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Hurricane Hone strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane as it approached Hawaii Sunday morning, bringing damaging wind gusts and flooding rain to the Big Island. The Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) in Honolulu said Hurricane Hone reached its closest point of approach to the Big Island, with winds of 85 mph with some higher gusts […]

NASA officials announced that the two astronauts who went up to the International Space Station (ISS) on Boeing’s Starliner will need to come home on a different spacecraft next year; adding that the Boeing Starliner will return in a separate flight, uncrewed. Per NASA, Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, who performed the […]

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approved and granted emergency use authorization for updated Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna for the upcoming fall and winter season. The shots should be available within days; as of press time, the FDA hadn’t yet approved a third vaccine from drugmaker Novavax. The FDA said the […]

On Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department announced in San Antonio that a Guatemalan man has been charged with helping coordinate the 2022 smuggling attempt that ended in the deaths of 53 migrants, who were found dead in a big-rig trailer in 2022 in Texas. Guatemalan law enforcement worked with U.S. agents in multiple search and […]