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HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz recently announced in a news release the start of the 14th annual Toys for Tots campaign on Guam, which will also be the seventh Toys for Tots campaign for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The U.S. Marine Corps organi…

The president-elect took a dose of Pfizer vaccine at a hospital not far from his Delaware home, hours after his wife, Jill Biden, did the same. The injections came the same day that a second vaccine, produced by Moderna, will start arriving in states. It joins Pfizer’s in the nation’s a…

“Impunity breeds trigger-happy cops,” Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said. “So long as the culture of impunity exists in the country, and when there is a system that rewards misdeeds instead of punishing them, police abuses and violence will continue,” he said in a statement. Drilon said th…

The package would be the second-largest economic stimulus in U.S. history, following a $2.3 trillion aid bill passed in March. It comes as the pandemic accelerates, infecting more than 214,000 people in the country each day. More than 317,000 Americans have already died. “At long last, we have the …

The government faced criticism for imposing an effective lockdown on more than 16 million people just days before Christmas, but Matt Hancock said Saturday’s decision was taken speedily after new evidence showed the new strain was responsible for spiraling Covid-19 cases. The variant, which officia…

The Employees Compensation Commission or ECC has decided to peg money assistance for the workers, including front-line workers, at only 10,000 pesos, Bello disclosed during an online press briefing last week. “Not enough to buy pain relievers. We need to increase the benefits of our workers,” he sa…

The Ministry of Defense will get a record 5.34 trillion yen ($51.7 billion) for the year starting in April, up 1.1% from this year. With Suga’s large majority in parliament, enactment of the budget is all but certain. Suga is continuing the controversial military expansion pursued by his predecesso…

While it is not the first time China’s carriers have passed close to Taiwan, it comes at a time of heightened tension between Taipei and Beijing, which claims the democratically ruled island as its territory. The Shandong carrier group sailed through the Taiwan Strait a day after a U.S. warship tra…