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A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane crew assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point flies over an overturned vessel offshore Saipan, Saturday, April 18, 2026, while searching for a missing vessel, the Mariana, that experienced an engine failure April 15. (U.S. Coast Guard/Air Station Barbers Point via AP)

Search suspended for 5 missing crew of ship that overturned near Northern Marianas during typhoon

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A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane crew assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point flies over an overturned vessel offshore Saipan, Saturday, April 18, 2026, while searching for a missing vessel, the Mariana, that experienced an engine failure April 15. (U.S. Coast Guard/Air Station Barbers Point via AP)

Searchers find body of 1 of 6 missing crew members from ship that overturned during typhoon

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This image provided by Glen Hunter, shows high winds during a super typhoon on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 in the island of Saipan. (Glen Hunter via AP)

Typhoon flipped over cars and ripped away roofs on U.S. islands in the Pacific Ocean

By Kathy McCormack and John Seewer - Associated Press

This image provided by Glen Hunter, shows high winds during a super typhoon on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 in the island of Saipan. (Glen Hunter via AP)

Super Typhoon Sinlaku pounds remote U.S. islands in the Pacific Ocean with ferocious winds

By John Seewer and Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows super typhoon Sinlakua in the Pacific Ocean, Monday, April 13, 2026. (NOAA via AP)

Monster typhoon in the Pacific Ocean is bearing down on group of remote U.S. islands

By John Seewer and Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Northern Mariana Islands and China's megacasino illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The Indo-Pacific’s quiet war loses a U.S. ally

By Brent Sadler

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures after landing at RAAF air base Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 26 2024. Assange has returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after U.S. legal battle ends

By Rick Rycroft and Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Tourists stand on the Banzai cliff on resort island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Birth tourism in Northern Mariana Islands targeted by Republican lawmakers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Guam to get over $3M to control invasive brown tree snake

Associated Press

FILE - This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M. A compensation program for those exposed to radiation from years of nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining would be expanded under legislation that seeks to address fallout across the western United States, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. (AP Photo/File)

Lawmaker: Expand compensation from nuclear weapons testing

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

Saipan casino to pay $3M for construction worker wage claims

Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, file photo, an overturned car is shown at the airport after Super Typhoon Yutu hit the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Garapan, Saipan. Elections are being postponed in a Pacific U.S. territory going without electricity after a super typhoon destroyed homes, toppled trees, utility poles and left a woman dead. (AP Photo/Dean Sensui, File)

The Latest: Tourists flee typhoon-ravaged US territory

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A damaged plane sits at the airport after Super Typhoon Yutu hit the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, in Garapan, Saipan. Residents of the U.S. territory are preparing for months without electricity or running water after the islands were slammed Thursday with the strongest storm to hit any part of the U.S. this year. (AP Photo/Dean Sensui)

The Latest: Residents say they’ll bounce back after typhoon

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Debris is scattered after Super Typhoon Yutu hit the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 in Garapan, Saipan. Residents of the U.S. territory braced Thursday for months without electricity or running water after the islands were slammed with the strongest storm to hit any part of the U.S. this year. (AP Photo/Dean Sensui)

The Latest: Military plane bringing food, water to Marianas

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This false-color satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows the moment the eye of Super Typhoon Yutu passed over Tinian, one of three main islands in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, producing damaging winds and high surf Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. The National Weather Service in Honolulu says maximum sustained winds of 180 mph (290 kph) were recorded around the eye of the storm, which passed over Tinian island and Saipan early Thursday morning local time. Waves of 25 to 40 feet (6 to 12 meters) are expected around the eye of the storm. (NOAA via AP)

The Latest: Typhoon causes injuries, damage in Marianas

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FILE - In this March 13, 2018 file photo, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A push to save and expand a controversial visa program unique to the Northern Mariana Islands is hitting the skids after recent cases of labor abuse and visa fraud. Murkowski and the Northern Mariana Islands' representative in the U.S. House, Gregorio Sablan, jointly introduced a bill to extend the program, but Congress failed to pass the legislation last week before it went into a two-week recess. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Labor abuses muddy future of Saipan work visa program

By SOPHIA YAN - Associated Press

Chinese firms will pay $14 million back wages in Saipan case

By SOPHIA YAN - Associated Press

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Imposed minimum wage hikes hurt economies in American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Territories snared in wage debate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times