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We Are Not a Democracy
Canada Free Press
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The elements of American civics are taught in every high school in the nation; we do not need the taxpayer expense to fund these trips to expose outsiders to our American “democracy.” I was strolling through Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia when...
WestPac reviews Monument policy shifts
Samoa News
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June 10, 2025
HONOLULU — (June 04, 2025) The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council is convening June 9–11 in Honolulu to review major federal policy changes that could reshape fisheries access across the Pacific Islands, and to take final action...
Samoa activates National Emergency Operations Centre due to Severe Weather Conditions
Samoa Global News
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February 20, 2025
Samoa’s National Emergency Operations Centre has been activated on response to severe weather conditions over Samoa. The Notice issued on Thursday evening is signed by Vainalepa Toiata Apelu-Uili as the Acting CEO of the Ministry of Natural...
Pacific Islands to receive $107 M to Adapt Tuna Economies to Climate Change
Talanei
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February 20, 2025
Fourteen Pacific Island nations will receive over $100 (M) million to protect their tuna-dependent economies from climate change impacts on tuna. KHJ News Washington DC correspondent Matt Kaye reports… The nations, party to the South Pacific Tuna...
Recent changes in Medicaid financing in American Samoa and other U.S. Territories
Samoa News
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October 30, 2024
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S territories – American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) – have faced an array of longstanding fiscal and health challenges...
Round up of weather impacts
Talanei
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February 19, 2025
In response to the heavy weather we’re experiencing, Acting Governor Pulumataala Ae Ae Jr. has directed the following actions to help ensure safety. Beginning Wednesday, February 19 through Friday, February 21 government offices lacking power or...
Mass Bleaching Strikes Again—Is This the End for Coral Reefs?
Innovation & Tech Today
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June 9, 2025
Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called corals. While adult corals build solid structures that are firmly attached to the sea floor, baby corals are not confined...
Cook Islands under scrutiny as deep-sea mining debate shifts from green transition to militarisation
Te Ao Maori News
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This week, the Cook Islands came under scrutiny for excluding environmentalist groups from deep-sea mining consultations in Queensland, Australia. Climate change is one of the greatest threats to Pacific nations, but an escalating military buildup...
Training a community to combat coral disease
Talanei
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June 4, 2025
While the coral reefs surrounding American Samoa remain relatively healthy, resource managers are preparing for the possibility of future outbreaks—especially as coral diseases have devastated reefs elsewhere, such as those in the Western...
California and National Drought Summary for February 18, 2025, 10 Day Weather Outlook, and California Drought Statistics: 15% Extreme Drought
Sierra Sun Times
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Summary February 20, 2025 - A significant storm system moved through the South and into the Southeast during the week, which was associated with flooding rains over the Tennessee Valley and into Kentucky where some of these areas recorded 7-8...
Immediate Action Demanded
Samoa News
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June 4, 2025
June 02, 2025 To: Maefau Dr. Mary Lauagaia Taufetee — Director of Education DOE Building, Pago Pago, AS 96799 Mr. Vaiaso Apulu —Principal Voc Tech High School Immediate Action Demanded – Assault, Humiliation, and Social Media Exposure of Student...
Plastic pollution could put 2.3 million Pacific Islanders’ livelihoods at stake
Pacific News Service
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By Sanjeshni Kumar In seven to eight years, the Pacific will no longer be able to rely on the ocean for food security or as a source of livelihood as it does today because of plastic pollution. Experts say that by 2030, up to 53 million metric...
World leaders to meet in France to confront ocean crisis and push for $100 billion in pledges
Environmental Health News
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May 29, 2025
A global conference in Nice next month will convene over 10,000 participants, including world leaders and scientists, to address warming seas, plastic pollution, and dwindling ocean resources. Edith M. Lederer reports for The Associated Press. In...
DoH proposes regulations for tattooing
Talanei
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June 3, 2025
The Department of Health is moving to regulate tattooing activities in the territory covering commercial tattoo parlors and also traditional tattooing. Under a proposed rule which would be added to the American Samoa Administrative Code health...
NOAA told to make list of climate-related grants, setting of fears
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s leading climate science agencies, has been ordered to identify grants related to global warming and other topics targeted by President Donald Trump’s executive orders, raising...
Natural Disaster Statistics 2024 – By Type, Country, Death Toll, Region, World Risk Index and Safety Measures
Hollywood Gazette
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August 24, 2024
Natural Disaster Statistics 2024 – By Type, Country, Death Toll, Region, World Risk Index and Safety Measures August 18, 2024 — Introduction There has been a tremendous increase in natural disasters worldwide in the last two decades, along with...
American Samoa's Democratic caucus winner talks support for Harris, Biden's legacy
WTXL Tallahassee - Florida
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August 21, 2024
Former Democratic presidential candidate Jason Palmer — who became known after winning the caucus in American Samoa over Joe Biden on Super Tuesday earlier this year — is at the Democratic National Convention, tasked with trying to win more Gen Z...
Archives Working Across Remote Environments
Marianas Variety
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Archivists Eira Tansey and Helen Wong Smith visited CNMI’s Northern Marianas College and other community sites as part of the Council of State Archivists “Archives Working Across Remote Environments” or AWARE project, funded by an Institute of...
California and National Drought Summary for February 11, 2025, 10 Day Weather Outlook, and California Drought Statistics: 67% Abnormally Dry
Sierra Sun Times
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Summary February 13, 2025 - Conditions this week were largely based on where precipitation fell. Storms across the Ohio River Valley and Mid-Atlantic brought very beneficial rainfall, leading to improvements in eastern Oklahoma, northeast...
EPA grants $7.2 Million to American Samoa for clean water to schools and homes
Samoa News
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October 10, 2024
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Biden-Harris Administration issued a final rule this week requiring drinking water systems nationwide to identify and replace lead pipes within 10 years. Alongside this, EPA is announcing $7,181,000 in newly...