Some Molokai residents are pushing the state to halt to the shipment of plants, mulch and compost to their island for one year to prevent the spread of invasive coconut rhinoceros beetles.

NEW YORK >> President Donald Trump today took the unprecedented action of firing Lisa Cook, the first African-American woman to serve as a Federal Reserve governor, over claims of mortgage borrowing impropriety.

Wall Street stocks ended lower today as investors parsed the outlook for U.S. interest rates and looked ahead to AI chipmaker Nvidia’s quarterly earnings this week while digesting a rally on Friday that lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record high close.

NEW YORK >> The head of a Pentagon unit responsible for accelerating the military’s adoption of new technology resigned today, according to four people familiar with the matter, the latest exit of a senior military official whose political views have clashed with those of President Donald Trump.

In response to the 55 traffic fatalities on Oahu through Aug. 21, the Honolulu Police Department launched a “community-driven traffic safety campaign designed to reduce fatalities and dangerous driving behaviors,” according to a news release.

A judge said the Aug. 8 acid attack in Chinatown appears to have been premeditated, revealing new details during the arraignment today of the man accused of carrying it out.

The Honolulu Fire Department responded today to a fire at 3986 Kaualio Place in Kahala. HFD received a 911 call at 3:34 a.m. reporting a tree fire, but the first unit arriving at 3:41 a.m. found flames at the rear of an abandoned, single-story residence with boarded-up doors and windows.

Honolulu firefighters extinguished an apartment fire in Kaneohe Saturday evening that required the evacuation of occupants.

Honolulu police have arrested two men who allegedly fired gunshots in Mokuleia on Sunday night.

LOS ANGELES >> Grammy-winning musician Lil Nas X pleaded not guilty today to four felony charges after police say he assaulted officers who approached the singer while he was found wandering the streets of Los Angeles in his underwear.

NEW YORK >> Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada admitted in a U.S. courtroom today to ordering murders and shipping millions of kilograms of cocaine during his decades-long leadership of the violent Sinaloa cartel.

The sing-along version of the animated film “KPop Demon Hunters”, which has become a cultural phenomenon, topped the domestic box office this weekend, in what appears to be a historic first for streaming giant Netflix.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in U.S. federal court in Texas today, accusing them of illegally conspiring to thwart competition for artificial intelligence. Apple and OpenAI have “locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing,” the lawsuit said.

WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that seeks to end cashless bail by threatening to revoke federal funding for jurisdictions that use it, part of a White House effort to push crime fighting to the top of the national agenda.

After defeating Stanford 23-20 in Saturday’s opener, the University of Hawaii football team today swept the Mountain West’s weekly awards.

Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip today, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully expelled to El Salvador in March and then brought back to face criminal charges, was detained again today after the administration indicated that it planned to redeport him to Uganda, his lawyer said.

SAN FRANCISCO >> President Donald Trump had largely left San Francisco alone this year as he targeted Democratic-led cities and insisted that federal troops were needed to restore order.

BUENOS AIRES/CHICAGO/WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday reported the first human case in the United States of travel-associated New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, from an outbreak-affected country.

Honolulu EMS responded Sunday at 4:00 p.m. to Pokai Bay for a 64-year-old man who was brought out of the water unresponsive.

An 18-year-old Wailuku man was critically injured early today in a single-vehicle rollover crash on Honoapiilani Highway near Kekaa Drive in Kaanapali.

Honolulu Emergency Medical Services responded to a pedestrian accident on Kapahulu Avenue late this morning.

Honolulu EMS responded to Diamond Head Trail around 10:25 a.m. today for a 70-year-old man suffering from severe dehydration.

The effort to remove debris from the 2023 Lahaina wildfire has passed the halfway point, with more than 64% of material moved from Olowalu to Central Maui.

President Donald Trump’s campaign promise of mass deportations may be coming closer to reality. Until June, deportations had lagged behind immigration arrests and detentions. By the first week of August, deportations reached nearly 1,500 people per day, according to the latest data, a pace not seen since the Obama administration.

A maze of warehouses winds through this New Jersey suburb, where highways assure easy access to New York City and beyond.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM >> Israeli planes and tanks pounded the eastern and northern outskirts of Gaza City overnight Saturday to Sunday, destroying buildings and homes, residents said, as Israeli leaders vowed to press on with a planned offensive on the city.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch its massive Starship rocket for a tenth time from Texas on Sunday to achieve several long-sought development milestones missed due to past tests ending in early failures.

The World Health Organization said a staff member was released on Sunday more than four weeks after being detained in Gaza by Israeli forces.

KYIV >> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked Independence Day on Sunday alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who said Ukraine would receive more than C$1 billion ($723 million) in military aid from a previously announced package next month.

Vice President JD Vance said Russia has made “significant concessions” toward a negotiated settlement in its war with Ukraine and was confident progress was being made despite the lack of clear signs the conflict is nearing an end.

Kansei Matsuzawa converted a 38-yard field goal as time expired to lift Hawaii to a season-opening 23-20 football victory over Stanford today at the Ching Complex.

WASHINGTON >> The “overwhelming majority” of documents the Justice Department gave Congress in response to a subpoena for all information from its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had already been publicly released, the top Democrat on the House’s principal investigative committee said today.

WASHINGTON >> Vietnam has significantly expanded island-building work in areas it claims in the Spratly Islands chain of the disputed South China Sea and will match and likely surpass the scale of such activity there by China, a U.S. think tank reported on Friday.

A 19-year-old female motorcyclist was critically injured early this morning after sideswiping another vehicle at high speed on the H-1 freeway, according to the Honolulu Police Department.

Southwest Airlines is changing another long-standing seating policy.

Sony raised prices of its PlayStation 5 consoles in the United States by $50 on Thursday, as the Japanese conglomerate navigates a slow recovery in the videogame market while U.S. tariffs threaten to raise costs.

WASHINGTON >> Hundreds of National Guard soldiers in military fatigues and combat boots mingled with tourists, posed for selfies, and treated themselves to ice cream from food trucks on Thursday along Washington’s National Mall, one of the safest parts of America’s capital.

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Paramount is looking to cut between 2,000 to 3,000 jobs by early November, after the completion of its merger with production studio Skydance, Variety reported on Friday.

Police officers arrested a 70-year-old man Saturday afternoon on