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"Fire fund hits $175M in offers, Fled to America at 11-stole at 18-deported to Vietnam at 44, Appeals Court upholds block on ballroom construction."

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Saturday • August 8, 2026

Read Today's Print Replica Today's Front Page Fire fund hits $175M in offers By VICTORIA BUDIONO Honolulu Star-Advertiser Gov. Josh Green announced Thursday that the One 'Ohana Fund has offered the full $175 million available through the compensation program to families of those who died and people who suffered seriousphysical injuries in the Aug. 8, 2023, Maui wildfires. The fund, formally known as the Maui Wildfires Compensation Program, has made offers on 162 eligible claims as of Aug. 4, including 102 death claims and 60 serious physical injury claims. More than...Read more Fled to America at 11. Stole at 18. Deported to Vietnam at 44. By AMY QIN and ALBERT SUN NYTimes News Service Thousands of Southeast Asians, many of them long spared from deportation since the end of the Vietnam War, are being sent back as part of a Trump administration push. As of early March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement had deported more than 1,200 people to Vietnam and 400 to Laos, far more than in the past three presidentialterms combined, accordingto a New York Times analysis of official records released by the Deportation Data Project. Among...Read more Appeals court upholds block on ballroom construction By ZACH MONTAGUE and MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ NYTimes News Service WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump cannot continue building the ballroom he planned as a replacement to the East Wing of the White House without explicit approval from Congress, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday. The ruling, by judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, dealt a blow to Trump's efforts to press ahead with the project and drew an angry rebuke from the president, who...Read more Download the Hawaii Tribune Herald App

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