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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $636 Million in Grants to Improve Airport Infrastructure
Federal Aviation Administration
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August 9, 2024
Friday, August 9, 2024 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced more than $636 million for 320 grants in 46 states and American Samoa to improve our nation’s airport infrastructure....
Five Maine Teachers Honored with Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
Maine Department of Education
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January 24, 2025
On January 13, 2025, President Biden announced 336 teachers and mentors from across the nation as recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) and the Presidential Awards for Excellence in...
Delaware Division of the Arts Announces 11 Finalists for Delaware’s 2025 Poetry Out Loud State Finals
Division of Community Affairs - Delaware
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January 22, 2025
Eleven students to compete to advance to the National Finals in Washington, DC Wilmington, Del. (January 22, 2025) – Delaware’s Poetry Out Loud State Finals returns to the Smyrna Opera House on Thursday, February 20, 2025, at 6:00pm. Eleven...
The Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Celebrates Milestone Anniversary in 2025
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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January 16, 2025
Chicago, Jan. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The NLC is celebrating 25 years of multistate mobility and greater access to care. Implemented in 2000, the NLC has successfully reduced regulatory barriers to cross-border nursing practice. The NLC...
State Regulators Issue $80 Million Penalty to Block, Inc., Cash App for BSA/AML Violations
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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January 15, 2025
Washington, D.C., Jan. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Washington, D.C.— In a coordinated enforcement action by 48 state financial regulators, Block, Inc. will pay an $80 million fine and undertake corrective action for violations of the Bank Secrecy...
Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $374 Million in Grants to Improve Airports
U.S. Department of Transportation
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July 31, 2024
Friday, July 26, 2024 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced more than $374 million for airfield, safety, and other improvement projects at 299 airports in 46 states and American...
Federal Super PAC Talks on Concepts to Support Transgender Senate Candidate From Guam-Micronesia
Marketwire
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October 18, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - October 18, 2015) - World War II triumphed an island we now know as the U.S. territory Guam, and in August Miss Pacificana 2015, Jaryna Balbas of Guam, known for having brains and butt (an all-natural backside)...
Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $374 Million in Grants to Improve Airports
Federal Aviation Administration
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July 26, 2024
Friday, July 26, 2024 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced more than $374 million for airfield, safety, and other improvement projects at 299 airports in 46 states and American...
Visitor Industry Recorded Fourth Consecutive Year-over-Year Growth in November 2024
State of Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism
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December 31, 2024
Posted on Dec 31, 2024 in News For Immediate Release: December 31, 2024 HONOLULU—According to preliminary statistics from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), there were 770,940 visitors to the Hawaiian Islands in...
Six Mississippi teachers receive national Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
Mississippi Department of Education
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January 15, 2025
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: January 15, 2025 Six Mississippi teachers receive national Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching JACKSON, Miss. – This week, six Mississippi educators were among 336 teachers...
Former Presidential Candidate Jason Palmer Launches Change.org Campaign Encouraging President Biden To Pass The Torch
EIN Presswire
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July 8, 2024
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, July 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Jason Palmer, the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate who made headlines with his underdog Super Tuesday win over President Biden in American Samoa, is...
News Release – DOH Reports Travel-Related Dengue Cases on Kauaʻi and Maui
Governor of State of Hawaii
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July 8, 2024
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH KA ʻOIHANA OLAKINO JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR KE KIA‘ĀINA KENNETH S. FINK, MD, MGA, MPH DIRECTOR KA LUNA HO‘OKELE DOH REPORTS TRAVEL-RELATED DENGUE CASES ON KAUAʻI AND MAUI FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2024 24-093 HONOLULU –...
Legislation considered under suspension of the Rules of the House of Representatives during the week of July 8, 2024
Congressional Budget Office
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July 3, 2024
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives announces bills that will be considered under suspension of the rules in that chamber. Under suspension, floor debate is limited, all floor amendments are prohibited, points of order against the...
International Transportation: Hawaiian Airlines Wins Tentative Nod For Tokyo Service
FinancialWire
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May 11, 2010
May 11, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Hawaiian Holdings’ (NASDAQ: HA) Hawaiian Airlines unit has been granted tentative approval by the U.S. Department of Transportation to operate one daily flight between Honolulu and Tokyo's Haneda Airport, the airline...
News Release – DOH Reports Travel-Related Dengue Case on Oahu
Governor of State of Hawaii
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June 24, 2024
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH KA ʻOIHANA OLAKINO JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR KE KIA‘ĀINA KENNETH S. FINK, MD, MGA, MPH DIRECTOR KA LUNA HO‘OKELE DOH REPORTS TRAVEL-RELATED DENGUE CASE ON OʻAHU FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2024 24-086 HONOLULU – The Hawai‘i...
SPREP’s Fourth Executive Board Meeting ends on a high
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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September 18, 2024
Island and Ocean Ecosystems Climate Change Resilience Environmental Monitoring and Governance Waste Management and Pollution Control General News 6 September 2024, Apia Samoa - The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme’s...
Fourth SPREP Executive Board Meeting opens in Samoa
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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September 5, 2024
Island and Ocean Ecosystems Climate Change Resilience Environmental Monitoring and Governance Waste Management and Pollution Control General News 4 September 2024, Apia Samoa – The crucial role played by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional...
USS Canberra (LCS 30) Returns to Homeport San Diego
U.S. Navy
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August 30, 2023
Canberra departed its homeport of Naval Base San Diego to conduct the first U.S. Navy ceremonial commissioning in Australia on June 13, visiting American Samoa and the Pacific Island Nation of Fiji prior to its arrival in Sydney for commissioning....
Jennings to Uiafa’atali Radewagen: Withdraw or Suspend HR 6062
EIN Presswire
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May 2, 2024
SWAINS ISLAND, USA, May 2, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- On May 1, 2024, Delegate Su'a Alexander Eli Jennings (Swains Island Delegate, American Samoa Legislature) requested that U.S. Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata A. Radewagen withdraw or suspend...
SCOR announces the successful placement of EUR 500 million Restricted Tier 1 Notes
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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December 16, 2024
Press release 16 December 2024 - N° 23 NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO ANY U.S. PERSON (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S OF THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED) OR ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE...