An executive order means that US fishers can now operate in certain parts of the 1,282,534 square-kilometer region.

The proclamation to modify the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument includes the uninhabited islands and atolls in the central Pacific Ocean under U.S. jurisdiction. It modifies the ...

Scientists have found a chain of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, which are situated in the sea between French Polynesia and American Samoa — a beautiful forgotten territory of the United ...

The Heard and McDonald islands are uninhabited and were part of a range of countries and territories that would be subjected to tariffs under Donald Trump's so-called 'Liberation Day' plans A 10 ...

President Donald Trump announced wide-reaching tariffs against many U.S. trade partners on Wednesday — but the list inexplicably includes a series of uninhabited islands near Antarctica.

The US Commerce Secretary has defended the country's decision to impose tariffs on a group of uninhabited islands ... method in the western and central Pacific each year. It's difficult to ...

an uninhabited Australian territory that President Donald Trump has targeted with tariffs (AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION/AF) Norfolk Island, a tiny volcanic outcrop in the South Pacific ...

The US Commerce Secretary has defended the country's decision to impose tariffs on a group of uninhabited ... western and central Pacific each year. It's difficult to get a clear picture on the ...

The imposition of tariffs on the Heard and McDonald islands was meant to close "ridiculous ... country's decision to impose tariffs on a group of uninhabited islands, which are populated only ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Sunday defended President Trump’s tariffs even against uninhabited islands, saying they are intended to guard against loopholes. In an interview on CBS News ...