Deemed an innocent bystander by police, he was killed by a volunteer “peacekeeper” for the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake ...

The Labor Department inspector general previously flagged that the Mine Safety and Health Administration wasn’t performing ...

American Samoa, which is around 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii, is not a U.S. state and has no representation in Congress. It is also the only U.S. territory where people born there are not ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs has awarded $1,670,450 in CARES Act grant funding to the American Samoa government to help repatriate American Samoans stranded ...

American Samoa has been coordinating with Insular Affairs and other federal partners to repatriate residents back to the territory, according to a news release. It will use the funds to support ...

American Samoa votes for a representative for Congress every two years. The representative participates in House functions, including voting on committess, but cannot vote on the floor.

Although the American Samoa government opposes birthright citizenship, its concerns are unfounded, the brief states, because the other U.S. territories have enjoyed U.S. citizenship for decades ...

As of 2024, nearly 5,000 needy, elderly, blind or disabled individuals in American Samoa receive ASNAP benefits from the government. These benefits provide essential food assistance to supplement ...

According to the territory's government, the cannery makes up 85 % of American Samoa's gross domestic product and is responsible for 99.5 % of its exports.

American Samoa's government cites other studies that have mixed appraisals of the effectiveness of large, deep ocean "blue water " sanctuaries compared to those focused on reefs and seamounts.

The crew of an Oahu-based Coast Guard C-130 monitors a Chinese fishing vessel that was transiting through American Samoan waters during an aerial patrol in the U.S. Pacific territory.