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Criminal Threat Convergence Must Be Elevated as a National Security Urgency
Small Wars Journal
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June 25, 2025
We must move with greater urgency to confront criminal threat convergence. The cartels and some TCOs in Latin America have greater power and political influence through market diversification, networked-alliances, and coercive aggression in the...
CMS Terminates KCF Model and Finalizes Significant Revisions to CKCC Participation and Payment Framework
JD Supra - California
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June 27, 2025
On May 28, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) Innovation Center formally announced the early termination of the Kidney Care First (“KCF”) model effective December 31, 2025, and issued a suite of substantial revisions to the...
Stories Rooted in Nature: Discovering Guåhan’s endemic Hedyotis megalantha
Pacific Daily News
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Guåhan’s native savanna plants are stunning. They display an earthy palette of reds, oranges, yellows, purples, rust, and vibrant greens, interrupted only by the occasional splash of bright white. I never get tired of admiring these colors,...
US Used Upto 20% THAAD Missiles Worth $ 1 Bn In 11 Day Israel-Iran Conflict
News18
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June 28, 2025
Last Updated:June 28, 2025, 21:18 IST A major concern is that the US produces only around 50–60 THAAD interceptors each year, meaning it would take roughly a full year to replenish the number used in just 11 days. US Army Terminal High Altitude...
How to Sink a War Machine
Lux Magazine
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Suzuyo Takazato apologized for being tired for our interview, then talked for almost two hours straight. It was 9 a.m. on a Thursday in Okinawa last November, and she had spent the previous day leading a protest at the site of a planned U.S....
‘Diplomacy and peace are the way forward—not more bombs:
Island Times
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June 27, 2025
SAIPAN (PACIFIC ISLAND TIMES) —Advocacy groups disrupted the Department of Defence’s public meeting on Wednesday, which tackled the proposed military training plans on Tinian, voicing strong opposition to further militarisation in the Marianas....
Council supporting a review of monument fishing restrictions
The Guam Daily Post
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The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council is backing federal efforts to examine commercial fishing prohibitions in marine national monuments, including the Marianas Trench, as part of a broader push to expand fishing opportunities...
Graduation 2025: Hats off to Southold High School graduates
The Suffolk Times - New York
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June 26, 2025
Portraits of Achievement Ashley Bifulco – Valedictorian GPA: 101.41 (weighted) College: Villanova University Major: Mathematics Ashley has garnered a wide range of achievements in her academic years thus far. She is a member of the National Honor...
Marine Corps budget seeks billions of dollars for aircraft, new tech, housing
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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A Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II prepares to take-off during flight operations aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America in the Coral Sea on June 19, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps) WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps’ 2026 budget proposes spending...
Health Ranger Report: Adapt 2030’s David DuByne elaborates on the escalating global supply chain crisis
Natural News
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June 25, 2025
Health Ranger Report: Adapt 2030’s David DuByne elaborates on the escalating global supply chain crisis (Note: This article is based on a "Health Ranger Report" interview posted Dec. 22, 2023 on Brighteon.com.) Houthi rebel attacks on cargo ships...
UPDATED 'End of an era': Duty Free Shop closing its Saipan store
Pacific Daily News
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Duty Free Saipan Ltd., which operates T Galleria in the tourist district of Garapan, will be closing shop by April 30, 2025, after nearly five decades on Saipan, according to DFS Group Limited, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Gov....
How the reorganization of the US Department of Health impacts the US Territories
Pasquines
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June 26, 2025
In late March, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled a sweeping restructuring plan to streamline the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and cut an estimated 10,000 full-time jobs. This...
Hawaii Logistics: Maintaining the Island Flow
Inbound Logistics - Maryland
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June 24, 2025
Keeping cargo movement flowing to and from Hawaii’s multiple locations requires logistics savvy, specialized experience, and inter-island ingenuity. Call it Aloha spirit or pure persistence; these providers go the distance for every shipment. Some...
OPINION | Youth & economy: Raise entrepreneurs, not just employees
Marianas Variety
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Steve Jang IN the CNMI, graduation advice often sounds like this: “Go get a government job — it’s safe.” And sure, stability is nice. But we’ve got more graduates than government desks — and let’s be honest, some of those desks don’t even have...
Department of the Navy Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Highlights
USNI News
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June 26, 2025
The following are topline summaries of the Department of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget that were released on June 25, 2025. The Department of the Navy’s (DON) FY 2026 President’s Budget (PB26) request is $292.2B comprised of $248.9B in base...
Saipan Fishing Festival on July 13 hails Marianas maritime
Marianas Variety
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(MVA) — Marianas maritime comes to the forefront of next month’s 41st Annual Saipan International Fishing Tournament in The Marianas, which will feature two days of fishing beginning on July 12, 2025, and a festival open to the public on July 13....
Make Us Proud, Come Home
The Guam Daily Post
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Here at home and across the country, a new generation of young people is preparing to step out into the wider world, leaving behind childhood friends and classmates; neighborhood barbeques and fiestas; and the familiarity of home. They’re chasing...
What sharks are worth—and why that matters
Mongabay
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June 25, 2025
Stefanie Brendl, founder of Shark Allies, transitioned from shark tourism to advocacy after a pivotal free-diving encounter with a tiger shark, leading her to champion the world’s first shark fin trade ban in Hawaii. Her legislative work has since...
Farmers.gov local dashboard adds new information to help producers
1340 AM WBIW - Indiana
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June 26, 2025
INDIANA – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced significant updates and new features to its farmers.gov local dashboard, building on its mission to provide easily accessible, farmer-focused resources. These enhancements, stemming...
Leaders in US-affiliated Pacific react to Iran strikes
RNZ
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June 22, 2025
US President Donald Trump, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photo: GPO / AFP / Brendan Smialowski Leaders in the US-affliliated Pacific Islands have reacted to the US strikes on Iran. US...