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In pictures: 2025 Pacific Mini Games day one
RNZ
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July 1, 2025
Fiji women's indoor volleyball team (blue top) made a strong start on the first day of competition beating American Samoa 3–2 in their first Pool A match. Photo: Facebook / Team Fiji The 2025 Pacific Mini Games kicked off on Monday, with baseball,...
Taputu claims 2025 Pacific Mini Games' first gold medal as Tahiti dominates opening day
RNZ
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June 30, 2025
Tahiti dominated in the va'a (pictured) and the swimming on day one. Photo: Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games/Facebook Tahiti's Teimoana Taputu claimed the first gold medal at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau, taking out the V1 500 metres open...
Samoa citizen arrives home safely from Israel amid unrest in Middle East
Samoa News
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June 30, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Ms. Polino Falevaai from The Scientific Research Organization Of Samoa (SROS) who was attending a 10-month training on agricultural research and innovations in Israel has returned home safely on Saturday 28 June, after...
How Testing Protects Us All
Saporta Report
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June 30, 2025
For much of history, physicians made disease diagnoses by simply using their senses. What does the skin look like? How do the lungs sound? Do any bodily fluids have a particular smell? As we have learned more about the nature of diseases and...
Navigating the Legal Framework for US Offshore Mining Activities in the Wake of Trump's Executive Order
The Legal Intelligencer
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June 30, 2025
On April 24, 2025, the president issued an executive order titled “Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources,” aimed at accelerating the development of deep seabed mining in areas within and beyond U.S. jurisdiction. Deep...
Cook Islands Cabinet approves significant increase in tobacco tax
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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June 30, 2025
Cook Islands Cabinet has approved a significant increase in tobacco tax, aiming to reduce smoking rates and combat non-communicable diseases. The Cabinet has recently approved the initiative set by Ministry of Health to increase the tobacco tax by...
US Democrats name NMI's Hix regional director
Marianas Variety
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Nola Hix THE Association of State Democratic Committees has appointed NMI Democrat Nola Kileleman Hix as the regional director for the U.S. Territories and Democrats Abroad, the Democratic Party of the NMI announced on Sunday. The NMI Democrats...
Palau welcomes the Pacific
NBC PNG
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Team PNG Flag Bearers Josh Tarere and Thelma Toua at the opening ceremony of the 2025 Pacific Mini Games with Team PNG Chef De Mission Kinivanagi Karo (left) (Image: Team PNG) In a spectacular opening ceremony of the 2025 Pacific Mini Games last...
Palau Games are on
The National
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IT was a rainy evening in Koror, Palau, as Team PNG athletes and officials marched into the Palau National Stadium on Sunday evening (June 29) for the opening ceremony of the Pacific Mini Games. Twenty-two other countries and territories in the...
U.S. House Ready For Quick Turnaround on Tax, Budget Bill
Talanei
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June 26, 2025
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will act quickly on the Senate’s version of the President’s tax and spending bill, aiming to get the measure to the President’s desk by the target date—July 4th. KHJ News Washington, D.C....
Regional fishery management council appointments announced
National Fisherman - Alaska
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June 30, 2025 The U.S. Department of Commerce on Monday announced the appointment of 20 new and returning members to the nation’s eight regional fishery management councils, a key step in the federal effort to manage and protect marine resources...
The only US territory where residents are not granted birthright citizenship
The Mirror US
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June 26, 2025
While American Samoa has been US soil since 1900, it remains the only US territory where residents are not automatically granted citizenship at birth. People in all other four US territories - including Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana...
55 attorneys general agree to $7.4 billion Purdue settlement
The Register Herald - Ohio
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July 1, 2025
COLUMBUS — Attorney General Dave Yost last week announced the attorneys general of 49 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories have signed on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler...
Team American Samoa departs for Pacific Mini Games
Talanei
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June 24, 2025
Half of the 59-member team that is representing American Samoa at the Pacific Mini Games in Palau departed the territory Monday night. The rest of the group leave Tuesday night. The mens and womens beach volleyball teams are already in Hawaii. On...
Justin Tuiasosopo completes term as CEO of Bluesky
Talanei
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June 30, 2025
The Chief Executive Officer of Bluesky Communications since 2021, Justin Tuiasosopo, ends his tenure as head of the local telecommunications company today, June 30. A press release from Bluesky says Tuiasosopo’s contract as CEO has reached its...
“CONTROVERSIAL SHIFT ON DEEP-SEA MINING BY THE U.S.”
Samoa News
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June 30, 2025
Talofa! The following is a summary of my thoughts given the wonderful news of the American Samoa Governor and Lt Governor taking a unified stand with legislative leaders expressing opposition to the proposed commercial leasing of American Samoa's...
ASG faces mixed outcome as USDOE restores part of ARPA funds access
Samoa News
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June 30, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The USDOE, as of June 26, 2025, in a letter from Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has restored the previous liquidation process to all states and territories that had been approved for late liquidation prior to...
Bluesky Communications launches search for new CEO
Samoa News
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June 30, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — AST Telecom LLC, operating as Bluesky Communications, announced that Justin Tuiasosopo's contract as Chief Executive Officer has reached its scheduled completion at the close of the company’s fiscal year, effective June...
American Samoa sends 59-member team to Pacific Mini Games
Talanei
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June 18, 2025
American Samoa is sending a 59-member contingent to the Pacific Mini Games in Palau which begins June 29 and will last for two weeks. Secretary General of the American Samoa National Olympic Committee, Vaiala Ethan Lake, says the group comprises...
Birthright citizenship: What Trump, DeSantis said about 14th Amendment
Treasure Coast Palm - Florida
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The Supreme Court lifted temporary blocks on Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of parents unlawfully or temporarily in the U.S. The ruling focused on the scope of injunctions, not the constitutionality of the...