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Hawaii also bans talking on a mobile phone while driving a vehicle.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation....

HONOLULU (Reuters) - The city of Detroit may be facing a deepening financial crisis but that hasn't stopped four trustees of its public pension funds from spending $22,000 of retirement system funds to attend a conference in Hawaii this week.

Plus, the Hawaii Five-0 star shares a photo of 7-month-old son Lion

Kelli Allman, who dated Obama's friend as they attended Punahou School in Hawaii in the 70s, has shared images of their prom night, as well as a friendly note he penned in her yearbook.

The Bad Astronomer writes "A Minuteman III missile launch from California early Wednesday morning created a weird, expanding halo of light seen from the CFHT observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Kea. The third stage of the missile has ports that open and dump fuel into the near-vacuum. This cloud expands rapidly as a spherical shell, shock-exciting the air molecules and causing...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Two charter airplanes carrying the "Today" show anchor team and their crew from Hawaii to Yellowstone National Park were diverted in the air to Oklahoma for coverage Tuesday of the catastrophic tornado outside of Oklahoma City....

Jessica Chastain is Hawaii-bound. The Zero Dark Thirty star has been added to the exclusive list of honorees at this year's Maui Film Festival. Chastain will be receive the...

Jessica Chastain is Hawaii-bound. The Zero Dark Thirty star has been added to the exclusive list of honorees at this year's Maui Film Festival. Chastain will be receive the...

In the midst of his Michael Jackson molestation claims, Wade Robson was spotted in Hawaii with his family after rumors sparked that he planned to move there soon. The 30-year-old famed...

In the midst of his Michael Jackson molestation claims, Wade Robson was spotted in Hawaii with his family after rumors sparked that he planned to move there soon. The 30-year-old famed...

Ta’u Pupu’a, a former N.F.L. lineman, is now a rising tenor with the Hawaii Opera Theater.    

Kirsten Dunst is heading to Hawaii. The Melancholia star will receive the Pathfinder Award at this year's Maui Film Festival. The award "honors an actor or actress...

Kirsten Dunst is heading to Hawaii. The Melancholia star will receive the Pathfinder Award at this year's Maui Film Festival. The award "honors an actor or actress...

The media mogul, 59, who is worth $2.7billion, currently owns approximately 780 acres on the Hawaii island, and produce grown on her land is donated locally.

An anonymous reader writes "Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station in Hawaii, which sets the global benchmark. More than half of plants and a third of...

Democratic Reps. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii on Sunday blasted the military's handling of sexual assault cases, calling the system broken and in desperate need of fixing. Duckworth, a lieutenant colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard, said on CNN's "State of the Union" that "the military has shown it is not capable of fixing this problem." Gabbard...

Standing as Iraq War veterans, Reps. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) have an in-depth perspective on life in the U.S. Military. After seeing this week's Pentagon report on military sexual assault cases, both women stood as elected officials, calling for change to a system they see as broken. Appearing on CNN's "State Of The Union", both Duckworth...

by Lizzie Wade on 9 May 2013, 2:00 PM Another day, another groundbreaking physics experiment about bubbles. Although scientists have long understood the behavior of a single soap bubble, they have not been able to mathematically describe the behavior of clusters of bubbles, otherwise known as foams. As you can see in the photo above, when one bubble pops in a group...

By: Mike Wall Published: 05/10/2013 02:11 PM EDT on SPACE.com A NASA Earth-observing satellite has captured the moon's shadow darkening a patch of the Pacific Ocean during Thursday's stunning "ring of fire" solar eclipse. Bright white clouds fade into darkness northeast of Australia in the solar eclipse image, which was taken by NASA's Terra spacecraft at 7:30 p.m. EDT...

Now that the Glee kids have finished filming, it's time for a well-deserved break. That being said, we couldn’t be happier that this season’s MVP Naya Rivera is having a lovely time in Hawaii with boyfriend Big Sean! Aren’t they just the cutest?! Oh, to be young and in love… Ch-ch-check out the photos (below) [...]

Levels of carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, have surpassed 400 parts per million.

It's not your average dip in the ocean. Kimi Werner, a native of Hawaii, decided to get up close and personal with none other than a Great White shark. In the clear blue waters of the Pacific, Kimi glides up to the shark as if taking a piggy back from a friend... and lives to tell the tale!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere topped 400 parts per million at a key observing station in Hawaii for the first time since measurement began in 1958, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Friday.

