US Senate passes bill with funds for missing and murdered Indigenous women
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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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U.S. experts call for ‘vigilance’ on Russian military buildup in Arctic
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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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