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Retiree, employee health coverage in jeopardy without budget action

December 4, 2025• Local News

WITH just three weeks before health insurance coverage provided by Aetna International Inc. expires for CNMI retirees, the Legislature is facing mounting pressure to act on Gov. David M. Apatang’s budget revision proposal for fiscal year 2026.
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Teen says she was raped after smoking marijuana with online acquaintance

December 4, 2025• Local News

A DOCTOR at the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation reported to police the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl, who said she was raped after smoking marijuana with a man she met through an online game.
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Ton of WWII-era ordnance safely detonated in Marpi

December 4, 2025• Local News

THE Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, along with its Hazmat Team and members of the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Detachment Marianas, successfully detonated a cache of unexploded ordnance Wednesday in Marpi.
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Senate resolution cites Covenant to challenge Trump executive order

December 4, 2025• Local News

THE Senate on Monday adopted an amended House Joint Resolution 24-9 urging the U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the U.S. Postal Service to immediately cease and desist from implementing President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14324, which suspends the duty-f…
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Sports

December 4, 2025• Local Sports

Safety first for 100+ Hell of the Marianas bikers on Dec. 6

December 4, 2025• National Sports

Michigan fires special teams coach JB Brown after disappointing season

December 4, 2025• Local Sports

NMSA now accepting nominations for board of directors, awardees

December 4, 2025• Local Sports

Top six teams set for middle school badminton league finals

December 4, 2025• Local Sports

KHS lights up the scoreboard, SSHS JV stays unbeaten

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Laws can’t change the math

December 4, 2025• Editorials

Until a new major industry comes in, settles down, and thrives, tourism will remain the islands’ “bread and butter” — even as others chase economic ponies and rainbows.
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Define irony

November 27, 2025• Editorials

DESPITE the CNMI’s dismal state, there are still some things to be thankful for, including a leadership that is not willfully blind to the economic reality staring us in the face for the past few years.
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Incidentally, November is Education Month

November 21, 2025• Editorials

WHILE the Public School System faces its gravest financial crisis, the Board of Education’s five elected members can’t even hold a meeting.
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It is everyone’s business

November 14, 2025• Editorials

By Zaldy Dandan – Variety Editor Don’t even think about it IN early 2023, the administration announced that the CNMI would wean itself...
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Letters

Threatening notice

December 4, 2025• Letters to the Editor

AS a retiree, I find it imperative to respond to the NMI Settlement Fund’s recent release regarding retirees’ health insurance. Every year-end, we receive the same threatening notice about the possible lapse of our health insurance coverage.
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In all due respect

November 30, 2025• Letters to the Editor

LAWMAKERS and CNMI Leaders, please restore cuts made to senior citizens retirement benefits. At a time when inflation cuts away the precarious budgets of those on fixed incomes, salt is thrown in the wound.
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Opinions

Nuance

December 4, 2025• Columnists

Listening to him, I realized he is the first public figure I’ve heard explain geopolitics without even mentioning the word.
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Truth 153: Mining & Cutthroat Steering of Patients!

December 4, 2025• Columnists

THE Truth is the “Mining Issue” is just part of OUR evolution as humans on earth who are literally using up the natural resources on the planet and the search for minerals is not going to stop. However, I commend Gregorie Michael Towai for his editorial on mining that offered an alternative to mini…
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Business

CNMI Innovation Incubator launches series of five strategic business trainings

December 4, 2025• Business News

(NMC-CTI) — The CNMI Innovation Incubator Program is continuing its mission to strengthen the entrepreneurial landscape in the Northern Marianas. The program will launch its first of its series of strategic business training sessions on Dec. 13, 2025, with a workshop on Business Planning and Strate…
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Regional/World

Taiwan cheered, China upset after Trump signs new Taiwan legislation into law

December 4, 2025• Regional, World

TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) — Taiwan expressed thanks and China was upset on Wednesday after President Donald Trump signed into law legislation requiring the U.S. State Department to regularly review and update guidelines on how the United States officially interacts with Taipei.
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National

Trump launches immigration crackdown in New Orleans

December 4, 2025• National

NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. immigration officials began an operation in New Orleans to arrest immigrants in the U.S. illegally, federal officials said on Wednesday, making it the latest city to be targeted by President Donald Trump’s crackdown.
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