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D.R. Horton beats Q1 estimates amid new home demand
Shares of the construction company rose more than 5% in premarket trade. Read more
Ohio State beats Notre Dame, 34-23, to become NCAA football champs
The Buckeyes scored touchdowns on their first four possessions against a normally stingy Fighting Irish defense. Read more
Maui police arrest man, 39, in restricted Lahaina area
Police said the man was unable to provide a valid reason for being in the restricted area and allegedly had an open container of alcohol within his golf cart. Read more
U.S. Coast Guard medevacs injured man from fishing vessel
At the time, the 72-foot commercial fishing boat was about 350 miles southwest of Oahu. Read more
E-bike rider, 68, struck in Kaimuki last month dies
HPD said it was recently notified by the Honolulu Medical Examiner’s office that the bicyclist, a 68-year-old man, had succumbed to his injuries and has been pronounced dead. Read more
Search to resume Tuesday for 2 missing teens off Oahu’s North Shore
A search has been ongoing since Saturday morning by multiple agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard, the Honolulu Fire Department, Ocean Safety and others. Read more
Trump taps Mark Uyeda as acting SEC chair
Uyeda takes over from Gary Gensler, former President Joe Biden’s hard-charging SEC chair whose ambitious agenda led him to clash with Wall Street and the crypto industry. Read more
Trump outlines sweeping border crackdown, mass deportations
Trump says he would invoke a 1798 wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act to target foreign gang members in the U.S., a legal authority last used to detain U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese, German, and Italian descent in internment camps during World War II. Read more
Dollar tumbles as Trump team suggests tariff delay
Trump will issue a broad trade memo today that stops short of imposing new tariffs on his first day in office, an official for the new Trump government said. Read more
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German ambassador: Trump administration plans power grab
Trump’s transition team had no immediate comment on the ambassador’s assessment. Read more
Trump creates ‘DOGE’ advisory group, prompting instant lawsuits
In 1982, then-President Ronald Reagan announced a group composed of “outstanding experts from the private sector” to review the executive branch’s spending. It ended up delivering its report 18 months late; most of its recommendations were never implemented. Read more
Trump to withdraw from Paris climate agreement
The decision would place the United States alongside Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries in the world outside the 2015 pact, in which governments agreed to limit global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Read more
Biden issues flurry of last-minute preemptive pardons
The pardon covers all lawmakers, including Cheney, who served on the congressional select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, as well as police officers who testified before it. Read more
Trump takes oath, vows ‘golden age of America’
“I was saved by God to make America great again,” Trump said today, referring to a gunman’s bullet that grazed his ear in July. Read more
How to watch Trump’s inauguration
After the day’s ceremonial events, shifted indoors because of cold weather, Trump is expected to sign a series of executive orders. Read more
Bank of Japan poised to raise rates to highest in 17 years
A tightening in policy would underscore the central bank’s resolve to steadily push up interest rates, now at 0.25%, to near 1% – a level analysts see as neither cooling nor overheating Japan’s economy. Read more
Eagles, Chiefs open as conference championship favorites
The Eagles are the +180 favorite at DraftKings to win Super Bowl LIV ahead of Kansas City at +240 as the Chiefs chase a three-peat. Read more
Costco Teamsters vote to authorize U.S. strike
TikTok restores U.S. service after Trump appeasement
“Frankly, we have no choice. We have to save it,” Trump said at a rally on Sunday ahead of his inauguration, adding that the U.S. will seek a joint venture to restore the short-video sharing app used by 170 million Americans. Read more
Woman seriously hurt after moped collides with auto
Paramedics treated her at the scene and transported her to a trauma hospital in serious condition. Read more
Ceasefire brings hope in Gaza; freed Israeli hostages reunited with mothers
In the north of the territory, bombed into oblivion in the war’s most intense fighting, people picked their way on narrow roads through a devastated landscape of rubble and twisted metal. Read more
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