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by New York Times / 5h
Oliver’s Produce, a small family-owned farm and market in upstate New York, sold 700 heads of lettuce last July. This July, as an outbreak of cyclosporiasis scared people off from leafy greens at chain restaurants and grocery stores, sales more than doubled, to 1,500 heads.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 5h
An inmate who escaped from the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Kalihi this morning was located and arrested tonight on military property by Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam police.
by Nina Wu / 14h
State officials are investigating a tip that came in last weekend of a man allegedly throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal on Oahu.
by Reuters / 15h
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders today in a new but narrower attempt to curtail birthright citizenship, renewing his challenge to a provision of the U.S. Constitution after the Supreme Court rejected his previous effort.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 16h
The Hawaii Department of Health is alerting residents of a recall of certain Sun Noodle products due to an undeclared fish allergen.
by Peter Boylan / 16h
A Maui Police Department lieutenant was charged by federal prosecutors today for allegedly taking bribes from criminals to protect cockfighting operations and drug dealers, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 17h
Kauai police have identified the surfer who died Sunday after being found in the water at Hanamaulu Beach Park as Bernard Matsumoto, 70, of Lihue.
by New York Times / 17h
It was the cable news equivalent of tweeting through it. Or trying to.
by New York Times / 17h
WASHINGTON >> Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said today that he had been discharged from a rehabilitation facility after a nearly eight-week medical absence, announcing in a statement that he would continue recovering at home as the Senate takes its scheduled August recess.
by Reuters / 18h
U.S. health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak linked to Mexican jalapeno peppers that has sickened 345 people in 27 states, prompting supplier Coast Citrus Distributors to recall peppers sent to restaurants including Chipotle Mexican Grill and QDOBA.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 19h
A 25-year-old road worker was seriously injured Wednesday night after being struck by a hit-and-run driver while working inside a coned-off construction zone on the H-1 freeway in Pearl City, according to Honolulu police.
by New York Times / 20h
WASHINGTON >> It was hardly the first time that someone on social media called someone else fat. But it may have been the first time that a vice president of the United States did so.
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first mRNA flu vaccine, enabling use of a technology that will make it easier to rapidly target a widely prevalent or particularly virulent strain of the virus.
by Reuters / 23h
WASHINGTON >> A Senate committee voted today to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former top U.S. infectious disease official refused to answer questions about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aug 5, 2026
by Peter Boylan / 1d
FBI agents on Tuesday arrested a Maui Police Department lieutenant who was suspended earlier this year after allegations that he covered for a New Year’s Eve party featuring illegal aerial fireworks.
UPDATE: Thursday 4:10 p.m.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 1d
An inmate who escaped from the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Kalihi this morning was located and arrested tonight on military property by Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam police.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 1d
Honolulu police have opened an investigation into alleged arson after a woman reported a flare was thrown into a parked car in Waianae.
by New York Times / 1d
Perez Hilton, a celebrity blogger, was hospitalized after he appeared to harm himself on camera during a TikTok livestream Tuesday, the authorities said.
WASHINGTON >> The Federal Aviation Administration said a military helicopter carrying President Donald Trump on Tuesday was briefly too close to a passenger jet departing Reagan Washington National Airport, but the president was not in danger.
NEW YORK/LONDON >> The yen steadied today after a historic intervention, while the U.S. dollar hovered near six-week lows against major peers as renewed hopes for an end to the Iran war curbed safe-haven demand.
by Reuters / 1d
NEW YORK >> The Dow closed at a record today on signs of progress for a peace deal with Iran, while the Nasdaq saw its first decline in five sessions as SpaceX and AMD stumbled following their quarterly earnings.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 1d
Hawaii island police said a motorcyclist critically injured in a collision in Keaau last week has died.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 1d
Honolulu police are searching for two juvenile suspects in connection with a first-degree arson investigation after a vehicle was intentionally set on fire in Kaneohe on Tuesday afternoon.
by Reuters / 1d
WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have obtained the highest-resolution images to date of our sun’s visible surface, observing swirling, vortex-like patterns in superheated solar gases reminiscent of the shapes depicted in the nocturnal sky in Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 painting “The Starry Night.”
The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences called a truce in their legal dispute over the former “poaching” member institutions from the latter.
LOS ANGELES >> Hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to headline a Tuesday evening fundraiser at his Rancho Palos Verdes golf course, authorities announced that they had arrested a heavily armed individual seen wandering the grounds Sunday.
by New York Times / 1d
WASHINGTON >> Jeanine Pirro had had it up to here with Doug Burgum. The famously voluble U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia strode into the Oval Office late Monday with her future on the line and the interior secretary, whom she privately called an incompetent liar, in her crosshairs.
by Reuters / 1d
The Democratic Party’s progressive wing scored a high-profile victory today when Abdul El-Sayed won the party’s U.S. Senate nomination in Michigan, giving its anti-establishment message a boost ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Aug 4, 2026
by Reuters / 2d
The CDC is expanding the ongoing cyclospora outbreak to 15 states, adding six more states to the outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce, the Washington Post reported today, citing three individuals familiar with the investigation.
by Reuters / 2d
WASHINGTON >> A SpaceX rocket piece floating in space since last year was expected to have smashed into the moon at high speed Tuesday night, though the impact was unlikely to be confirmed for at least several hours.
by Peter Boylan / 2d
Student artwork at Aikahi Elementary School was vandalized over the weekend, and Honolulu police are asking for the public’s help identifying those responsible.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 2d
A pedestrian and a bicyclist are in serious condition after being struck by cars in two separate incidents about a mile apart in Waikiki and Diamond Head this morning.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Army has used up much of its global stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military’s readiness for future conflicts.
by Reuters / 2d
NEW YORK >> The S&P 500 and the Dow closed at record highs today, powered by the latest batch of earnings from artificial intelligence-related companies such as Caterpillar and Palantir that assuaged demand concerns, while crude prices and Treasury yields dropped on hopes for a deal in the Iran war.
by Reuters / 2d
WASHINGTON >> U.S. job openings dropped in June as vacancies in the healthcare and social assistance sector declined by the most in nearly a year, but an improvement in hiring and low layoffs suggested the labor market remained stable.
by Reuters / 2d
WASHINGTON >> The U.S. will do whatever it takes to support Japan’s effort to stabilize the yen, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today, following last week’s joint intervention by Washington and Tokyo to buy the Japanese currency.
SPOKANE, Washington >> A man has been arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting one of three fires that have destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in and around Spokane, Washington.
by Reuters / 2d
WASHINGTON >> Todd Blanche cleared a major hurdle today on his path to nomination for U.S. attorney general, as Republicans voted to advance him out of committee on a party-line vote.
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