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New Travel Guide for American Samoa Marks Major Leap for Tourism
160+ In-Depth Articles Now Live on AmericanSamoaPocketGuide.com, Providing the Ultimate Encyclopedia for Traveling in American Samoa The tourism industry in American Samoa has taken a leap forward with the launch of American Samoa Pocket Guide,...
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New Travel Guide for American Samoa marks major leap for local Tourism
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The tourism industry in American Samoa has taken a leap forward with the launch of the American Samoa Pocket Guide, a comprehensive online travel guide created for the U.S. territory. With more than 160 articles...
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Alabama specialty crop industry receives over $500,000 in federal grants
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Gulf Coast Media - Alabama
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GCM Staff Report The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries has been awarded $519,000 to fund projects aimed at boosting the state’s specialty crop industry, according to a news release from the USDA. The funding comes through the...
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Planned Trump staffing cuts loom over National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife, Land Management
Cuts to the federal agencies that manage national parks, science and public lands are expected to result in firings across the West, Southeast and Great Lakes, among other places, Trump administration plans reveal. In a court filing this week, the...
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UES High School Student Wins National Science Prize
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Our Town - New York
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Miles Wu of Hunter College High School, who combined origami (the Japanese art of paper folding) and physics to engineer foldable structures for disaster relief shelters, took the top prize—the ASCEND (Aspiring Scientists Cultivating Exciting New...
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Trump administration says it is paying out half of November's SNAP benefits
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Jewish World Review
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SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY JWR UPDATE. IT'S FREE. Just click here. The Trump administration said Monday that it will release enough funds to pay for a half-month’s worth of food assistance benefits in November, days after two courts ordered the U.S....
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Industrial facilities owned by profitable companies release more of their toxic waste into the environment
How much pollution a facility engaged in production or resource extraction emits isn’t just based on its location, its industry or the type of work it does. That’s what our team of environmental and financial economists found when we examined how...
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Advocates from the US territories to discuss democracy, climate at Guam Museum panel
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The Guam Daily Post
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Advocates and organizers from across U.S. territories will gather Thursday at the Guam Museum to explore how their communities' limited political power shapes their ability to confront accelerating climate threats, from rising seas to expanding...
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Trump to issue half of November SNAP benefits as shutdown continues
(Missouri Independent) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay about half of November benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, though benefits could take months to flow to recipients, the department said Monday in...
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CNN WIRE — Trump administration makes conscious decision to cut November SNAP benefits
By Tami Luhby, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration said Monday that it will provide only half of the normal SNAP food stamp benefits for November by tapping into the program’s contingency fund amid the government shutdown. But...
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Hirono urges Interior Secretary to restore funding for environmental research and conservation program
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Maui Now - Hawaii
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US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono. Photo courtesy US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaiʻi), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent a letter to US Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum urging him to reconsider the Trump...
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About half of November SNAP benefits will be paid amid shutdown
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Daily Freeman Journal - Iowa
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay about half of November benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, though benefits could take months to flow to recipients, the department said Monday in a brief to...
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UH grad student’s research reveals plastic pollution threats to endangered coral reefs
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Maui Now - Hawaii
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A diver glides over a coral reef. A study by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa graduate student Keiko Wilkins shows how microplastic pollution may harm coral reproduction and the settling of larvae. PC: Madelief Schelvis A University of Hawaiʻi at...
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Plastic pollution disrupts recovery of threatened coral reefs
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University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
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Reading time: < 1 minute(Photo credit: Madelief Schelvis) A University of at Mānoa graduate’s new research reveals that plastic pollution poses a significant, unseen threat to endangered coral reefs. The study found that chemicals leaching from...
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Trump administration can provide only half of usual food stamp benefits in November
By Tami Luhby, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration said Monday that it can provide only half of the normal food stamp benefits for November by tapping into the program’s contingency fund amid the government shutdown. But recipients...
US shutdown: Trump administration to pay half of food stamp benefits in November — how will SNAP funding work?
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The Times of India
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The Trump administration said Monday that it would provide only half of the normal food stamp benefits for November by tapping into the programme’s contingency fund amid the government shutdown, but recipients were unlikely to see the payments...
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Trump officials slash food stamp benefits by half
The Trump administration has said that it will provide only half of the normal food stamp benefits for November by tapping into the program's contingency fund amid the US federal government shutdown. But recipients are not likely to see the...
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Trump administration says it is paying out half of November’s SNAP benefits
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The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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The Trump administration said Monday that it will release enough funds to pay for a half-month’s worth of food assistance benefits in November, days after two courts ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to release the money to avoid forcing...
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Trump administration to pay about half of November SNAP benefits
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay about half of November benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, though benefits could take months to flow to recipients, the department said Monday in a brief to...
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