On May 9, the daily mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time since measurements began in 1958. Independent measurements made by both NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have been approaching this level during the past week. It marks an important milestone because Mauna...

The world’s smallest active top level domain has seven second level domains. ICANN recently published the latest batch of monthly registry reports, which include data on how many domains are registered in each (non-ccTLD) top level domain. The latest data was for the end of January. There’s a lot of interesting data in these reports. [...]

In Honolulu ist ein Zweisitzer mitten im Berufsverkehr abgestürzt. Pilot und Passagier blieben fast unverletzt.     

Julia Link, 30, was piloting the light aircraft with 71-year-old passenger Karl Hedburg when the light aircraft lost power at 3,000ft above Honolulu.

The CBS drama about an elite police unit was on at 10pm (ET), shortly before the escape of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight from ten-years of captivity in Ohio made the late-night news.

Health officials are warning that two cases of a so-called 'sex superbug' have been confirmed in Hawaii. Hawaii News Now reports that the 'sex superbug' is a resistant strain of gonorrhea.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings has put the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua Resort, a 54-acre luxury condo and hotel resort in Maui, Hawaii, on the block as it continues to sell off its real estate holdings to pay off creditors, said two sources familiar with the deal.

Zurzeit werden die Pazifikinseln eher selten von Zyklonen getroffen. Doch ab 2075 müssen die Bewohner mit ein bis zwei zusätzlichen Wirbelstürmen rechnen.     

Alanis Morissette has never had a problem getting her point across through song—and now she has managed to send a message without saying a word! The "You Oughta Know"...

Health officials are warning that two cases of a so-called 'sex superbug' have been confirmed in Hawaii. Hawaii News Now reports that the 'sex superbug' is a resistant strain of gonorrhea.

SHAPELY mum-of-one singer sports two-piece bearing the statement on her bum while on beach holiday in Hawaii

Hawaii, fortunately, has been largely free from hurricanes, only two having made landfall in more than 30 years. Now a new study shows that Hawaii could see a two-to-three-fold increase in tropical cyclones by the last quarter of this century.

(AP)—A group of Hawaii fishermen is asking the federal government to take northern Pacific humpback whales off the endangered species list.

astroengine writes "Pulling from 20 years of research since the first discoveries of planets beyond our solar system, scientists have concluded that Earth and its sibling worlds comprise what appears to be a relatively rare breed in a diverse cosmic zoo that includes a huge variety of planet sizes, orbits and parent stars. The most common systems contain one or more planets...

My friend Brian Lam, whom I recently visited in Hawaii, knows how to live—and work. He wrote a wonderful piece for Lifehacker that you must read. Snip: I recommend everyone either fix your job or quit it. The best thing I ever did was get out of news. There is an undeniable truth that when [...]    

Near the moonscape summit of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, an infrared analyzer will soon make history. Sometime in the next month, it is expected to record a daily concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of more than 400 parts per million (p.p.m.), a value not reached at this key surveillance point for a few million years. [More]

A lot of people don't carry cameras anymore, now that they have smartphones. But that means that you could miss opportunities to capture great moments, especially when you're missing out on the great optical zoom available on some more expensive or specialized dedicated camera devices. That's what Snapzoom hopes to fix with its binocular mount for smartphone cameras, and...

HONOLULU -- A day after a woman reported finding an abandoned newborn crying in the sand on a Hawaii beach, police arrested her and revealed she's the baby's mother.Keala Simeona, 21, of Honolulu, was arrested Tuesday for filing a false police report. Police don't expect to pursue additional offenses at this time. She posted $250 bail and was released.Read More...More...

Police arrested Keala Simeona, 21, on Tuesday after the woman's newborn baby girl was found abandoned on the Sandy Beach in east Honolulu.

Police say the woman who reported finding a baby on a Hawaii beach is actually the newborn's mother.

HONOLULU (AP) -- A day after a woman reported finding an abandoned newborn crying in the sand on a Hawaii beach, police arrested her and revealed she's the baby's mother....

A baby girl was abandoned and found crying at Sandy Beach (pictured) in east Honolulu, Hawaii soon after she was born.

The actress was joined for her day on the beach by her youngest child Benjamin, who was carried around by a nanny.

Scientists say readings at research stations indicate the 400 parts per million mark will be passed for first timeThe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 399.72 parts per million (ppm) and is likely to pass the symbolically important 400ppm level for the first time in human history in the next few days.Readings at the US government's Earth Systems...

