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US Virgin Islands stops recreational bird hunting to protect local and migratory species

Pasquines · July 15, 2025

The Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) in the United States Virgin Islands is taking new steps to protect birds across the territory. On June 4, 2025, Commissioner Jean-Pierre L. Oriol announced that no recreational hunting of...

UND women's basketball will head to U.S. Virgin Islands in November for Paradise Jam

Grand Forks Herald - North Dakota · July 9, 2025

GRAND FORKS — The UND women's basketball team's 2025-26 schedule will now include a trip to the tropics. The Fighting Hawks are heading to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, in late November to participate in the Paradise Jam, marking the program's...

GUEST VIEW: How crowdfunding brought a new wind technology to market

Odessa American - Texas · July 10, 2025

By Llewellyn King InsideSources.com A California company, Wind Harvest, is in high gear to change the dynamics of wind energy and to vastly improve the economics of wind farms. But the company wouldn’t be marketing to utilities and wind farm...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientists share studies on reef mapping with NUWC Division Newport workforce

DVIDS - Georgia · July 10, 2025

NEWPORT, R.I. – Dr. T. Aran Mooney, Dr. Seth McCammon and Dr. Yogesh Girdhar from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts shared their studies on coral reefs, mapping sounds and the use of autonomous underwater vehicles...

U.S. Virgin Islands: A Key Caribbean Location

Business Facilities · June 19, 2025

The Wilfred “Bomba” Allick Port and Transshipment Center is located in the South Shore Trade Zone in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. (Credit: Courtesy Virgin Islands Port Authority) The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), a U.S. territory located in the...

DLCA Orders Cease and Desist Against Keon Rawlins for Unauthorized Land Surveying in the U.S. Virgin Islands

The Virgin Island Consortium ·

The V.I. Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs has issued a cease and desist order against Keon Rawlins, acting both in his personal capacity and as the operator of KER Engineering, for engaging in unauthorized land surveying activities...

Texas man returns from honeymoon alone after wife is arrested by ICE in US Virgin Islands

The Independent · June 20, 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...

BYU women’s hoops commits to 2025 Paradise Jam

Daily Herald - Utah ·

Courtesy BYU PhotoBYU's Kambree Barber (14) greets teammates on the sideline during a Big 12 women's basketball game against UCF in the Marriott Center on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands — BYU women’s basketball is set to...

Marist basketball: Women to face LSU in November's Paradise Jam

Times Herald Record - New York ·

Marist women's basketball will have an opportunity to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday Caribbean style. The Red Foxes have been slated to play in the Paradise Jam, hosted by the U.S. Virgin Islands. Marist will take on Louisiana State on...

Operation Maverick's Armistice: A collaborative Air National Guard exercise in agile combat training

DVIDS - Georgia · July 10, 2025

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES 07.10.2025 JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. -- In a formidable display of readiness and collaboration, more than 800 mission-ready Air National Guard members gathered at the Air Dominance Center in...

Eight years down and no end in sight: PREPA's long bankruptcy

The Bond Buyer - New York · July 10, 2025

Eight years into PREPA's bankruptcy, there are few signs it won't drag on for several more years. The factors that have kept the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bankruptcy going for eight years may extend it for several more years, observers...

'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump

Newsweek · July 10, 2025

Promises of uncovering secret assassination files and naming powerful pedophiles kept the MAGA movement energized for years. Many supporters believed Donald Trump would finally expose government cover-ups once he returned to power. But more than...

USDOE cuts PSS grant by 24%

Marianas Variety ·

Jacqueline Che THE U.S. Department of Education has reduced federal grant funding to the CNMI Public School System by $4.5 million, or 24%, for school year 2025-2026. The funding cut is part of more than $6 billion withheld nationwide after many...

CTC Student Wins Gold and Full-Ride Scholarship at National SkillsUSA Competition

The Englewood Review - Florida · July 9, 2025

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla – For the fourth consecutive year, students from Charlotte Technical College (CTC) represented Charlotte County at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference held June 23–28 in Atlanta, Georgia. Students competed...

Officers ambushed at Texas ICE facility

Longview News-Journal - Texas ·

Tensions over the federal government’s immigration agenda erupted into violence 25 miles from downtown Fort Worth. A group of 10 to 12 people ambushed corrections and police officers July 4 outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado,...

The One Big Beautiful Bill: Tax Provisions in Final Legislation Impacting Domestic and Multinational Businesses

JD Supra - California · July 9, 2025

Introduction On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed H.R. 1, commonly known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBB), into law.[1] OBBB was initially approved by the House of Representatives on May 22, 2025 (the House Bill),[2] followed by...

Liberty Puerto Rico deploys low-frequency spectrum to improve coverage

News is My Business · July 2, 2025

From left, Chuck Page, Liberty vice president of technical operations, and Víctor Vera, engineering director for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, stand in front of backup batteries at the company’s core platform site in San Juan. Liberty...

Can you buy weed with a credit card? It's complicated.

Yahoo Finance ·

Whether you regularly purchase cannabis edibles or dabble in tinctures, it feels like weed is everywhere now. About 75% of Americans live in a state where marijuana is legal for recreational or medical use, and 79% of Americans live in a county...

Kirk Callwood is New EDA Associate Managing Director

St. Thomas Source · July 2, 2025

To assist the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority in its mandate to aid the Government of the Virgin Islands in its duties to develop the economy of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Kirk Callwood joined the VIEDA as Associate Managing Director,...

The Epstein Files: The Truth Is Out There

Canada Free Press ·

It’s more than obvious that influence has triumphed over justice once again, but to advertise that fact with this type of blatant neon sign is a smack in the face to all of those who held out hope that this type of degradation would not go...