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3 days ago | 
sourcenm.com | Cecilia Nowell |Julia Goldberg
KHARKIV, Ukraine— It’s been three days since Yevhen Vasylenko has slept through the night, and a deep worry line has worn its way across his forehead. A spokesperson for the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv’s Emergency Situations Department, Vasylenko says missile and drone attacks have awakened him each night. Two nights earlier, Russia’s biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv to date had left at least 12 dead and 90 injured.
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4 days ago | 
sourcenm.com | Cecilia Nowell
Cecilia Nowell is a freelance reporter from New Mexico focused on gender, healthcare and policy stories. Her writing has been published by The Guardian, KFF Health News, The Nation, Mother Jones, and others.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Cecilia Nowell |Lucy Campbell |Maya Yang |Amy Sedghi
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Cecilia Nowell
Immigration officials attempted to enter two Los Angeles elementary schools this week, but were turned away by school administrators. The incident appears to be the Trump administration’s first attempt to enter the city’s public schools since amending regulations to allow immigration agents to enter “sensitive areas” such as schools.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Cecilia Nowell
There was a moment, just before the pandemic, when Lisset Sanchez thought she might have to drop out of college because the cost of keeping her three children in daycare was just too much. Even with support from the state, she and her husband were paying $800 a month – about half of what Sanchez and her husband paid for their mortgage in Las Cruces, New Mexico. But during the pandemic, that cost went down to $0. And Sanchez was not only able to finish college, but enroll in nursing school.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Cecilia Nowell |Lucy Campbell |Anna Betts |Tom Ambrose
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Cecilia Nowell
Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife was shot by police on Monday as officers searched for hit-and-run suspects in her Los Angeles neighborhood. Jillian Lauren, 51, was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound at a local hospital after the incident, but later booked for attempted murder, according to Los Angeles police. The episode started on Monday afternoon at about 3.25pm when California highway patrol requested backup for investigating a three-car hit-and-run.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Cecilia Nowell
A Los Angeles-area youth soccer coach was charged with the murder of a 13-year-old boy, as well as the assault of two other teenagers, during a court hearing Tuesday. Prosecutors accused Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino, 43, of killing Oscar Omar Hernandez, whose body was found by the side of the road in Ventura county. Garcia Aquino was charged with murder with special circumstances during the commission or attempted commission of lewd acts with a child.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Cecilia Nowell
A San Diego woman who was last seen on 25 March was found in a storm drain on Monday, and succumbed to her injuries shortly after. A Palomar medical center doctor pronounced Yafang Zhou, 59, dead at about 4.15pm Monday, just hours after first responders extracted her from the drain.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Cecilia Nowell
New Mexico became the fourth state in the nation to create an alert system for missing Indigenous Americans after governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation creating a “turquoise alert” on Monday. The act, which passed both chambers of the state legislature unanimously during the state’s recent legislative session, symbolizes the growing attention that a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people – most often women and girls – has received in recent years.
