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The online state polls, conducted earlier in September and released this week, found Biden and Trump tied among likely voters in Florida and North Carolina. Biden led by 1 percentage point in Arizona, 3 points in Pennsylvania and 5 points in Wisconsin and Michigan. All six are critical to determini…

In a report that Trump dismissed as “fake news,” the Times said the Republican president also paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years through 2017, despite receiving $427.4 million through 2018 from his reality television program and other endorsement and licensing deals. The di…

The latest SWS survey showed that some 7.6 million families experienced hunger in the past three months. “That’ sad news, though I’m almost sure that’s because the pandemic forced us to shut down the economy,” presidential spokesman Harry Roque said  in an interview. “The only guarantee for us to d…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said in a statement on Saturday evening that the committee would host a hearing for opening statements on Oct. 12, followed by three to four days of questions and testimony. “It’s going to go fast. We’re looking to do it before the election. So it’…

In an event Thursday at the cabinet office in Majuro, the long-desired and awaited project was signed into reality by Japan Ambassador Norio Saito and Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Casten Nemra. Japan is to spend 1.757 billion Japanese Yen (approximately $16.7 million) for improvement of the wa…

Martires said this in a radio interview following his order to stop conducting lifestyle checks against officials suspected of extravagant living, and restricting of access to the SALN or statement of assets, liabilities and net worth of public officials. “Lifestyle check is a fishing expedition. I…

But every nation gets to take the world stage at the UN General Assembly’s premier annual meeting, and Palau President Tommy E. Remengesau Jr. used his turn Wednesday to illuminate the toll of the coronavirus pandemic, even for a country without any cases of Covid-19. He also pressed environmental …

“Washington should seek new allies and partners,” Elbridge Colby, co-founder of the Marathon Initiative, told the HASC. “Focus on states with shared threat perceptions like China. This is true whether they are democracies are not,” like Vietnam. Christine Wormuth, director of RAND’s international s…

This communication is being sent on behalf of Constantine Yowbalaw, director of the Yap State Department of Youth & Civic Affairs, to provide information as we now know it. The hearings for the Yap State and FSM National court cases for the murder of Rachelle Bergeron-Hammerling in October 2019…

This was highlighted in a zoom meeting held with members of the Pacific Transnational Crime Network. The meeting chaired by the Samoan Police Commissioner Egon Keil to discussed the challenges faced by Pacific regional law enforcement agencies during the 2019 to 2020 period. Another major topic of …