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“Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin won’t be able to build a seven-sided, castle-style library at his compound in Santa Fe that drew objections from neighbors.

Former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson, whose then-wife Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA agent as apparent payback for his defiance of the Bush Administration during the run-up to the Iraq War, died Friday. Wilson, who was 69, died of organ failure at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Plame told NBC News.

Beto O’Rourke was running for the El Paso City Council in 2005 when he asked to meet with the illustrious real estate investor William Sanders. Sanders had earned a fortune and a reputation as a brilliant businessman in Chicago before returning to his remote hometown on the West Texas-Mexico border. He thought the aspiring politician was there to solicit a...

Listen to everything Beto O’Rourke said during the first night of the Democratic presidential debates in Miami, FL.

Friday’s mass shooting in Virginia Beach is reigniting debate over gun laws. Twelve people were killed when a city employee opened fire in a government building. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that more laws aren’t the solution. Presidential candidates, however, are calling for action.

Pardeep Singh Kaleka has surveyed the landscape of an America scarred by mass shootings. Seven years ago, a white supremacist invaded a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and killed six worshippers — among them Kaleka’s father, who died clutching a butter knife he’d grabbed in a desperate attempt to stop the shooter. Now, whenever another gunman bloodies another town, Kaleka posts...

It’s hard to miss Charlene Holy Bear in a crowd — if you’re looking down, anyway. When the Native American artist goes out in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she’s often wearing a pair of hand-beaded Vans. They’re a wearable work of art that prompt second glances wherever she goes, and also a walking advertisement, since Holy Bear beads the shoes...

Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter. But sales were slow, and industry’s campaign to free up taxpayer money for upgrades had stalled.

Students in Santa Fe, Texas, will begin a new school year Monday with additional security measures in place following a mass shooting in May that left 10 people dead.

The graduates and attendees at Friday’s ceremony paid tribute to the 10 students and teachers who died in last month’s mass shooting at the Texas school.

The White House press secretary responded that the administration will be meeting this week “to discuss the best way forward and how we can do every single thing within our power to protect kids in our schools.”

An Indiana science teacher was released from a hospital a day after he was shot while tackling an armed student inside his classroom, a congresswoman said Saturday. Republican U.S. Rep. Susan Brooks posted a video on Twitter saying she met Jason Seaman during a visit to Noblesville West Middle School. “He is that hero teacher who stopped the shooter from...

A substitute teacher whose lust for life and love of family is among the first confirmed victims of Friday’s mass shooting at a Texas high school.

The 17-year-old suspected of killing 10 people at a Texas high school has confessed, authorities said, but his motivation for the attack remains unclear. In the wake of the Friday shooting, various reports have surfaced that Dimitrious Pagourtzis was bullied. The mother of one victim said her daughter recently rejected the young man’s romantic advances. But police have not yet...

Listen to police audio during the shooting at Santa Fe High School in southern Texas Friday morning. Ten people were killed when a student opened fire in a classroom, police said.

Toyota and Hyundai have recalled roughly a combined 110,000 trucks and sport utility vehicles, including the 2018 Toyota Tundra and Sequoia, and the 2018 Hyundai Santa Fe and Santa Fe Sport.

After nearly five decades winding through miniatures mountains, rustic towns and train yards, the model trains of the Napa Valley Model Railroad Historical Society are now winding their way through courtrooms. On Wednesday, the historical society squared off in a Napa courtroom against the operators of the Napa Valley fairgrounds who want to evict the railroad as part of a...

Chemical reactions are gradually darkening many of Georgia O’Keeffe’s famously vibrant paintings, and art conservation experts are hoping new digital imaging tools can help them slow the damage. Scientific experts in art conservation from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Chicago area announced plans this week to develop advanced 3-D imaging technology to detect destructive buildup in paintings by O’Keeffe...

Steve Jobs’ life story has been remade into Hollywood films, musicals and now an opera. Rife with tension and contradictions, composer Mason Bates said the tech mogul’s story was made for the stage.

Hyundai is recalling almost 600,000 vehicles in the U.S. to fix hood latch and parking brake warning light problems. The largest recall covers more than 437,000 Santa Fe and Santa Fe Sport SUVs from 2013 to 2017. A cable for the secondary hood latch can corrode and fail to latch. That could let the hood fly up if the primary...