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This image contained in the criminal complaint against Alexander Yuk Ching Ma shows a screenshot made from a video by an FBI undercover employee taken of Ma in January 2019 during a meeting. (U.S. Justice Department via AP, File)

Ex-CIA officer who spied for China gets 10 years in prison — and a lifetime of polygraph tests

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

Union members from Local 26, representing workers in the hospitality industries of Massachusetts, picket outside the Hyatt Regency Boston, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

WATCH: Workers strike at top hotel chains as housekeepers seek higher wages

By Alexandra Olson - Associated Press

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, questions FBI Director Christopher Wray during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono wins Democratic primary for third term, will face McDermott in general

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

This Nov. 6, 2013 file photo shows a Whiting Petroleum Co. pump jack pulling crude oil from the Bakken region of the Northern Plains near Bainville, Mont. Attorneys for a group of youths suing Montana over damages caused by climate change say officials repealed the state's energy policy to avoid an upcoming trial. The plaintiffs want to use the trial scheduled to begin June 12 to highlight the dangers of fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Republican state AGs urge Supreme Court to address climate change lawsuits against oil companies

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Handguns are displayed at a gun shop on June 23, 2022, in Honolulu. A ruling by Hawaii's high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit uses pop culture references in an apparent rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights nationwide. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)

Hawaii ruling cites ‘The Wire’ in rebuking Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

FILE - Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro talks to The Associated Press in Honolulu, on March 2, 2016. A month before the start of a bribery trial against Honolulu's former top prosecutor, the judge who has been presiding over the case for several years is unexpectedly recusing himself. U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright issued an order Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, rescuing himself in the case against former Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro. (AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz, File)

Judge in a bribery case against Honolulu’s former top prosecutor is suddenly recusing himself

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

Seal of the U.S. Navy. ( AP Photo)

All 9 aboard U.S. Navy plane that overshot runway escape injury, Hawaii official says

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

Lei are draped on a plaque in front of the Kapaemahu stones in Honolulu on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Honolulu officials on Tuesday introduced a new interpretive plaque for four large boulders in the center of Waikiki that honor Taihitian healers of dual male and female spirit who visited Oahu some 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Honolulu tells story of healers with dual male and female spirit through new plaque in Waikiki

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

CORRECTS DATE TO AUG. 8 - People watch as smoke and flames fill the air from raging wildfires on Front Street in downtown Lahaina, Maui on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. Maui officials say wildfire in the historic town has burned parts of one of the most popular tourist areas in Hawaii. County of Maui spokesperson Mahina Martin said in a phone interview early Wednesday says fire was widespread in Lahaina, including Front Street, an area of the town popular with tourists. (Alan Dickar via AP)

Hawaii wildfires burn through historic town, forcing some to seek safety in the ocean

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, shows a home after it collapsed onto a beach on Feb. 28, 2022, in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Rising seas and more intense storms are encroaching on coastal properties. Some coastal erosion removes sand surrounding cesspools and pulls sewage out to sea. (Dan Dennison/Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP)

83,000 Hawaii homes dispose of sewage in cesspools. Rising sea levels will make them more of a mess

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

This photo provided by Tara Goodall shows a crack in the ceiling of a Hawaiian Airlines plane that encountered severe turbulence during a flight from Honolulu to Sydney, June 30, 2023. The airline says airport medics assessed and released three injured passengers when the flight landed in Sydney. One passenger and three flight attendants were "referred for further evaluation," the airline said. (Tara Goodall via AP)

Hawaiian Airlines flight hits severe turbulence; 7 injured

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

In this April 6, 2020, file photo, a plane lands as the sun sets over the international airport in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

36 people injured amid turbulence on Hawaii flight

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

Native Hawaiian heiress Abigail Kawananakoa poses outside a Honolulu courthouse on Oct. 25, 2019. Kawananakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, died on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. She was 96. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, File)

‘Last Hawaiian princess’ dies at 96

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

This aerial image courtesy of Hawaii Dept. of Land and Natural Resources shows lava flows on Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii. (Hawaii Dept. of Land and Natural Resources via AP)

Prayers? Bombs? Hawaii history shows stopping lava not easy

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

Mauna Loa is seen from the Gilbert Kahele Recreation Area off Saddle Road on the Big Island of Hawaii on Oct. 27, 2022. The ground is shaking and swelling at Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, indicating that it could erupt. Scientists say they don't expect that to happen right away but officials on the Big Island are telling residents to be prepared in case it does erupt soon. (AP Photo/Megan Moseley)

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa starts to erupt, sending ash nearby

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A F-22 Raptor is seen after a ceremony welcoming the jets at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham Friday, July 9, 2010, in Honolulu. The jets will be part of the Hawaii Air National Guard. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

U.S. military bases in Hawaii without water after water main break

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

This Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 photo provided by the Washoe County Sheriff's Office shows Tudor Chirila Jr. Chirila, Jr., a former deputy Nevada attorney general who ran for the state Supreme Court and was later affiliated with the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel has been arrested in Reno as a suspect in a 1972 homicide in Hawaii. (Washoe County Sheriff's Office).

Ex-Nevada deputy attorney general indicted on murder charge

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

This combination of undated photos provided by the United States District Court District of Hawaii shows Walter Glenn Primose, left, also known as Bobby Edward Fort, and his wife Gwynn Darle Morrison, also known as Julie Lyn Montague, purportedly in KGB, the former Russian spy agency, uniforms. Primose, a U.S. defense contractor, and Morrison, who lived for decades under the identities of two dead Texas children, have been charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government, according to federal court records unsealed in Honolulu. The couple were arrested Friday, July 22, 2022, in Kapolei on the island of Oahu. (United States District Court District of Hawaii via AP)

Hawaii pair accused of conspiracy, taking IDs of dead babies

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Brian Melley - Associated Press

Lauren Wright, a Navy spouse whose family was sickened by jet fuel in their tap water, shows her supply of bottled water at her home in Honolulu, Friday, July 1, 2022. A Navy investigation says shoddy management and human error caused fuel to leak into Pearl Harbor's tap water last year. The leak poisoned thousands of people and forced military families to evacuate their homes for hotels. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

Distrust remains after Navy report on tainted Hawaii water

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Caleb Jones - Associated Press

In this Dec. 11, 2021 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Mobile Diving Salvage Unit One performs inspection and sampling of a water well near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. U.S. Navy divers are trying to remove fuel from a water water shaft at Red Hill near Hawaii's Pearl Harbor. Divers are beginning to make progress and are now able to start &quot;skimming&quot; contaminants that have floated to the surface. The water supply serves about 93,000 people. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aja Bleu Jackson via AP)

Navy dive team is trying to remove fuel from Hawaii water

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