Residents reject statehood option at Malesso' political status town hall

Tamuning resident Serena Paulino said statehood as a political status change “goes against what our Saina worked for” since the Spanish arrived on Guam. If there are people in support of statehood, she said, then “we should communicate with them...

UOG alumna awarded dual scholarships to research Indigenous resistance in the Pacific

Makaelah Blas didn’t expect things to unfold quite this way. The University of Guam alumna applied to just one doctoral program - Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand - and gave herself only two weeks in June to assemble an application...

GOP falsely ties shutdown to Democrats’ alleged drive to give all immigrants healthcare

“Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.” — Vice President JD Vance in a Sept. 28, 2025, Fox News interview As the U.S....

FACT-CHECK: Republicans Falsely Tie Shutdown To Democrats’ Alleged Drive To Give All Immigrants Health Care

Credit: Screengrab / PolitiFact via KFF Health News “Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.” Vice President JD Vance in a...

GOP Falsely Ties Shutdown to Democrats’ Alleged Drive To Give All Immigrants Health Care

Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact “Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.” Vice President JD Vance in a Sept. 28, 2025, Fox...

Fact Check: Mike Johnson’s Biggest Lies About Health Care and Undocumented Immigrants

House Speaker Mike Johnson continued to blame Democrats for the government shutdown, using misleading Republican talking points that insist that Democratic leadership is pushing to fund health care for undocumented immigrants. Johnson said Sunday...

Fact check: Did Democrats propose to give health care to immigrants illegally in the US?

As the U.S. headed for a government shutdown, Republicans repeatedly accused Democrats of forcing the closure because they want to give health care access to immigrants in the U.S. illegally. "Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire...

A human rights approach to nuclear regimes: lessons from the legacy of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands

A traditional approach to nuclear weapons tends to focus on State security matters and does not lend itself easily to a human rights lens. A new initiative undertaken within the Human Rights Council is changing that by offering a transitional...

Illegal Immigrants And Federal Health Benefits: What To Know

Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, Republicans and Democrats offer competing claims about whether people who entered the country unlawfully are benefiting from Medicaid. “The law prohibits undocumented immigrants from getting...

Students dive into culture program

WILMER JOEL The spirit of manit (culture) was palpable nationwide last week. It was that time of year where everyone got together to venerate Marshallese culture through numerous forms of expression. Throughout the week, locals were adorned in a...

JD Vance - Republicans falsely tie shutdown to Democrats wanting health care for immigrants illegally in the US

As the U.S. headed for a government shutdown, Republicans repeatedly accused Democrats of forcing the closure because they want to give health care access to immigrants in the U.S. illegally. "Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire...

My voyage to explore how Marshallese sailors find their way at sea without technology

One of the biggest navigation challenges is knowing where you are in the open ocean without tools or devices. This remarkable skill is exemplified by the ancient techniques once used by expert navigators of the Marshall Islands, a chain of...

“Our land is our mind”: The trauma facing indigenous and coastal women

For cyclone survivors in Bangladesh’s coastal villages, their memories of the storms are still fresh. “The tide was three to five times higher compared to other storms. Everything was washed away. I was floating on wood [a raft] in chest-deep...

From Mānoa to Majuro: Lessons in healthcare and culture

Reading time: 2 minutesJABSOM students with the staff at Majuro Hospital. For University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa medical student Kalpana Balaraman, a summer spent in the Republic of the Marshall Islands offered a transformative lesson in health care...

Kazakh Activists Shine a Light on Nuclear Fallout

Kazakhstan is surrounded by nuclear neighbors — Russia to the north and west, China to the east, and India and Pakistan to the south. Until 1995, when it completed a year’s long multi-nation effort to disassemble and remove the Soviet nuclear...

World leaders place women’s empowerment and gender equality at the heart of multilateralism as UNGA80 High-level Week opens

In this historic context, leaders from around the world gathered at the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women at the beginning of UNGA80 High-Level Week to celebrate the...

Hawaii leaders tout strong ties with Taiwan during Double Ten Day event

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - More than 200 members of the local Taiwanese community joined Hawaii leaders and lawmakers to celebrate Double Ten Day, Taiwan’s National Day, which falls on October 10. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in...

First Nations Push Back Against Canada’s Nuclear Waste Plans, Citing Generations of Risk

Last Updated on October 10, 2025 Key Takeaways First Nations lead opposition: Multiple First Nations are pushing back against federal plans to store or transport radioactive waste on or near their territories. Concerns over long-term safety:...

Technology fix for outer islands

GIFF JOHNSON A major new educational program is expected to connect educators and students on every atoll and island in the country to step-up the use of technology in education. The new program, known as the Rebbelib Project, will roll out...

Atoll populations down

Journal 10/8/2025 P1 Kwaj talks continue A second day of meetings in Washington, DC between Kwajalein landowners, RepMar and the US Defense Department has been completed without any announcement of the results. From reliable sources, the following...