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This undated photo provided by the Maricopa County Assessor's Office shows Assessor Paul Petersen. Petersen has been indicted in an adoption fraud case, accused of arranging for dozens of pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to come to the U.S. to give their children up for adoption. Utah also has charged him on multiple felony counts, including human smuggling, sale of a child and communications fraud. (Maricopa County Assessor's Office via AP)

Politician charged in human trafficking adoption scheme

By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press

Illustration on American versus Chinese influence in the Pacific by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Reviving the Monroe Doctrine in the Indo-Pacific

By Dennis Lennox

FILE - In this May 21, 1956, file photo, the fireball of a hydrogen bomb lights the Pacific sky a few seconds after the bomb was released over Bikini Atoll. A Texas-based company is facing criticism for naming a beer after the location of nuclear tests that resulted in the contamination of a Pacific island chain, a report said. Manhattan Project Beer Company is under scrutiny by Marshall Islanders who were exposed to high levels of radiation by U.S. government research from 1946 to 1958, The Pacific Daily News reported Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. (AP Photo, File)

Beer named for Pacific island nuke test site draws criticism

Associated Press

Climate change threatens island nations

By The Honorable Kessai Note

This Nov. 5, 2015, photo shows a heavy earth mover building a sea wall on Majuro Atoll, Marshall. Rising seas in the Marshall Islands can be seen on many of the Atolls in the group as more coastline disappears and vegetation is washed away. The US military ignored warnings about rising seas to build a space radar costing nearly a billion dollars on a tiny atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Space Fence system is considered vital for keeping astronauts and satellites safe by tracking space junk as small as a baseball.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

AP Exclusive: US ignored rising-sea warnings at radar site

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Tuesday, April 7, 2015, and released by the semi-official Fars News Agency, Iranian warship Alborz prepares before leaving Iran's waters. (Associated Press/Fars News Agency, Mahdi Marizad) **FILE**

Iran fires at, boards Marshall Islands cargo ship; U.S. sending defense

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2014 file photo provided by the Marshall Islands Foreign Affairs Department, a man identifying himself as Jose Salvador Alvarenga sits on a couch in Majuro in the Marshall Islands, after he was rescued from being washed ashore on the tiny atoll of Ebon in the Pacific Ocean. The Salvadoran man who says he spent more than a year drifting across the Pacific Ocean before making landfall in the Marshall Islands is still too weak to travel and will remain in the island nation for a while longer, an official said Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Foreign Affairs Department The Marshall Islands, Gee Bing, File)

Salvador sea survivor flies out of Pacific island

By MIKI TODA - Associated Press

Man says he ate birds, turtles in 13 months adrift

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Islands want UN to see climate as security threat

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Islands want UN to see climate as security threat

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press