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WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday night exempting Russia from a new sanctions measure that Congress passed last month, offering another economic lifeline to Russian President Vladimir Putin as the United States turns to Russia for help in lowering gas prices.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 11h
Honolulu firefighters rescued a hiker with a medical emergency atop Koko Crater Trail this afternoon.
A 16-year-old shooter opened fire at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, today, killing four people including three children, before being fatally shot by a member of the community who had pursued the assailant into the school, police said.
by Reuters / 13h
ABU FALAH, West Bank >> Clad in black and their faces masked, dozens of militant Israeli settlers burned olive trees and threw rocks at Palestinians in a coordinated attack today on a village’s harvest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that injured at least two people, including a journalist.
by Nina Wu / 14h
Kauai County has installed a new lifeguard tower at Wanini Beach on its north side.
by Reuters / 15h
Wall Street ended sharply lower today, with CoreWeave, Broadcom and other AI-related technology stocks under renewed pressure, while a jump in oil prices spooked traders heading into the weekend.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 16h
The state Health Department has issued a number of brown water advisories spanning Oahu’s North Shore due to heavy rains.
by Chloe Jones / 17h
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $109 million loan to help the Honolulu Board of Water Supply build a large-scale seawater desalination plant that has been decades in the making.
by Reuters / 17h
The U.S. budget deficit rose by $217 billion to nearly $2 trillion in the 2026 fiscal year, fueled in part by tariff refunds and record spending to service the nation’s more than $40 trillion in debt, marking the largest budget shortfall in five years, Treasury Department figures showed today.
BEND, Oregon >> A teacher in the Oregon classroom where a shooter killed three children and an adult threw her cellphone at the shooter, tackled him and fought him in an act that saved lives, police said today.
by Reuters / 19h
WASHINGTON >> White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was fired after less than a week on the job, two U.S. officials said today, after a rocky start as President Donald Trump’s top spokesperson.
by New York Times / 19h
For Remi Martinez, it’s the deportations. For Michael Johnson, it’s the economy. For Suzanna Bridges, it’s the Epstein files and what she sees as misogyny embedded in the culture of the Trump administration.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON >> The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two U.S. officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
SAN FRANCISCO >> Tesla unveiled a redesigned Roadster powered with rocket-style thrusters on Thursday and said it would start production in 2028, more than a decade after it first showed a next-generation version of its electric sports car.
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by Star-Advertiser Staff / 1d
A large earthquake near the east coast of Russia poses no tsunami threat to Hawaii, officials said tonight.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 1d
Hawaii island police said a man involved in a two-vehicle collision in Hilo last Friday has died.
by Billy Hull / 1d
Panna Ratkai came up with the match-clinching solo block, one of a season-high 21 for Hawaii in a dramatic 25-13, 19-25, 26-28, 25-18, 17-15 win over Wyoming today at UniWyo Sports Complex in Laramie, Wyo.
by Peter Boylan / 1d
Two Hawaii schools were threatened by phone just before 8 a.m. today, prompting a police response and separate investigations in Honolulu and Kona.
Two women have filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz and two others of participating in an alleged sex trafficking scheme involving young women, drugs and traveling across state lines.
A 16-year-old shooter opened fire at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, today, killing four people including three children, before being fatally shot by a member of the community who had pursued the assailant into the school, police said.
by Tribune News Service / 1d
WASHINGTON >> On the 25th anniversary of anthrax attacks that shook Capitol Hill in 2001, authorities are investigating “multiple letters containing suspicious substances that were mailed to various addresses nationwide, including multiple Congressional offices,” according to a notice from the Senate sergeant-at-arms.
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 1d
Honolulu police officers arrested a 26-year-old suspect Thursday after a man was stabbed in Waipahu a day earlier.
by Reuters / 1d
WASHINGTON >> The Justice Department sued California today, asking a federal judge to block the state from counting mail ballots for the November 3 midterm elections from more than 20,000 voters the Trump administration alleges are likely noncitizens.
by Reuters / 1d
WASHINGTON >> U.S. producer prices increased by the most in 4-1/2 years in September amid rising costs for goods and services, the latest indication of inflation broadening out beyond energy products.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered attacks on Russian oil refineries to resume in a spiraling confrontation with Donald Trump over restrictions on U.S. intelligence assistance.
by New York Times / 1d
WASHINGTON >> Is President Donald Trump’s new press secretary a lawyer — or did she just play one on TV?
by Star-Advertiser Staff / 1d
A 26-year-old moped rider has died from injuries suffered in a crash on Kalanianaole Highway in Aina Haina last week, Honolulu police said.
by Reuters / 1d
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