There's something about Christmas in Am Samoa photo & caption
On a sunny and hot Wednesday afternoon this week — note the umbrella for shade — Samoa News captured this photo of two employees from Treasury Department setting up and decorating the department’s






![Cong. Uifa’atali Amata sent along with her press release detailing passage in the U.S. House of the National Defense Authorization Act, this photo of a past Christmas she spent with the troops. Amata welcomed the passage of the bill saying it will raise military pay by 2.7%. “Our military certainly deserve this pay raise, and it will be a help to our people from American Samoa serving in the Armed Forces,” she said. [courtesy photo] Cong. Uifa’atali Amata and troops](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/christmas_with_the_troops.jpg?itok=t3NuJabU)
![Coral grow in a tank at a lab at the University of Hawaii's Institute of Marine Biology in Kaneohe, Hawaii on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021. Scientists are trying to speed up coral's evolutionary clock to build reefs that can better withstand the impacts of global warming. For the past five years, researchers in Hawaii and Australia have been conducting experiments to prove their Darwinian theories work. They say they do, and now they're getting ready to plant selectively bred and other lab-evolved corals back into the ocean to see if they can survive in Nature. [AP Photo/Caleb Jones] Coral growing in tank at Coconut Island research station, Hawaii](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/coral_grows_in_tank_web.jpg?itok=Wp9DVP8o)


