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University celebrates Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month with events throughout April and May
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month is a national observance that takes place in May each year to pay tribute to ...
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Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin, and many people believed Polynesian voyagers simply lucked into finding th ...
Maui-born Maoli merges Nashville country music with rural Pacific traditions
Prior to playing Nashville's Cannery Hall, Maui-born Maoli highlighted why his Pacific Islands sound intersects with ...
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are still targets of hatred 5 years after pandemic surge
It seemed unfathomable she was facing such anti-Asian vitriol nearly a century after her aunt, pioneering movie star Anna May ...
Menthol cigarettes will be banned from April 1. Here’s why – and what else is changing
Retailers have a three-month grace period to sell any old stock already in their stores. Here’s what’s behind these changes – ...
Feds cut $300,000 grant for citizenship assistance in Nevada, citing ‘sanctuary cities’
The Asian Community Development Council was notified March 27 that the USCIS decided to permanently terminate a $300,000 ...
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Firefighters who Battled Maui Wildfires Have High Levels of PFAS
Maui firefighters who responded to the August 2023 Maui wildfires had the highest levels of “forever chemicals ” known as ...
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Defense secretary stops in Hawaii as part of Pacific tour
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is on Oahu to meet with Pacific military leaders to discuss China and other security ...
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Diego Garcia: The Indian Ocean base the US can use to target Iran
US is amassing B-2 bombers capable of carrying 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs at a little known base in the Indian Ocean ...
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Hawai‘i U.S. senator derides Trump Administration’s mass federal firings, says consequences dangerous for islands, mainland
U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, a Democrat from Hawai‘i and member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, recently ...