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Samoa down in RSF media freedom world ranking due to ‘authoritarian pressure’
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa has dropped in its media and information freedom world ranking from 22 in 2024 to 44 in 2025 in the latest World Press
New Environment and Democracy Fellowship tackles the Intersections of Democracy and the Climate Crisis in U.S. Territories
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 3.6 million residents of U.S. territories are among the communities in the United States most impacted by climate change.
Amata commends Senate and House passage of the Take It Down Act
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is commending passage by both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives of the Take It Down Act, S.
To serve and to sacrifice: A Samoan military sisters' bond
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — San Diego is home to several military bases. However, not all of our enlisted members come from the mainland; many are also from American Samoa.
Swains Island Day officially set as a holiday in American Samoa
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Issuing only his second Executive Order, since being elected, Governor Pulaali’i Nikolao Pula has established May 13th as “Swains Island Day” — an official holi
LBj Cafeteria staff photo & caption
The kitchen staff at the LBJ Cafeteria pause to smile for the Samoa News camera while diligently preparing meals for guests at the official opening of the newly renovated facility last Friday.
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Pago Pago - AMERIKA SAMOA
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![Amata & other dignitaries at the Memorial showing sculptures honoring those who died on the Dachau death march before thousands were rescued by the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. [US Army photo] Amata and others](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/at_the_memorial.jpg?itok=s5efU3YY)

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