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HPR Social Club: From stages to streets—what’s on for Earth Day

Inside: Balinese puppetry, HPR at YP Connect and UH Maui College, a walk for wai, and more. This week, we hear from Kyla ...
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Waikīkī faces threat of contaminated flooding

Waikīkī is at risk of sewage-contaminated flooding as sea levels continue to rise, according to a new study from the ...
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Kushner and U.S. envoy Witkoff will head to Pakistan for new Iran talks

Iran's foreign minister arrived in Islamabad, and Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due to go there Saturday to try to make ...
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U.S. and Iranian envoys head back to Pakistan for a new round of peace talks

Hezbollah and Israel traded fire just hours after the ceasefire extension was announced, underscoring its fragility.
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U.S. envoy Witkoff and Kushner will head to Pakistan for new Iran talks

Iran's foreign minister arrived in Islamabad, and Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due to go there Saturday to try to make ...
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A real-life Kraken stalked the seas of the late Cretaceous

Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, competing with large apex predators.
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I got tested for leptospirosis after flood cleanup. Here's what I learned

Exposure to post-flooding mud and possible leptospirosis led HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol to share what she’s learned about ...
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Decades-old, newly restored Smithsonian carousel reopens -- to children's delight

The carousel was first desegregated when part of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Baltimore in 1963. It was moved to the National ...
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A child lost her dad in the Key Bridge collapse. Now, DHS wants to deport her mother

The mother's story is a stark example of how immigration policy can change drastically with each administration — and ...
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Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is extended by 3 weeks as tensions rise in Strait of Hormuz

Hezbollah and Israel traded fire just hours after the ceasefire extension was announced, underscoring its fragility.
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DHS starts deportation of woman whose loved one died on Baltimore's Key Bridge

The mother's story is a stark example of how immigration policy can change drastically with each administration — and ...
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How Pittsburgh — host of this year's NFL draft — became a sports mecca

The Pennsylvania city is hosting the draft for the first time in almost 80 years. Pittsburghers say the city's passionate ...