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Innovate: Fix the foundation—procurement reform is Guam’s gateway to innovation
Pacific Daily News
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If Guam is serious about becoming a 21st century technology and innovation hub, we first need to get our government house in order. Before we talk about artificial intelligence, green energy, or a high tech-driven future, we must confront an...
Naval Base Guam opens gates to public for July 4 celebration
The Guam Daily Post
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U.S. Naval Base Guam will welcome the public to its annual Freedom Rocks festival on July 4 without requiring military identification or visitor passes, continuing a tradition that base officials say strengthens bonds between military personnel...
Meet the man who wants to donate blood, platelets at every American Red Cross
USA Today - Virginia
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Some teenagers dream of getting a driver's license, buying a cheap car and spending late nights out with friends. But when he was young, Ryan Dolce hoped to one day give blood. At the time, the now-30-year-old Dunkirk, New York, resident wasn't...
LETTER: The phones are winning—and our kids are losing
Pacific Daily News
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With the new school year fast approaching, classrooms across Guam are being prepped, lesson plans refreshed—and in many cases, laptop carts rolled in. The tools for learning are ready. So why haven’t we done more to keep phones from taking over?...
OPINION McNinch: Trump is your daddy, too
Pacific Daily News
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Last week, I mentioned that the NATO secretary general happily called President Trump “Daddy” at the recent summit meeting. I then gave a few examples from the media on the various battles President Trump has been fighting. I mentioned that I wear...
United Airlines Reports Second-Quarter Profit, Sees Third-Quarter Positive Inflection in Both Supply and Demand
Message Media - Minnesota
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July 16, 2025
Airline expects less geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty in second half of 2025, with demand inflection beginning in early July with a 6 point acceleration in booking demand Published industry schedules show a supply inflection beginning in...
2025 PGA High School Golf National Invitational Returns to Pinehurst
The PGA of America
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The 2025 PGA High School Golf National Invitational, presented by Titleist & FootJoy, returns to Pinehurst Resort & Country Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina July 14-16 (girls) and July 20-22 (boys). More than 500 of the country’s top high school...
U.S. Builds Up Patriot Air Defense Forces
Charter 97
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The U.S. Army plans to form four new battalions. The US Army will increase the number of Patriot surface-to-air missile systems by about a quarter. The decision is due to the fact that the existing 15 battalions (of which only 14 are fully...
Advances in Mendelian Randomization Studies of Obesity Over the Past Decade: Uncovering Key Genetic Mechanisms
Dove Medical Press
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July 17, 2025
Introduction With rapid economic development in China, obesity has become a major public health concern, with more than half of adults classified as overweight or obese.1 The World Health Organization (WHO) defines obesity as excessive fat...
GDOE summer interns gain experience
The Guam Daily Post
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Preparing island youth to be productive adults, the Governor’s Summer Youth Employment Program has provided many high school students with on-the-job experience with partnering government agencies like the Guam Department of Education. Students...
‘His life matters’: Family seeks answers 2 years after GPD labeled Jaren Joshua Guerrero Cruz's death ‘undetermined’
Pacific Daily News
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Two years after Jaren Joshua Guerrero Cruz died from a gunshot wound to the head, his mother Sharlene Guerrero is still demanding answers especially after the police, she said, ruled the cause of death "undetermined" and closed the case without...
Archaeologists discover 3,500-year-old rice remains in remote cave from one of the largest oceanic migrants in prehistory
AS
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July 16, 2025
Researchers have recently discovered 3,500-year-old rice remains in a cave on Ritidian Beach in northern Guam, marking the earliest known evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands. This discovery was made through phytolith analysis—a method that...
'Trauma is real': Parkinson seeks to combat deepfake porn, other AI harms
Pacific Daily News
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Sen. William Parkinson seeks to combat a new form of harassment: the creation and distribution of deepfake intimate images. Bill 171-38 or the Nonconsensual Intimate Depictions Act of 2025 would modernize Guam’s laws to hold individuals...
Engine of resistance hums in U.S. and Germany
People's World
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July 14, 2025
German Army Chief Lt. Gen. Alfons Mas listens to a question during a media joint conference with Lithuanian Chief of Defence Gen. Valdemaras Rupsys and Lithuanian Defense Minister Laurynas Kasciunas as members of the Headquarters initial command...
Rocket stars
Taipei Times
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July 15, 2025
2025-07-12 INTEL: China’s ships are mapping strategic ocean floors, including near Guam, which could aid undersea cable targeting and have military applications, a report said China’s oceanographic survey and research ships are collecting data in...
Best case scenario: Coral will be impacted by projected unprecedented acidification of waters around main Hawaiian islands
Big Island Now - Hawaii
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July 16, 2025
Ocean waters around the globe are acidifying as they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, threatening coral reefs and other marine life. Acidification of waters around the main Hawaiian Islands is expected to follow suit; however, a new...
Global plea deal on the table for man accused in child sex assault, auto theft, drug cases
Pacific Daily News
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A global plea deal covering all of Freddy Cuevas Susuico’s pending cases was reviewed in Superior Court this week, but no agreement has been finalized. Susuico, alongside his attorney Thomas Fisher, appeared before Superior Court Judge Alberto...
MacPherson meets with building collapse survivors this weekend
George Herald
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July 17, 2025
MacPherson said the report, detailing regulatory and professional failings, would be handed to law enforcement. "I assure the public […] we will do what is right. People will be held accountable." A tangled mass of steel and building rubble during...
Flags, flutes and future voters: Students and teachers kick off U.S. history program in Philly
Billy Penn - Pennsylvania
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July 15, 2025
(Editor’s note: Cathy Gorn is the executive director of National History Day.) Piercing the early morning quiet on Monday with the whistle of flutes and the rhythm of drums, a group of educators and students from across the nation were led by...
2025 Jubilee Churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington
Catholic Standard - Washington D.C.
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July 16, 2025
When he announced the Jubilee Year that would begin Dec. 24, 2024 and continue until Jan. 6, 2026, the late Pope Francis chose “Pilgrims of Hope” as the theme for the Holy Year. “The pilgrimage expresses a fundamental element of every Jubilee...