The University of Alaska Fairbanks will celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with several events and activities on Oct. 14, 2024. Indigenous Peoples Day honors Indigenous people, culture and knowledge nationwide. It affords time to reflect and recognize the Indigenous knowledge that enhances the education provided by the university. UAF events will be held on Oct. 14 […]
WASHINGTON – Thursday, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL) called on the Biden Administration and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to do more after an announcement of U.S. port entry denial to fishing vessels from China, Russia and 12 other nations. NOAA Fisheries identified these nations in a 2021 Report to Congress on Improving International […]
Disarmament advocate Beatrice Fihn stressed that the exercise is practice for “wiping out hundreds of thousands of civilians” with weapons that would also “flatten cities and poison survivors.” The NATO military block announced Friday that its annual nuclear exercise is set to begin this week—news that arrived just as Japanese atomic bomb survivors who advocate […]
A New York Times interview carried echoes of Vance’s “damning non-answer” in the vice presidential debate. Characterizing questions about whether Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lied about his 2020 election loss as an “obsession” of the media, vice presidential contender JD Vance on Friday refused five consecutive opportunities to acknowledge the election results. In an interview with […]