A vintage military plane crashed near Fairbanks, Alaska, killing both pilots delivering heating oil to a remote village. The pilot reported a fire before losing contact while attempting to return to Fairbanks.
The Alaska landslide victims, including five family members and their neighbor, a commercial fisherman who ran for the state's lone seat in the US House last year, have been identified by authorities.
President Biden and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have approved exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Alaska LNG project, a $38.7 billion infrastructure project that could result in over 50 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution emissions annually.
Despite major opposition from the climate justice community, including Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic and Alaska Wilderness League, President Joe Biden approved the Willow Oil Drilling Project - a major oil drilling operation to be constructed on Alaska's North Slope.
U.S. officials said that less than a week after the military shot down a Chinese balloon, a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down a "high-altitude object" over Alaska.
Talks about a fourth stimulus check this 2022 are back. The federal government has already provided roughly $5 trillion in stimulus money into the economy.