Brazil’s Bolsonaro undergoes surgery after being hospitalized

• By Rodrigo Viga and Ricardo Brito / Reuters
• April 13, 2025
• Last updated 1:15 p.m.

Bolsonaro, 70, was hospitalized on Friday after feeling strong abdominal pain during an event with supporters in northeastern Brazil, forcing him to break off a regional tour aimed at drumming up political support. He was transferred to the nation’s capital, Brasilia, where he lives, on Saturday night. Read more

Trump: Chips from China will face national security probe

• By Doina Chiacu and Nathan Layne and Jeff Mason / Reuters
• April 13, 2025
• Last updated 1:14 p.m.
•  17

Those electronics “are just moving to a different Tariff ‘bucket,’” Trump said in a social media post. “We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations.” Read more

White House doctor: Trump is in ‘excellent health’

• By Andrew Goudsward / Reuters
• April 13, 2025
• Last updated 12:28 p.m.
•  80

The report is the most detailed information on the health of Trump, 78, since he returned to the White House in January as the oldest person to assume the U.S. presidency. Read more

Kyiv: Russian missile strike kills 34 in Ukraine’s Sumy

• By Vitalii Hnidyi and Max Hunder / Reuters
• April 13, 2025
• Last updated 12:24 p.m.
•  2

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy demanded a tough international response against Moscow over the attack, which came with U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to rapidly end the war struggling to make a breakthrough. Read more

U.S. deports another 10 alleged gang members to El Salvador

• By Doina Chiacu / Reuters
• April 13, 2025
• Last updated 12:17 p.m.
•  11

“Last night, another 10 criminals from the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua Foreign Terrorist Organizations arrived in El Salvador,” Rubio said in an X post. Read more

Arsonist to be charged for attack on Pennsylvania governor residence

• By Bo Erickson / Reuters
• April 13, 2025
• Last updated 1:01 p.m.
•  19

Shapiro, a Democrat in a competitive U.S. electoral state, is considered a potential candidate for his party’s presidential contest in 2028. Read more

Kapaa man dies after being pulled from waters at Kauai beach

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• April 13, 2025
• Last updated 1:37 p.m.
•  5

The swimmer has been identified as Mathew Tusitala, a 30-year-old man from Kapaa. Read more

No. 4 Warriors win 5-set thriller over No. 1 Long Beach State on senior night

• By Dave Reardon
• April 12, 2025
•  5

Louis Sakanoko put down the final two kills as No. 4 Hawaii beat No. 1 Long Beach State in the one that mattered more, coming back Saturday on senior night for the Rainbow Warriors and splitting the two-match series. Read more

HFD find and rescue missing hiker, 70s, on east ridge of Diamond Head Crater

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• April 12, 2025
•  9

The Honolulu Fire Department helped police find and rescue this afternoon a missing hiker in his 70s on the east ridge of Diamond Head Crater. Read more

Oahu residents turn in over 367 firearms in gun buyback program

• April 12, 2025
• Last updated 10:47 a.m.
•  26

Oahu residents turned in roughly 367 firearms of all types today in a gun buyback program at the Aloha Stadium, the Department of Law Enforcement (DLE) announced in a news release this afternoon. Read more

Police arrest girl, 15, for allegedly assaulting foster mother, 73

• By Leila Fujimori
• April 12, 2025
•  10

Police arrested a 15-year-old girl this morning for allegedly assaulting her 73-year-old foster mother in Wahiawa. Read more

Trump directive calls to turn border land into ‘military installation’

• By Maggie Haberman, Eric Schmitt and Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times
• April 12, 2025
•  73

The plan calls for transferring authority over the 60-foot-wide strip of federal border land known as the Roosevelt Reservation from other Cabinet agencies to the Defense Department. Read more

Kauai’s Vidinha Stadium closed through 2025 for $12M upgrade

• By The Garden Island
• April 12, 2025

The $12.2 million project includes the demolition and removal of the existing field, track, track implements, and scoreboard. Read more

Kahului pedestrian killed in Maui’s 3rd traffic fatality in one day

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• April 12, 2025
• Last updated 3:50 p.m.
•  10

Maui police said that at about 8:46 p.m., a 2017 Ford Fusion was traveling Wailuku-bound in the outer right lane of Kahului Beach Road when it struck a 28-year-old man who was crossing the road. Read more

U.S. businesses already seeing impact of Trump tariffs

• By Brad Brooks and Rich McKay / Reuters
• April 12, 2025
•  60

Some businesspeople said they have canceled purchase orders, halted expansion plans and delayed hiring. Read more

U.S. envoy meets Putin in bid to reach ceasefire in Ukraine

• By Andrew Osborn / Reuters
• April 12, 2025
•  5

Iran, U.S. hold ‘productive’ talks in Oman, to meet again next week

• By Parisa Hafezi / Reuters
• April 12, 2025
•  12

Today’s exchanges were indirect and mediated by Oman, as Iran had wanted, rather than face-to-face, as Trump had demanded. Read more

Trump spares smartphones, computers from 125% China tariffs

• By David Lawder and Jeff Mason / Reuters
• April 12, 2025
•  264

Trump’s prior 20% duties on all Chinese imports that he said were related to the U.S. fentanyl crisis remain in place. Read more