Palacios took office last year, overseeing the US territory comprising 14 islands that share a maritime border with Japan in the Western Pacific Ocean. Saipan, its main island, lies about 2,700km ...

Pacific Islanders living in the US fear sudden removal from loved ones, jobs and their adopted home, as Donald Trump pursues ...

The U.S. Marine Corps is able to arm its F/A-18C fighter jets with AGM-158 cruise missiles, which offer long-range, precision engagement capabilities.

It is time to bring together a redoubtable defensive alliance that can deter Chinese hegemonic designs across the region—an ...

and other Pacific islands under a U.N. trusteeship for several decades. A federal law designating the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as a U.S. territory passed in 1975, according to ...

The United States, Australia, and Japan deployed advanced stealth fighter aircraft for an exercise last week in Guam, an American military outpost in the Western Pacific Ocean. Guam, which is part ...

onald Trump's foreign aid freeze has halted vital projects in the South Pacific, aid workers and analysts say, risking lives and hurting US efforts to woo the region. Disaster-prone, isolated ...