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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Next week, legal experts from U.S. Territories will come together for a virtual panel hosted by Right to Democracy to discuss the recent statement by Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas that the Territories Clause, “rightly understood,” does not “...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has returned home after an eight-week absence for medical treatment in New Zealand.
La'aulialemalietoa departed Apia for Auckland on a private jet just days after being sworn in as Samoa's eighth prime minister on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa Ministry of Health has issued new travel advisories for all travelers entering Samoa, effective from the 3rd of this month requiring all travelers from infants aged 12 months and above, to have received at least one dose of a measles-containing vaccine at least...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Samoa woman in her late 20s freed herself after she says she was kidnapped, assaulted, and tied to an iron pole.
After members of her husband’s family, who were her alleged captors fell asleep, she managed to escape.
She reportedly then fled to a nearby household whose...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American sailors and personnel from nine other nations recently wrapped up a two-week exercise in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa as part of an annual U.S. Navy humanitarian mission. The sailors, along with personnel from Samoa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Child and adolescent obesity is soaring in Polynesia and there is no quick fix, according to an eminent Pacific health leader.
The most obese 5-19-year-olds globally live in three Pacific Island nations, a UNICEF report found.
The report, Feeding Profit: How Food...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Samoan caregiver is using social media to highlight the realities of caring for someone with dementia.
Sapini Unoi and his mother Mutalau have gained thousands of followers on their TikTok account.
Unoi describes their online platform as his "love letter to Mum",...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas joined together on Monday to issue a written opinion disputing the view that the “Territories Clause” of the U.S. Constitution provides Congress with “plenary power” over residents of U.S. territories.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A feral rooster lands upon a Range Officer for a sip from his water bottle at the Koko Head Public Shooting Range in Hawaii Kai, Hawaii.
For decades the feral chickens have been looked after by Hawaii's Shooting Community, who are there to develop their precision...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean.
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) representative Maureen Penjueli said the Pacific Ocean is being hyper-militarized and there is a desire for seabed minerals to be used to...