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Honolulu City Council revisits housing incentives bill
A bill that would require the city to regularly disclose financial and other incentives it provides to affordable housing developers and their projects is raising concerns by the administration over tracking and reporting mandates.
News Honolulu Star-Advertiser
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Queen’s marks milestone in heart implant procedure
Brendon Atumata of Ewa Beach is grateful to be alive.
News Honolulu Star-Advertiser
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Hawaii island officer helps scammed kupuna recover life savings
HILO >> Relatively few Hawaii island police officers are honored by a community group as Officer of the Month. Even fewer attain Officer of the Year status.
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JD Vance declines to endorse Netanyahu for reelection, says he's focusing on midterms
"I endorse American candidates, and that's where I'm focused on the midterms," Vice President JD Vance said.
News PBS NewsHour
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Jacksonville State University Board of Trustees to vote on alternate faculty senate board
The Jacksonvile State University Board of Trustees is expected to vote Tuesday on creating a replacement for the university’s now-dissolved faculty senate as public universities continue to wrestle with the application of a new state law. Christie Shelton, provost and executive…
News Alabama Reflector
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Lawsuit: Tennessee to impose immigration checks in HIV/AIDS safety-net program
In August, Tennessee organizations that aid low-income individuals living with HIV received a surprise memo from the state’s health department: “Effective immediately,” the memo said, “no patients without documentation of citizenship or legal residency may be newly enrolled” in…
News Tennessee Lookout
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Jeta: What Micronesian Artists Reveal About Ties Across the Pacific
The “Ocean of Peace” exhibition features 11 artists who draw on ancestral wisdom and traditions to celebrate kinship that transcends lines on a map.
News Honolulu Civil Beat
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What surgeries would Proposition 135 actually ban? Colorado hospitals either don’t know or won’t say.
Debate on Proposition 135 has focused on surgeries for transgender youth. Critics say the measure’s vague wording could lead to unexpected consequences.
News Colorado Sun
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Bear killings skyrocket as garbage, bird feeders draw them into conflict
Bears are having a very bad year. Across much of the United States, a warm winter and persistent drought have decimated the natural foods that black and brown bears rely on. With nearly every station at the buffet in short supply, the adaptable eaters are turning to human food.…
News Arkansas Advocate
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Trump’s new pitch for Republican candidates — they’re really good looking
President Donald Trump has a new pitch for Republican candidates: they’re easy on the eyes. “Look at this beautiful guy,” Trump said at a Saturday rally in Kentucky, referring to U.S. House candidate Ed Gallrein, a former U.S. Navy SEAL with an angular face who stood nearby the…
News Arkansas Advocate
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NYC school integration debate exposes tensions between Black parents and Mamdani
"Where the Black babies at?" one parent recalled wondering while watching Mayor Mamdani's press conference about early childhood education in February. Some see a blind spot when it comes to the representation of Black New Yorkers in Mamdani's administration and agenda. [ more…
News Gothamist
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Faith leaders unite across religions to counter voter intimidation on Election Day
Poll chaplains and lay peacekeepers have maintained a calm presence over the last few election cycles
News ABC News Politics
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Child abuse case involving Hope Scholarship students illuminates oversight challenges in WV
A Kanawha County child abuse case involving students using the Hope Scholarship poses questions about how public schools can follow up on thousands of students using the program, including children missing school and in potentially dangerous situations.
