the labs waiting to be tested. Actually, the kits have been sitting around law enforcement departments all over the state for decades.
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KPBS Midday EditionNew Mexico has one of the worst sexual assault rates in the nation. And thousands of envelopes of DNA evidence that could help identify repeat sexual offenders are sitting untested. We're taking a look at what it takes for survivors to provide that evidence in the first place.
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A nonprofit Jewish foundation hosted a refugee artist-in-residence program with an Israeli sculptor to help a Syrian refugee heal through art.
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When a U.S. company brings an immigrant worker into the country on an H-1B visa, it pays the federal government a fee to help train American workers to one day fill the job. Now that money is flowing into San Diego County.
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A conservative city in Central Texas is going 100 percent renewable in a state largely defined by oil and gas. And it had nothing to do with the environment.
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KPBS Midday EditionA nonprofit organization, the Colibrí Center for Human Rights, is working to match the DNA of hundreds of unidentified migrants who died crossing the Arizona-Mexico border with families living in the U.S.
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KPBS Midday EditionU.S. citizens living in Tijuana with their deported husbands say they are denied access to SENTRI, a trusted traveler program for expedited border crossings.
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KPBS Midday EditionA remote campground in southwest New Mexico has recently become a sanctuary for star gazers seeking a pristine night sky at a time when the rapid spread of light pollution prevents more than half of the world's population from seeing the Milky Way.
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