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A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor missile is launched from Meck Island to intercept a ballistic missile target during a Missile Defense Agency integrated flight test. Plans to rapidly deploy an integrated missile and air defense system on Guam now call for placing interceptors and sensors at just 16 sites on the strategic Pacific island instead of the initially planned 35 locations, the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency said. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)

Pentagon slashes planned missile defense sites on Guam in part over environmental concerns

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese naval frigate Binzhou takes part in joint naval drills with Russian warships in the East China Sea on Dec. 27, 2022. The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, he is “very concerned” about increased joint military actions by China and Russia in the region. (Xu Wei/Xinhua via AP, File)

Congress, Pentagon at odds over Pacific task force needed to prep for China war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this file photo, China's People's Liberation Army displays DF-26 ballistic missiles in a parade. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

General: China military threats drive missile defense buildup on Guam

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

FILE - "My body, my choice!" resonates from protesters on the front lawn of the Guam Congress Building in Hagåtña during a protest as they voiced their concerns against the Guam Heartbeat Act of 2022 on April 27, 2022. A federal appeals court says women seeking medication abortions on the U.S. Territory of Guam must first have an in-person consultation with a doctor even though the nearest physician willing to prescribe the medication is 3,800 miles (6,100 kilometers) and an 8-hour flight away. (Rick Cruz/The Pacific Daily via AP, File)

A federal appeals court just made medication abortions harder to get in Guam

By Rebecca Boone and Ed Komenda - Associated Press

Trees stand stripped of leaves following Typhoon Mawar outside Hagatna, Guam, Thursday, May 25, 2023. The Category 4 typhoon pummeled the U.S. Pacific territory with howling winds, torrential rain and a life-threatening storm surge as residents hunkered down on the island. (AP Photo/Grace Garces Bordallo)

Typhoon Mawar batters Guam, and ‘what used to be a jungle looks like toothpicks’

By Grace Garces Bordallo and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard overlooking Noverlooking Tumon Bay in Guam, as Super Typhoon Mawar closes in on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Residents of Guam are stockpiling supplies, battening down windows and abandoning wood and tin homes for emergency shelters as Super Typhoon Mawar bears down as the strongest storm to approach the U.S. Pacific territory in decades. ( Lt. Junior Grade Drew Lovullo/US Coast Guard via AP)

Super Typhoon Mawar passing over Guam as Category 4 storm with strong winds, rain

By Grace Garces Bordallo and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

Residents prepare for Typhoon Mawar's approach Monday, May 22, 2023, in Tamuning, Guam. Guam's governor is urging residents to stay home and is warning the island could take a direct hit from Typhoon Mawar. The storm is strengthening on its path toward the U.S. territory in the Pacific. (Rick Cruz/The Pacific Daily via AP)

Guam residents stock up, batten down as dangerous Super Typhoon Mawar closes in

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-17 ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, on Oct. 1, 2019. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, that China’s pursuit of hypersonic weapons “increases tensions in the region” and vowed the U.S. would maintain its capability to deter potential threats posed by China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Documents leaked by airman reveal China’s advanced hypersonic arms

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 22, 2017, photo, the Guam Catholic Pro-Life Committee holds its annual &quot;Chain for Life&quot; protest against abortion at the Guam International Trade Center intersection in Tamuning, Guam. Women from the remote U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands will likely have to travel farther than other Americans to terminate a pregnancy if the Supreme Court overturns a precedent that established a national right to abortion in the United States. (Frank San Nicolas/The Pacific Daily via AP, File)

On remote US territories, abortion hurdles mount without Roe

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

Ohio National Guard's Pfc. Trey Risner, assigned to Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, prepares to operate the Avenger Air Defense System during exercise Forager 21 on July 30, 2021, Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. The Avenger is a self-propelled surface-to-air missile system which provides mobile, short-range air defense protection for ground units. Exercise Forager 21 exercises our ability to conduct strategic deployment and Joint operational maneuver of forces into and across the Indo-Pacific theater. (Photo by Army Spc. Olivia Lauer) **FILE**

Army deploys Iron Dome missile defense to counter Chinese threats

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

3 sailors have COVID on US ship that saw outbreak last year

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

In this Nov. 15, 2019, file photo U.S. Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, then commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), addresses the crew during an all-hands call on the ship's flight deck while conducting routine operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Huynh/U.S Navy via AP, File)

Former Navy secretary stands by sacking of carrier commander over COVID-19

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Advocates: Carolina breeders supporting cockfighting in Guam

Associated Press

CORRECTS TO A GROUP OF 35 STATES AS WELL AS THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND TERRITORIES OF GUAM AND PUERTO RICO FILED, INSTEAD OF 38 STATES FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2019, file photo, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser speaks during a news conference in Denver. A group of 35 states as well as the District of Columbia and the territories of Guam and Puerto Rico filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Google on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, alleging that the search giant has an illegal monopoly over the online search market that hurts consumers and advertisers. The lawsuit, announced by Weiser, was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. by states represented by bipartisan attorneys general. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Dozens of states file anti-trust lawsuit against Google

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

North Carolina' s cell phone app contact tracing SlowCOVIDNC is shown on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, in Charlotte, N.C. An analysis shows that few Americans are utilizing contact tracing technology launched in a host of U.S. states and territories. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

EXPLAINER: How phones can alert you to COVID-19 exposure

By MATT O'BRIEN - Associated Press

US defense chief Esper to visit Palau, Guam and Hawaii

Associated Press

Guam fraudulent unemployment cases double with ID theft

Associated Press

Hundreds of travelers to Guam quarantined over virus fears

Associated Press

No threat of tsunami after 5.9 earthquake off Guam

Associated Press

This 1995 photo provided by family attorney Michael F. Williams shows twins Leslie, left and her sister Katrina Schaller in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. A U.S. judge in Guam ruled that there is no rational basis for denying a disabled woman from receiving supplemental Social Security income just because she lives in the U.S territory. Katrina and Leslie Schaller are identical twins who were born in 1970 with the same genetic disease and grew up in Pennsylvania. After their mother died in 2007, Katrina went to live with a sister on Guam and stopped receiving the federal payments, while her sister in Pennsylvania continued receiving the money. (Kim Fegurgur/Michael F. Williams via AP)

Judge sides with Guam resident in Social Security case

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press