The concentration of carbon in the atmosphere over the next few days is expected to hit record levelsThe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 399.72 parts per million (ppm) and is likely to pass the symbolically important 400ppm level for the first time in the next few days.Readings at the US government's Earth Systems Research laboratory in Hawaii,...

US Coast Guard says 35-year-old was wearing life jacket when he plunged into water 500 miles from landFears are mounting for a British sailor who fell from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday night, almost 500 miles from land.The US Coast Guard said the 35-year-old man was conscious and wearing a life jacket when he plunged into two-metre (6ft) seas but had not been...

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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama poked fun at the media, his critics and himself on Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a star-filled event where journalists and celebrities mixed with the Washington elite. Joined at the dinner by his wife, first lady Michelle...

While Mark Zuckerberg continues to enjoy his budget holiday in Hawaii, it has been revealed he is even richer than previously known after he gained $2.3 billion from exercising stock options last year.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Manti Te'o spent Thursday night with his family in Hawaii, watching the first round of the NFL draft and expecting a phone call that never came....

Surf's up for the Smiths! Mother-daughter duo Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow Smith spent the day soaking up the sun in Hawaii on Friday. The two had a fun-filled day between...

Surf's up for the Smiths! Mother-daughter duo Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow Smith spent the day soaking up the sun in Hawaii on Friday. The two had a fun-filled day between...

Hawaiians are the least stressed residents in America while West Virginians experience the most stress on, according to a new Gallup poll. Only 32.1 per cent of Hawaiians feel stress on any given day.

Sterling Ellis, 19, suffers Hodgkins Lymphoma. The Make-a-Wish Foundation granted his wish to travel to Hawaii and he hauled in the massive fish on a deep-sea fishing trip on Sunday.

A former Hawaiian Airlines president will become CEO of Larry Ellison' s carrier.

Search advertising became such a popular and lucrative juggernaut because it offered businesses the ability to reach and persuade people with true purchase intent. But now keyword targeting is available on Twitter and Facebook, which could loosen Google's stranglehold on ads that convince us what to buy.

The 28-year-old Facebook founder has been pictured enjoying a low key vacation with his Harvard-educated doctor wife, Priscilla Chan, in Kauai on their latest vacation to Hawaii.

According to the results of a recent Gallup poll, West Virginia topped the list of the five most worrisome states at just over 47 per cent, followed by Rhode Island and Kentucky. Hawaii was voted once again as the least stressful locale.

Almost imperceptibly, rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands has been declining since 1978, and this trend is likely to continue with global warming through the end of this century, according to a team of scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. This latest Hawaii rainfall study, published in the March 13, 2013, early...

This domain has a major flaw, and it’s not the top level domain. The other day I was walking down 4th street in San Francisco and did a double take. Is that a .me web site being advertised on a bus stop advertisement? Why yes, it is. And that would certainly make Michael Berkens proud. [...]

The couple was photographed looking relaxed as they strolled together on vacation

Suzann Pettersen won the L.P.G.A. Lotte Championship in Kapolei, Hawaii, beating Lizette Salas with a par on the first playoff hole after Salas’s approach shot went into the water.    

Kate McAnena, just home from windsurfing the perilous Jaws wave break, in Hawaii, talks about what she’ll be doing next    

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) -- Suzann Pettersen shot a 4-under 68 on Friday at wind-swept Ko Olina to maintain a one-stroke lead after the third round of the LPGA Lotte Championship....

Sandra Gal hat beim US-Turnier in Kapolei auf Hawaii nach einer Leistungssteigerung sicher den Cut geschafft, dagegen ist Newcomerin Caroline Masson ausgeschieden.

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) -- Suzann Pettersen rebounded from her lone bogey with three back-nine birdies Thursday at wind-swept Ko Olina to take the second-round lead in the LPGA Lotte Championship....

Die Profigolferinnen Caroline Masson und Sandra Gal sind mit mäßigen Leistungen in das US-Turnier in Kapolei/Hawaii gestartet.

From New York to Los Angeles, and all the way to Hawaii and beyond, nearly every front page across the globe spelled out the fear and anger felt by millions.

Palo Alto-based Wanderable, a 500 Startups-backed company designed to help couples create wedding registries filled with "honeymoon experiences" instead of just gifts, is now available on the iPhone. With the new app, a couple can create their registry on the go, view and track the gifts they receive, and then snap photos to accompany thank you notes which are sent out...