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MHS celebrates largest graduating class in school history

Local News

MARIANAS High School’s Class of 2026 is the largest graduating class in school history, closing a four-year journey shaped by pandemic recovery, fiscal uncertainty and the aftermath of Super Typhoon Sinlaku.
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Resilience takes center stage for Chacha promotees

Local News

LONG before they reached promotion day, the Chacha Oceanview Middle School Class of 2026 had already learned lessons that could never be found in a textbook.
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SBA: Sinlaku recovery loans hit $9M in CNMI

Local News

LOAN approvals from the U.S. Small Business Administration for Typhoon Sinlaku survivors have climbed to $9 million, with the vast majority of assistance continuing to go to homeowners and renters, according to the latest update from the agency.
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PAL suspends Manila-Saipan route until October

Local News

PHILIPPINE Airlines is suspending its Manila–Saipan and Cebu–Osaka routes as the flag carrier adjusts flight schedules due to changing conditions affecting global aviation, the airline announced Saturday.
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Editorials

Zero

Editorials

Everyone on Capital Hill is “for education.” Yet they passed a budget that forced PSS to reduce the number of its school days. Elected officials are also “for public health,” but they have consistently underfunded the medical referral program.
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FAC fury and political amnesia

Editorials

A curious thing to hear: an elected official condemning CUC’s management while praising its rank and file for their “good work.” Who does he think oversees them and sets the direction needed to ensure efficient operations?
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What must be done

Editorials

“From 2002 through 2022, the CNMI’s real GDP (adjusted for inflation) contracted by $644 million (44 percent)….
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‘Business instability has increased’

Editorials

ABOUT a year ago, the last thing one would expect the administration to acknowledge was the worsening state of the local economy. (Remember? “The State of the Commonwealth is getting better.”)
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Letters

No significant improvement to CUC’s service

Letters to the Editor

I HAVE many comments to make about CUC and the problems it faced when I was on the board of directors back in 2015-2017.
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In memoriam: Manuel P. Duenas II

Letters to the Editor

OUR Pacific Islands fishing community recently lost one of its greatest champions, and I am still struggling to put into words how much his loss means to all of us.
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Opinions

Accidentally marooned

Columnists

In our trove of writings we have a memoir of a physician, Dr. John Coulter, who spent a great deal of time among islanders. Through the pages of his account, “Adventures in the Pacific,” the cultural exchange is fascinating.
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A stress-reducing habit

Columnists

“Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.”
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Business

Airline chiefs grapple with fuel shock, fare test at Rio summit

Business News

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) — Global airline chiefs open their annual summit in Rio de Janeiro on ​Saturday facing a sharper test of the industry’s post-pandemic recovery, as the Iran war drives up fuel costs and disrupts airspace ‌while carriers try to cushion the blow with higher fares and tig…
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Regional/World

Hungary to stop issuing worker visas to people from three countries

Regional, World

BUDAPEST (Reuters) — Hungary’s government will stop issuing worker visas to employees from the Philippines, Georgia ​and Armenia from Friday, a government spokeswoman said, ‌calling the move a first step towards regulating the inflow of guest workers.
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National

US judge strikes down Trump policies targeting immigrants from 39 countries

National

(Reuters) — A federal judge on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration had adopted a ‌series of unlawful policies that have barred people from 39 countries from receiving decisions on applications for asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship.
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