There’s much we don’t understand about Israel’s raid on the Gaza Strip’s Shifa Hospital with tanks and bulldozers Monday.

In a political stampede Wednesday, the House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would force the social media app TikTok to be divested from China-based owner ByteDance, or face banning. The Senate should have more sense and slow this down.

On Friday morning, the judge overseeing the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and many of his allies for his effort to overturn the 2020 election issued a ruling rejecting a defense motion to disqualify Fani Willis. The defense had claimed that Willis, the prosecutor in the case, had a “personal stake” in the outcome of the case because she had a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, a lawyer she hired to lead the state’s prosecution team.

A few months ago, the idea that in vitro fertilization — the medical process of fertilizing eggs in a lab setting and selecting embryos to be carried by would-be parents — would be a major political issue in the State of the Union would have seemed shocking. Yet, Thursday night, President Joe Biden referred to it explicitly as a priority, calling for Congress to guarantee a national right to IVF.

With a one-two punch, the incumbent president made a strong case for his reelection — especially given that the alternative is a man who seeks to overturn the results of democratic elections, who’s champing at the bit to punish his political enemies and who says immigrants are vermin.

Hawaii grapples with a daunting challenge: the urgent need for 4,000 to 5,000 affordable rental units annually over the next five years to tackle our lack of affordable housing. This acute shortage of housing drives both the houselessness and outmigration crises. The state Legislature has a pivotal opportunity to address this situation by reevaluating conveyance tax rates on the sale of multimillion dollar investment properties.

In February the UH Board of Regents held its monthly meeting on the Hilo campus, and coincidentally, there were several things on the agenda regarding University of Hawaii at Hilo beyond the regional presentation I did with my colleague, Interim Chancellor Kazama of Hawaii Community College.

Here are a few things we know about lead in drinking water:

In a political stampede Wednesday, the House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would force the social media app TikTok to be divested from China-based owner ByteDance, or face banning. The Senate should have more sense and slow this down.

Hours of testimony by Robert Hur— the former special counsel appointed to investigate President Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents following his vice presidency — before the House Judiciary Committee predictably revealed little new.

Scarlett Johansson’s “Saturday Night Live” open was hilarious, and there have been so many more great jokes about the oddly amateur theatrics of U.S. Sen. Katie Britt in her response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. But we can’t let the humor mask a patently cruel lie that was one of the cornerstones of her speech.

With a $7.3 trillion budget plan for fiscal year 2025, President Joe Biden laid out priorities that include a heavy emphasis on anti-poverty and quality of life while taking aim at Donald Trump’s efforts to roll back taxes on the rich.

Deepfakes of celebrities and misinformation about public figures might not be new in 2024, but they are more common and many people seem to grow ever more resigned that they are inevitable.

Joe Biden still has a pulse. And he proved in his State of the Union address he still can stand and rage for an hour without forgetting where he is or keeling over.

Belatedly, Alabama lawmakers have passed a bill protecting access to in vitro fertilization. The measure came two weeks after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered unborn children under the law. Three fertility clinics had suspended treatments, citing liability concerns. Would-be parents were caught in limbo.

If the Joe Biden who showed up to deliver the State of the Union address last week is the Joe Biden who shows up for the rest of the campaign, you’re not going to have any more of those weak-kneed pundits suggesting he’s not up to running for reelection. Here’s hoping he does.

When salespeople knocked on my door a year ago attempting to sell me solar panels, I declined, explaining that I couldn’t afford them and that I was already doing my part to combat the climate catastrophe by being vegan. But when they asked if I’d be open to hearing more information, I agreed, mostly out of curiosity. Six months later, I had solar panels installed on my home.

Two years ago, America saw its youngest voters turn out for the midterm elections at rates not seen since 2018, when there was a historic high.

Simple question: Are you happy that inflation has stabilized? The economic indicators don’t and can’t capture everyone’s circumstances, but real wages have gone up and costs have held steady. We’re certainly much better situated than the recession that many economists had predicted would be engulfing the nation by now. The soft landing that had seemed like a significant reach has come to pass without even a blip of economic strife.