Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous
BEIJING — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months.
Death of nene gosling likely caused by disease carried by feral cats
The nene gosling that died last month in Liliʻuokalani Park and Gardens in Hilo likely was killed by toxoplasmosis, an infection spread only in the feces of feral cats, according to the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.
BIIF tennis: East side dominates individual championships
KAILUA-KONA — The Big Island Interscholastic Federation (BIIF) individual tennis season wrapped up Saturday morning during the boys and girls championships at Holua Racket and Paddle, and there was plenty to celebrate for windward-side competitors, who dominated the contest all week. Championship matches for singles and doubles took place after play began on Thursday and Friday.
Matt Ryan calls it a career. The quarterback officially announces his retirement
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — On the very first pass of his very first NFL minicamp, Matt Ryan delivered a wobbly throw that left his new Atlanta Falcons teammates shaking their heads.
No Giannis? No Leonard? No problem just yet for the Bucks and Clippers in the postseason
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Clippers remain unsure just when they’ll have their top players back on the floor.
Jets trade quarterback Zach Wilson to the Broncos, AP source says
Zach Wilson was expected to be the face of the franchise for the New York Jets. Instead, he became a symbol of disappointment.
Donovan Mitchell scores 23 as Cavaliers power to 96-86 win over Magic and 2-0 lead in series
CLEVELAND — Through two games, the Cavaliers have been tough guys in these playoffs.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone is ejected 5 pitches into a game. He says a fan berated the umpire
NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Boone didn’t tie the record for fastest ejection. The New York Yankees manager did think it was among the most unjust dismissals.
Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson pledged $10M for Maui wildfire survivors. They gave much more.
Lana Vierra misses the swing set at her Lahaina home, which was reduced to ashes in the wildfires that swept through her community last summer.
New tsunami video ‘has it all in one place’
In response to Gov. Josh Green proclaiming April as Tsunami Awareness Month in Hawaii, the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Progra partnered with organizations across the state to promote tsunami preparedness by creating a new 2024 Hawaii Tsunami Preparedness video.
Your Views for April 23
Self-immolation raises questions
The circus Trump wanted outside his trial hasn’t arrived
NEW YORK — Donald Trump was evidently not happy with what he saw out the window of his chauffeured SUV as he rode through lower Manhattan on Monday morning for the beginning of opening arguments in his first criminal trial.
An unprecedented trial opens with two visions of Trump
NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors delivered a raw recounting of Donald Trump’s seamy past Monday as they debuted their case against him to jurors, the nation and the world, reducing the former president to a co-conspirator in a plot to cover up three sex scandals that threatened his 2016 election win.
Rail spikes hammered, bullet train being built from Sin City to the City of Angels
LAS VEGAS — A $12 billion passenger bullet train linking Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area was dubbed the first true high-speed rail line in the nation on Monday, with the private company building it predicting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.
Maui officials push back on some details in Hawaii attorney general report on deadly wildfire
HONOLULU (AP) — Days after the Hawaii attorney general’s office released an outside report that flagged communications issues in the response to the deadly August wildfire, Maui County officials pushed back and offered “clarifications” on some of the report’s details.
Civic engagement should not be performed ‘All By Myself’
With the death of singer-songwriter Eric Carmen last month and Earth Day coming up, I got to thinking about Carmen’s song “All By Myself” and how deeper forms of activism are both essential to making change and a powerful antidote to our growing epidemic of loneliness.
The NIH’s words matter, especially to long COVID patients
Bernie Sanders, who chairs the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has proposed allocating $1 billion annually for 10 years to the National Institutes of Health for long COVID research. One potential stumbling block to this good idea is bipartisan criticism of the NIH’s sluggishness in producing useful results from the initial $1.15 billion allocated to long COVID.
Israel’s military intelligence chief resigns over failure to prevent Hamas attack on Oct. 7
TEL AVIV, Israel — The head of Israeli military intelligence resigned on Monday because of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, becoming the first senior figure to step down over his role in the stunning failure to anticipate or quickly respond to the deadliest assault in Israel’s history.
Aid approval brings Ukraine closer to replenishing troops struggling to hold front lines
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian commander Oleksiy Tarasenko witnessed a frightening shift last month in Russia’s efforts to punch through Kyiv’s defense of the industrial region known as the Donbas.
Elon Musk’s robotaxi dreams plunge Tesla into chaos
Elon Musk’s underlings at Tesla Inc. are accustomed to chaos. It comes with the territory of working for a chief executive who sets exacting targets and often abruptly switches directions — whose biographer describes his more intense moods as “demon mode.”
