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Coast Guard Warns Public About Illegal Charter Operations
MilitarySpot - Alabama
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August 27, 2025
AUGUST 27, 2025 — Coast Guard Southeast District is leading a campaign, throughout Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands, to inform the public of the risks and consequences associated with illegal passenger-for-hire...
Caribbean Matters: Jeffrey Epstein and his impact on the US Virgin Islands
Daily Kos
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August 2, 2025
Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of the Caribbean. The ghost of pedophile Jeffrey...
American Bar Association designates US territories as ‘a single state’
Talanei
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August 26, 2025
The American Bar Association has amended the status of U.S. territories within the organization, lumping them together into “a single state” and giving them a seat in its governing body and policymaking chamber. By a two-thirds majority vote, the...
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
Just Security
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August 18, 2025
The Timeline below examines decades-long failures by federal law enforcement and oversight agencies—including the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Department of the Treasury—in the handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes: child sexual abuse...
Contour Airlines Is Adding Caribbean Flights, Linking Dominica With Puerto Rico and St Thomas
Caribbean Journal
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August 28, 2025
A new airline is coming to the Caribbean: Georgia-based Contour Airlines is expanding its Caribbean footprint with new nonstop service linking Dominica with Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Beginning this fall, the regional carrier will...
U.S. Travelers Face New Rules for Souvenir Shopping Abroad What You Need to Know
Fodors Travel Guide
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August 28, 2025
The Trump Administration ended the de minimis rule with an executive order last month. There are two $800 import duty exemptions for items entering the United States, with one big difference: one of them ends August 29, and the other one doesn’t....
CAZOVA U-18 beach vball camp and tournament serves off
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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The Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association (CAZOVA) Under-18 Beach Volleyball Camp and Tournament served off at the Courland Beach Sports Arena, in Courland, Black Rock, Tobago, on Wednesday (August 27). The first part of the...
Islands play first international match
Taipei Times
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August 16, 2025
The Marshall Islands finally got off the mark in international soccer on Thursday and promptly lost 4-0 to the US Virgin Islands on a high school pitch in Arkansas, but not before making history as the world’s newest national team. The remote...
Marshall Islands make history with first-ever international football match
The Straits Times
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August 15, 2025
The Marshall Islands finally got off the mark in international football on Thursday and promptly lost 4-0 to the U.S. Virgin Islands on a high school pitch in Arkansas, but not before making history as the world's newest national team. The remote...
Marshall Islands make history with first-ever international soccer match
The Jakarta Post
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he Marshall Islands finally got off the mark in international soccer on Thursday and promptly lost 4-0 to the US Virgin Islands on a high school pitch in Arkansas, but not before making history as the world's newest national team. The remote...
Marshall Islands plays its first international soccer match in Springdale
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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August 15, 2025
SPRINGDALE -- The Marshall Islands played in its first 11-per-side soccer match Thursday night, losing to the U.S. Virgin Islands 4-0 at Springdale High School's Bulldog Stadium. It was a historic occasion. The Republic of the Marshall Islands is...
Soccer-Marshall Islands make history with first-ever international football match
The Malaysian Star
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August 15, 2025
(Reuters) -The Marshall Islands finally got off the mark in international football on Thursday and promptly lost 4-0 to the U.S. Virgin Islands on a high school pitch in Arkansas, but not before making history as the world's newest national team....
Beloved ‘credible messenger’ to at-risk Orlando youth detained by ICE, held at Krome
Orlando Sentinel - Florida
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August 28, 2025
The loved ones of a beloved youth mentor who worked with at-risk youth in Parramore are seeking answers after they said he was picked up by immigration authorities last week on his way home from a routine check-in. Didy Quetant, an undocumented...
Powerball nears $1 billion prize right before the holiday weekend
The Independent (U.S.)
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August 28, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
AGs attack deepfake porn payments
Payments Dive
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August 28, 2025
Dive Brief: Attorneys general from 44 states asked payments service providers, including Apple and Visa, to confront computer-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery, known commonly as deepfake pornography or revenge porn. They also addressed a...
Full representation is granted to island territories in American Bar Association
The Guam Daily Post
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Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa are now recognized as states by the American Bar Association. On Monday, the Guam, CNMI and Virgin Islands bar associations issued a joint statement...
Powerball Jackpot Climbs to Estimated $950 Million
The Southern Maryland Chronicle
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August 28, 2025
An estimated $950 million Powerball jackpot awaits the next drawing on Saturday, Aug. 30, marking the game’s sixth-largest prize and the highest advertised amount in over a year. The cash option stands at $428.9 million before taxes, according to...
The Marshall Islands gearing up for historic international soccer match
The Irish News
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Marshall Islands assistant manager Justin Walley admits the actuality of kicking off the country’s first ever international football match still feels like a dream. The Marshall Islands have long claimed to be “the last nation on earth without a...
'Last nation without a team' to make international bow
RTE Ireland
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August 13, 2025
Marshall Islands assistant manager Justin Walley admits the country's imminent first ever international football match still feels like a dream. The Marshall Islands have long claimed to be "the last nation on earth without a football team", and...
The Marshall Islands gearing up for historic international football match
Express & Star
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August 13, 2025
Marshall Islands assistant manager Justin Walley admits the actuality of kicking off the country’s first ever international football match still feels like a dream. The Marshall Islands have long claimed to be “the last nation on earth without a...