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Rainbow Wahine beat Sun Belt favorite Texas State in 4
Caylen Alexander put down a match-high 20 kills and Hawaii middle blockers Jacyn Bamis and Miliana Sylvester contributed 10 kills apiece to lead the Rainbow Wahine to a 25-17, 15-25, 25-19, 25-18 win over Texas State in a rare Tuesday night match at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center. Read more
Crimestoppers seek ID of arson suspect in Kapolei
Police said at about 3:55 a.m. on Sept. 5, an unknown male was seen near the baler area of Move Happy, a moving and storage business on Komohana Street in Kapolei. Read more
Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris for president
Swift’s post included an image of the singer with a cat and her statement was signed “childless cat lady.” Read more
GameStop reports fall in revenue, files for 20M share offering
The company, which has been at the center of a “meme stock” trading frenzy, is struggling with declining sales in its primary business of selling new and used video game discs due to a shift to digital downloads, game streaming, and e-commerce shopping. Read more
King Charles to meet cancer researchers during Australia visit
The King’s visit to Australia will be his first to a realm as monarch, and he will also attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Samoa scheduled from Oct. 21-26, Buckingham Palace said. Read more
Massachusetts woman reported missing on Maui found safe
The Maui Police Department said the Massachusetts woman reported missing has been located and found to be in good health. Read more
Hawaii nurses union and Kapi‘olani to resume talks Thursday
HNA and Kapi‘olani executives met to resume talks on Monday, days after the union filed an injunction seeking to stop the lockout. Read more
Amazon to invest $10 billion in U.K. data centers
The company expects the investment project to contribute 14 billion pounds to the country’s gross domestic product by the end of 2028 and to support more than 14,000 jobs at British businesses. Read more
How Harris’ and Trump’s tax and spending plans affect U.S. debt
Budget forecasters are struggling to keep up with the latest tweaks, and new ideas may be voiced in today’s Harris-Trump debate, but so far all estimates show Trump’s agenda piling up much more new federal debt. Read more
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SpaceX launches billionaire’s private crew on spacewalk mission
The crew, a billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees, lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida about 5:23 a.m. EST (11:23 p.m. Monday Hawaii time). Read more
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ordered to pay $100M in sexual assault lawsuit
Derrick Lee Smith, 51, won the multimillion-dollar judgment by default in Lenawee County Circuit Court during a virtual hearing on Monday after Combs, 54, failed to show up. Read more
U.S. says Russia received missiles from Iran, piles on sanctions
At a news conference in London ahead of a visit to Kyiv he and Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy will make, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington had privately warned Iran that providing ballistic missiles to Russia would be “a dramatic escalation.” Read more
Two-car crash at Kapolei off-ramp sends 4 to the hospital
EMS responded to a 6 p.m. call Monday for the collision at the Wakea off-ramp just before Kamokila Boulevard. Three ambulances responded to the scene. Read more
Tokuda reads names of Maui victims into Congressional record
Most of them were senior citizens but Tokuda — who represents the neighbor islands and rural Oahu — made a point of highlighting the ages of the three youngest victims. Read more
Gulf Coast residents flee, oil production shut as Francine intensifies
Francine could wallop the Louisiana coast on Wednesday with life-threatening winds, drenching rains and an up to 10-foot storm surge. Read more
Nike shareholders vote against proposal on workers’ rights
The proposal was moved by an investor group led by Domini Impact Equity Fund, which was among more than 60 investors to sign a letter last year urging Nike to pay $2.2 million in allegedly unpaid wages to some 4,000 garment workers in Cambodia and Thailand. Read more
Ukraine targets Moscow in biggest drone attack yet
Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, said it had destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region, which has a population of more than 21 million, and 124 more over eight other regions. Read more
iPhone 16 challenged by Huawei’s $2,800 tri-fold phone
Apple’s shares fell 1.7% today, a day after the U.S. tech giant unveiled its new iPhones that sport hardware-level integration for applications based on artificial intelligence but with limited changes to the external design. Read more
White House: Republicans pushing ‘dangerous’ Haitian conspiracy theory
JD Vance today acknowledged the claims were not substantiated but did not back down from them. Read more
Adrian Peterson ordered to turn over assets to pay debt
Peterson’s debt issues began when he took out a loan for $5.2 million from a Pennsylvania lending company in 2016. The sum has grown due to interest and attorney’s fees, leading to an $8.3 million judgment against him in 2021. Read more
FAA investigating Delta airplane that struck tail of regional jet
The airline said the wing of a Delta Airbus A350 that was set to depart for Tokyo-Haneda struck the tail of an Endeavor Air CRJ-900 that was scheduled to department for LaFayette, Louisiana, resulting in damage to the tail of the regional jet and the wing of the A350. Read more
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