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A version of the fiscal 2014 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to "finalize deliberations" on expanding the Visa Waiver Program on Guam.

Gov. Eloy S. Inos said the CNMI joins Guam in mourning the death of two Guam soldiers in Afghanistan last week, barely a few weeks after some 600 Guardsmen from the Marianas were deployed to that country in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Two of Guam's soldiers who are deployed in Afghanistan were killed by a suicide car bomb while part of a convoy in Kabul this week.

An amendment that would make Compacts of Free Association migrants eligible for Medicaid outside of Guam's Medicaid cap was added to the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013.

Maj. Gen. Richard S. Haddad testifies during a hearing of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Readiness April 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill.

Maj. Gen. Richard S. Haddad testifies during a hearing of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Readiness April 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill.

The U.S. Army will be using more active-duty soldiers instead of guard units for upcoming deployments as a direct result of sequestration, Army Secretary John McHugh told Congress this morning, according to a release from Guam Del.

Part of delegation: Guam International Airport board Chairman Frank Santos, seated, and Lynda Tolan exchange words just before a board meeting at the airport's conference room yesterday.