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Two Russians flee to Alaska's St Lawrence Island in small boat to escape Putin's Ukraine war conscription

Two Russian men braved the Bering Strait in an attempt to escape being drafted into Vladimir Putin's army.

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Two Russians fleeing Vladimir Putin's draft arrive in US by boat seeking asylum

Two Russians are seeking asylum in the United States after arriving by boat in Alaska and saying that they were trying to avoid the military mobilisation by Vladimir Putin to fight in Ukraine

Daily Mirror

2 Russians detained on St. Lawrence Island after they arrived by boat

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two Russians who arrived on St. Lawrence Island by boat were flown off the Bering Sea island by federal government officials this week, setting off a scramble by multiple agencies.

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Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 226 of the invasion

EU imposes new sanctions on Russia; Zaporizhzhia hit with multiple rockets; Russians fearing conscription escape by boat to Alaska

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2 Russians seek asylum after reaching remote Alaska island

Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid compulsory military service have requested asylum in the U.S. after landing on a remote Alaska island in the Bering Sea, according to information from Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's office

The Independent UK

Two Russians who fled military service sail to Alaska seeking asylum

“We don’t anticipate a continual stream of individuals or a flotilla of individuals.”

Evening Standard

Two Russians fleeing military service seek U.S. asylum

Two Russians fleeing military service have claimed asylum in the United States after arriving by boat in Alaska, authorities said on Thursday.

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Two Russians looking to avoid military service seek asylum after reaching Alaska

Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid compulsory military service have requested asylum in the U.S. after landing on a remote Alaskan island in the Bering Sea, a senator's office said.

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Review: 'Alaska Daily' turns an HBO-ready premise into broadcast TV. And it works

I have been catching up with ABC's recently premiered "The Rookie: Feds," in which Niecy Nash-Betts stars as a middle-aged high school guidance counselor turned FBI "probie." (I say "middle-aged," but that isn't a description that sticks easily to Nash-Betts.) It's an over-the-top action cartoon, in which scenes dealing with…

Los Angeles Times

Neal Justin: 'Alaska Daily' comes as close to an authentic journalism drama as network TV can get

"Spotlight" director Tom McCarthy isn't done investigating journalism.

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‘Alaska Daily’ review: Hilary Swank stars in ABC’s journalism drama from the writer-director of ‘Spotlight’

Here’s how we’re introduced to Eileen Fitzgerald, the veteran investigative journalist played by two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank in the new ABC drama “Alaska Daily.” She’s working on a big expose for a New York paper when someone lower down the food chain approaches her with concerns about her source.…

Chicago Tribune

Hilary Swank Talks Filming New Series While Expecting Twins

Hilary Swank has announced she's pregnant with twins and says that revelation might explain some of her actions on set of her new ABC series “ Alaska Daily.” “You don’t tell for 12 weeks for a certain reason. But then, like, you’re growing and you’re using the bathroom a lot…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hilary Swank talks filming new series while expecting twins

Hilary Swank has announced she’s pregnant with twins and says that revelation might explain some of her wardrobe alterations and other actions on set of her new ABC series “Alaska Daily."

The Independent UK

‘Alaska Daily’: Hilary Swank plays tough reporter in safe but entertaining ABC series

Workplace drama follows the disgraced journalist as she moves north to start over in Anchorage.

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In Alaska's Fat Bear Week election, there's no party like a salmon party

If hypocrisy in politics turns you off, the election you need is in Alaska, where the candidates are voraciously out for themselves. You can vote beginning Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Geologist whose 2013 discovery 'revolutionized' North Slope oil exploration lays plans to drill again this winter

The risk-taking geologist who discovered a giant Alaska oil field in 2013 that companies had long overlooked is taking another stab at exploration drilling on the North Slope, this time on federal land west of existing development.

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Both sides dig in as EPA’s final decision on Pebble Mine nears

Environmental advocates, Alaska Natives and commercial fishermen say they are at once confident and anxious as they wait for the EPA to announce a final ban on mining wastes in Bristol Bay, Alaska — home to one of the world’s largest salmon fisheries — that would effectively kill a gold…

Roll Call

Both sides dig in as EPA's final decision on Pebble Mine nears - Roll Call

Developers, environmental advocates await an EPA decision that could block the opening of the Pebble Mine near an Alaskan salmon fishery.

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Alaska reality star injured while cleaning up storm damage

A reality television star and Iditarod musher was injured this week while helping clean up extreme storm damage along the Bering Sea coast in western Alaska

Tribune News Service

Meet the Republican team behind the House’s newest Democrat

WASHINGTON — Alex Ortiz thought he was done with Capitol Hill. After a decade as a staffer for “the representative for all Alaska,” Ortiz carried out the sad duty this spring of packing up Don Young’s office after the Republican’s sudden death — even at 88 years old, it still…

Daily Record

Couple who were mauled to death in horror bear attack recorded their own deaths

Timothy Treadwell considered bears his friends and traveled to Alaska every summer for 13 years to spend months camping with the wild animals.

Tribune News Service

Stopgap funding bill passes Senate; House vote on deck Friday

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a short-term spending measure Thursday, sending to the House a bill that would avoid a partial government shutdown next week and boost aid to Ukraine.

Roll Call

Meet the Republican team behind the House’s newest Democrat - Roll Call

Has Rep. Mary Peltola started a new staffing trend? Her decision to hire Don Young’s chief of staff has raised eyebrows in Washington.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: How the US came to protect the natural world — and exploit it at the same time

You might come across the remnants of a tramway or a pile of mine tailings or a rusted tank — if you know where to look in Death Valley National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias Park and Preserve in Alaska, Glacier Peak Wilderness in Washington’s Cascade Mountains or Bears Ears National Monument…

Tribune News Service

VIEWPOINT 1: Ranked choice voting is a reform whose time has come

Ranked choice voting (RCV) is having its biggest year ever. It’s growing in red, blue and purple states. It’s a nonpartisan reform that gives voters more choice and more voice and gives candidates incentives to run better campaigns. In short, it’s a better way to vote.

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