Trump backers battle online over skilled immigrants
Weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is to take office, a major rift has emerged among his supporters over immigration and the place of foreign workers in the U.S. labor market.
Will the US ever be ready for a female president?
Former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., don’t agree on much. Yet, recently the ideological adversaries found some common ground on a political question that has quietly endured over nearly two decades.
The speed of human thought lags far behind your internet connection, study finds
In our digital age, few things are more irritating than a slow internet connection. Your web browser starts to lag. On video calls, the faces of your friends turn to frozen masks. When the flow of information dries up, it can feel as if we are cut off from the world.
The deadliest tsunami set off work to be ready for the next big wave
The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, one of the deadliest events in recorded history, was an enigma to many survivors. Some experts were surprised to learn that a significant number of the people in the path of those lethal waves had never heard of such a destructive phenomenon until it came their way.
Continued Hawaii airline seat reductions are expected
Assist or resist: Local officials debate Trump’s mass deportation threat
The San Diego region, like many communities that hug the southern border, saw a sharp drop in migrants entering the United States after the Biden administration made it harder to apply for asylum.
Schatz: Social Security change to boost benefits for 100K in Hawaii
Maui County releases Lahaina’s long-term recovery plan
History shows big changes in ‘big government’ are hard to achieve
WASHINGTON — When the Newt Gingrich-led Republican Revolution swept the GOP into power in the House in 1994 for the first time in 40 years and Republicans also won the Senate, the newly invigorated party set out to revolutionize Washington, shrink the bureaucracy and reduce the federal footprint.
How ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ (and its writer) went down in history
There were “years of heartbreak,” songwriter Johnny Marks once recalled of his start in the music business in 1935. He eventually found some modest success collaborating on a No. 1 hit for the Ink Spots, “Address Unknown,” and songs made popular by Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller. It was just enough renown for Billboard magazine to briefly note his decision to pause to volunteer for World War II in the spring of 1942, when he enlisted as a U.S. Army private.
Spending fight shows limits of Trump’s power to change fiscal path
WASHINGTON — When Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the businesspeople whom President-elect Donald Trump tapped to lead his new Department of Government Efficiency, met with lawmakers in early December, they laid out their plans for cutting federal spending and eliminating waste.
The fastest spacecraft ever heads for its close-up with the sun
On Christmas Eve, a vehicle traveled at incomprehensible speed around a celestial object to bring wonder to the people of Earth — and it’s not Santa’s sleigh.
Kilauea puts on ‘outstanding’ show in HVNP
It’s a “Pele Kalikimaka” in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, according to Jessica Ferracane, the park’s spokeswoman, referring to the eruption that started early Monday morning within Kilauea volcano’s Halema‘uma‘u crater.
Hawaii residents getting COVID vaccines are now the minority
House ethics panel report accuses Gaetz of ‘regularly’ paying for sex and using drugs
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee said Monday that its lengthy investigation had found that former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., President-elect Donald Trump’s initial choice for attorney general, had regularly paid women for sex, had sex with an underage girl and used illegal drugs.
Biden commutes 37 death sentences ahead of Trump’s plan to resume federal executions
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of nearly all prisoners on federal death row, sparing the lives of 37 men just a month before Donald Trump will return to the Oval Office with a promise to restart federal executions.
Landon McNamara says Eddie’s presence guided him in winning surf title
A new way to travel between islands? State agencies show interest in proposed seacraft
Interisland travel could be cheaper, cleaner and lower under a proposal by a partnership between state agencies and a private transportation developer.
Jeff Bezos prepares to close the gap in his space race with Elon Musk
SEATTLE — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have become the two wealthiest men in the world thanks to their breakthrough technology companies. But Musk, through SpaceX, has long held a big lead in the pursuit closest to their hearts: colonizing space.