SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol is asserting its authority to seize cannabis shipments — including commercial, state-authorized supplies — as licensed cannabis providers file complaints that more than $300,000 worth of marijuana has been confiscated in recent months at highway checkpoints in southern New Mexico.New Mexico’s Democratic governor says the disruptions prompted a discussion this week with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose impeachment charges were dismissed this week. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she voiced concerns that the scrutiny of cannabis companies appears to be greater in New Mexico than states with regulated markets…

John Stamos understands why Taylor Swift’s newest album, The Tortured Poets Department, is making waves in Hollywood. “Is there any man on planet Earth right now whose phone is blowing up more than Charlie Puth right now?” Josh Gad, who listened to the 34-year-old pop star’s record with his two daughters, teased via Instagram on Friday, April 19. (Puth, 32, was name-dropped on title track “The Tortured Poets Department” as a singer Swift once praised with an ex.) Stamos, 60, offered Gad, 43, an alternate theory, commenting: “Kim K?” Swift revealed on Friday that she wrote a double album, The…

Tenth of an 11-part series. Coming tomorrow: specialists. Football always has been a family affair for Tyler Nubin, whose younger brother, Jordan, was a teammate the past two seasons at the University of Minnesota. But playing in the defensive secondary also is in Nubin’s blood as his late uncle, Steve King, was a defensive back at Michigan in the mid-’90s, a teammate of two future Pro Football Hall of Famers — Ty Law and Heisman Trophy-winning corner Charles Woodson. Nubin — whose father, Rodney, also played collegiately at Eastern Michigan — now could be on his way to NFL stardom…

President Biden vowed Friday that former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts would lapse next year if he’s re-elected and “stay expired” — meaning higher taxes for middle class and low-income Americans — prompting a hasty walk-back by aides. Biden, 81, lambasted Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which permanently lowered corporate taxes from 35% to 21% and temporarily lowered personal income tax rates through 2025, as a giveaway to the rich in a speech to electrical union members in Washington. “[Trump] was proud, very proud of his $2 trillion tax cut when he was president that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court has ruled that Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton can face discipline from the state bar association over his failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.A disciplinary committee of the State Bar of Texas accused Paxton in 2022 of making false claims of fraud in a lawsuit that questioned President Joe Biden’s victory. On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the 5th District Court of Appeals said Paxton can be sanctioned by the committee because the lawsuit seeks to punish him in his personal capacity as an attorney and not as a public…

An 18-year-old from Portsmouth, accused of creating hate-motivated graffiti, has turned himself into police on criminal charges, authorities said Friday.SWISS PARLIAMENT APPROVES NAZI SYMBOL DISPLAY BANLoren Faulkner was arrested on Thursday on 31 counts of criminal mischief and hate-motivated criminal mischief for the graffiti spree targeting religious buildings and other communities in February 2023, police said. He was released on bail and will be arraigned in June. It was not immediately known if he is being represented by an attorney. There was no phone number listed in his name. 18-year-old Loren Faulkner of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has turned himself in…

No, Blake Lively did not have four more children — but Taylor Swift did drop some names that are confusing fans. The biggest question surrounds the track “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus” from The Tortured Poets Society: The Anthology, which dropped on Friday, April 19. Traditionally, Swift name-drops her famous friends in songs, and even — sometimes — reveals the names of their children. She famously used the names of Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ three daughters, James, Inez and Betty, in a three-song story on 2020’s Folklore. However, with “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus,” it appears…

Here is another spot in the defensive backfield that is not exactly fully-stocked with proven talent. The leading man the past few years, Xavier McKinney, left for riches ($67 million) bestowed upon him by the Packers. McKinney played all 1,128 snaps on defense in 2023, meaning there is a whole bunch of playing time awaiting someone. Jason Pinnock returns at one starting spot and perhaps ballhawk Dane Belton is ready for a larger role. Veteran Jalen Mills was signed to a one-year deal and he should compete for work. GM Joe Schoen does not believe in spending big for a…

A former senior adviser to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci shared “confidential” communications with EcoHealth Alliance about how the agency was preparing to respond to accusations that it funded risky gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses in Wuhan, China. The House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released an email on Friday between NIAID’s Dr. David Morens and EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak, in which the senior scientific adviser noted Fauci had been briefed about the accusations of substandard biosafety levels at the Chinese research lab. “Peter, the below CONFIDENTIAL email went to Tony,” Morens wrote…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been exonerated by a Department of Justice review that found investigators did not intend to target traditional Catholics as potential “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.”The Justice Department Inspector General review noted, however, that analysts “incorrectly conflated” an investigative subject’s religious views with his alleged domestic terrorism activities. Findings from the 120-day review, which was handled by Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz and ordered by Congress, were outlined in a letter sent to members of Congress on Thursday.An FBI Richmond, Virginia, internal memo, titled “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in…