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Never in America—right?
By Cherie Zaslawsky April 20, 2021 In a recent broadcast, Tucker Carlson featured a story destined to send shockwaves throughout America. In discussing Canada’s new policy of mandatory detention of people who test positive for Covid in “government...

We Have a Choice: Weapons and War, or Food and Health Care?
Originally published in OtherWords. For weeks, Congress has been wrapped up in passing President Trump’s big, brutal budget — the one that pays for tax cuts for the wealthy and a trillion-dollar Pentagon budget by taking food stamps and Medicaid...

42 men facing deportation are flown to Alaska for holding after being arrested in other states: report
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

First they came for the nurses… Then they came for the truckers… Then they came for me
First they came for the nurses… Then they came for the truckers… Then they came for me By Desmond McGrath February 24, 2022 While Justin Turd’eau (Spelling intentional aka ‘Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark’) invokes the “Swastika Flag”...

Alaska’s former chief medical officer resigns from CDC post as federal agency faces turmoil
Jay Butler, M.D., recently resigned as Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases at the CDC. Photographed at his Anchorage Hillside home on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (Bill Roth / ADN) Dr. Jay Butler, former Alaska chief medical officer, resigned last...

S. Korean fighter jet damaged during drills in Alaska
A South Korean KF-16 fighter jet participating in the U.S.-led multinational Red Flag air exercise in Alaska has sustained damage, according to South Korea's Air Force. The incident prompted an emergency escape by the pilots, who were confirmed to...

Vision Zero Task Force releases report on curbing pedestrian deaths in Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A task force formed to look at Anchorage’s record number of pedestrian deaths has issued a six-month report on its progress. According to prior reporting, in 2024, the city experienced 15 pedestrian deaths, the most in a...

Pilots escape after Korean KF-16 fighter jet accident in Alaska
Pilots made an emergency escape following an accident involving a Korean KF-16 fighter jet taking part in the U.S.-led multinational Red Flag air exercise in Alaska, the South's Air Force said Wednesday. The two pilots ejected themselves from the...

South Korean F-16 pilots eject safely during takeoff crash at US base in Alaska
A South Korean air force F-16D Fighting Falcon takes part in a training exercise on Oct. 8, 2019. (Matthew Seefeldt/U.S. Air Force) Two South Korean pilots suffered minor burns and lacerations while ejecting from a fighter jet that crashed during...

(2nd LD) S. Korean KF-16 fighter jet damaged during drills in Alaska; pilots remain safe
(ATTN: ADDS details from U.S. Air Force statement) By Lee Minji SEOUL, June 11 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean KF-16 fighter jet taking part in the U.S.-led multinational Red Flag air exercise in Alaska has been damaged, the South's Air Force said,...

(3rd LD) Pilots escape after S. Korean KF-16 fighter jet accident in Alaska
(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; UPDATES with Air Force response, state of aircrew) By Lee Minji SEOUL, June 11 (Yonhap) -- Pilots made an emergency escape following an accident involving a South Korean KF-16 fighter jet taking part in the U.S.-led...
Obama
Joan Swirsky, RenewAmerica analyst September 13, 2011 Over the past almost-three years, I've had to laugh — in contempt — when the so-called intelligentsia have shaken their collective heads in bewilderment and seeming incomprehension as they've...

2 S. Korean Pilots Escape Burning KF-16 Fighter Jet during Air Drill in Alaska
Photo : YONHAP News Two South Korean pilots are safe after escaping a burning KF-16 fighter jet during an air drill in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to South Korea’s Air Force on Wednesday, the accident occurred during takeoff at the Eielson...

Korean KF-16 fighter jet damaged during drills in Alaska
A Korean KF-16 fighter jet taking part in the U.S.-led multinational Red Flag air exercise in Alaska has been damaged, the Air Force said, with the pilots aboard confirmed safe following an emergency escape. The two pilots ejected themselves from...

(LEAD) S. Korean KF-16 fighter jet damaged during drills in Alaska; pilots remain safe
(ATTN: UPDATES with more details; ADDS byline) By Lee Minji SEOUL, June 11 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean KF-16 fighter jet taking part in the U.S.-led multinational Red Flag air exercise in Alaska has been damaged, the Air Force said, with the pilots...

‘Mixed bag’: Some Alaska tourism operators see signs of a slowdown as economic concerns and Trump policies take a bite
The Princess Cruises ship Ruby Princess is docked in Juneau on May 21, 2025. (Marc Lester / ADN) Alaska tourism operators say the season seems a little off after years of strong growth in the industry, with some operators seeing evidence that the...

Presidents Day, part 1; "God's footprints in the snow"
By Curtis Dahlgren February 15, 2010 "Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored — contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong, vain as...

162nd Medical Group Medical Facilities Annual Training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson: Enhancing Readiness to Support Domestic and Global Operations
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA, UNITED STATES 06.10.2025 Airmen from the 162nd Wing Medical Group, kicked off their Medical Facilities Annual Training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Hospital. MFAT is a National Guard unit-funded...

Opinion: It’s time to speak up for Alaska’s national wildlife refuges
Volunteers head out to conduct research on bear and salmon at Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. (Lisa Hupp/USFWS). Huge herds of migrating caribou. Musk ox in their shaggy coats. Bears, wolves, wolverines. Sheep and goats high in the mountains....

We're not stuck on "No," stupid; we're just counter-contradistinguish
By Curtis Dahlgren December 22, 2009 "Possessing a chosen country . . acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensation proves that It delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter — with...