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US Senate passes bill with funds for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 09:06 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 14:46
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last week agreed to spend $6.5 million to tackle the epidemic of missing and murdered

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U.S. senator from Alaska joins measure denouncing House’s Trump impeachment inquiry

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, October 28, 2019 at 10:48
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U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) is co-sponsoring a resolution that bashes the House for its impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

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Alaska’s senators diverge on vote to block Trump’s border wall emergency

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, March 15, 2019 at 12:19 — Last Updated: Friday, March 15, 2019 at 12:21
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Alaska’s U.S. senators split on the vote Thursday to block President Trump’s declaration of an emergency. If, as expected, Trump

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Trump’s emergency declaration splits Alaska delegation

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 10:19 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 10:29
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The vote is expected to be close when the U.S. Senate decides whether to reverse President Donald Trump’s declaration of

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Alaska’s Murkowski a no-show at Senate vote on abortion bill

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 09:14
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The stage was set in the U.S. Senate Monday for a divisive vote related to late-term abortion, and one open

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Industry launches campaign to free oceans from plastic… how serious is it?

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 09:44 — Last Updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 09:47
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The plastics industry has a new billion-dollar campaign to get plastic trash out of the ocean, and to reduce the

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Public lands bill passing U.S. Senate a big win for Alaska’s Murkowski

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 11:59
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The U.S. Senate Tuesday passed a massive public lands bill, and to the delight of its sponsor, Sen. Lisa Murkowski

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General Geopolitics Geopolitics (USA) News Politics USA 

U.S. experts call for ‘vigilance’ on Russian military buildup in Arctic

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, February 4, 2019 at 09:37 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:54
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Moscow has been building its military presence in the Arctic and one Russia scholar says she’s grown increasingly concerned. While

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‘Uber for icebreakers’ idea gains traction in U.S. Senate

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 10:16 — Last Updated: Friday, February 1, 2019 at 15:40
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This was the year Congress was finally going to spend some serious money to build an icebreaker. A Senate spending

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Alaska’s US senators veer apart on shutdown votes

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, January 25, 2019 at 10:22 — Last Updated: Friday, January 25, 2019 at 10:24
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In the U.S. Senate Thursday, two bills that would have ended the partial government shutdown failed to get enough votes

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Alaska’s senator Murkowski says ‘no’ to building wall on U.S.-Mexico border with military funds

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 10:35
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U.S. President Donald Trump has been floating the idea of building a wall using military construction dollars. Sen. Lisa Murkowski

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Alaska’s Murkowski aims to revive public lands bill in U.S. Senate

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 09:57
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One of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski’s first priorities in the Congress that begins Thursday is to pass a 680-page public

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Will Congress put off building an icebreaker to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border?

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 09:57 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 09:58
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U.S. President Donald Trump is in a stand-off with Congress. He said he’ll shut down the government if he doesn’t

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Alaska reckons with missing data on murdered Indigenous women

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 10:48 — Last Updated: Friday, November 16, 2018 at 13:02
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Indigenous women and girls are murdered or disappear from American cities in alarming numbers. But no one knows the true

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Alaska senator Murkowski’s office flooded with calls about Brett Kavanaugh

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 13:38
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she’s getting a record number of calls and emails about Brett Kavanaugh, whose nomination to the

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