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 Toby Clairmont, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency's executive officer, shows new informational materials to a reporter in Honolulu on Friday, July 21, 2017. Hawaii announced a new public education campaign to prepare for the possibility of a ballistic missile strike from North Korea. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii is the first state to prepare the public for the possibility of a ballistic missile strike from North Korea. The state's Emergency Management Agency on Friday announced a public education campaign about what to do. Hawaii lawmakers have been urging emergency management...
 In this 1974 file photo, Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler looks to pass. According to a report released on Tuesday, July 25, 2017 by the Journal of the American Medical Association, research on 202 former football players found evidence of a brain disease linked to repeated head blows in nearly all of them, from athletes in the National Football League, college and even high school. Stabler is among the cases previously reported. (AP Photo/File)
CHICAGO (AP) -- Research on 202 former football players found evidence of a brain disease linked to repeated head blows in nearly all of them, from athletes in the National Football League, college and even high school. It's the largest update on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a...
In this Sunday, May 1, 2005 file photo, traditional Halau dancers blow conch shells to welcome the Hokule'a voyaging canoe into Kailua Bay. The Polynesian double-hulled vessel was built to test anthropological migration theories. For years, Hawaii has ranked as one of the healthiest states, but a study released Friday, July 20, 2017 finds that original Hawaiians are in strikingly poor health. Surveys have long ignored native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, or grouped them in with Asians. (AP Photo/Ro
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hawaii consistently ranks among the healthiest states, but a federal survey found Native Hawaiians are in unusually bad health. Native Hawaiians - descendants of Hawaii's original Polynesian settlers - are in worse health than many other Americans. They were more likely to suffer...
 In this April 6, 2017, file photo, former Fox News person Gretchen Carlson speaks during the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center in New York. The AP reported July 21, 2017, that a story claiming Carlson said the Second Amendment was written before guns were invented is a hoax.(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
(AP) — A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts: NOT REAL: Trump Is Furious After Discovering Gov’t Waste...
In this Feb. 16, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The AP reported on July 14, 2017, that a series of stories circulating online regarding a drug bust involving Pelosi's daughters is a hoax. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts: NOT REAL: Trump Jr.: "My Russian Meetings Prove I'm A Real...
 President Donald Trump at the rally in Cedar Rapids. [Photo: AFP  via RNZI]
The Trump administration has plans to appeal to the Supreme Court to block a Hawaii judge's latest ruling that waters down the partial travel ban. A federal court judge in Hawaii has ruled close relatives of people living in the US cannot be barred under the President's travel ban. District Judge...
This Tuesday, July 11, 2017 photo shows the front office of Kaiser High School in Honolulu. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang graduated from the school in 2001. Those who know him said they're shocked to hear about terrorism charges against him after authorities said he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
HONOLULU (AP) — A U.S. soldier accused of wanting to commit a mass shooting after pledging loyalty to the Islamic State group believed the moon landing was faked, questioned the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and thought the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were an inside job coordinated by...
  In this Monday, July 10, 2017 photo, Clifford Kang, father of soldier Ikaika E. Kang, poses with photo of his son in Kailua, Hawaii. Ikaika E. Kang, an active-duty U.S. soldier, was arrested over the weekend on terrorism charges that accuse him of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and saying he wanted to "kill a bunch of people." (Bruce Asato/The Star-Advertiser via AP)
HONOLULU (AP) — After years of red flags and reprimands by the U.S. Army, the FBI took an active-duty soldier into custody on terrorism charges over the weekend. The yearlong federal investigation that led to his arrest involved multiple undercover agents and confidential informants. Sgt. 1st Class...
In this file photo taken on or about July 2, 1937, American aviator Amelia Earhart, left, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, right, pose beside their plane with gold miner F.C. Jacobs at Lae, New Guinea just before Earhart and Noonan took off in a flight to Howland Island on July 2, during which they disappeared somewhere in the Pacific. (AP Photo, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — The retired federal agent who discovered what he believes is the first photographic evidence of Amelia Earhart alive and well after crash-landing in the Pacific Ocean during her attempted round-the-world flight says he didn't initially capture the significance of the image until...
HILDALE, Utah (AP) -- Utah health authorities said they are investigating an outbreak of E.coli after two children died in a city on the Arizona border that's home to a polygamist Mormon sect. The investigation in Hildale, Utah, comes after the deaths in recent weeks, the Southwest Utah Public...

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