Former physician charged with soliciting sex from a minor in Keaukaha
A former urgent care physician whose license to practice medicine in Hawaii was forfeited in 2020 is accused of soliciting a minor for prostitution at a county beach park in Hilo.
Obituaries: July 27, 2022
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Strong quake kills 2, injures dozens in northern Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — A strong earthquake left at least two people dead and injured dozens in the northern Philippines on Wednesday, where the temblor set off small landslides and damaged buildings and churches and prompted terrified crowds and hospital patients in the capital to rush outdoors.
US: Oahu man used $1.2M in fake checks to try to post bail
HONOLULU — An Oahu man accused of using counterfeit bank checks totaling $1.2 million to try to bail three people out of a jail has been arrested and ordered held without bail, according to court records.
Astronomers shed light on densest neutron star ever observed
The W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea announced a pair of celestial discoveries Tuesday, including the heaviest neutron star ever seen.
Severed fiber optic cable leaves West Hawaii areas without telecommunications services
An hours-long telecommunications outage that impacted much of West Hawaii on Tuesday was caused by the accidental severing of a fiber optic cable by a construction company working in South Kohala.
Biden fights talk of recession as key economic report looms
Facing a potentially grim report this week on the economy’s overall health, President Joe Biden wants to convince a skeptical public that the U.S. is not, in fact, heading into a recession.
The AP Interview: Japan minister says women ‘underestimated’
TOKYO — Japan’s minister for gender equality and children’s issues called the country’s record low births and plunging population a national crisis and blamed “indifference and ignorance” in the male-dominated Japanese parliament for the neglect.
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Biden, Xi to hold talks amid new tensions over Taiwan
Island Life: Summer’s bounty
An array of flowers bloom in Kalopa Mauka.
Editorial: Secret Service must come clean on missing texts
A time-honored Washington axiom holds that one should never attribute to scandal what could be explained by garden-variety incompetence. In the case of the Secret Service’s mysteriously missing text messages, however, mere ineptitude doesn’t quite fit the facts.
Editorial: Freshman members of Congress should take a class about the Constitution
The beauty of our democratic system of government is that anyone can get elected. But that feature is also a bug. We suspect we aren’t alone among Americans who watch some of the antics on Capitol Hill and think, “How on Earth did that person get elected?” Sometimes it seems that politicians know little more than how to win votes.
Doyle McManus: Congress is moving toward fixing the way it counts votes for president, but it won’t be easy
Last week, a bipartisan group of 16 U.S. senators agreed on a long-awaited proposal to fix the Electoral Count Act, the ramshackle 1887 law that then-President Donald Trump used to try to overturn the 2020 election.
Plum’s 3’s lead Aces over Sky in WNBA Commissioner’s Cup
CHICAGO — Kelsey Plum scored 12 of her 24 points in the first quarter as the Las Vegas Aces raced to an early 23-point lead, then held on for a 93-83 victory over the Chicago Sky on Tuesday night to win the second WNBA Commissioner’s Cup championship.
Bucs reach agreement with Julio Jones
TAMPA, Fla. — Tom Brady is getting another big target to make another run at the Super Bowl.
Column: Disruption now the norm until end of PGA Tour season
It’s already been a good week for Jason Day and Rickie Fowler before they even hit a shot at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit.
Springer hits grand slam as Blue Jays beat Cardinals 10-3
TORONTO — George Springer hit his seventh career grand slam, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had a two-run drive and the Toronto Blue Jays extended their winning streak to seven by beating the short-handed St. Louis Cardinals 10-3 Tuesday night.
New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild
Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab.
