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JR wins gold in A. Samoa
Marshall Islands Journal
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March 26, 2025
WILMER JOEL Marshall Islands wrestler JR Bremen Leban will return home next week with gold and bronze medals. JR represented the RMI in the Oceania Championships Senior Under-20 and Under-17 wrestling championships in American Samoa last week. He...
UPSC Prelims 2025 Special: Revision Checklist for important International Organisations and Places in News that aspirants shouldn’t miss
The Indian Express
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May 21, 2025
Are You Prelims Ready? The UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2025 is scheduled for May 25. With the clock ticking, revising Current Affairs—especially International Bodies and Places in News—is crucial for every aspirant. Here’s a...
Tiny Pacific nation ready to play first-ever international fixtures
RNZ
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March 24, 2025
By Craig Stephen* Marshall Islands’ Outrigger Cup futsal squad … next up, a focus on 11-a-side football. Photo: Friends of Football The world's newest footballing country is set to play its first-ever 11-a-side international matches this year, a...
'Powerful' war film was directed by an unexpected A-list Hollywood star
Derby Telegraph
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April 22, 2025
Since its 2014 release, moviegoers have consistently praised the film, expressing surprise that Hollywood star Angelina Jolie directed it. The Oscar-nominated 'Unbroken' features the powerful true story of a WWII survivor and showcases Jack...
Spotify AI Playlist is now available in over 40 countries
Neowin.net
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April 24, 2025
Exactly six months ago, Spotify announced AI Playlist, a new beta feature designed to help users discover new music by letting them type a prompt like "Give me some funky and upbeat songs to help me unpack my boxes in my new home." Initially...
Why Some People Never Get Lost — and Others Always Do
ZME Science
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May 20, 2025
Credit: ZME Science/SORA. Scientists have always assumed that some people are just wired to navigate better than others — that sense of direction is something you’re born with. This assumption, however, is missing the bigger picture. The reason...
Nine 16-Inch Guns Roar: The Firepower of U.S. Navy Battleship USS Alabama
19FortyFive
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May 19, 2025
Key Points – The USS Alabama (BB-60), a South Dakota-class fast battleship commissioned in 1942, played a significant role in World War II. -Initially tasked with escorting Allied convoys to the Soviet Union, it transferred to the Pacific theater...
Arkansas Advocate: Advocates for child well-being call for removal of barriers to Arkansas SNAP participation
Magnolia Reporter - Arkansas
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Low-income Arkansas families encounter too many barriers to access nutrition assistance, including low ceilings on participants’ income and assets, according to a report Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families released Thursday, January 30,...
Lasky takes helm of Joint Task Force-Micronesia; Indo-Pacom deputy says stakes highest 'since WWII'
Pacific Daily News
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The stakes for Guam, Micronesia, and the region are as high as they’ve been since World War II, Indo-Pacific Command deputy commander Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd said at Thursday’s handoff of leadership for Joint Task Force Micronesia. Outgoing...
Looj tournament a hit
Marshall Islands Journal
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May 15, 2025
The Majuro Looj Club’s goal is to educate children in the traditional methods of trolling for Looj tuna in the lagoon, with a particular focus on the revered and rare fish formally known as the Pacific Bonito and locally as Looj. If the May 3 Looj...
Navy SEAL takes command of year-old Joint Task Force-Micronesia
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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Rear Adm. Joshua Lasky greets a Navy corpsman in Limon, Costa Rica, July 22, 2024, Lasky took command of Joint Task Force-Micronesia on May 15, 2025. (Jasmin Aquino/U.S. Navy) A Navy SEAL with a distinguished background in special operations has...
Goes fishing, ends up adrift for 438 days, survives, and on return faces accusations of cannibalism
AS
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May 15, 2025
Salvador Alvarenga set out on his boat with the intention of spending the day fishing. It was November 2012, and he went to sea with Ezequiel Córdoba, a 22-year-old who had just started as his apprentice. But within a few hours, the engine on...
How the world stays connected may surprise you
Deseret News - Utah
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April 15, 2025
The magic of wireless living is all smoke and mirrors. We may imagine our phone calls and text messages soaring into orbit to ping off the kind of satellites we see in the movies, but 99 percent of digital information travels within an earthbound...
Celebrating Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
The Highlander Newspaper - California
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May 6, 2025
Fiction and Nonfiction book recommendations that portray AAPI experiences. May is Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, which is dedicated to celebrating and learning about AAPI cultures, history and achievements. On campus,...
Call of adventure pulls solo female rower to sea three times
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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December 17, 2024
When adventurer Liz Wardley decided she needed a new challenge, she didn't imagine it would turn into a nearly nine-month-long journey across 13,000 kilometres of ocean. The passionate Queensland sailor traded the wheel of her beloved ocean racer...
Richard L. Garwin, a creator of the hydrogen bomb, dies at 97
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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By Robert D. McFadden New York Times Richard L. Garwin, an architect of America’s hydrogen bomb, who shaped defense policies for postwar governments and laid the groundwork for insights into the structure of the universe as well as for medical and...
Hawai‘i’s Public Schools Are National Leaders in Academic Recovery. Can They Keep Up the Momentum?
Hawaii Business
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May 6, 2025
Five years after COVID sent a paralyzing shock through the nation’s public schools, the impact of lost instructional time can still be felt. In every state, fewer young people are able to read and write with appropriate fluency, or accurately...
Here are 7 things to do this weekend in the Evansville…
The Gleaner - Kentucky
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Looking for something to do in the Evansville and Henderson area this weekend? Check out our list of local events and activities. Women's suffrage march reenactment Sunday at 3 p.m. in front of the Civic Center in Downtown Evansville. Free. The...
UH Community Colleges showcase Aloha spirit at an educational leaders conference
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
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May 13, 2025
Reading time: 2 minutesHawaiʻi CC faculty and staff welcome conference attendees with a kīpaepae ceremony The University of Hawaiʻi Community Colleges served as hosts for the 2025 Western Association of College and University Business Officers...
Connections: Cultural event to take place at Shiloh Museum in Springdale
Northwest Arkansas Business Journal
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May 11, 2025
A cultural event will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 31 at Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. The event will include a guest speaker, storytelling, music and dancing. Attendees can learn about the cultures of two prominent...