“They’re the backbone of a healthy ocean. They provide essential habitat for fish as nurseries and protective grounds from predators.” - Cooper Freeman, Alaska director of the Center for Biological Diversity, on sea sponges.
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By Yereth Rosen
The vast and largely unexplored seafloor off Alaska’s coastline produces occasional startling discoveries.
The latest concerns the sponges that line the bottom of the ocean and contribute to an ecosystem that supports some of the nation’s biggest seafood harvests.
(Photo by Dan Anderson/Alabama Reflector)
By James Brooks
President Donald Trump is planning to fly to Alaska next week for a rally intended to boost the re-election campaigns of U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich III.
According to the Trump 47 Committee, an operation of the Republican National Committee and Trump’s Save America PAC, Trump will speak at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Wasilla’s Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center.
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By Jonathan Shorman
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using undercover agents to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups.
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