Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators that his trip to the country later hit by a measles outbreak had "nothing" to do with ...

Vaccination skeptics often wrongly link childhood vaccines to autism, and after the incident Samoa’s prime minister, whose grandson happens to have autism, halted the island nation’s ...

Local officials in Samoa don't blame Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's HHS pick, for measles deaths, but critics call his actions "harmful." ...

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Samoa's prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has criticised local media for what he calls Monday to Sunday reporting on incest and other sexual offences in his country. During his weekly ...

The first day of sitting of Samoa’s parliament on January 21 ended with a threat by Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa. She warned that if a vote of no confidence was tabled against her ...

Leiataualesa Jerry Brunt has been at the centre of controversy following the crowning night of the 2025 Miss Pacific Islands, ...

Kennedy Jr. — who in recent days became Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — sent the prime minister of Samoa at the time a four-page letter," Deer begins.