Mayor Bernard Carvalho’s update about Major flooding on Kauai again (Community Matters)

Hawaii’s fourth largest island and is sometimes called the “Garden Island” Kauai is Hawaii’s fourth largest island and is sometimes called the “Garden Island,” which is an entirely accurate description. The oldest and northernmost island in the Hawaiian chain is draped in emerald valleys, sharp mountain spires and jagged cliffs aged by time and the […]

More of the Same for Hawaii’s Tourism?

Transforming the Hawaii Tourism Authority In this episode of Community Matters, Marsha is joined by Dr. Paul Brewbaker to talk about transforming and refocusing Hawaii tourism policy away from primarily marketing Hawaii and towards managing the unintended, uncompensated, negative side effects of what is sometimes called “overtourism” now perceived to be affecting Hawaii. The host […]

The Coming Election and the Constitutional Convention (Community Matters)

Rewriting the States Constitution The Hawaii Constitution stipulates that a constitutional convention question must be submitted to voters automatically if a nine year period elapses without such a submission taking place already (i.e. without the legislature referring a constitutional convention question to the ballot). In this episode of Community Matters, Ken Farm joins Marsha to […]

Candidate for reelection Hawaii State Representative Dee Morikawa, District 16 (Community Matters)

Kaua‘i’s communities projects. In this episode of Community Matters, Marsha is joined by Representative Dee Morikawa to talk about issues that are important to her constituents and her reelection campaign. The host for this episode is Marsha Joyner. The guest for this episode is Dee Morikawa. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 […]

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Columbia Asks N.Y.P.D. to Stay on Campus Through Middle of May

The university released the letter after police entered Hamilton Hall, a building that was occupied by dozens of demonstrators. Columbia’s commencement is currently scheduled for May 15. [...]

Brown University Students and Officials Make Deal to Dismantle Encampment

Brown students took down their tents on campus after the university in Rhode Island agreed to discuss their demands for divestment from support for the Israeli military. [...]

Officers at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond used riot gear and pepper spray. [...]

Judge Merchan Holds Trump in Contempt for Violating Gag Order in Hush-Money Trial

Donald J. Trump was fined and warned of jail time after he broke a gag order in his criminal trial. Later, a lawyer discussed details of hush-money payouts to two [...]

Law Firm Defending Trump Seeks to Withdraw From a Long-Running Case

The firm, LaRocca Hornik, has represented Donald Trump’s political operation in numerous suits dating to his first presidential run, including a pregnancy discrimination case in New York. [...]

NYPD raid Columbia campus and arrest protesters

Officers lead handcuffed protesters to police buses outside the Ivy League campus in upper Manhattan. [...]

King's 'thoughts and prayers' with Hainault victim's family

A 14-year-old boy was killed when a man with a sword went on the rampage in north-east London. [...]

Hainault sword attack: The day that 'shocked everyone'

Watch the key developments of the day in Hainault, which led to the death of a 14-year-old boy. [...]

First failed asylum seeker goes to Rwanda voluntarily

The asylum seeker received £3,000 and went under a scheme separate to the forced returns scheme. [...]

Tens of millions secretly use WhatsApp despite bans

Will Cathcart reveals how many people are secretly using his app in countries where it is banned. [...]

New York City police entered Columbia University after pro-Palestine protesters broke into and occupied a campus building for 12 hours, university officials said. DW has more. [...]

Russia has pummeled the vital port city of Odesa, stepping up aerial attacks that have also damaged civilian infrastructure there, according to Ukrainian officials. DW has the latest. [...]

The Biden administration is reportedly looking into reclassifying marijuana from the nation's most dangerous drug to a lower-risk drug, in a historic shift that could have ripple effects across the [...]

The Champions League semifinal first leg between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid ended all-square. Leroy Sané and Harry Kane scored for Bayern in between strikes from Real's Vinicius Junior. [...]

Riot police fired tear gas and used pepper spray to disperse protesters who had gathered outside parliament where lawmakers were debating a 'foreign agents' bill that could undermine the country's [...]

Israel will invade Gaza's Rafah 'with or without' a hostage deal, Netanyahu says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the vow Tuesday amid the negotiations mediated by Egypt that seek to reach a cease-fire deal that could see the release of some or all [...]

Judges block Louisiana's congressional map. A Supreme Court appeal is likely

A federal court has blocked Louisiana's new congressional map in a case that could determine the balance of power in the next Congress and set up another Supreme Court test [...]

First responders were sentenced in Elijah McClain's death. But has justice been done?

All first responders charged in the fatal botched arrest of Elijah McClain have been sentenced, but questions remain about whether it's changed how Black people are treated by police and [...]

Judi Dench reflects on a career built around Shakespeare

Dame Judi Dench has played everyone from the writer Iris Murdoch to M in the James Bond films. But among the roles the actress is most closely associated, are Shakespeare's [...]

A freed Israeli hostage waits with hope for her husband, still held by Hamas in Gaza

Aviva Siegel, 63, was taken hostage by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, along with her husband Keith. She was released after 51 days, but he was not. On Saturday, Hamas [...]

Columbia earlier began suspending students who refused to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus grounds after negotiations failed to come to a resolution. [...]

A swarm of bees created quite a baseball buzzkill in the desert [...]

Police have cleared 30 to 40 people from inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the administration building in New York earlier in the day [...]

Max Scherzer has been scratched from his second scheduled rehab start because of thumb soreness [...]

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