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BBB: Tips to shop safe this holiday season

Dec. 25, 2022

It probably comes as no surprise that consumers see a surge in sales and too good to be true deals during the holidays, however, the Better Business Bureau urges consumers to watch out for scammers who wish to take advantage of the shopping frenzy this time of year. Experts believe consumers may pay more attention to killer deals this year as we enter a new season of economic uncertainty.

TAX MAN: We’ve yet to learn how to earn a procurement exemption

Dec. 25, 2022

This week, we are focusing on the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA). They have been trying to award a tourism marketing contract worth tens of millions of dollars, as they have for the past several years. In the past, that contract has always gone to the Hawai’i Visitors and Convention Bureau (HVCB), but this time around, there were a few twists and turns.

Obituaries for Sunday, December 25, 2022

Dec. 25, 2022

• Marvin Taba • Leslie Ann Agno Macadamia • Jennis O. Christian • Steven Takashi Urabe

Kapa‘a graduates are first Nurse Aide Certificate earners

Dec. 24, 2022

LIHU‘E — When six Kapa‘a High School students received their Nurses Aide certificate on Tuesday, they had no idea they were part of history at the Wilcox Medical Center where the certificates were distributed.

Grand Hyatt Kauai, Kukui‘ula announce new managerial staff, services

Dec. 24, 2022

PO‘IPU — Two of Po‘ipu’s resorts have taken on new managerial staff, as both establishments plan to add new amenities for members.

Massive winter storm brings rolling blackouts, power outages

Dec. 23, 2022 • Updated 3:17 p.m.

MISSION, Kan. — Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages and canceled holiday gatherings Friday from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing about 60% of the U.S. population to some sort of winter weather advisory or warning.

Congress approves new election rules in Jan. 6 response

Dec. 23, 2022

Congress on Friday gave final passage to legislation changing the arcane law that governs the certification of a presidential contest, the strongest effort yet to avoid a repeat of Donald Trump’s violence-inflaming push to reverse his loss in the 2020 election.

Wall Street ends higher, still winds up with 3rd weekly loss

Dec. 23, 2022 • Updated 3:23 p.m.

A choppy day on Wall Street ended with broad gains for stocks Friday, though most of the major indexes wound up with their third weekly loss in a row.

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case

Dec. 23, 2022 • Updated 3:21 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook’s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016.

Bidens visit patients at Children’s National Hospital

Dec. 23, 2022

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, visited Children’s National Hospital on the Friday before Christmas to visit with patients and read a story.

Ukraine president back in Kyiv, Russia keeps up attacks

Dec. 23, 2022 • Updated 3:14 p.m.

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sounded another defiant note on his return to his nation’s capital Friday following his wartime visit to the United States, saying his forces are “working toward victory” even as Russia warned that there would be no end to the war until it achieved its military aims.

3 dead in Kurdish center shooting in Paris; suspect arrested

Dec. 23, 2022

PARIS — A man who was charged last year with attacking migrants shot and killed three people at a Kurdish cultural center Friday in Paris in an assault that appeared to be specifically aimed at foreigners, authorities said.

Cubans search for holiday food amid deepening crisis

Dec. 23, 2022 • Updated 3:15 p.m.

HAVANA — As Belkis Fajardo, 69, walks through the dense streets of downtown Havana with small bag of lettuce and onions in hand, she wonders how she’ll feed her family over the holidays.

Strikes over pay disrupt Christmas travel in UK, France

Dec. 23, 2022 • Updated 3:15 p.m.

LONDON — Air travelers faced possible delays at U.K. airports Friday as government employees who check passports went on strike in the latest of a spate of walkouts over pay amid a cost-of-living crisis.

Pope’s vicar for Rome seeks full truth about Jesuit abuse

Dec. 23, 2022 • Updated 3:14 p.m.

ROME — The pope’s vicar for Rome called Friday for the full truth to come out about a famous Jesuit priest accused of sexual and spiritual abuses against adult women, and said he was evaluating what to do with the priest’s Rome-based community and diocesan positions.