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Two Decades Later, V.I. Seeks to Activate Dormant Internet Gambling Law Amid Industry Boom
The Virgin Island Consortium
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ST. CROIX — The U.S. Virgin Islands took a major step toward reviving its long-dormant internet gaming law with the July 31st Virgin Islands Internet Gaming and Internet Gambling Summit, hosted by the V.I. Casino Control Commission at the...
David Zumwalt: Rural America’s Wireless Revolution
Broadband Breakfast
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August 19, 2025
Broadband is essential to living a safe, prosperous and connected life. Yet we often take it for granted. We overlook its complex infrastructure and the costly challenges of deploying and maintaining it. This is especially true in rural America,...
US records more cases of virus prompting Covid-era restrictions in China... as travel warnings take effect
Daily Mail
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August 14, 2025
Cases of the debilitating chikungunya virus sweeping through China are also surging in the US, health officials have warned. CDC officials have reported four more cases this week, bringing the total to 50 cases of chikungunya in the US, all of...
CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS is sweeping through China and now invading the USA â Prepare yourself for PLANDEMIC 2.0
Natural News
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August 18, 2025
CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS is sweeping through China and now invading the USA – Prepare yourself for PLANDEMIC 2.0 Plandemic “officials” in the USA would love to install a new fear-based media frenzy to get everybody mass-injected with more spike prions...
Roger E. Merritt, Jr. Reflects on 30 Years in Waste Management
Business Matters
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August 13, 2025
He began with a civil engineering degree from Texas A&M University in 1995, later earning an Executive MBA in Finance from Clark Atlanta University in 2000. This mix of technical and financial skills helped shape his leadership style. Mr. Merritt...
Scientists race to save reefs amid bleaching crisis
The Virgin Islands Daily News
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For more than a decade, Mariane Aimar-Godoc regularly labored underwater, collecting coral eggs by moonlight to raise in nurseries and transplant back onto degraded reefs. As director of the nonprofit Guadeloupe Initiative for the Restoration of...
New York weather whiplash as Hurricane Erin's 'cone of uncertainty' intensifies
The Mirror US
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August 17, 2025
New Yorkers are facing a weather whiplash this week as temperatures swing from extremes and more storms look set to roll in, with hurricane Erin's behaviour looking increasingly unpredictable. Sunday (August 17) will see roasting temperatures as...
St. Croix: Cloudy with a touch of rain, potential for impact from Erin this weekend, high 91
Virgin Islands Free Press
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August 13, 2025
CHRISTIANSTED — Today St. Croix will be partly cloudy, then becoming mostly sunny late this morning, then becoming partly cloudy, then becoming variably cloudy late. Isolated showers this morning, then scattered showers this afternoon. Hazy. Highs...
Sears
The Beverly Review - Illinois
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Eleanor Bilecki Sears, devoted wife, mother, Registered Nurse, and all around generous soul, died peacefully on August 6th after a short illness. She was 90 years old. Daughter of the late Frank and Bernice Bilecki, Eleanor was born and raised in...
Royal Caribbean passenger injured after water slide shatters on Icon of the Seas
NBC Connecticut
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August 8, 2025
A cruise passenger was injured when a glass water slide shattered while they were riding it aboard Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas. "Our team provided medical care to an adult guest when acrylic glass broke off a water slide as the guest passed...
Daylight Saving Time: Turn your clocks back earlier this year
Syracuse.com - New York
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August 12, 2025
When do we change our clocks for Daylight Saving Time? Believe it or not, we “fall back” sooner than you might think. Daylight Saving Time 2025 ends on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 2 a.m., a day earlier than last year — and the second earliest possible...
A Look at Arcos Dorados Holdings's Upcoming Earnings Report
Benzinga
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Arcos Dorados Holdings ARCO will release its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, 2025-08-13. Here's a brief overview for investors ahead of the announcement. Analysts anticipate Arcos Dorados Holdings to report an earnings per share (EPS) of...
Pam Martens, Russ Martens – The Billionaires in the Epstein Files and Their Ties to Israel
Brave New Europe
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August 11, 2025
America’s biggest bank, JP Morgan Chase, is at the centre of the Epstein scandal. Pam Martens and Russ Martens are financial journalists. Cross-posted from Counterpunch Picture by Jernej Furman from Slovenia On July 7, the U.S. Department of...
What is the United States National Guard?
BGNES
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August 11, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the mobilization of hundreds of National Guard troops for deployment in Washington as part of a campaign he announced to “step up the fight against crime.” The move follows a similar measure taken by Trump in...
55 Attorneys General agree to $7.4 billion Purdue settlement; Ohio to receive up to $198 million
Toledo Legal News - Ohio
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Attorney General Dave Yost recently announced that the attorneys general of 49 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories have signed on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family. Now that...
MPE CARIBBEAN REPORT NEWSLETTER – August 11, 2025
I News Cayman
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August 11, 2025
August 11, 2025 Celebrating the steelpan’s cultural power MPE President Bevan Springer is pictured with Tourism Trinidad officials, international journalists, and pan players at the Invaders Steel Orchestra Panyard during a 2023 media visit to...
PepsiCo Plastic Pollution Lawsuit Dismissed, But New Suits Push Accountability
WebProNews
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August 11, 2025
The Escalating Battle Over Corporate Plastic Waste In a move that underscores the growing scrutiny on corporate environmental practices, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against PepsiCo in November 2023,...
The Billionaires in the Epstein Files and Their Ties to Israel
CounterPunch
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August 11, 2025
Image by Kelly Sikkema. On July 7, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI released a joint, unsigned memorandum that began with these words: “As part of our commitment to transparency….” The two-page memorandum reveals that these federal...
B-Roll Caribbean Thunder 25 Combat Medics Train Real-World Skills
DVIDS - Georgia
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August 6, 2025
U.S Army Reserve combat medics with 49th Multifunctional Medical Battalion teach Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TC3) during Caribbean Thunder 2025, at Camp Santiago, Puerto Rico Aug. 5, 2025. TC3 is a set of guidelines and training within the U.S....
Iowa State president calls retirement decision ‘bittersweet’
Missouri Farmer Today
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Wendy Wintersteen became the 16th president of Iowa State University on Nov. 20, 2017. The first woman to hold the university’s highest office, Wintersteen has served Iowa State for more than 40 years in several capacities. She began her career...