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Republican leaders are pushing to get what Trump calls his One Big Beautiful Bill Act through Congress and to his desk before the July 4 Independence Day holiday. The bill would add trillions to the $36.2 trillion national debt. Read more
U.S. District Judge Tana Lin’s ruling will take effect in seven days, which will give the Trump administration time to file an appeal and ask an appellate court to block her ruling from taking effect. Read more
The Long Range Discrimination Radar successfully acquired, tracked, and reported missile target data, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Read more
Since Trump took control of the CFPB in February, administration officials have sought to reduce the workforce by about 90% and sharply curtail its industry oversight. Read more
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi today is expected to file a revised version of the city’s more than $5-billion budget package for fiscal year 2026 with the Office of the City Clerk. Read more
The 90-minute concert was called “Love Is Love,” a slogan used by the gay rights movement and quoted by “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda when his show won at the Tony Awards in 2016. Read more
Trump addressed the U.S. Department of Energy in a post on his Truth Social platform encouraging it to “drill, baby, drill” and saying, “I mean now,” despite no major oil disruptions after the bombings. Read more
Owners and managers of Maui short-term vacation rentals have argued during two days of public hearings that local residents cannot afford the rent if 6,100 units are converted into long-term housing. Read more
U.S. Rep. Ed Case, D- Hawaii, proposed a bill Thursday that would expand energy resilience and reliability for the nation’s isolated regions, many of which belong to Native Hawaiian and other tribal communities. Read more
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Rep. Jill Tokuda and Sen. Brian Schatz said they are worried the U.S. attack will lead to an escalation of the Israel-Iran conflict rather than bring peace, endangering American lives. Read more
Gov. Josh Green’s office said in an email Wednesday that he plans on asking for courtesy resignations from the entire HTA board before the beginning of the next fiscal year, which starts July 1. Read more
HART Project Director Vance Tsuda said the agency was close to settling the high-dollar claim filed in December by Hitachi Rail Honolulu JV, related to work on the over-$10 billion rail project. Read more
In March, Gabbard testified to Congress that the U.S. intelligence community continued to believe that Tehran was not building a nuclear weapon. Trump said this week that she was wrong. Read more
The termination notices are the latest round of the Trump administration’s targeting of federally funded news networks, including Voice of America. Read more
With the enactment of new city laws, the Honolulu Police Department and related city agencies say they will have more tools to more easily remove illegal game rooms operating on Oahu. Read more
Amid protests in Los Angeles over Trump’s immigration raids, the president on June 7 took control of California’s National Guard and deployed 4,000 troops against the wishes of Gov. Gavin Newsom. Read more
Citing a message from Trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters: “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.” Read more
Trump signed an executive order pushing back Thursday’s deadline for 90 days, a step he had previously signaled. Read more
The Honolulu Police Commission did not follow Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s “strong” recommendation to name Hawaii island police Chief Benjamin T. Moszkowicz as the interim chief while he applies for the permanent job. Read more
To save a World War II-era mountainside staircase marked for removal by the City and County of Honolulu, the Friends of Haiku Stairs has brought an appeal to overturn a 2024 State Historic Preservation Division approval that allowed the city’s demolition plan to proceed. Read more
The cancellation endangers American lives and will likely contribute to a 20% rise in the price of eggs this year, they wrote to Kennedy, who has a long history of questioning the safety of vaccines contrary to scientific evidence. Read more