News West Virginia Watch
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Denver to close Robert F. Smith STEAM Academy, a tiny HBCU-style high school, after 6 years
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The vision for Robert F. Smith STEAM Academy was to provide as many as 500 Denver students with an education modeled after historically Black colleges. But five years after…
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We can stop Trump’s assault on the international criminal court | Kenneth Roth
Here’s what we need to do to stand up for international lawMany applauded when Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel peace prize. The South African human rights lawyer had chaired the UN commission of inquiry that found Israel to have committed genocide in Gaza and served for five…
News The Guardian US Politics
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Kansas Senate race on a knife edge as Democrats aim to end 94 years of Republican dominance
Kansas has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932 – does Adam Hamilton have the courage, brain and heart to cause an extraordinary upset?Just two years after Donald Trump won Kansas by 16 points in his fight to regain the White House, Republicans in the state are scrambling…
News The Guardian US Politics
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'Elon Musk is on that list:' House Dems prep post-midterms oversight targets
Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Greg Casar sit down for an exclusive interview with Playbook author Adam Wren. 0:00 CPC midterm strategy 4:49 An agenda for the majority 8:07 Working with leadership 12:10 Committee priorities 13:36 Oversight of Elon Musk 19:57 Term limits and…
Video Politico on YouTube
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Bear killings skyrocket as garbage, bird feeders draw them into conflict
Across much of the United States, a warm winter and persistent drought have decimated the natural foods that black and brown bears rely on. With nearly every station at the buffet in short supply, the adaptable eaters are turning to human food.
News West Virginia Watch
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Republicans out gun Dems by 200,000 voters, West Virginia Secretary of State’s office says
The Republican Party has a little more than 200,000 registered voters as it heads into the 2026 general election, according to the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Office.
News West Virginia Watch
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Democrats outraise opponents in NC’s most contentious congressional races
Former Gov. Roy Cooper reported bringing in significantly more funding than his GOP rival, as did Don Davis and Jamie Ager in their U.S. House races.
News NC Newsline
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Commentary: Tennesseans should oppose displays of the Ten Commandments in public schools
My parents homeschooled me through 11th grade to ensure religion would play an essential role in my upbringing. Then they sent me to public school for 12th grade and a public college to ensure I had a well-rounded education and a fulsome understanding of how civil, secular…
News Tennessee Lookout
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Commentary: A bluer NC could be in the offing
The association of modern American Republicans with the color red and Democrats with the color blue has always left me a tad perplexed and amused. For those of us old enough to remember significant chunks of the 20th Century, red was always the color of world communism and the…
News NC Newsline
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Bear killings skyrocket as garbage, bird feeders draw them into conflict
Bears are having a very bad year. Across much of the United States, a warm winter and persistent drought have decimated the natural foods that black and brown bears rely on. With nearly every station at the buffet in short supply, the adaptable eaters are turning to human food.…
News North Dakota Monitor
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Bear killings skyrocket as garbage, bird feeders draw them into conflict
Bears are having a very bad year. Across much of the United States, a warm winter and persistent drought have decimated the natural foods that black and brown bears rely on. With nearly every station at the buffet in short supply, the adaptable eaters are turning to human food.…
News Colorado Newsline
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2 major coastal projects get go-ahead from BP oil spill settlement trustees
Two major coastal restoration projects got the final go-ahead to begin construction in Louisiana, together restoring up to 1,700 acres of coastal shoreline and wetland habitat at a total cost of $265 million.
News Louisiana Illuminator
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‘A huge need’: Free healthcare day event draws hundreds to Charleston clinic
More than 400 people got medical, dental or vision care at a one-day free health care event in Charleston, West Virginia on Saturday.
News West Virginia Watch
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Has Trump had a chilling effect on mail voting? In Pennsylvania, the early data is inconclusive.
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Pennsylvania’s free newsletter here.After President Donald Trump unsuccessfully tried to use the U.S. Postal Service to regulate mail voting…
News Votebeat
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Federal judge to weigh Texas bid to dismiss 15-year-old suit seeking foster care system reform
U.S. District Judge Randy Crane will hold the first public hearing in two years this week on the lawsuit, which prompted constant court oversight of the troubled system.
News The Texas Tribune
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Texas homeowners may be missing out on a major property tax break. Here’s how to claim it.
Hundreds of thousands of potentially eligible Texas homeowners aren’t claiming a homestead exemption, which shaves off thousands of dollars from the taxable value of a home. Here’s how to apply.
News The Texas Tribune