Alaska

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Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski said she was "supremely disappointed".

From BBC • May 20, 2026

He was the first member of his family to attend college, which he paid for by taking out student loans, landing work-study jobs and working summers in a salmon cannery in Cordova, Alaska.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026

The Interior Department last week transferred approximately 1.4 million acres of land to the state, fulfilling another piece of a 67-year-old obligation under the Alaska Statehood Act.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Volkswagen was previously found guilty in the emissions cheating scandal, Pfizer over its promotion of the anti-inflammatory drug Bextra and Exxon for the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

The first Americans arrived on foot, which they could do because, at the time, sea levels were low enough that a land bridge connected north-eastern Siberia with north-western Alaska.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari