With ready orders and an energy czar, Trump plots pivot to fossil fuels
As President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team plans his energy and environment agenda, it is relying on two seasoned former Cabinet leaders and fossil fuel lobbyists to dramatically reshape the agencies charged with protecting the nation’s air, water, climate and public lands, according to six people familiar with the matter.
With Trump tariffs looming, businesses try to ‘run from a moving target’
WASHINGTON — Rick Muskat woke up the morning after the election with an urgent task. He got his agent in China on the phone at 4:30 a.m. Beijing time and pressed him to ask their factory how many more pairs of men’s dress shoes they could make before Chinese New Year, at the end of January.
Iranian agents plotted to kill Trump, US Says in unsealed charges
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Friday that Iranian plotters had discussed a plan to assassinate Donald Trump before he was reelected as president this week.
Support urged for Hilo housing project
More than 200 new units could be added to an affordable housing development in Hilo under a proposal by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.
Fed’s Powell flags careful, patient approach after rate cut
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Thursday as its policymakers began taking stock of what could become a more complex economic landscape when President-elect Donald Trump takes office next year.
Chang names QB Schager a UH football co-captain
Changing of the guard
“I’m looking for a team that’s got my kind of energy, that’s connected to the community.”
Harris says she concedes the election, but not her fight
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris formally acknowledged her loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday in a defiant and emotional speech, defending her campaign as a fight for democracy that she would continue, even if not from the Oval Office.
Trump will return to power with a more expansive agenda
WASHINGTON — As he declared victory, President-elect Donald Trump said that his mission now was nothing less than to “save our country.” His version of doing that involves an expansive agenda that would reshape government, foreign policy, national security, economics and domestic affairs as dramatically as any president in modern times.
Hustace, Kaneali‘i-Kleinfelder win seats in the only contested County Council races
An incoming County Council member in West Hawaii hopes to increase support to Kohala after one of the Big Island’s sole election shakeups Tuesday.
Four out of five ballot questions pass
The voters of Hawaii voiced their strong support for same-sex marriages in Tuesday’s General Election.
Trump’s Republicans win control of US Senate, make gains in House
Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate with victories in West Virginia and Ohio on Tuesday, ensuring Donald Trump’s party will control at least one chamber of Congress next year.
Big Island incumbents all retain seats in Legislature
The Big Island’s delegates in the state Legislature kept their seats Tuesday after cruising to easy victories.
Behind the election anger may be something else: Lingering COVID grief
LOS ANGELES — When Americans voted in the last presidential election, people were profoundly isolated from their friends and loved ones. Tens of millions of schoolchildren were still learning virtually, and office workers were hunkered down at home, experiencing the world through their smartphones and laptops.
Trump and Harris make final pitch in Pennsylvania on eve of historic vote
READING/ALLEN- TOWN, Pennsylvania — Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both predicted victory as they campaigned across Pennsylvania on Monday in the final, frantic day of an exceptionally close U.S. presidential election.
Man guilty of manslaughter addresses the victim’s family
A 21-year-old Kailua-Kona man who pleaded no contest to manslaughter in August for a 2022 traffic crash that killed a 63-year-old woman told a judge Monday he has “a heavy heart, fully aware of the gravity” of his actions.
A vivid Trump-Harris contrast in campaign’s grueling final days
It was the final Sunday of the campaign for president, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were continuing to race across battleground states in their search for support. But in message and demeanor, Harris, the Democrat, and Trump, the Republican, could not have been more different.
Coast Guard members, civilians honored for Lahaina heroism
Weary, troubled and nervous: Americans flood the early vote
An anxious America, weary from a vitriolic campaign season and worried about the state of the nation’s democracy, is voting with determination, with roughly 75 million people having cast ballots in the early voting period.
