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Duterte first placed the country under a state of calamity in March when the number of confirmed infections was approaching 200 with about a dozen deaths. The country now has more than 290,000 confirmed cases, the highest in Southeast Asia, with nearly 5,000 deaths. The tough-talking president lash…

Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga said the decision had been made because the Covid-19 pandemic in Hawai’i and the U.S mainland was getting worse. Lolo told a recent cabinet meeting he and his family had received unpleasant calls from people unhappy they were being prevented from getting home. A grou…

If President Donald Trump, a Republican, is able to install a conservative replacement in time, the new justice could help resolve any dispute in favor of the president — an outcome that would deepen the country’s partisan divide and threaten the court’s reputation as an independent arbiter, some l…

Auditor General Junior Patrick told Nitijela or parliament last week in his 73rd Semi-Annual Report that since the January report was issued, “we recorded a total of 13 new allegations related to embezzlement, misappropriation of public assets, forgery of government checks, abuse of public office a…

The sudden vacancy on the nation’s high court means the November election has become much more than a battle between President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden for the White House and control of Congress, political strategists say. Now, they say, it is an existential fight over ci…

Despite opposition from environmental campaigners, President Rodrigo Duterte’s government has filled a 500-meter stretch of coastline beside the U.S. embassy in Manila with sand made from tons of crushed dolomite boulders from central Philippines. Manila Bay is a 60-km (37-mile) semi-enclosed estua…

“I will be putting forth a nominee next week. It will be a woman,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina. “I think it should be a woman because I actually like women much more than men.” As Trump spoke, supporters chanted: “Fill that seat.” He praised Ginsburg as a “legal g…

The Sept. 11-15 opinion poll, released on Wednesday, found that 50% of likely voters said they were casting their ballots for Biden while 41% were doing the same for Trump. Another 3% said they would support a third-party candidate and the rest were undecided. The poll also showed that most America…

But the new guidance also marked the start of a vigorous monetary policy debate as the Fed shifts from a crisis-era focus on keeping markets afloat during the coronavirus pandemic to managing what it now sees as a steady, multi-year recovery. Underscoring the depth of disagreement, and the economic…

They were praying to be allowed to leave: To be allowed to take up nursing jobs in countries where the coronavirus is killing thousands in hospitals and care homes. In recent months, these care workers have taken to calling themselves “priso-nurses.” With infections also surging in the Philippines,…